Stories of Patryachi Chawl

The conversation between that father and his younger son had heated up that night. Mother was sobbing in the corner of that 8 x 8 sq.ft. kitchen-cum-bedroom space, filled with a Godrej almirah having a broken glass, an iron casted rack to keep plates and pans, a kerosene stove- their need in an emergency, kept on the floor. The conversation didn’t seem to end without any result that day, because the father was drunk and the son fed-up, not of his father’s drinking, but of himself. “Don’t you want to go to school? Don’t you want to be someone?” Father shouted while staring angrily in those moist but stubborn eyes of his son. “I am asking you something. Don’t be a stone. Answer me.” His voiced raised more. The elder brother was standing in the room outside. He didn’t know what to do at that moment. “Look at your elder brother. Eat his shit to learn something from him. You cannot even be compared with his nails.” Father was about to burst into cry. The choking and tumbling v...

My childhood belonged to the 90s movie era. Why I am connecting my childhood with the 90s era and its memory and nothing else has a reason. We 90s kids (if not ‘we’ at least ‘I’) grown up watching movies where love blooms in the college between the hero and the heroine. The hero will do N number of things to impress the heroine (things include singing and dancing for her, physically teasing her, doing pranks, proposing in front of the whole college on the college sound system and so on). The hero usually would belong to the poor class family with mother sewing clothes on the sewing machine, coughing, wearing white saree (come on she is a widow), and the heroine would belong to a rich family where she could buy anything. Most of the movies had the same theme with a central theme of revenge of father’s death. Yes, we’ve grown up watching these kinds of stuff. But trust me, in that era, Romance was in the music, and the music was everywhere. I used to watch a lot of movies, and still ...

Indian Politics has been going through a weird phase. The 2014 Loksabha elections and a non-Congress Government’s majority made it very clear that India would go through a drastic change. But this change hasn’t been drastic only for politics, but for all the fields and sectors. Since then the attempt of changing the political mentality has started and one needs to understand this. In order to emboss their mentality and thoughts, education sectors have been under Government’s constant attacks. The syllabus and the books also have been changed to start a new era of lies. As everyone knows BJP is the daughter ideology of RSS which thinks that their base is Cultural Hindu Nationalism. Education till now was westernized was a common complaint of BJP ministers and people working under them and supporting them. After 2014’s triumph, the same ideology and changes in accordance with this ideology have spread even faster. Prof. Dinanath Batra, the founder of Shikshan Bachao Andolan (Save Educa...