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? […]
Sometimes I am lost in myself …and then… I pause I reflect I scan through the images captured randomly on my mobile … I scroll my phone-book for names that ring a bell in my heart I ruminate over my Facebook ‘likes’ to understand what am I looking for… I consume the myriad emotions […]
Death used to a simple matter some years ago. People died. We gave away their belongings to needy people, framed a photograph and hung it up the wall, sometimes with a garland dangling around it. That was it. Perhaps a shirt or a saree was kept, in remembrance. A watch, probably a ring they wore.Which […]
I should have learnt this lesson earlier in life. But it is one of life’s ironies that most Eureka moments come too late. The next best thing you then want to do is to try and save your children all the pain and hurt and disappointment that go with a lifelong negotiation. It is […]
It’s not love but the story we fall for the story we seek in the mundane, the ordinary, the predictable we look for signs for stars in dust for songs to come alive for messengers to arrive from distant lands bringing gifts of hope, faith and trust of answers to questions dragging their feet […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” How aptly they defined in a few words, the importance of a better ‘you’ as far as health is concerned but I have a question here, “who is the real […]
And today, I saw the most beautiful sunset of my life.. not at sunset point in Ooty or at Kanyakumari… but here, amidst the city’s hustle bustle. As I drove back home, and the cars whooshed by me in a hurry to get somewhere quickly, I saw it. That beauty of a big orange […]
Drip faster, dip down low, Let the sun rise and fall as the diamonds glow Beautiful rays, gleaming soft Beneath the light of everything you’ve lost. Symbols of what you’re leaving behind, Moving on, trying to keep up with The pace. Let it go, let them all fade, They’re hurled back at you, Slipping through […]
Hurricane Sandy took away many people with it. The pictures of the damage were heart wrenching. One cold December not too long ago we woke up freezing. A freak ice storm had left our town without power. We had to live in a friend’s place and then a hotel for five days until the […]
So it really isn’t about asking seeking fearing questioning doubting waiting hoping wanting ** or hiding in that noisy room with our thoughts that chase each other till they get tired and fall into a wordless darkness. ** or the drama of denial the spectacle of anger the little betrayals of who […]
In the beginning there was the jungle with dark trees grinding the earth with their vengeful roots and sudden fires that even when they were too spent to rage hissed vengefully from ashes. Then a path broke free of the tangled fear and pain and found itself and the light. ** Then there […]
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 […]