In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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To take root in any soil. To thrive regardless of the surroundings. To add an unexpected charm to a barren spot. To pop up and smile from a crevice. To bloom whatever the season be. To weather the storms, beat the heat, bear the cold, and yet flourish. The resilient sadaphuli. A childhood memory […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” How aptly they defined in a few words, the importance of a better ‘you’ as far as health is concerned but I have a question here, “who is the real […]
Keep your core intact and you are ready for any challenge in life. The dawn of a new year is like turning of a new leaf. It carries a lot of renewed energy, resolves and promises. So to optimize your inputs and minimize the dissonance in your life in the year 2013, realign […]
And today, I saw the most beautiful sunset of my life.. not at sunset point in Ooty or at Kanyakumari… but here, amidst the city’s hustle bustle. As I drove back home, and the cars whooshed by me in a hurry to get somewhere quickly, I saw it. That beauty of a big orange […]
Thank you so much St. Nicholas –‘Santa’ of the world Your very name Jingles the bells Of jollity and gaiety. But today… I stand here with heavy heart Looking within… ……………….. They say ‘You give Toys to the good children and Coal to the naughty ones’ Unworthy of all your goodies; Our souls burnt […]
I can smell it in the air The smell of change And dissipation of fear The Light breaking through the clouds That have hung over us for far too long I can feel the love It fills me up and brims over A promise and an answered prayer As the dawn of a new […]
The world would be a calmer place, we would be calmer people if we just realised that the only things that there are limited reserves of, in this world, are our natural resources. The rest of it all is in abundance because the manufacturers of these “other things” are us. Humans. While we have […]
Religion is a just a life jacket But in a storm you need more ** Not all storms come to destroy Not all islands offer refuge ** God is not a ritual Evil is not outside The terrors we see around us often begin within ** Even when we are adrift we are getting somewhere […]
I started jotting down my prayers in a journal sometime in early July this year. I was intrigued by the maid Aibileen in The Help who wrote down all her prayers in a prayer book. Everyone thought her prayers worked. I read about the same thing in Write it Down, Make it Happen. So I […]
Hurricane Sandy took away many people with it. The pictures of the damage were heart wrenching. One cold December not too long ago we woke up freezing. A freak ice storm had left our town without power. We had to live in a friend’s place and then a hotel for five days until the […]
And this is why I believe that certain meetings, connections are fated. There was really no reason for me to meet Mary Morgan. And yet, it was preordained that I meet her at a time when am becoming a bit disillusioned with the idea of investing in hope, resilience, love, friendship. I did not know […]
That dark swirling path That goes on chasing its tail that takes you back to where you began what would it say if it could speak? It would say.. It’s not the path it’s you you need to find something new.. you..maybe? *** Reema Moudgil has been writing for magazines and newspapers on […]