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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All around they keep fighting. About ideals, emotions, justice, love, life. They keep debating, elevating their minds intellectually. Superficially. And then I notice, there’s no more heart. No one puts their heart into something anymore. Maybe that’s our tragedy. The flow of emotions has just been displaced into a virtual environment and our emotions have moved […]
You and me dancing together Our steps .. in rhythm with each other Our hands understand Our minds sing together We walk, we skip, we jump, we fly, we soar You thrust.. I parry I move ..you respond We are locked in time And lost too The mind stops tracking details Rhythm Reprise Resonance And […]
Everybody seems to be running around, in search of something… seeking.. for that elusive love, relationship, object, peace of mind, security, work project or status symbol. And for some, it is a search to find the meaning of their existence, their purpose in life, why are they here, or answers to the eternal question “Who […]
Reproach me for the mistakes I have made, Protect me from those who will break my heart, Tell me your love is enough, and I don’t have to look anywhere else. Stand by me when I am weak, pat my back when I come through, Teach me the subtle lessons that my naive mind can’t […]
I wrapped it in multiple layers of amber satin. I put it inside a wooden box. The one gifted to me by my grandma. Beautiful walnut wood. Her initials on it. Then I took the box and buried it deep. As deep as I could dig. Deep till I felt it could not re-surface. But […]