Memories

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour – Memories, Trauma, and Loss: A Meditation on Love and History

    “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” a 1959 romantic drama, was written by Marguerite Duras and directed by French filmmaker Alain Resnais. This film is a classic, renowned for its surreal, magical introduction. It opens with an evocative sequence of physical intimacy between two lovers, accompanied by a poetic narration that sets a dreamlike tone. Their bodies, illuminated…

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  • Mother Mary Comes to Me

    Mother Mary Comes to Me

    Within months of being in Ayemenem, I turned into a part of its landscape–a wild child with calloused feet who knew every hiddenth path and shortcut in the village that led to the river. I lived outdoors and went home as seldom as possible. Arundhati Roy In her memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati…

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  • Searching the lost pearls and diamonds

    I Some memories are like a paper boat, Floating effortlessly in a puddle, And some like a full bloomed sun that invigorates one’s day, Which one you want to hold on to and which you want to let go is a difficult choice to make. II Getting sunburnt in the tranquil alleys, Riding my favourite…

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