A Morning from the Past

When I woke up this Saturday morning, it felt I had woken up to a similar morning in the month of April a few years back. As I sit up gently rubbing my… Read More →

SACRED RED

Oh! My scarred forehead  Drawn in sacred vermillion Too scared to complain Red vermillion, red is blood What makes red sacred, ask I? Published here: http://notsilencebutverse.tumblr.com/page/2

Coals, Clouds and Cups of Tea

Most of us like the smell of wet mud, don’t we? After the rains are done beating hard against the surface of the earth like a peculiar case of violence, the air feels… Read More →

Blogging inspired By Julie and Julia ...

Reblogged from Merectica – Expressionism: I recently watched Julie and Julia and probably that’s one of the strongest reasons why I’m here blogging… You realize there’s so much to know about yourself, about… Read More →

Cooking Cinderella Dreams

I know she has arrived when I hear the soft dragging of her feet up the stairs sounding like the stealthy movement by a tiger’s paws on a freshly trimmed grass field. As… Read More →

Celebrating 100 years of Indian Cinema with Waheeda Rehman

She played a poet’s admirer, a married woman who falls in love with a tourist guide, a courtesan who brings a change of heart in a dacoit and a devoted nurse who succumbs… Read More →

Vermillion and the Bride

The vermillion glistened in the parting of your wet hair, Trickling down to kiss the bindi on the forehead fair It stopped an inch before, did not further dare…   Your earrings began… Read More →

Life: A riddle, game, joke or an abuse?

My metro rides are often accompanied by books or music. Reading about a woman’s struggle against an oppressive society within the comforts of an air-conditioned Ladies coach in the train or listening to… Read More →

Recreating Satyajit Ray’s ‘Patol Babu’ on stage

Human ambition, unfulfilled dreams and undying hope were portrayed with finesse in ‘Taramandal’, a theatrical representation of Satyajit Ray’s short story ‘Patol Babu, Film Star’ at the India Habitat Centre. Performed by the… Read More →

The Girl who dies pleading a FATWA

Book review: The Fatwa Girl Author: Akbar Agha Publisher: Hachette India Pages: 232 While memories of the fatwa issued against author Salman Rushdie with reference to his novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ (1989) continue… Read More →