Anubhav, made in 1971 by Basu Bhattacharya, is a classic example of how Indians discuss marriage with surprising truth and complexity.
Velázquez brought both his compassion and his sense of truth's complexity to the job he got in 1623: painter to Philip IV, king of Spain.
They are jointly credited with giving an impetus to a form of writing attuned to modern times, full of truth and complexity.
Lydia's father hasn't died but he's not there and her family is in crisis and I dug deep into my own life and experiences to try and bring truth and complexity to the way that was portrayed.
Yet, without mediation between the government's command of the narrative and social media's fragmented, reactive style of justice, the truth and complexity of any incident are likely to remain elusive.
But their physical size doesn't mean they lack human truth and complexity.
Whatever the temptation to tell a reassuring lie she is adamant that only the truth, with its complexities and disappointments, can win the children's trust.
Through narrative, we can let go the urge to control, and the fear that goes with it, learning that the world has the capacity to organize itself, recognizing that managing includes catalyzing this capacity, as well as sparking, creating, energizing, unifying, generating emergent truths, celebrating the complexity, the fuzziness and the messiness of living.
But complexity and truth often is lengthy and boring.
A recognition of complexity makes truth telling that much more difficult.
