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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‘2639’ that was my library number at the local library I visited while I was growing up. I regularly went there during my early teenage years. Located between my high school and church, it also had a video library and provided services like photocopying. It was run by a father-son duo and was called Kings Library. I stopped […]
If it hadn’t been for too much traffic or bad weather or the government closing down a few metro stations, I would have totally frequented my favourite bookstores, more often. Well, I believe I have many excuses and the day has not ended, so I must go to the nearest one. I sometimes also feel that I […]
If someone were to ask you, about a moment that you could create that could be absolutely perfect, what would it be? Have you ever thought about that? Somewhere you could be, far far away from the traffic, noise, madness, anger, frustration, maybe in the arms of your loved one, or surrounded by children, or […]
My metro rides are often accompanied by books or music. Reading about a woman’s struggle against an oppressive society within the comforts of an air-conditioned Ladies’ coach in the train or listening to Manna Dey’s ‘Zindagi Kaisi hai Paheli Hai’ while the surrounding crowd grooves to the beats of ‘Yeh Saali Zindagi, ’ I often find […]
Sometimes I feel that this madness just keeps on increasing. Like the background music of my life is building up to this great crescendo except that you cant tell if it’s gonna change back to a major scale after that, and if it does, maybe it will lapse back to the relative minor. Sometimes I want to run […]
There are many things that could draw you to a book, but fewer things that keeps you hooked on to it. I’ve jotted down a few reasons why I believe books are great. If you have more to add, leave a comment. One moment you’re in an open jeep slowly following a tiger, and the […]
I always wonder why writers write. Is it a calling? A compulsive need? An ego driven exercise to say, “I want you to see what I see?” I always wonder if writing is a conscious choice. A technique that you should master by reading a lot, becoming more and more aware of the manner in […]
Unboxed Writers began reaching out to readers in March 2011 and in April we are nearly 140 stories and many thousands of clicks old. Yes, we are being read and shared but there are days, to be honest, when we wonder. No, not about we why are writing. We do not question the joy of reaching out every single day to every single person who […]