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The Fool’s Gold Mouthpiece

by JAYANT BAKSHI The Fool’s Gold Mouthpiece appears every 4th Tuesday I will start this by apologising in advance if I don’t talk about your favourite artist(s) and/or if we don’t share the same views regarding said artist(s). I will follow this up by thanking you for reading. Music is…Continue reading “The Fool’s Gold Mouthpiece”

Poetry

Chicken Little by Sarah Marquez

inspired by Sula by Toni Morrison A splash of white sun illuminates the fisherman hauling the drowned boy up the side of the skiff, knickers ballooned, body cold as midnight. How he met the lake…

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…

Batman: Ornamental | Issue 2 – Catlike Reflects by Drew Van Dyke

15 Aug 201916 Aug 2019

Image source: TheoFayde (https://www.deviantart.com/theofayde) Fur whispers on silk. Saucers and cream. The screams. A gunshot outside. Meow-meow. Gunshot outside. “Hush, darling,” she coos. A soft drub up above. She sighs. Leather…

Tsurune: The Taut String of Fate by Keana Águila Labra

13 Aug 201913 Aug 2019

Image source: Lost in Anime Sports are sometimes miscategorized under a single umbrella: chaotic clamor with dramatic actions and decisions meant to outwit the opposing team. However, there is a…

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

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…

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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…

Chemical X— The Strongest Chemical Known To Us by Neha Kapoor

22 Jul 201922 Jul 2019

‘Fighting crimeTrying to save the worldHere they come just in timeThe Powerpuff Girls’ A show that I grew up watching, one that unknowingly acted as the foundation of female friendships,…

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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…

Batman: Ornamental | Issue 1 – The Sum of All Fears by Drew Van Dyke

15 Jul 201919 Jul 2019

A man is running. There is one Christmas I remember most vividly from my childhood. It is too dark to see his face, though I know you are searching for…