I have tried not to write, after the hopeless events in December 2012, when along with an enraged India, I last reacted to the brutal rape of an innocent girl in New Delhi, in broad urban limelight. The hopelessness that grips me is unbearable as I watch some leaders of the nation promise action and swear punishment to the […]
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A Love Letter To Mumbai
At a recent event, I was meant to give a talk on “Mumbai and the power of collective conscience”. I went prepared for the speech, but the unimaginable happened.Something that has never happened to me before. The moment my turn came, and I stepped on to the stage to speak, I blanked out and lost complete […]
Opinion: Deriding The Feminine Gaze?
Like Jism, Jism 2 is unapologetic and deals with a subject that all of India is shy to discuss but that which all of Indian media devours and exploits to gain the TRPs, the readership and the viewership at every opportunity it gets, be it the molestation of a young girl outside a nightclub in […]
Simon Said..
I am a procrastinator by nature and at all given times I live with the stress of having to do too many things which I have pushed aside with the gentle stroke of one excuse or another. While I do take credit for all the good things that happen to me, I also blame my own self […]
The Young And The Honest
India, for the first time after many decades is looking inwards. And as it does that as a nation, it has started to stare at the truth right in the eye and express itself with an honesty which had become as alien to us as the cinema we had started to make in the eighties […]
The Underbelly Of Dreams
A writer came to me with a script today and his own story was more interesting than the one he had written. I might have offended him by spending far more time listening to him about his own search for recognition than listening to the reams of material on his laptop he tried to engage me with. This young boy […]
A Life Lived Fully..
There are life stories and there is life. Lived with passion, heart and soul. In all its entirety, its dizzying highs, its crashing lows. Accepted with all its flaws, hurts, blows. Loved despite its imperfection. Film and television director Vinta Nanda lives her life deeply and nothing gets to that core where hope is eternal. Vinta has the guileless innocence […]