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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Pack me tonight, Pack my heart, Pack my pain, Pack my smiles Pack me and take me..to your safest place. Or Unpack me and watch me overtake all of your mysteries. Or Lets pack, travel and unravel continents of our hearts. Hear me! Hark, unchain me Or chain me forever! I hate to be lonely. […]
Relationships, too bitter, at times too hasty, Like a pinch of salt, Sometimes like a shot in a glass, burning your insides, Snapping into pieces, even before the rust sets in, Black like a coal from within, pearl white from the outside, Throbbing like a painful nerve, pumping memories dusty, Like the breathless floods, that […]
The neem tree.. it swayed gently green… so green right outside my window. Beautiful, majestic, grand. The home of squirrels..and the birds. It buzzed with the symphony of life while I stared at it dreamily many a morning and then last evening.. I saw my beloved tree naked..stripped off all her glorious leaves and her […]
Plenty has happened. Plenty to go. We are at the crux where the road can take us anywhere. To the top. To the pits. Across. Within. No place. Every place. There are so many thoughts in my head that the words are all rushing in causing a jam at the fingertips.
Its Christmas time! Have you any idea how gorgeous Bandra, Hill road would be just about now? They would have stalls upon stalls full of Christmas decorations and trees … Stars and angels and shiny disco balls. They would have plum cake and marzipans and those milky chocolate things. There would be people shopping and […]
Muscles and bones Ache and groan The injury, forgotten The pain remembered Actions and gestures Tears and bonds The gaps, monumental The memories remain Torn with concern Anguish and sympathy Whom do I hurt for? The one who is distressed physically Or the one who doesn’t even know?
Ask no questions, get no lies Hear no sound, hear no cries Sympathy, Empathy… wasted words Hello no more, no more byes Sluggish rivers, blackened skies No more hows, no more whys Stalled connections, crossed swords Bleeding ulcers, heartfelt sighs.
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 […]
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 […]
The equator it is, where I lie sprawled, stuffing myself with freshly plucked plums from the garden that lies in the other half of the planet. I must leave some for the days to come, The territory has been seized, we don’t have access to those trees anymore. The trees that we planted on Family […]
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 […]