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Consider these very common situations:  👉Preeti has worked for years slogging in front of a computer in the accounts department of her office. Now, she finds no motivation to come to office, or do well in her job. Despite timely increments and a promotion last year, she feels she’s wasting her time and talent here. The pay package is the only deterrent that keeps her from quitting. She longs to take a long break, go on a vacation, think things out, and change her career course or occupation, if possible.  👇 Problem is her family depends on her. The household runs on her salary. Chucking everything off is simply not on the cards. What will people say? Worse, what if her parents are let down? What freedom does she really have? 👉 Suraj wants to remain unmarried. After a few genuine attempts at forming romantic relationships, he has realized that’s not what he wants. He is simply not interested in sexual relationships, and identifies as an asexual. He would love to stay on ...

What is freedom? As we celebrate our 77th Independence Day, let's ask ourselves this again. And lets revisit the films that compel us to think on our love for our country.  Not the Hindi films that suffer from sentimental overkill and chest thumping jingoism, that whip up frenzy, classify countries and people as good or bad, black or white, noble or ignoble.  I am referring to honest films that reflect India in both its glory as well as its flaws, while inspiring us to introspect where we have lost the way, and how we can make our country greater. A few films that hold a special place in my heart would be “ Rang De Basanti ”, “ Raazi ”, “ Swades ”, “ Sardar Udham ” and “ A Wednesday ”. I have seen some of them more than twice, and every time they evoke the same spirit of patriotism and sense of duty. Honest Patriotism Rang De Basanti , directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, is the ultimate call to our wounded sense of self, as Indians. Starting off typically as a treatise ...

Times are weird. Reality reads like a horror movie show. Someone had rightly said that truth was stranger than fiction. Pessimistic?  Hear me out.... Natural disasters and climate change have made normal living a luxury. The poorer part of the world is paying for the greed and over-consumption of the rich. Then there's war and terrorism perpetually looming on the horizon. People don't have money to buy rations, but military budgets of countries have reached record highs.  Poverty and ignorance haven't loosened their vice grip on more than half of the world's population.  The state, the administration, the mafia masquerading as religious leaders, big businesses, AI and social media are slowly reducing us bit by bit every day. Social media controls narratives, popular perception, reputations, and identities. More often than not, it bares its claws to rip apart those with some amount of truth left in them.  AI is merrily devouring jobs and livelihoods. Even creative pur...