Arun Kale
Testimonial Comics #7
The Other: Part Two
The psychical organisation orders women to channel all their emotional energy on men, while the men ‘sublimate’ theirs into work, says Shulamith Firestone. Women have inspired most great works of art (if not being directly involved in the production), thus becoming the muse, the very core of the history of
Mirror, Mirror: Part Three
Man Bites Dog (1991) is a film shot in documentary format in grainy black and white, following the killing spree of the murderous serial killer Benoit. The film opens with our “hero” strangling a woman on a train, and then cuts to his lesson on how to properly dispose of
The Tap #30
Testimonial Comics #6
The Halo and the Horns
The book Third Best is author Arjun Rao's debut novel and is all about getting inside the head of a schoolboy who is leading the typical boarding school life and experiencing the realisation of first loves, friendship, trust, and above all, loyalty. The book is fresh and offers
Sustaining Hope
Naysayers prophesise the death of Hindustani classical music. However, some art forms are too beautiful to bow out, gracefully or otherwise, and their fan following does not wane. Meet Aishwarya Natarajan, the director of Indianuance, an artist management, P.R., and concert programming firm that aims to bridge the gap
Pleasantly Plump
Can you remember that quaint term ‘pleasantly plump’? If you don’t, I don’t blame you, because there really isn’t anything pleasant about the word 'plump' anymore. 'Plump' is an evil word, even more diabolical than 'fat', because of the condescension it
When Feeling Blue Is Patriotic
As the sun shone brightly in the golden sky, the streets wore a deserted look, the traffic lights shone red to no cars, and the occasional honk of a car conspicuous in this numbing silence reminded you of the civilisation this city was ordinarily home to. On a Wednesday, it
Hyphenated
Every time I think about who I am and where I belong to, I always come up with a big, fat hyphen. On one side of the hyphen, it says Indian, and on the other side, Canadian. Yes, that’s my label: Indo-Canadian. Labels are not easy to live with,
Images and Words
From R. K. Laxman’s 'Common Man' in the ‘50s and Pran’s Chacha Chaudhary in the ‘70s to Anant Pai’s Tinkle and Sharad Devrajan’s Spider Man India, cartoons and comics have always been a reflective report card of print media in India. But even before