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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I have had many teachers in life who taught me valuable lessons. However I have a special teacher named solitude that helps me keep my balance in many tight rope acts. In today’s life that moves at an unprecedented maddening pace, there are times when we need to just sit back, be on our own […]
On her birthday today, I remember ‘Alone’, a poem by Maya Angelou. A poem that recounts a moment in all our lives when we lie awake at night with a soul niggle that asks, “How to find my soul a home..where water is not thirsty and bread loaf is not stone?” And then comes the […]
Who do I trust, which heart should I pry? Who should I call, when my lips tremble dry? Who should I trust with the saddest day of my life? Who would be by my side, when life is the edge of a knife? Who should hold me with strength ? Who should walk along […]
I am in a crowd and yet alone. Looking around at people conversing, laughing, I wonder. Do they also feel the same way as I do? A friend shakes me from my stupor and asks, “Hey! All well?” The same answer. “Yes! Yes! “ But the eyes say something else. I recall Kaifi Azmi’s poem. […]
Surprisingly, a lot of writing happens when the senses skid into a realisation that sinks into the innermost layers of the self. And a bit of writing also happens when the self stretches itself and brushes accidentally or intentionally, into a truth it always knew but seemed to have forgotten. You, who told me suddenly, […]
Good bye.. I have to go now to the inner realms And roam there I am too tired Of seeking Of waxing like the moon… Of waning like the tide …. Of wandering out of My soul,out of myself I am tired now of the web of ties and emotions… Unsettling dreams and desires Unfinished […]
Pack me tonight, Pack my heart, Pack my pain, Pack my smiles Pack me and take me..to your safest place. Or Unpack me and watch me overtake all of your mysteries. Or Lets pack, travel and unravel continents of our hearts. Hear me! Hark, unchain me Or chain me forever! I hate to be lonely. […]
Eyes full of longing Search for him in the crowd Is that him? Is that he who comes in? Is there a doubt? Of course it is him … Tall and dapper Suave and elegant… There he comes, striding towards me… Here he is… the love of my life Together we shall be …Till death do us […]