I remember the time I heard tere bina zindagi se koi, shikwa to nahin… That haunting melody from Aandhi — the 1975 film starring the enigmatic Bengali superstar Suchitra Sen and one of the greatest (and underrated) actors of Hindi cinema, Sanjeev Kumar. The film was rumoured to be loosely based on the life of Indira Gandhi. […]
Happiness is tough to define, Miming the word vapidly is mostly an attempt to prove all is fine. What could be happiness? A misleading word coined by a dope head or a life without a mistress…? Wondered, read, spoke, listened, meditated and pondered again– Does it have something to do with evading pain? My mother […]
I tended to my plants yesterday. And the best thing, today, I’ve two pink hibiscus flowers swinging in the morning breeze on my balcony. To reap the benefits of your hard work almost instantly is a miracle. And it doesn’t happen often. Not to me. Not to many of us. I wish we didn’t have to […]
I’m not sure, if you’re one of them. But a lot of us are. Rather a lot of us feel that way. We feel like we are faking it all the time. For instance, there’s an accomplished dancer who thinks she’s not a dancer at all. Like she is someone who’s fooling the audience through her performances and […]
Ya, well. I wouldn’t start by saying the obvious. The obvious…you ask, what’s that? Let me not spoil the fun by stating it. Let me instead tell you that the night you were born, there was someone who calmed you down, when you wailed like a new born baby. You were in fact newly born. Barely […]
