Category: Articles
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Film Review – ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ and The Serrations of Insanity
Perhaps the most striking frame of the 1919 classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, is where an unhinged Cesare, powdered to a spectral pallor and streaked with tar black liner, madly clutches a still-sleeping, luminescent Jane. It is a frame charged with electrifying dramatic tension. Both the macabre horror and the psychological derangement which agitate…
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‘Parasite’ in an India under Lockdown
Between all the beautiful houses on Altamount Road and their adjoining garages overflowing with now-unused cars, one garage had the sound of strained whispers pouring out from it every night. If you weren’t listening closely, you’d probably miss it, and the Kumars were counting on your lavish carelessness. After midnight, when the Aggarwals were having…
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The Coronavirus and Cool Capitalism
The world is ending, and now we must find out who we are The target demographic of this article is privileged, low-risk people. The voice, perspective and value system that I understand enough to occupy is unfortunately and fundamentally one of remoteness and security. Perhaps this is a tone-deaf and siloed hot take nobody asked…
sanjana sheth 