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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For all that we long and for all that we have ..
For all our fulfilled dreams.. still hungry we are.
When it was less we begged for more and when more we thought of how less we have.
Selfless and selfish..
Standing in the same queue of greed we are.
In the ruthless battle of life..an unhealed scar we are.
Warriors fighting for freedom,slaves we are!
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Amit makwana is also known as Deejay Amit, is a disk jockey by profession and a poet by heart.
“Kajol stuns in a royal blue wrap dress as she posts a boomerang of herself swirling and pouting.” This is a Republic World report about the success party of a film about rape. Other media outlets are busy telling us who came to celebrate this film that has also been accused of plagiarism by Abhishek […]
Dalip Kaur Tiwana, a name to reckon within the field of Punjabi fiction the world over, and one of the strongest pillars of Punjabi literature passed away yesterday and obituaries are pouring in from every nook and corner of the world. Her family, friends, readers, and students are mourning this great loss. The voice […]
In a country where women are raped and occasionally burnt by packs of predators, the most powerful image in the past few days was this. A few young women from Jamia Millia Islamia protecting a cowering young man from police violence. And the women of Bangalore, forming a protective circle around men to shield them […]
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schreiben ist ein ausdruck von gefühlen, lässt aber auch andere daran teilnehmen und damit gibt man viel privates preis. dieses gedicht ist eines davon. ich hoffe, wir können noch mehr von ´mr. makwana hören. sehr talentiert!
to write is to open the heart, to write is to feel and let other´s know how we feel. mrr. makwana let us give a look into his emotions, great. i hope he will write more.
Nice, Amit
thank u ingrid nd indu 🙂
well done deejay 🙂
o my u truly penned my feelings into words ..an extremely realistic truth of life…..loved reading it
Everything so beautifully expressed in just a few lines. Love this poem.
Well penned lines, that describe life aptly 🙂