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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So you really need to take that break and go travelling so that you can discover or rediscover yourself; so that you can learn things about yourself that you haven’t so far paid too much attention to? Well here’s a revelation. I made many self discoveries, right at home! The road to self discovery is […]
“Who is pretty? Mommy or me?” I ask. She looks at her mommy then she looks at me…and then in a split second she decides, “ME!” That’s my first introduction to the little girl who cares more about her teddy’s fur than her Barbie’s hair. She is quick to pick her friends. She has but one criteria. Undivided […]
As I turn 25, looking quarter-life crisis squarely in the eye, I’ve realised that my life has not been short of its share of drama. Just going back four years could offer to be one of the most thrilling roller coaster rides I’ve been on. More importantly, other than shaping you into the person you will […]
It was a pleasant morning as I walked out of my parents’ home after a hearty breakfast; all excited to meet one of my favourite people – my dance teacher, who we always fondly addressed as Aunty. Little did I know as I hailed an autorickshaw that today’s meeting would be bitter-sweet and would […]
Humans love symmetry. From quantum physics, to the reasons we find people attractive, everything is linked to symmetry. Even our own bodies are bilaterally symmetrical. Our brains are roughly symmetrical. Funnily enough, our hearts are not. (Note, all you medical students calling me a crazy person who knows nothing about anything, I’m talking about a […]
An unfinished day.. half baked. incomplete. loudly, rudely voiced. untidy. spilling… unconvincing truths.. just like a.. soul expelled from its skin And now just a moment a deep breath and forgiveness and insight that even when you can’t draw a straight line on paper you can in your head and that is where it begins and […]
Lessons I learnt this year… Life will throw both the good and the bad at you. Wear your oldest pyjamas and stay in bed when you are hurt. Go for a stroll or a run, when you can. Remember, you always can. When it is dark within and out, pull back the curtains and let […]
As we allow more space and reduce the pace, somehow, we invite grace. An affluent industrialist said to the Master, “What do you do for a profession?” “Nothing,” said the Master. The industrialist laughed scornfully. “Isn’t that laziness?” “Heavens no. Laziness is mostly the vice of very active people.” Later the master said to his […]