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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It’s the Basant Navratri again—the nine day spring festival that heralds the onset of the New Year according to the traditional Hindu Vikrami calendar—when devotees observe fasts that culminate in the celebration of Durga Ashtami on the eighth lunar day and Ram Navami (the birth of Lord Rama) on the ninth day. “Now, who will […]
Acclaimed artist Rima Fujita feels lucky to have met His Holiness, the Dalai Lama many times. She says, “I respect and love him because he is an extremely receptive and caring person. He notices small and sensitive nuances of life. He treats everyone the same – the rich, poor, famous, not famous. Once, he noticed me from three feet away and smiled and […]
On April 28, internationally acclaimed artist and activist Rima Fujita will present the original drawings of her new book, Save the Himalaya (foreword penned by Richard Gere and HH Dalai Lama) with other recent works at the Sundaram Art Gallery in Beverly Hills. All proceeds will be donated to Tibetan refugee children in exile. Rima’s paintings have the texture of a tapestry […]
On Sunday mornings, at a temple (close to 300 years old), in the heart of Secunderabad at General Bazaar, the devout come to offer their prayers. I clicked some images with the hope of capturing the ambience of a devotional place and to also explore our belief in God and all that we do in the name of faith. So as […]
The process of intimacy is tied to the uniqueness of how each of us experiences the world. Our public knowledge is not able to encompass the physicality of living, and the differences of our experience within our bodies. Our brainwaves, a physical expression of the continuous flow and transformation of experiences that we all inhabit, […]