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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Freedom is raising your hands to the sky and saying, “I am done.” Freedom is running on the beach, falling and saying, “This is it.” Freedom is listening to a tune, weeping and saying, “This is all.” Freedom is letting the waves wash your feet and saying, “You washed my miseries away.” Freedom is sitting […]
I have imagined, often, what it must feel like, to die. Do I gradually lose awareness of my body, one part at a time and slip away? Do I become excruciatingly aware of it as the mind recedes and the life force that I am makes its presence known? Is it painful? Is it relieving? […]
It is only a make-believe that we are born free. We are not. Have you wondered why authorities register your birth? To keep track of you. It is like tying a collar radar on the neck of a beast so one could trace it as and when required and curb its movements. The word ‘official’ is quite […]
Intense emotion for someone/thing. I guess. I’m not sure how to exactly describe love – I guess you know love when you see starry skies or monsoon nights. As you sink your teeth into that oh-so-perfect blueberry muffin. or your toes into oh-so-squishy sand. ** Love is owl-spotting and tree climbing. Tribal beats beneath […]
It’s going to be a long road. That’s the truth. We are happiest when we don’t know that. Have you seen kids? Do they ever think of the long road? They think of now and what they may be doing tomorrow at the most. It is us, adults, who make them aware of a hell-pit […]
I’ve mentioned before, I’m relatively new to Kolkata.. Calcutta. Before coming here, I’ve never had domestic help. Today, I have a cook, a cleaner and someone to look after the little ones. I’m a little spoilt, if truth be told. I’m living an easy life, free to do as I choose. But having this freedom […]
It’s no secret, how over the course of time, we tend to do things we don’t want to, loved people who didn’t love us back, got betrayed, hurt, wounded, until the heart was shredded apart…all of these, making small knots on the fabric of our soul, serving us as reminders…reminders so that we never let […]
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 […]
This moment and nothing. This moment, the ripples in billowed clouds, this moment the surge to puncture,to tear the tears and fly off- to the winged cloud, the tailed cloud, the untamed cloud, the dispersing cloud, the undying-undulating cloud, the spiralling cloud, the mischievous and mercurious loud, the uninhibited,unshy,the naked,the mutinous cloud. Sarab Sri Kaur […]
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 […]
Far across the sea I see.. a place waiting to be a place..where the mountains are deep and seas are high. I will be where no one has been… Into the darkness…into the wild, a free man’s place with wonders of its own kind. Flaming jungles like a forest fire, stoking the endless journey of […]
** As mesmerizing as the flames of a bonfire or the frothy gurgle of a brook can be the flight of a kite. I crane my neck to look up in awe and in my thoughts, I am astride those fragile paper wings. My heart lifts, I feel my body levitate and there is an expansion […]