Electric Women

What if the gender equation were to be reversed so that women could not just defend themselves against violent males but also overpower them...

Festivals to Watch Out for in the New Year

New year, new films, new film festivals. While 2017 wasn't the best year in films we hope to see better films in 2018. With so much informat...

In Honour of Fearless Nadia

The year was late 1930s. The world saw the emerging of fictional superheroes and cinema was entering the fantasy world. The names of the cap...

Trouble In Paradise

Celeste Ng’s award-winning debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was set in the Seventies, and explored issues of race and alienation of the &lsquo...

Summoning, An Anti Facist Metal Band

These are strange days for classic heavy metal. Many godfathers of the movement are in their 60s, some close to 70 years old, including memb...

The More Things Change…

Ajit Dalvi’s Marathi play Samajswasthya, directed by Atul Pethe, is a startling reminder that in spite of all the progress India has witnessed ov...

By The Sea

Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel, on her Pulitzer. Experimental in form, the book had thirteen chapters from different points of view a...

The Poetist – Smashing all Stereotypes

''Not the voice you can easily suppress, so I surpass the heights of all limits that I set''

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The Oceans have ‘Dark’ Secrets

You may have seen the pictures of glowing oceans at night on the internet or scenes from films (Life of Pi), or maybe even experienced it li...