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Ajjibaichi Shala … a grammar for grandmothers
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Anjana Deshpande
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Anjana Deshpande is a psychotherapist and an occasional poet. In both roles she uses the power of writing for healing, recovery and growth. A trained poetry and journal therapist, she uses writing as a way to manage distress and empower clients to self soothe. As a poet, she uses writing to connect to her roots, and to remember. Originally from India, she has been in the US for about 15 years.
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Remembering
My eye stilled over that shape:
a deviation
from the norm.
No
graceful handles, a squat neck,
a stub for an arm.
This one was all womb.
Plain earth wrapped around water.
How many trips had I taken with that?
Hanging just out of reach, gently
swaying with train-rhythm.
It had lost the battle to brash bottles
that turned water tepid in
the heat,
unlike the cool, fresh sweet water in the…
I stilled, trying to remember,
But the name dried on my lips.
Ashamed, my eyes turned to the label-
All it said was:
Earthen Pot, made in India
Nothing more.
I drowned in disbelief,
panicked
what more had I lost?
Then a gushing torrent of memories,
of picnics, of hot, hot
Indian summers,
of days as unassuming
as the
Su-Ra- Hi
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Moving Houses
We have moved another house.
They are so similar
that I no longer have to think
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Karishma Upadhyay is a veteran film journalist, a specialist on Bollywood. Parveen Babi – A Life, is her first book, for which, she interviewed the star’s former friends, lovers, and colleagues to build a portrait that is rich and multi-layered. Upadhyay spoke to Prerna Shah about the research that went into making the book, as well as about bringing to light several lesser-known facets of Babi’s life and personality.
Diving straight in – a project like no other
When a very dear friend at Hachette told me that her editor had a project that I might be interested in, and that it was about Parveen Babi, I was at first, taken aback. I had actually never thought I would write a book.
I knew truly little about Babi. One of the first few things that I did was to talk to a friend who is an encyclopaedia on Bollywood and knows so much about the early 70s and 80s. He told me that this was indeed a wonderful opportunity to take on.
And then like anyone else, I looked Babi up on Wikipedia and realised that they had gotten so much so wrong about her and that I could make an honest attempt to bring out the real her. What fascinated me was the fact that she had quit the industry twice and came back both the times, pretty much at the top. I have been writing on Bollywood