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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Stress should not be added to stress. In fact stress can be used as a driving force to solve any issue at hand. A lot depends on the way in which one perceives stress. Stress should be understood as a sign to prepare oneself to solve an existing problem so that it does not become a […]
My father-in-law passed away in relative peace on January 23, 2011 after suffering horribly for the past three odd years from Alzheimer’s. His death set him free and I want to believe he is in a better, happier place, because that will help me sleep better. I do not want to think of his soul suffering innumerable atrocities, passing […]
Untie the last knot of bonds And drop each fetter like a tear drop Breathe! You will be free If ever you were tied. Dry now like the arid land… Vast and directionless you shall be But feisty and lively like the graceful river Your soul will reach its coveted sea. Love is not a stagnant […]
Hi! My name is Confusion. I am 25-years-old and constantly shuttling between my home “To be” and my workplace “To do.” I have heard that what sets human beings aside as special, is their ability to choose and decide, but somehow, I have always been severely allergic to it. Why, you may ask? I […]
There is nothing easier to kill in the world than a dream if it is too big to fit in your life. Maybe except for a stray dog on a street, a tiger in a jungle, a dolphin in the ocean, a river choking on effluents, a valley denuded by mining because in a habitat being usurped […]
Life is short and there is so much to do. Life, like a lover, is drawn towards death. But there is so much that I need to do still. I need to restart that painting which I had left half done and I hope to write a couple of poems after having returned from the […]
In the town of confusion There’s a tree of serenity… In the soil of loneliness Grew a seed of aloneness Watching waiting wandering The seed reached the river And now the river flows Nowhere somewhere everywhere It knows the name of its destination But the paths are untrodden unknown Hardly does it matter though To […]
This is certainly been the month of feasts and festivals, prayers and fasting. And so when an invite titled Devotion-Invocation, lands at your doorstep, you are bound to be slightly amused. The curatorial note, by Sushma Bahl, says that “artists have explored the theme of devotion in a contemporary context, offering the viewers an aesthetic […]
I first did yoga when I was in the eighth or ninth standard. I remember waking up early in the morning and going to a dark, dingy building with my mom. I felt so bored by the slow motions of yoga asanas coupled with my sleepiness, that I lasted just two days. As I grew […]
Last week, an issue was bothering me. I had done everything in my control to take care of it. But there were so many factors I had no control over. Every night, as I would sleep, my mind would be beset with worries. I felt the burden of a million negative thoughts about how everything […]
Good Sadhu Babas should never be as you expect them to be and Rocket Baba is no exception. Though over 70, he has the body of a fit 30-year-old, his skin and eyes are clear and his voice just booms. He arrives at the house of his student, my rakhi brother Gopal, like an angry […]
I see a 15 or 16-year-old adolescent. I observe her facial features – droopy, flickering eyes, her body language – waving, abrupt gestures while laughing, legs in careless disarray while sitting, and her speech – impulsive and uncertain, at times ignorantly rude. I observe her clothing – undersized. Glaring pink and orange top paired with […]