How many times over the last couple of decades of juggling the seemingly impossible-to-balance demands on my time have I …
Editor’s Note: Shab
A lot of my relatives and friends ask me what my job as an editor entails. It’s somehow easier for …
A Gentle Man
I first met Rajen Kothari in 1992, when I assisted Renu Saluja for Rajen’s directorial debut Purush. I met him …
Ray’s Real Women
The women characters in Satyajit Ray’s films are not perfect women of unquestioned and unquestioning virtue and this one quality …
Memories of a film…
My maternal grandfather and I were very close till I entered my teens and slowly it mattered less and less …
Things that Bother Me
Five minutes into the latest Bollywood blockbuster, the hero silences the heroine with a kiss. The heroine, a supposed man-hater, …