All night her body had been feverish. Tossing and turning on the mattress, she had tried a hundred thousand ways to distract her mind from focusing on the pain. Every time a big surge of the excruciatingly churning pain came,
The first time I lost myself in Delhi, I was seven. I stood at the gates of the Lotus Temple, convinced that my parents had left me behind. Thirty minutes later, my mother rushed towards me and enveloped me in
A high handed, moody, often fussy and illogical a chronicler, this memory is. What you should want to forget only ever resurges, over and over again, your attempt to forget mocked by the opposite of what you wish for. If
Many political words have wildly divergent and sometimes contradictory meanings—socialist, libertarian, communitarian, conservative, liberal, centrist, leftist, fundamentalist, radical, even anarchist—which should be simple and self-explanatory but are not always incontrovertible. Yet, none draws quite the fire for being “inconsistent” or
“I think I have a real difficulty in experiencing pleasure. I think that pleasure is a very difficult behaviour…and I must say that’s my dream. I would like and I hope I’ll die of an overdose of pleasure of
Writing in Saturday’s Indian Express, Delhi University professor and political commentator Apoorvanand expressed his disgust over the inability of our political leaders to grieve. It reveals, he wrote, “a critical absence in their humanity. People for them are an idea,
Once upon a time, Anup Singh and I started writing Qissa. At that time—that is, about ten years ago—the film seemed a distant mirage. This didn’t not deter us, however, from wanting to tell this tale about partition, uprootment and
On 8 March this year, this qafeteer found herself tagged in a Facebook status update by Srijit Ghosh, a 20-year-old budding architect, with no claim to fame whatsoever. Just a school friend’s son. Since I have his permission to quote
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Court Director: Chaitanya Tamhane Starring: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi, Usha Bane Rating: 4.5/5 The best moment in Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court comes during the denouement. Judge Sadavarte (Joshi) is sleeping on a bench one afternoon