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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If you cannot see the knife At least imagine it Carry the idea in your mind The possibility of an edge Murderously honed Wielded in attack Feel the steel tear you Consider the possibility Of a stab wound Look around you Watch for edges, for hands Concealed in pockets, behind Backs Listen Most of all, […]
*** I don’t want the fleeting happiness that comes from acquiring beautiful things. Nor the shallow mirth that comes from people who please you, praise you and bring you gifts. But I crave the satisfaction of one who need not try so hard to prove one self in a cruel world. One who without seeking […]
Love cannot endure without trust and respect. Look back and see if those two very important pylons were holding up your now-broken heart, along with love. If that was not the case, then it was not Love in the truest sense of the word. Hence, your heart is not really broken. It will recover […]
The last few weeks have had a daunting effect on my mind; the events around the world creating many shifts in thought processes and forcing me to question the very basic of human existence — trust. Humans seem to have a very skewed perspective of their actions sometimes. “Aren’t you being inhuman?” is an oft-repeated […]
Who do I trust, which heart should I pry? Who should I call, when my lips tremble dry? Who should I trust with the saddest day of my life? Who would be by my side, when life is the edge of a knife? Who should hold me with strength ? Who should walk along […]
Trust. Is it a belief, a hope, an expectation? No. Belief is an exaggerated expectation. A conviction, an idea. Hope is a mere peg to hold on. A desire waiting to be fulfilled. Trust is neither expecting nor holding on. Trust is letting things be. Never reflecting.. never suspecting Never complaining of the betrayal It […]
One of the most important lessons I learnt in life happened when I was least expecting it to spring itself upon me. I sat as part of a large audience, listening to the speaker, who was a charming young man, and speaking a lot of sense. He spoke about drugs, he spoke about sex, he […]
Only disasters so far, I don’t know what comes after. I never saw much light at the end of the mistrust. But there is hope Because I do not give up and won’t be defeated forever. The needle prick of pain is just skin deep It may hurt Or just may bring me back to […]
Freedom is… Knowing we will all drown someday but being at peace with drowning before the next minute arrives Feeling the fear but looking it in the eye anyway Thinking you’ll never make it but taking that first step nonetheless Sensing that you’re way out of your depth but trusting the water and your body’s […]