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With an average of two hours of sleep a day for four days straight, we decided to drive to the Antharagange Caves, forty miles away from Bangalore. As soon as we arrived, the sight of steep stairs rising toward a distant temple made our eyes droop in unison. Hunger tugged at the gut, zeal flickered
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In principle, everything is important in its own right, but a story is a marvelous failure to encapsulate that entirety. One outright abandons many things to highlight what becomes a narrative. Plotting is essentially organizing characters that do certain actions in certain backgrounds that have certain repercussions. There are, as a result, five crucial components:-
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Movies wield the power to change human experience: for instance, a good rom-com like Four Weddings and a Funeral can rid you off of your routine soap opera burdens, a well structured cautionary tale like a Requiem for a Dream can make a point that perhaps many ‘Say No to Drugs’ campaigns fail to, and
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The Dune movies, celebrated across for its visual grandeur, nurture a sinister narrative far more disturbing than the cautionary tale Frank Herbert intended it to be. The one billion dollar franchise is about the psyche of a suicide bomber. Our protagonist Paul Atreides hears two voices within himself, one is his conscience, personified by people
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T.S. Eliot once said, “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood”, and what better a line to demonstrate that than the quote itself. The catch lies in the adjective – ‘Genuine’. Now feel this through with me. If we agree that a sense for poetry is developed over time, rather than understood first and
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I always held a strong view that metaphysics has nothing significant to offer than what set theory and logic already has; for the nature of knowledge is such that it doesn’t tell us a thing about the world. Intelligibility is a consequence of comparison; it dictates the direction and the intensity of light that as
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There is a general perception that “realistic” acting tends to convey drama in its most authentic form: it forces us to feel the way we individually feel emotions; it provides a channel for us to connect and relate even if the situations in the film are obscure or distant. But when do you call someone’s
Of Man, Movies, and Mathematics 