Category: Art and Entertainment

Recently released Netflix film Serious Men, based on journalist and writer Manu Joseph’s 2010 novel by the same name, is a powerful reflection of the desperation that exists within those belonging to the Dalit community in an urban setting, and the angst in their dog-eat-dog world. Ayyan Mani (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a Dalit…

The Corona arrived and lo! Everything changed. The way we went to office and schools; the way we did business; the way we did our banking; the way we ate; the way we shared our feelings and almost everything under the sun altered in a few days. The pandemic stealthily changed our life, before we…

Ahmedabad, the six hundred-year-old city of Gujarat, has been honored with the heritage city tag in the year 2017. The ancient city of Ahmedabad or the walled city of Ahmedabad is settled in the periphery of approximately six kilometers on the bank of Sabarmati river. The massive wall of the city around this area was…

During my childhood, I read The Tempest by William Shakespeare, from The Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. I loved reading it, Prospero with all its magical power, Ariel— the fairy, Ferdinand and Miranda’s love story, all used to make me feel good, but what used to make me feel bad was Caliban,…

From the beginning of schools new session, we used to think when will be the arrival of this 45 days holiday which comes once a year, day dreaming about this upcoming vacation would immediately begin after the end of annual exams these 45 days seemed very less time to enjoy both the trip and fun…

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most famous plays that is oft quoted even in non-literary surroundings. Hamlet’s indecision, his so called procrastinating habit led to his downfall making him a tragic figure. Thats the fatal flaw or ‘Hamartia’ that leads to his death. He was the Prince of Denmark; a high born, had gone…

This line from Donne’s The Canonization is found in the lips of Tagore’s hero Amit in Sesher Kobita. And question arises why out of so many poets Tagore choose Donne’s line, when Tagore has once claimed that of all English poets John Keats has influenced him the most. But it can be assumed that the…

Ice cream, pillow fights, superhero films, gully cricket, the colour yellow… A seven year old boy, whose mother is undergoing depression, makes a list of things to cheer her up. ‘Every Brilliant Thing’, a moving story about love, life, family, mental health and all that makes life worthwhile, recently had its first digital showcase with Paytm…

According to the internationally renowned poet Meena Alexander, poetry exists between the silences and the gaps between words. As I read these lines, I am swarmed with a stream of questions popping in my head. A flurry of non verbal thoughts, images, ideas, queries make a bee line in my mind. One question leads to…

Once upon a time there was a vibrant, talented and effervescent boy. A boy who was intelligent and bright in studies. A boy who was the only brother of four sisters. A boy who loved and was loved unconditionally. A boy who was a genius in physics. A boy who could have become a scientist…