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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Everybody seems to be running around, in search of something… seeking.. for that elusive love, relationship, object, peace of mind, security, work project or status symbol. And for some, it is a search to find the meaning of their existence, their purpose in life, why are they here, or answers to the eternal question “Who […]
Not enough has been said about the power of silence. Silence can speak more and louder than mere words. Words only hurt, silence can annihilate. Words may, at times, heal; silence embalms. Words have been known to persuade; silence can virtually seal a deal. Silence is a killer, decimating soundlessly. It can withhold and show largesse, all […]
In your silence I died a million deaths. So many questions and fears came rushing to my mind! Did I do too little.. or too much, Did I say too little… or too much, Did I share too little… or too much, Is it because I didn’t hold your hand, even though I wanted to… […]
Sometimes silence hems frayed seams paints on plain surfaces daisies and sunflowers that have not bloomed yet brews tea with lemon and mint bakes a marble cake first thing in the morning **** dusts forgotten corners replaces fading cushions sees rare things like generous, forgotten trees shedding gauzy petals on fuming bonnets **** when boxes […]
The living room vibrated with some unseen, leashed emotions. The moment he entered he could sense the shift in atmosphere. After a day well spent with his friends he was in a mood to watch some sports on TV, have some late dinner, check his emails and go to sleep. But the sudden tingling at […]
Sometimes, when I am travelling back home from work, I shut my eyes. In the bus, in the car, in the train. Sometimes, life around me is a bit too overwhelming, even for me. I work in an industry where advertising and selling form the core of my job. Everyday. Everyday, we come up with […]
For a very long time I believed that words have the ability to express everything… everything that we feel, see, touch and everything that we can sense. For a long time, I believed that words are the beginning of a solution, if not the solution itself. For a long time I prided myself in being […]
Today He will look across the wall at the other the shadow that was once a person They don’t talk much Not at all infact And exist only in disjointed halves that don’t fit They know each other but see just the wall and hear footsteps arriving and leaving They hear voices songs, laughter But […]
I wrapped it in multiple layers of amber satin. I put it inside a wooden box. The one gifted to me by my grandma. Beautiful walnut wood. Her initials on it. Then I took the box and buried it deep. As deep as I could dig. Deep till I felt it could not re-surface. But […]
It is not dice, its my life. Just can’t play autumn and scatter my little self. Who will gather me back in my bag of life? Time rushes, gushes and changes. Balm the wounds, bandage the pain. While the world thunders on, catch the silence of soul, steal a few hours from the clock and […]
Silence chugs on noiselessly, eternally like a well-oiled secret. Pervasive. Invasive. Persistant. Lingering on to speak, listen, sigh, whisper and feed on the chatter of hope. Silence, rising like smoke, stinging nostrils and eyelids of the soul.. As we watch empty years that passed without eyes locked across the checkered table cloth. Without words that were to gush into parched hollows like monsoon rivulets and bring us to life […]