Saturday, December 28, 2024

The Trivial Truths of Life- Media Priorities or Junk

Terrorist attacks, neighboring countries encroaching on borders, societal unrest and plenty more grave and urgent matters need immediate attention. But what do we all decide to...

THIS IS JUST SO MIDDLE CLASS!

Sitcoms- a genre, the present generation relates with English episodes. The American Episodes of ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’, ‘HIMYM’, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ etc. are there in...

Twitter : 140 characters of controversy

Without social media, we’d have no platform to post our selfies, stay informed about our friends’ whereabouts or to stalk our ex(es). We also...

Picking On Our Comic Book Heroes

In less than a month, Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron will hit cinema screens across the globe (24th April in India, a week before...

Traditional Modernity: Whims of an Impressionist

Robert Delaunay called Impressionism the birth of light in painting. A 19th century art movement that like many others, claims Paris as its birth...

Friendly Fridays Chapter 20: Daniel Fernandes

Another week is here with yet another Friendly Fridays edition. We are unfolding a new chapter from our search for individuals who have a...

GoT Season 5 Episode 1 leaked !

It’s the episode we’d all been waiting for over a year now. The fourth season had left us all hanging with those twists. Season...

A Spoiler-Full of Entertainment

Fans and fanatics sit with bated breaths as the fifth-season premiere of HBO’s epic fantasy series ‘Game of Thrones’ comes closer (Fourteen days to...

Tales of the Lonesome Big City: Hand. Cannot. Erase. Review

I stumbled into Porcupine Tree quite late in my search for awesome artists. Call it a noob’s myopia (blindness, rather) that the fact that...

Daastan-e-Gulzar: Ek akela is shahar mein

Five months after a successful Annual Penguin Lecture, Penguin was back with Annual Spring Fever at India Habitat Centre, Delhi.  Penguin is raising the...

Whims of a Surrealist: Startling Juxtapositions

All of the rationalists amongst us believe in Dream and Reality as two different realms of existence. Then there are the ones who believe...

Friendly Fridays Chapter 19: Sushant Divgikar

On the 19th issue of Friendly Fridays we continue with our mission to build a talent map, with that in mind we have here...

Indian Summers – The Raj’s Last Glory

It’s been 68 years that we’ve been a free nation, and just as the colonial aftertaste had faded off, Channel 4, a prominent British...

Kangana Ranaut : Transition from Gangster to Queen

As Bollywood’s doe eyed beauty, Kangana Ranaut rings in her 28th birthday today, we decided to take a quick peek into her innings so...

J. Archer’s Mightier than the Sword- Review

The Clifton Chronicles, Volume Five: Mightier than the Sword is the latest release by Jeffrey Archer. The series was originally planned to have five...

Friendly Fridays Chapter 18: Abhay Sharma

So here we are, back with our 18th edition of Friendly Fridays, our little big attempt to create a talent map of the world....

Rediscovering Story-telling: An Art and its Science

Story-telling is probably the single-most popular recreational activity after sex and shopping. Story telling has now changed the way it usually worked with people...

A Traveller’s Diary To The Far East- Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau

There are few sights as gorgeous as the approach to Hong Kong International Airport against the morning sunrise. Nestled among the several islands that...

Haruki Murakami: Tales of Desires and Demons beyond Dimensions

Haruki Murakami is a contemporary Japanese novelist arguably one of the most popular in the world. Apart from that, it is incredibly hard to describe...

Friendly Fridays Chapter 17: Uplaksh Kochhar

As you all know, we are on a mission to build the talent map of the world. So, steering on in our noble effort...

How to Get Away with Murder: Fall TV’s Finest Debut

How to Get Away with Murder is one of the most talked about debuts of last year’s fall TV which had viewers not only...

How is Hindustani Music different from Carnatic Music

Differences between Hindustani and Carnatic Music Indian Music has many genres like folk, bollywood, Rabindra Music, pop, indi-pop, Indian rock, etc. Similarly, the two most...

WHEN WILL WE HAVE OUR OSCARS?

With the 87th Academy Awards, thousands in India were again left to wake up groggy-eyed in the dark of the dawn as the famed...

True Detective Season 2: Reinventing the Psychosphere

Hailed by critics and worshipped by TV fanatics, the 2014 American crime drama television series, True Detective, written and created by Nic Pizzolatto, is...

The Rani Of ‘Queen’

Though it seems innocuous that the title of the film is ‘Queen’, it has a deeper significance and is part of an ideology that...