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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There are fewer and fewer stars visible with each passing decade, year, day. Time flies. Cities flounder. We progress. Stock markets crash. People worry. Politicians win. Leaders lose. Icons sell products. We buy. The earth is dying we are warned. We forget. And smile as the stock market soars. We earn money. We lose […]
Stars: One of the greatest revelations of my childhood was that the stars never truly disappear. They burn just as brightly at noon as they do at midnight. Just no one sees them until the sun sets. When the last vestiges of red sink into the high-rise buildings, the stars come out and we find them as though […]
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 […]
This is no fairy tale even though I married my long time girlfriend, Moon. We had been courting for aeons, literally. People spoke about how Moon and I disappeared behind the clouds at times. News about our celestial love affair spread as far and wide as Pluto. And you know how it is – can’t stop those […]