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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They say there are five stages of grief. Seven maybe. Either way, I think I can say I’ve been through about four. Or am going through them – they’re going back and forth for me to be unable to pinpoint which stage I’m at, right now, at this very moment, yesterday – who knows? […]
Thank you so much St. Nicholas –‘Santa’ of the world Your very name Jingles the bells Of jollity and gaiety. But today… I stand here with heavy heart Looking within… ……………….. They say ‘You give Toys to the good children and Coal to the naughty ones’ Unworthy of all your goodies; Our souls burnt […]
Nothing speaks to me more than a pine tree and its misty breath and a sunflower and its fresh scrubbed face of hope and that moment in time when the evening is a pale rose with its petals around everything even the thought that it is not enough and the thought that maybe it […]
Pic By the author Our lives are not in a constant even flow. There are troughs and crests interspersed with the routine business of living. While the crests are easy to ride- being as they are about intense happiness, success, joy et all, it’s the troughs which get us down and out. Unhappiness, grief, or […]
I am free from the fetters and I fly…I die. I dump the body in the garbage of your beauty tricks, your anti-ageing serums, your yoga mats and rejuvenation therapies. I rise above my gaze, my unglued and free gaze. Jealous? See me fly, my hair tossing above clouds, my milk whitening the world, my […]
You have a fancy job. You have cool friends. You have a family that visits occasionally and you therefore feel you are in touch with them. You also have a vehicle to get around the city, you have a pay cheque that pays for unnecessary expenses like ready-made ginger-garlic paste, an extra skillet, more than two […]
I didn’t climb a mountain I didn’t climb a tree but I feel a lot better I feel free we didn’t talk of troubles we didn’t go on a shopping spree but I feel lighter I feel free bring on the worries bring on the woes I am ready for the battle today three months down the lane, who knows […]
There are several noises in her head. Years ago, they used to disturb her. The sound of mankind in turmoil. The painful grunts of voices that were never sure. The panting arguments of minds that had heard themselves over and over again too often . Not any more, though. There was no need to justify […]
There are a lot of things that are not going right. With Murphy working overtime and PMS doing its bit, life has been pretty miserable. Until this morning… When I received an SMS from someone I consider worthwhile with news that is more than worthwhile and then a little later, as I sat on the […]
Have you ever noticed? The way the helmet jiggles when the wearer moves his head to music? The way trees smile and sway after a brief shower? The way generosity meter goes up when the weather is beautiful? The way bikers try to wipe their eyes through goggles? The way the bhutta smells better during monsoon? […]
Eyes full of longing Search for him in the crowd Is that him? Is that he who comes in? Is there a doubt? Of course it is him … Tall and dapper Suave and elegant… There he comes, striding towards me… Here he is… the love of my life Together we shall be …Till death do us […]
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? WH Davies A friend of mine asked me once whether I had noticed the new park adjacent to my office. I replied in the negative. She snapped back, “But it has been there for a month now. You must […]