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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Nothing he did made her happy. There always was something that could be corrected, improved, tweaked, changed, worked upon. Nothing was perfect…of course, perfect was not a possibility and everybody had a different definition of perfection. But he tried. Every time. Every day. 40 years hence, she knew he would never come close to what […]
It used to irritate her. He would leave the chairs pushed too far back in, making the whole dining table symmetry skewed. He would leave the patio chairs pulled too far out. He would leave wet towels on wooden chairs.And he would also close taps too tightly. Often she would correct these things quietly. Sometimes she would […]
How can pain be forced to move down Away from the eyes So that it’s just a burning hole in my stomach? How shall I stave all thoughts of her voice As she peremptorily Walks in the house Bell a-jingling Down the spiral staircase From the neighbour’s roofs, the driveway In through the gate Rusty self […]
Love is never a constant. Especially human love. There is nothing you can count on. There is nobody that will stay. The lips that pursed up with anger and impatience, bordering on hatred and malice yesterday may as well kiss you today. What must you feel? Yesterday’s agony or today’s joy? Do not wallow, though. […]
You reach out and caress my neck And look magnificent in glimpses I twirl but poise eludes me There is no sense of gravity.. My eyes can’t keep up with you Though the heart leaps, matching your feet Wrap your arms around me and glide in poetry I have waited and longed To one day be swept […]
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 […]
You should have left me in the rain when the clouds broke, Avoided my pleading eyes and tragic lies. You should have said goodbye, before you exploded. Didn’t you see how lost I was, did you just see the love? And not how much I could hurt you? The potential for pain? You should have […]
I see only you my sweet, I hear your voice and drown out all memories of the world. I wake to live my dream. I wrap myself up in you, shutting out everybody and everything. Did I make promises to them? Did I say I loved them? I did. What did I know.. Or that […]
Untie the last knot of bonds And drop each fetter like a tear drop Breathe! You will be free If ever you were tied. Dry now like the arid land… Vast and directionless you shall be But feisty and lively like the graceful river Your soul will reach its coveted sea. Love is not a stagnant […]
Hi! My name is Confusion. I am 25-years-old and constantly shuttling between my home “To be” and my workplace “To do.” I have heard that what sets human beings aside as special, is their ability to choose and decide, but somehow, I have always been severely allergic to it. Why, you may ask? I […]
“See, Rani, your uncle has become a face on the wall,” my aunt said with a wan smile as I walked into my uncle’s house and hugged her. This was the first time I was going back to my uncle’s house after he died last year. I’d been dreading this knowing it would be difficult […]
Prettiness and peaches. Suffolk homes. Salmon returning to breed. Scallops and kabibe shells. Baby feet. Frosted lipstick. Rashes and raspberries. Onions and radishes, Cadillacs and corals Jordan’s sand art bottles and Bahamas’ beaches Sheer silk, satin pyjamas and flowerbeds of phlox Marshmallows and candy treats The rudeness of being jobless and beat Flamingos and Floyd […]