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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I quietly play the soulful music and talk to the silent chords, my heart plays. But there is a music in distress too, that just doesn’t die. Even when there is peace, I can see so many pieces within. Whether you come or not, my soulful symphony will go on. I can’t stop the dance, […]
She, the immaculate Marianna Sharon Joseph could barely stand the sight of herself. She looked like something the dog had dragged in. She switched on the light to see if it made any difference… but no, she still looked like someone else… someone else who had lost a child. The thought brought on a cramp […]
It lay well within his grasp. A gold band twinkling defiantly at him. The diamond encrusted crown caught the sun rays as they filtered through the wooden beams of the little, suburban church and glittered like a thousand ripples on a mountain stream. The ring was brand new, from a very fine jeweller in Manhattan. […]
I am a procrastinator by nature and at all given times I live with the stress of having to do too many things which I have pushed aside with the gentle stroke of one excuse or another. While I do take credit for all the good things that happen to me, I also blame my own self […]
She was on top of the world and her heart was soaring. She was going to meet her husband after one whole year. And she remembered how it had all begun. She was 20 and nothing could stop her cup of joy from brimming over. She was in love. With a real man. A man […]
Ok, so the nanny is having an affair. There are too many phone calls, sweet whispers into the night and generally a haze of happiness surrounding her. The calls and messages history are deleted everyday and the phones, in fact two of them, one given by me and one hers, are kept hidden from sight. […]
It’s an old friend. And he’s calling to tell me that he has found the pretty Kashmiri girl he had a big crush on in college. (Well, actually he just, sort of, casually mentions it towards the end of 25 minutes of waning conversation with a self-conscious cough that warns me something important is coming […]
Love is blind, they say. Or is it? Your first love is your last love, most believe. But does love last forever? Love should be celebrated at all times, and everywhere, we’ve been told. What happens when this emotion begins to destroy, sometimes cruelly? Love is perhaps the one word that has been so oversimplified […]
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 […]
A thought is knocking at my soul with its strong fists and mighty knuckles A thought so cruel … A thought so sweet… A thought so far…. A thought so near…. A thought that brings A smile and a tear… A thought of having … A thought of letting go of something so precious and […]
Ofcourse, you remember The Wonder Years, the television series (1988-1993) that gently nudged us back into the 60s, to the years of the first moon landing, the Kennedy saga, the Vietnam war filtered through the adolescence of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage). You remember because the series captured not just for America but for all of us the days of our innocence. This longing for the […]
Everyday, I die a little – for I haven’t told you everything Everyday, I cry a little – for the beauty of you breaks me Everyday, I battle with demons that haunt my unsleeping spaces And pray to unseen gods who pull the strings that make us dance Or lose the chance to say or […]