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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Aah, chocolate cream biscuits. In those days, they were wrapped in glossy violet packets bearing a typical image of a half-eaten biscuit with mouthwatering chocolate oozing out of it. Simply delicious! I was in 4th Standard and the shortest kid in the class. But that didn’t stop me from desperately falling in love with Ann. […]
Over a span of 37 years, I have come across friends in different forms. As a kid, the ones I shared my dolls with and fought with, over half-eaten chocolates. I did not know then what friendship was and why friends were important. They were just a part of your life and you accepted them […]
Uma Iyer has dreamt of Molu, a mischievous six-year-old for almost a decade now. She shares with the young readers of Unboxed Writers, ‘Meet Molu,’ a yet to be published first book of hopefully what would turn out to be a Molu and Tushka series. Agni, or ‘Molu’ as she is commonly referred to, is a six-year-old girl […]
What if Newton was made to vow never to sit under an apple tree? What if Kishore Kumar was forced to be an engineer and Rahul Dev Burman, a doctor? What if Bill Gates was forced to attend school and do what he was asked to? It’s not an uncommon sight to see children tug […]