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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There is the natural order of things where man, beast and nature inhabit their designated worlds. There is poise, equilibrium and harmony here and then there is chaos as we know it when lines are erased, habitats interfered with and innocence interrupted. Prominent art writer and curator Giridhar Khasnis possibly pondered these questions as he ideated a show about the unpredictable relationship between the animal world […]
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 […]
In a sublimely detailed work called Doll House, artist Abir Kar blurs the line between reality and fantasy as we see what must possibly be a little girl’s room full of stuffed toys, a pink laptop, pubescent clutter, a wall ornament that says ‘Drama Queen,’ and a heart-holding teddy bear in a cage. Is this […]