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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When I think about a beach, I, without hesitation, think about Goa. As a friend aptly describes it – a land of sun, sand and sin. I’d like to tweak that to – the land of sun, sand and seafood. Goa has it all. North Goa has everything to offer for the tourist in […]
Polka dotted joie-de vivre, Black-and-white… soundless laughter, Curly wrist hair, droopy lids..bulbous eyes, Miss Nimbupani, Miss Fonseca, Mr Bundaldass, Hatch lines, Horizontal, vertical, slanting, busy lines, Church spires, Cloudy beer in a yellow mug, Flowered umbrellas, Bendy palms, Orange moons, Still lakes, Bobbing boats, Sloping roofs, Wide eyed cats, Movement in stillness, Stillness in movement, […]
The inspiration for this article comes from my love for street-shopping which to me is fascinating in many ways. First it combines my love for walking with shopping. You do have that option in malls but the local markets in a city have a different appeal, a liveliness in the banter of colors and words. […]
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro’s Loving Ayesha and Other Stories (Harper Collins India) is a collection that first appeared in 2003, but apart from a couple of stories, that have appeared in magazines, I read this entire collection only just now and this late discovery is a matter of regret as also thrill. It was the title story, Loving Ayesha I read first. I did […]