The Day We Made Water Fly
Ajji used to make everything a game. The most fun one I can remember is changing the piece of plastic stuck over the stitches on her stomach, so that they...
Slaps hard? Not yet
Surely, Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad has very little to do with the thappad itself? The film brings to us Amu or Amrita (Taapsee Pannu) who dreams of a house with blue...
Twelve ways of looking at a film and seeing something else, or nothing at all
In Manjule-rashtra, you don’t ever get to hear an organizing kind of word like Dalit, or indeed Avarna. The films seem to choose a kind of equidistance from government and activist taxonomies. What you get instead is a species of mute irony.
Nkosi Sikelel Malayalees *
*God Bless the Malayalees “You can expect to find a Malayalee in every nook and corner of the world”, is accurate for my family tree. My great grandfather worked in...
Shoes to fill- A journey of discovery and acceptance
I always despised my parents for naming me Anquna Ananitha. That first name has no meaning and the second is derived from the botanical name for a poisonous mushroom. My...
The Rising Hill
I hail from Darjeeling, a small town, nestled in the foothills of the Himalayan region in West Bengal. My family has been living here for 65 years now. Originally, our...
Episode 3 – Tales from the East
In this episode of Chai Dosa, podcast team met up with BT Kenny Inpui and Alung Inpui from Manipur to talk about folktales and traditional beliefs and their takes on...