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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He keeps himself busy. So he doesn’t have the time to keep checking the calendar. He has refused himself the pleasure of counting the hours since she left but he cannot seem to ignore days. He knows it’s a Monday on a work heavy day, a Friday when work closes sooner than usual and so […]
Three years ago, you did not know you would be here reading these words. Three years ago, you did not know the name that would make things go round in your life. Three years ago, all the wrong things mattered. Not the life-sustaining, soul-stirring truth of today. Today’s smells of cinnamon and spice, today’s sunsets […]
Sorrow can be solid; you can feel it thumping, knocking the air out of your lungs, rendering you incapable of drawing breath, air inches away but so still, you cannot suck it in. A thousand thoughts rush through your brain and rush into your veins, pushing your blood harder and harder until you feel that […]
For years I have woken up, with the sun shining by my side, Watched myself in the mirror, dressed, bathed, looked better everyday, Chosen colours to wear, pinned my hair to let nothing but my work abide, Drove past the hush and rush of lives, as they flew past me with the clock’s pace, Against the volatile heart, my mind waged a war, […]
I am too old. I am too tired. It’s too late. I’ve a loan to pay off. My parents will kill me if I do this. My family depends on me for their bread and butter. I don’t have the finances. I have no time. I don’t think I am good enough to do it. […]
Your dreams tumble, Caught by delicate Silver cobwebs. Time slips by, and you think You have only so much time, Desperate, seeking, Running out of the time That you have allowed yourself, To find your dreams, shaped into real things, Things you can hold. But dreams are star dust And they sprinkle Over your universe […]
Every tender shoot grows green and withers to brown one day Every flower will be sucked through its tendons and become nothing one day Every pebble was part of a strong rock Every raindrop seeping into the earth was once cradled by a cloud flock The tiny feet twisting within a womb grow old to […]
Somewhere in my neighbourhood, a house owns a grandfather chiming clock. I imagine it must also have a pendulum, because in the quietness of 1400 hours every day, I can bet I hear a swish-swish in the air, like metal ripping gently through the wind, the pendulum swinging back and forth, marking time, time that […]
As we allow more space and reduce the pace, somehow, we invite grace. An affluent industrialist said to the Master, “What do you do for a profession?” “Nothing,” said the Master. The industrialist laughed scornfully. “Isn’t that laziness?” “Heavens no. Laziness is mostly the vice of very active people.” Later the master said to his […]
BREAK: When I was six, I broke a vase. It was a typical childhood mistake –a turn taken too suddenly around too sharp a corner into too fragile an object. When my parents heard the crash, they ran over to find me sitting amidst the pieces trying to put them back together. They took my […]
Time takes away the beauty of all Gross living and subtle It takes away The charm of youth The riches of the rich The will of the strong and The ‘I’ of the ego Nothing remains; all perishes Time is the killer Time the killed In ephemeral.. lies the truth Eternal beauty underneath Time is […]
Time flows. “Situations change. People change.” Forever is a myth. Everybody moves on. Memories don’t. Memories know not of this art. They persist..linger.. To strangle the heart and poison the soul, Bringing freezing flashbacks of feelings I would never know again. A funny thing, memory. Sometimes it fades. Like a shadow that gets engulfed by […]