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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And we crawl under The blanket of moonlit stars Silence our white noise Reading the books of our thoughts Satisfied; switch off our eyes ** Prateek Maheshwari (phatwiremarakeesh.wordpress.com) is based out of Mumbai, works full-time (overtime!) in finance and is an engineer by education. Writing is his passion.
Have you realized the importance of getting sufficient amount of sleep? Late night partying, watching movies, studying or working till late night and then getting up early the next day, over a period of time, all cause a long list of problems. It is only when you sleep, that the growth hormones are secreted by the master glands in the […]
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 […]
I’ve got windows in my ceiling they can’t see the sky Mere shadowed projections thrown by headlights passing by The pendulum sways the old clock’s alive Hush… listen to the breath of the seconds passing by The fan keeps a churning humming to the ghosts The crickets are composing an ode to sweet repose Moonlight […]