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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What is freedom? Does it mean the same thing to everyone? Or is it a relative perception? Something we define according to our conditioning not knowing that all the time, someone else or a set of circumstances are defining us without perhaps us being aware of it? I recently went to Mumbai to take part […]
Freedom. That ‘apparently’ ever elusive feeling that many of us are after. All our lives we think, feel or believe that someone or something is constantly taking it away or keeping it away from us. That it is controlled externally, and we have to fight for it. Usually, it is our parents who we blame […]
Hi! My name is Confusion. I am 25-years-old and constantly shuttling between my home “To be” and my workplace “To do.” I have heard that what sets human beings aside as special, is their ability to choose and decide, but somehow, I have always been severely allergic to it. Why, you may ask? I […]
What is freedom? Is it a state-of-mind? A physical, social or personal reality? A perception that can be manipulated? On Independence Day, I asked some of the writers and readers of Unboxed Writers what their idea of freedom was. For some it was an intensely personal state-of-being. For others, it was a hard-won right to […]