Anything and everything I experience.
One of my students asked me to discuss this topic in class, and I assume it came from the then relevant Bollywood controversy centring the ace music director AR Rahman. The loved musician, commonly known for his dignified and calm demeanour, ended up tweeting against the Bollywood lobby that has been trying to defame him,... Continue Reading →
A lot of heartbreaks account to one thing if the whole experience is broken down – mental projections of the person who apparently broke our heart. Most times, objective understanding of a situation reveals that the person in question was never deserving of the pedestal we placed them upon. Neither did they equivocally ask for... Continue Reading →
To the friend who went an extra mile To rekindle that lost flame no one noticed was gone In a mind dealing with a thousand things at once For that friend he thought was worth saving. Did I use that good old saying on you That I count you twice when I count my blessings... Continue Reading →
This is not a review, but just an experience of watching both parts of this widely popular teenage rom-com. For someone who is rather critical of films owing to my area of work, I sure watch a lot of movies and series from this genre without being critical of them whatsoever, because movies like The... Continue Reading →
The ones we hope would let us go Never do at all And the ones we wish would get as close Hardly even make a move. Why are human relations such pickle Where we end up choosing ones that don’t reciprocate And leave the ones offering the world heartbroken As well as shatter our hearts... Continue Reading →
I wonder how many of us have a whole other world created within our minds that we resort to whenever our realties become not as favourable as we’d like. I often read social media posts about how a lot of people hoard their minds with fictional characters that are perfect in their worlds within the... Continue Reading →
For a lot of youngsters hailing from rural India, ambition gets defined with the distance that they have to travel in order to fulfil it. Moving to urban areas has been, for a long time, an underlying requisite catering to the phenomenon of fulfilment of ambitions. And in a lot of ways, it still is.... Continue Reading →
At 25, a whole new set of dynamics of life begin unfolding and it is a consistent struggle to keep up with the world – at least for me. For someone mesmerized by and very conscious of human psyche and behaviour, it is a much bigger challenge to be keeping oneself convinced that things have... Continue Reading →
One thing that a lot of Indian movies are successful in doing is reflecting the spirit of the time and place the plot is located in. Bulbbul, a movie that is essentially a feministic message on the twisted yet avowable ability of a woman bound by conventions to break the shackles, also is a feast... Continue Reading →
We’ve heard it enough that social media is a drug that has taken down more lives – not necessarily physically – than the actual drug problem. Although what exactly do people mean when they call social media a drug? Is the similarity just drawn because both are equally addictive to a vulnerable mind? As far... Continue Reading →
