Author: Karina Pandya

Have you ever felt so hungry only to realise that the hunger won’t go away, it is only your body craving for more, malnutrition of the mind and soul. Loneliness is a psychological parallel to this and it is a time when silence becomes more than comfort. It is an escape and it a refuge for you to constantly run to where you feel there is no one to judge you and you can completely be yourself. Loneliness cannot be confused with socially isolated, which is a state of complete or almost lack of complete lack of contact between an…

They say “Time heals all wounds”                                                        Will it really?                                                  You can glue back together,  broken glass;   but you will always see the cracks  They say time heals everything! Time heals EVERYTHING, but what really is everything, when all that’s left is a marionette of strings? The truth is that time doesn’t health…

Was it just the anti-regime graffiti painted on walls that served as a catalyst for the Syrian War in 2011? Was it the public protests that began in Daraa, the cradle of the revolution where 15 boys from prominent families began painting graffiti with anti-government slogans that sparked the beginning of the Syrian Uprising of 2011?      Authoritarianism, unemployment, government corruption, some of the main motives behind the Syrian War was to make Bashar al-Assad resign, have democratic reforms, have a regime change, expand civil rights and ensure equality for the Kurds. A war, which has gone on longer than World…

Is it not axiomatic to say how different life was in India as compared to that in the United States during 1995? Its 2019, quite a while since 1995, and sometimes its important to look back on some of the years that mattered to you the most. People used devices such as pagers (and beepers)  to receive messages; and/or also to reply to them. In India, it was the time when the Shiv Sena came into power in Maharashtra and Bombay became Mumbai; it was also a time when Mayawati (Mayawati Prabhu Das) became Uttar Pradesh’s first Dalit chief Minister.  It…

  Its been awhile since Facebook has been around, right… since the end of 2006 right about when the very first I-phone (smartphone) that was launched in India was the iPhone 3G in 2008.  This brought about a massive change in our generation and perception of reality.  With smartphones social media, came all the uncompromising people with it! What this means, is that, the I-phone generation brought along with it a sweeping generation of people who got glued to using their cell-phones and laptops, living and breathing in a virtual world!  Communication became more online and ‘text-based’ rather than spend time in face-to…

Concert: Perfect Amalgamation Artiste/Composer: Siddharth Kasyap Genre: Fusion, New Age Venue: St. Andrews Auditorium, Bandra Date: Aug 2nd2019 Time: 8-10 PM A typical pre-weekend plan is usually a plan for a movie, at least for me; or something of the sorts; however THIS weekend I really wanted to do something different – a little bit out of the BOX! So, I scrolled through all the activities, events and concerts happening throughout the city and Perfect Amalgamation caught my eye. Who were they, I didn’t know; how was their music; again I didn’t know but something about them kept me riveted…

Director : Jon Favreau Writer:  Jeff Nathanson Stars :  Keegan-Michael Key, Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, James Earl Jones Rating: PG Running Time: 1h 58m Genres: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical https://youtu.be/aQN75AKDwks https://youtu.be/Nu2Tltxjqak – Bollywood   There’s something very peculiar about filmmaking that can be seen in the recently made live-action film, Lion King (computer animated musical film). It looks completely realistic and while you feel convinced that it is set in Africa, it is not! It is just a blend together of live-action techniques with virtual reality, photo-real digital imagery and CG imagery in an all-new medium.  In this version though (2019), the production team had spent two weeks in Africa…

·      Cast: Mithila Palkar, Abhay Deol, and Vijay Raaz ·      Written and Directed by–Sachin Yaardi ·      Produced By: Ashvini Yadri ·      Production: Viniyard Films ·      Release Date: 31stMay, 2019 ·      Released Platform: Netflix ·      Movie Duration: 1 hour 45 Minutes Synopsis: The film, a thriller and drama, has Mithila Palkar playing the lead role as Nirma Sahastrabuddhe who is a small town girl settling into a big city. She plays the role as a Mandarin translator and is a shy and numerology-fearing girl from Mumbai.  Abhay Deol is seen playing the other lead lead role as ‘Artist’ who aspires to be a chef but is an enigmatic con…

  After having been in the Bollywood arena for quite some time, Hrithik Roshan made his debut in the Marathi film industry with the film Hryuantaar. This film was right after the Bollywood film, Kaabil which was released in 2017; and now he’s back again with another Bollywood film, but this time with national award director Vikas Bahl with whom he has never worked with.     Unlike any of the other movies that he has been associated with, here Hrithik is not at all portrayed as the typical ‘Bollywood hero’ saga.       He is seen in a biopic of mathematician Anand Kumar…

What if you were declared guilty of being born with criminal tendencies, separated from your parents  for no real reason or whether it was just because of India’s hidden apartheid. The entire film revolves around aukaat (Status) and jaat (Caste) of Article 15.  This film brings to light the provision in the Indian Constitution which has been ignored – Article 15 that prohibits discrimination based on the grounds of religion, race, caste or place of birth. Unlocking the stark reality of India’s caste system, this Bollywood movie’s trailer was watched by more than 8 million viewers on Youtube!   However, is it really…