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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Are you one of those parents who look out of the window on a fine morning and say, “The weather’s simply awesome today. Let’s drive someplace…” And the next thing you know you are in fifth gear on a highway, enjoying the broad roads, the clear blue sky, the soft cottony clouds, when your two […]
Having been cocooned in two great resorts managed by Habitat Hotels in the Corbett Park recently, I was less than prepared for What Happened Next.Two days at the dreamily remote from the world Riverine Woods ended abruptly with an early morning call at a time that was still actually night. The monsoon had arrived and swollen […]
Deriving inspiration from the famous quote ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’, my companion Arjun and I embarked on a journey further south to the ancient city of Rome, the capital of Italy and a land of great historical significance. My hyper planning had given birth to a small red notebook whose pages were filled […]
Getting up at five in the morning was never more exciting as it was on this particular Saturday morning. A cup of instant coffee, an instant shower and a scrumptious butter pretzel later, my friend and I were just in time to board our super cool, super fast TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, meaning high-speed […]
I reckon there are probably not too many people who travel these days without the benefit of a guidebook but for those of you who do, you may be interested to note that it is not permitted to walk across the Friendship Bridge that marks the no mans land between Laos and Thailand. Don’t ask […]
It has been all of one month since I arrived in Stuttgart and I can already claim to have visited four neighbouring countries. It’s as if I have wheels attached to my soles which do not allow me to spend a single weekend at home. The trip to Vienna and Salzburg was one of these […]
It was love at first sight. A instant romance. There they were; suspended from a high ceiling, covering the atrium with a riot of colour. The incredibly alive forms and their inner light instantly took me in. I couldn’t stop glancing back to take one more eye full as I walked to the suite ahead to meet my doctor, […]
Simi Chachi made the best lotus root saag, hakh, and rajmah in Srinagar. Her kahwa was redolent with cardamom and rich with thin almond slivers. She was popular all over Kashmir – not just for her saag or kahwa. she was most famous for her unique and rare hand-woven carpets. She weaved the most exquisite […]
The inspiration for this article comes from my love for street-shopping which to me is fascinating in many ways. First it combines my love for walking with shopping. You do have that option in malls but the local markets in a city have a different appeal, a liveliness in the banter of colors and words. […]
Like most people, I love watching the rains. A nice downpour is the time to sit with a hot cup of chai , listen to some lovely music and unwind. Who hasn’t gladly put off chores just because it was raining? So when I heard I had to travel to Calicut in Kerala during the […]
Since I belong to the mountains, I speak for them but this might just hold true for other places in the world too. The memories you come back with depend upon the season you go in. For me, the mist is the most overpowering impression of Sikkim in pre-monsoon June. It seeps through the […]
Galloping away on a wish That the family has no hungry day And the night passes by easily Like the river. The hilly terrains and breathtakingly beautiful places beckon tourists from across the world. The tourists, beckon horses and ponies. And the horses and ponies are the source of income for many. Yes, ponies feed […]