My first introduction to the novelist, essayist and poet Amrita Pritam was through a movie based on her famous novel Pinjar (The Cage). The portrayal of the ravages of Partition through the eyes of a female victim was so nuanced that it even took a look at the motivations and regrets of her perpetrator. I really wanted to pick Pinjar as the work I ( Read more... )

I stand at Panorama Point looking out at the hills around me: some of them shrouded in fog and cloud, some clearly etched. The wind rustles the grass and overgrowth behind me at arguably one of the best points in Matheran … and now one of the most deserted. There are butterflies flitting by, a light, erratic sprinkling of yellow, purple and white ( Read more... )

We don't all walk down the same path in life and we all have our set of unique experiences. Out of these individual paths and experiences grow our thoughts about life as a human being - our private facet on the diamond of reality. Every once in a while life teaches us a new lesson that we wish to bookmark in our memories, but don't always manage to ( Read more... )