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Create a multiverse of madness, introduce a character that hunts monsters for a living, cast Henry Cavill for the role and let the world go crazy about the series – about sums up ‘The Witcher’ series on Netflix. As much as I want to talk about the series – its completely mental plot and the... Continue Reading →
There are many reasons to love fantasy fiction. For me, the first thing is the complexity and the beauty of the universe created within which a story is told in a fantasy fiction. How insane and talented a story teller you must be, to bring to form a world that exists only in your imagination,... Continue Reading →
I wonder if existential questions are as common as I think they are. I don’t mean the depressing ones – just the ones that make us truly ponder over the point of anything we do in life. Sometimes they hit me so hard that pretty much everything feels pointless in the bigger context. What, after... Continue Reading →
Why is Lord Bahubali usually confused to be a Teerthankara? Jainism as a religion, though a familiar name in India, is a less understood one. There isn’t much mainstream literature that can spread awareness about the religion and we can’t really blame anyone for being confused or mistaken about the tenets of Jainism. Here is... Continue Reading →
~ Making it simple ~ The month of May is here and a lot of us living on the internet are aware of what that means in the entertainment/fashion world. The Met Gala is hosted on the first Monday of May every year and celebrities around the world spend a fortune to attend the event... Continue Reading →
I realize that most journal entries I make here are sad ones. I don’t publish the happy ones because mostly they feel like blowing my own trumpet; but more importantly there isn’t much soul-searching content there. As much as I wish that the soul searching, healing and re-inventing happens on the happier plane of life,... Continue Reading →
‘The Inheritance of Loss’ is a story of 'Cho-Oyo' and it's surrounding homes created at the foot of Kanchenjunga in Darjeeling. Pulled forward by a handful of seemingly mundane characters, the story wriggles its way to conclusion at an unapologetically slow pace. Kiran Desai, daughter of the critically acclaimed author Anita Desai, follows her mother's... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on the Ram Mandir spectacle at Ayodhya The Prime Minister of the country inaugurating the Ram Mandir at Ram Janmabhoomi turned out to be a spectacle unlike any other in India on 22nd of January this year. Why it was unlike any is simply because a religious event was politicized beyond anyone’s control and... Continue Reading →
[This essay has been recognized with a 'Certificate of Merit' at the Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Film Criticism competition organized by FIPRESCI-India. The essay has been published and owned by the same. Published version available here.] In a world where faith plays a role bigger than most tangible forces, a filmmaker subjects himself to hand burns... Continue Reading →
Its one of those times when my faith is tested to its limits, again. There’s a line in one of my favourite devotional songs from Bollywood that goes ‘Bhakti ko shakti do’, which means ‘give power to devotion’. It implies that if we pray hard enough, that could be our superpower. I have believed firmly... Continue Reading →