Hype machine at work. Some people have been standing since 3.30am and the excitement is off the roof. Is it worth it? A Royal Oak, hanging from a lanyard? To me, it’s fun — I would wear it on my bag or tie it to my trouser. What do you guys think?
While walking through Römer in Frankfurt, we came across cobblestone streets marked by small plaques in a distinct gold shade. At first, they seemed decorative, until our guide explained that these are Stolpersteine, or "stumbling stones," a memorial project initiated by German artist Gunter Demnig in the 1990s. Each stone is hand-installed into the pavement outside the last freely chosen residence of a victim of the Holocaust. Engraved into the brass surface are names, birth years, and often the dates of deportation and death, in a way to return the identities to those who were once reduced to numbers. The placement is deliberate: right outside the buildings from which they were taken.
Looking at this made me wonder: will we honour the victims of hate crime in India? People who are dying due to religion, cast, creed and difference of opinion? People are being forcefully sent down the gutter because they come from a certain class? Will we remember the dead we so brutally violated and unalived?
I’m based in Mumbai and have experience in production and script writing. The series is based on modern day couples, who are just making ends meet and will be a journey of humour and pain of living in India as a young aspirational couple.
Any writers in the house who would want to write and produce this together?