Shailja Chandra
'What's love got to do with it?' My review of this romantic comedy
I recently had a chance to attend the media screening of the upcoming film 'What's Love Got to do with it?' directed by Shekhar Kapur and...
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My Blog
In a time and culture, where self-righteousness and shameless self-promotion is fast becoming a favourite pastime, there is a sense of freedom in being seen with our failings, our disgraced and unappealing bits, vulnerable, random – just like nature intended. This blog, without any fixed frequency, length or theme, beckons this freedom!
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Shailja Chandra
- Jan 10
- 1 min
The Empty Chair and the Open Attaché
The Empty Chair and the Open Attaché (A reflection on the council kerbside pickup) It’s that time of the year when our streets and...
Shailja Chandra
- Apr 26, 2017
- 1 min
Violet-blue Ink
~My Reflections On The Lost Art of Letter-writing ~ The violet-blue ink will immortalise us. Inside the encasing of toughened glass, a...
Shailja Chandra
- Jan 1, 2017
- 2 min
New Year Resolutions - 'To Make or Not To Make'
The human mind is hard-wired to find a sense of purpose, pride and prestige in our existence. These are like ‘coordinates’ that we create...
Shailja Chandra
- Mar 1, 2016
- 1 min
My thoughts on "गुनाहों का देवता" (धर्मवीर भारती)
(Thanks Yashpal Sharma ji for this beautiful gift) A tale of humanity's abiding yearning for elevating the soul and the coexisting...
Shailja Chandra
- Jan 6, 2016
- 1 min
One With That
They are there! The precious, awe-inspiring symbols of our shared existence, our collective consciousness. Nature has bountiful of them,...
Shailja Chandra
- Nov 30, 2015
- 5 min
Flesh Wounds is about Love, Longing and...Belonging
Richard Glover is a writer, an author and a broadcaster on ABC 702. His weekly humour column has been published in the Sydney Morning...
Shailja Chandra
- Oct 5, 2015
- 2 min
Maroubra Moon - An ode to Gulzar from Sydney, Maroubra Beach
It will begin to bleed any breath now, Sun, the departing knight To nest in the abundant womb of a tepid November night On page 71,...
Shailja Chandra
- Aug 3, 2015
- 4 min
THE DUALITY IN US
THE shrapnel of words was in free fall by now. I had limited choices. Get buried under them or make a dart. In the nano second that...
Shailja Chandra
- May 5, 2015
- 3 min
'Entitled to You' - On virtues of ‘Negative Capability’ by John Keats
Published in The Mind Creative August 2014. PAIN arrived unannounced with all his sodden bags and bedding. A long-lost blood from a far,...
Shailja Chandra
- May 9, 2014
- 1 min
Shailja Recites Gulzar
NOTHING goes unseen, untouched by his satrangi fingers....the pulse of Samay, its eternity and transiency; or the heartbeat of life, its...
Shailja Chandra
- Mar 3, 2013
- 5 min
When time stood still… My moments with Gulzar…
(As published in Indian Downunder on Feb 1 2013) Shailja Chandra, host of radio program Voice of India – Monika Geetmala (FM89.7, Sundays...
Shailja Chandra
- Aug 6, 2012
- 1 min
"I don’t enjoy watching my movies once they are made" - a candid Conversation with Imtiaz Ali
"I don’t enjoy watching my movies once they are made. I feel that when you are making the movie, you are looking at it a thousands times...
Shailja Chandra
- Jul 10, 2012
- 1 min
I.D.I.O.T - Shailja in conversation with Raj Kumar Hirani
Always paisa-vasool, great return on the movie-goer’s investment, his movies have consistently presented ‘mirror’ to many topical social...
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