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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Whether you are waving trishuls, brooms, an imperious hand or a Supreme Court Verdict before the masses, it is all about control, isn’t it? How can we control minds, lives, body parts, power centres, vote banks? And control those we do not approve of, dislike, or cannot understand or do not give a damn about? […]
Truth is hard to speak. And harder to live. No one knows that better than a journalist. After 16 years of working in the media and assorted newspapers, I have no illusions left about the purpose of reporting. The hunger for truth does not alone drive the media houses. They tell little but sell a lot more. Yes, new stories […]
There’s a problem with our TV dish antennae in the building. It moves from its original place on the terrace, at least once every month. My mom suspects sabotage; I think it’s just the wind. But because of this, I can’t watch TV until I make a call to the company’s call centre in Indore (We are in Mumbai). […]
Not many people in India knew Syed Saleem Shahzad but his cheerfully round face along with the screaming headlines speaking of torture and murder at the hands of a shadowy entity that must not be spoken about lightly in Pakistan, stirred a deep sorrow. Shahzad was a man of truth. He did not play ball […]