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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When Philip Dodd, Chairman of the creative industries company Made in China, claimed that the future “belongs to a constellation of India and China”, he may not have been exaggerating. Dodd was one of the many luminaries visiting the ongoing India Art Fair in Delhi and is credited with bringing for the first time to the fair Chinese […]
First the 21 minute walk from where the car drops you till you are inside the display area, and then the information pamphlet that holds a list of 98 exhibitors and 13 public art projects spread over 12,000 sq m of area and just one single day to absorb all that the India Art Fair brings […]
During the last India Art Summit held in Delhi this January, Bharti Kher’s untitled triptych made out of her trademark stick-on bindis reportedly fetched Rs 1.9 crore, slightly higher than husband Subodh Gupta’s acrylic on canvas that went for Rs 1.2 crore. Somnath Hore’s Congregation in a Village sold for Rs 75 lakh, a Ravinder Reddy […]