Critical Analysis… Meddle: The Album That Should Have Been the Dark Side of the Moon by Jayant Bakshi 23 Jul 20193 Mar 2022 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…
Reviews Hanebado Sets the Pace for a Jampacked Season by Keana Águila Labra 8 Jul 201915 Jul 2019 With the rapidly increasing success and popularity of sports anime, come greater expectations. Movement must be well-animated and the action: gripping. The camaraderie between teammates must be endearing, heartfelt, and…
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…
Critical Analysis… Edward Yang’s Yi Yi: Seeing as a Meditative Experience by Poorvi Ahuja 30 May 20191 Jun 2019 “We learn the very special kind of progress that leads towards a critical striving backward, towards the earlier on which the latter grows. […] We learn organism. As a result…