Media Centre
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On Women’s Day
Every conceivable angle on Woman’s Day has been tapped out I think. There is the “gratitude” post, which thanks women for all their sacrifices, while simultaneously implying it is expected of them and they would be seen as less of women if they don’t make them. There is the self-flagellation of the new age male,…
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Deconstructing Deconstructions
I am somewhere in the middle of my third readthrough of Watchmen, Alan Moore’s most popular graphic novel (which still falls short in comparison, to my mind, to his V for Vendetta). Now, I am an Alan Moore fanboy. I think he has done things with the medium of Graphic Novels, or I’ll just say…
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The Mirror Held Up
Before we get started, I have a disclaimer to make. I am a Dostoevsky fanboy. If you are not, there is nothing here for you. If you haven’t read him, why are you wasting your time reading me. Go read him. I forget when I read “Crime and Punishment” for the first time, but I…
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Visiting Old, Fictional Friends – 10 Years to Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
The year was 2013. I was just about to start college when, sometime in early June, I went to watch a movie with my friends, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. The movie sparked a debate after it ended, and a few of my friends didn’t “get” the movie. My experience had been different. I had just…
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Makoto Shinkai – A Retrospective
Introduction Approximately once every decade since the 1950s, a work of art comes out of Japan which takes the entire World by storm. It breaks through the cultural and language barriers and reintroduces a new generation of cinephiles to universal, timeless stories that speak to the ubiquity of the human condition. The first instance could…
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Rocky aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani – Review
I am still surprised at the title I have just now typed above. This movie was not on my radar. I had seen the trailer once as a part of the previews for some other movie but that was it. I had neither any intention nor motivation to go watch this movie. I had written…