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 is a three-year-old memory and even now I can see the morning stealing over the lawns of Thaneerhulla bungalow and silver oaks streaming golden light. I can hear the narrow, leafy trails of the coffee plantations in Polibetta,Kodagu, come alive with bird songs. And feel a healing silence fall on my senses like dew. This is the memory I revisit whenever the spirit aches for a […]
A drive to Hasserghatta in Bangalore shifts perspectives slowly but surely about the kind of city we live in. Yes, we have to first pass through Bangalore’s sooty lungs but then arrive the colonies of banyans, the silver oak avenues, the gentle green hamlets and simple rusticity. Though truth be told, like every where else in the city, you don’t really know just […]
” Do not once think that you are here as a result of chance or coincidence,” the folks at Our Native Village, an ecologically sensitive and restorative resort, will have you believe. So if you have been longing to fill a big void where there once was a simpler way of life and if you are […]
We all know by now the devastation that an Earth Event brings to the communities it visits. As the city of Christchurch struggles gamely to her feet, tourists are left wondering just how safe it is to visit New Zealand. While none of us can second guess Mother Nature, the people of New Zealand are […]
Children are the biggest casualties whichever way you look at it. If you extrapolate the annual figure of current death from UXO in Laos and multiply it by the amount of years it will take to clear the land then 900,000 people who haven’t even been born yet are doomed to die.
“The first time I came here, a black man leapt out of the shadows and screamed at me -‘What to you want? Boy? Girl? Heroin?’ ” Gunnar nods towards the corner of memory as if his arrival were yesterday. “I was absolutely terrified! I thought he was asking if I was a boy or girl! […]
Rarely is a traveler met with anything more than a suspicious glare or a robotic nod when passing into a foreign country. In the sleep-starved hour of four in the morning, the sight of singing immigration men is a wake up call like no other. No steely faced officials, these Kuwaiti men. At this impossible […]
Ask some of your friends where they would rather like to live and chances are a majority will sigh and dream about having a home in the hills, or living like a farmer in the countryside. A reality check, however, gives most of us only the second best option – to pack our bags for […]