Growing up, I would go into construction sites and pretend they were haunted or contained forbidden, secret chambers. Once, an unenthused, older boy announced how it was “just a house!” and that I was being silly. I discovered that we should be seeing things for what they are, straightforward and ‘de-constructable’. However, after several years […]
If I were to tell you that in May of 2022 the #1 trending topic on social media for two weeks straight has been a daily virtual book club centered around Bram Stoker’s Dracula, how likely would it be that you’d believe me? The sun has long since set on cable TV, and we are […]
A temple in the northern part of Kolkata, the Thanthania Kalibari has a marble slab, on which “Shankar’er hridoy majhe, Kali biraje,” (Kali reigns the heart of Shankar) is engraved. The unknown author of the engraving plays a trick with the name Shankar. Shankar (or Shiva) is the consort of Kali, upon whose chest she […]
The first thing that many will visualise upon the mention of ‘Goth’ is the mohawk, black lace, powdered faces, spikes and metal on ‘uncivilised’ bikers. These images are nothing but pop stereotypes. Goth culture came into being at the end of the 70’s punk rock era, when alternative rock music gained its popularity through its […]
“Woolf is right. Women need a room. Women need floors to kick, walls to beat, air to scream into or they will wind up dead.”
“Is the neck of my top too low, are my breasts moving a lot, is there a bike ready to knock me down, are the neighbours noticing me too much?”
Kabir Khan’s 83 showcases how a record of the past responds to the cultural context of the present.
An Initiative to understand the recurrent mass bleaching of corals and make diving accessible.
Rohena Gera’s ‘Sir’, while subverting the popular portrayal of domestic workers in Indian Cinema, is authentic to the core.
“As a show or movie completes its run, viewers get to imagine the ending they like best. Reboots risk sinking this imagined ending and the franchise with it.”