Critical Analysis The Four Houses: Cool, Dope, Fresh, and Smart-Brained by Hannah Madonna 19 Sep 2019 Image source: www.bleedingcool.com We, as a species, have always liked sorting ourselves and others into different, discrete categories. Think about astrological signs, or Meyers-Briggs types. These give us some insight into…
Critical Analysis… The King of a Continent: Microwaving Bread and Layering Vocals by Jayant Bakshi 28 Aug 201928 Aug 2019 Image source: Rolling Stone Imagine being a ten year old in Jakarta, who is homeschooled and works at his mom’s cafe. The ten year old speaks multiple Oriental languages, but…
Critical Analysis Tahaan and Hamid: Children Without Childhood in Kashmir by Poorvi Ahuja 17 Aug 201921 Aug 2019 Image source: Asia Pacific Screen Awards “Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox,my home a neat four by six inches.” -Agha Shahid Ali, A Postcard from Kashmir Image source: JustWatch How many…
Critical Analysis Religion In Vigilantism: A Study of Matthew Murdock’s Faith in God by Prithiva Sharma 11 Aug 201917 Aug 2019 Image source: Techspot Daredevil, Marvel’s Netflix series spanning from 2015-2018, is often helmed as one of its best works. A possible reason for this might be the intensity of the…
Critical Analysis DC Fails by Vedang Lata 7 Aug 2019 Image source: https://www.upi.com/ “I am Snowflame! Every cell of my being burns with white-hot ecstasy. Cocaine is my God – and I am the human instrument of its will!”- Snowflame…
Critical Analysis… Meddle: The Album That Should Have Been the Dark Side of the Moon by Jayant Bakshi 23 Jul 201923 Jul 2019 In my earlier days, when I was starting to be the kid on the front seats to whom you could talk to about music, the one album I oft frowned…
Critical Analysis… Jonaki: Oceans of Existence by Poorvi Ahuja 19 Jul 201911 Aug 2019 Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s surreal and stirring film, Jonaki (2018), can only be experienced in its rawest form as meditative poetry. Shifting gazes and visceral frames, the film is an interlacing…
Critical Analysis Anarchy by Vedang Lata 4 Jul 20199 Jul 2019 Image source: www.nerdbot.com “And he didn’t die all at once. It was hours before the screaming stopped. I almost didn’t get to sleep that night. That was the last time…
Critical Analysis… From Read To Reel by Vaishnavi Sharma 28 Jun 201928 Jun 2019 Back story of my affair with Austen’s Pride and Prejudice As a child, I had a rather short-lived and fickle attention span. I was a fan of gathering bundles and…
Critical Analysis… Knitting Perceptions and Evolving Conceptions of Family Through Naoko Ogigami’s Close-Knit by Poorvi Ahuja 22 Jun 201922 Jun 2019 As an educator, I have always reflected on the question: “What could be the ways in which one can harness gender sensitivity without being too obtuse about it?” I remember…
