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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Hope on a gray day. A sprightly sunflower. A bunch of ox-eye daisies. A field of marigold. Sarson in full bloom. A vase of chrysanthemums in a room. A sweet round motichoor laddoo, a crisply succulent jalebi. Food for the body and the soul. Lemon tarts and coffee. A brightly beaked myna. An arch of golden trumpets. Lantanas in a […]
People are like jigsaw puzzles they have pieces. Some people get to see only some pieces of other people and so they don’t see the whole..only parts We keep putting out our own pieces together in different ways, trying to make sense of them unlike those who make their pictures faster than us..others Sometimes […]
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 […]
We all look in the mirror each day. Maybe more than once. Admire ourselves or even flinch at what we see sometimes. But have you ever wondered what your soul would look like in the mirror? I used to. A lot! Till a day, I came across this guy. He was neither an acquaintance nor […]
You can’t unmake or remake .. or break her.. because she picked her scattered bones from the womb of the earth, from thirsty sands and ocean pits and glued them to her soul with warm blood, hot tears, sweat and sticky hope.. and built herself limb by limb from a faint heart beat, a fading pulse. You can’t because she […]
I was packing a lunch box. A day back. And the vegetable that I had cooked and was stuffing into the air-tight tiffin box was spinach. Now we all know how volatile the nutrients in a leafy vegetable are. So I felt a bit off about cooking it and then packing it. It would travel […]
How I wish I could walk through the doors of your mind Take a look at the destruction I expect to find A scratch here, a rupture there All darned with terror and despair Is there any hope of restitution? Amongst all the confusion? Any shovel to clear the mess away… And brighten up your […]
Good bye.. I have to go now to the inner realms And roam there I am too tired Of seeking Of waxing like the moon… Of waning like the tide …. Of wandering out of My soul,out of myself I am tired now of the web of ties and emotions… Unsettling dreams and desires Unfinished […]
Show me your soul.. how much of it is yours? How much borrowed? Are you more than just pieces of steel, polished to a glint? Cold and invincible? Or do you live hurt melt pulse breathe? Does you life belong to you? Are you together alone whole splintered? Are you no one else but you? […]
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 […]
I see myself as a man standing Between two buckets. A tube runs from each bucket into a vein: Input, output Both buckets contain a grayish, gleaming, translucent Substance One bucket is labeled Past and the other is labeled Future I see myself as a crow on your balcony pecking At rice stained with turmeric […]
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 […]