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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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Nanotechnology would embrace human neurology to such an extent that touch, sound, and visual senses can be systematically stimulated. Pornography is naturally the only industry where this feature would be exploited to its fullest. It is not a fact that one can shy away from at this point: like how any new technology for communication,…
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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…
