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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A week ago a friend challenged me to the ALS ice bucket challenge. I had already heard about it given that celebrities like Oprah, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates had taken it up. The obvious reason why I didn’t want to do it is I hate being cold and so the idea of dumping a […]
Extremely thirsty, he wandered, delirious, in search of water. He saw people sipping their tall icy drinks. His eyes gleamed as droplets of condensation made their way down the glasses. He turned his head and saw it. Next to the rubbish bin was a glass with some water. He ached for water, but the wisps of memory from childhood […]
On World Environment Day, I woke up to the smell of burning plastic. It was most probably coming from the garbage dump outside the boundary wall of our building, though I was too diffident to go look. It is not meant to be there, that dump but it grows unmonitored, unchecked everyday. Spilling over the road, claiming space meant […]
It is an accepted paradigm that most cities in India will face a water shortage and that managing sanitation will be a huge challenge. Institutions are taking action albeit slowly. Large scale infrastructure projects are rolling out. Water lines, sewage lines and treatment plants are all coming up. However this will not be sufficient. In […]
Gore Verbinski’s Rango is bit like Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. A story about a quest and coming home to ourselves and all that matters to us. There is the desert and the thirst but we will come to those later. The film begins at a point we all can recognise. A point where too afraid or too complacent to leave our terrariums, we play act […]