So, there was no Stan Lee to open the first ever Comic Con in India. Instead, we got Chacha Chaudhary, Wolverine, Spiderman, Zombie, Kalki, Crime Master Gogo, Batman, Harley Quinn, and Rorschach. They weren't exactly burning down buildings or fighting the bad guys or whatever it is that
"I watched in fascination as a gigantic Black Widow spider, her body streaked with green and yellow, crept down the veranda wall in the direction of her sleeping husband." Susanna’s beauty and wealth mean that she has no problems finding a husband, but somehow they don’t
Jumping from A Clockwork Orange which works on an indexical and direct presentation of voyeurism, we move to Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960), which is submerged in dealing with how cinema is a powerful medium because it addresses the most intimate in you and yet it’s a public
"So long as a woman refrains from unsexing herself, let her dabble in anything. The woman of genius does not exist. When she does, she is a man."---A 19th century commentator Feminism as we know it today, or the ‘second wave’ of feminism as an ideology, developed
The School of Arts and Aesthetics in Jawaharlal Nehru University (J.N.U.), Delhi, recently invoked the mysticism, iconography, and complexities of the period most popularly known as the “Swinging Sixties”. The two-day conference at the university, titled The Global Sixties and Its Cultural Afterlife, saw eminent intellectuals and academicians
The Fakir is a fictionalised biography of Lalan Fakir, the great mystic poet from Bengal. The famed novel, written by popular novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay, was recently translated into English by Monabi Mitra. The story takes us back to 19th century Bengal, a land that was once feudal and oppressive. The
As you go through the pages of this book, you are introduced to a world called ‘Room’. A 11' by 11' hole where Jack lives with his Ma, who is unnamed throughout the novel. You are hooked on immediately as you wonder why they are living there, and
On Two Feet and Wings is Iranian-born lawyer, actor, and producer Abbas Kazerooni’s debut novel. As a young boy of 10, Abbas had to escape from Iran, following the ousting of the erstwhile Shah, to Istanbul where he had to learn to make his way around alone in a