Documenting The Lives of The Ordinary
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The Kerala Paradox: When Governance Fails Its Citizens
In Kerala, a citizen’s journey through government offices is a slow, painful march through corruption, inefficiency, and bureaucratic apathy. Nothing moves without a bribe. The revenue and registration departments, the very institutions that should facilitate essential services, have become toll booths where the price of progress is determined not by policy but by the size […]
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Kerala: Tangled in Red-Tape: Who Will Cut Through It?
Elon Musk is many things: visionary, entrepreneur, provocateur, and, to some, a certified arsehole. But even his harshest critics can’t deny his knack for delivering results. Whether it’s landing rocket boosters or gutting Twitter—excuse me, X—he’s proven ruthless in his pursuit of efficiency. Now, Musk has teamed up with Vivek Ramaswamy on a project as […]
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Beautiful Star- Yukio Mishima
“Here sleeps the human species.They ended up lying all the time,They offered up flowers for both good and bad fortune, They often kept small birds,They were frequently late getting to appointmentsAnd they often laughed.May they rest forever in eternal peace.” Yukio Mishima’s Beautiful Star has a girl on its cover in a splattered red kimono […]
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Kalki 2898-AD (Movie)
Watched Kalki in bits and pieces. The opening sequence from the Mahabharata piqued my interest, but it quickly waned due to the shoddy writing and clichéd concepts. Kalki presents itself as unique and original material by Indian creators, but unfortunately, it borrows overused ideas. I watched it in its Malayalam dub, and the poorly written […]
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The Unwanted- Stories of the Syrian Refugees
A Graphic Novel | Written & Illustrated by Don Brown(Not the Angels & Demons guy. That’s Dan Brown) Don Brown’s illustrations are bleak much like the life of Syrian refugees. The colours are muted and pale. The writing is simple in style and narration straight with no frills again like the refugees who carry no […]
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Babylon (2022 Film)
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” offers a bold exploration of Hollywood’s metamorphosis in its earliest years. Weaving together the lives of film stars and production executives from the silent movie era to the age of talkies Babylon offers much to history buffs through its narration of possibly fictional events intertwined in the wild tales of creators of […]
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American Spy- Lauren Wilkinson
I came across Lauren Wilkinson’s debut novel American Spy while searching for something to read for the Cold War theme set by our little book club. American Spy is hugely different from the cold war spy thrillers I have read in the past. And it’s been a while since I picked up a spy thriller. […]
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Life Lessons from a Father: Through Movies and Comics
I grew up watching movies with my dad. And those are the memories I hold close to me. Movies are an education on the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s an education no child should be denied along with Enid Blyton, Tarzan or Superman. Allowing him or her to grow and create his own […]
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Maharaj (Hindi, 2024, Netflix)
‘Maharaj,’ directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra and produced by Aditya Chopra, is a movie I would not give much thought to if not for its metaphors and underlying narrative, which reflect modern Indian society. On the surface, it’s a typical Yash Raj production with overacting and perfectly manicured performers without a hair out of place. […]
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The Mornings After
I wake up and I find I have nothing to do. My mornings are broken. The little things I do for my mother everyday. I look into her room and she isn’t there. I stand in the room with the emptiness which surrounds me. I look at the empty blue pill box which I will […]