Images are all around us, some symbolic and others as direct as can be. As we overtake one another in the sordid race towards materialistic hell, one forgets what its like to slow down and smell the roses. The intricate beauty of images around us, the stories they weave, the morals they preach and the… Read More Images Around Us
As Indians, we’ve been taught from a very young age that pride and arrogance are sinful personality traits. No matter how long our list of achievements may be, they lose their sheen at the slightest display of pride. We are a nation that likes to be coaxed out of its shell and lauded for our… Read More Humility, The Indian Paradox
The popular opinion among them is that the term ‘Internet Hindus’ is indicative of how “media and pseudo intellectuals promote stereotypes and bias”. Al Jazeera put Sagarika Ghose up against Subramaniam Swamy to debate and discuss the ongoing online tug of war on Internet Secularism yesterday, July 9, on The Stream – the channel’s popular… Read More Trolling the Trolls
The world of television programming is peppered to sneezing point, with advertisements of just about every product imaginable. I’m still reeling with disgust at having seen an ad for a fairness cream. It actually made me turn of the television in revulsion. If you knew me, you’d know how difficult it is to get me… Read More In All Fairness
The movie making industry today is trembling at the sight of the black-flag atop a deck of intelligent minds working away at the computer screen, diligently sharing file after file of intellectual property. After having almost completely wrecked the music industry, these geeks then turned to the world of motion pictures. Online Piracy is the… Read More Piracy: Not Quite The Sinkhole
In his haste to jump off the cliff of material wealth, man has shamelessly exploited our natural resources. The earth is falling apart gradually. Recycling is hailed to be the way out because it is the only solution to environmental issues so far. There is no straightforward way of recycling metal, plastic and even defunct… Read More Recycling : The Pyrrhic Victory
‘Unbreakable’ is a 2000 release by M. Night Shyamalan. Like all his other celluloid offerings, Shyamalan brings his fetish for the supernatural to this movie as well. Unbreakable, with an almost negligible amount of action and flashy special effects, isn’t your average superhero movie. The movie is set in a painfully realistic setting, with mundane,… Read More They say this one has a surprise ending
In a fitting finale, internationally acclaimed designer Rajesh Pratap Singh brought Dubai Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011 to a dazzling finish. Showing to a packed house, bursting at its seams with people eager to view his latest offerings. With a dramatically delayed start, the show opened with three stiff translucent printed outfits offering tantalizing glimpses of… Read More Dubai Fashion Week 2011 Grand Finale
Constantly being compared to other fashion weeks across the globe, Dubai Fashion Week is still struggling to find a strong fashion identity of its own. Though in its nascent stages, it is steadily establishing itself as the face of the Dubai fashion industry. The five day event held from 19-23 April drew the crème-la-crème of… Read More Dubai Fashion Week: Gradually Gaining Momentum
The most anticipated movie of the decade opened to worldwide audiences in late 2009. Breaking his own previous records of most expensive movies ever made, James Cameron’s Avatar registers at a whopping $300 million. Bordering on sensory overload, Pandora, in all its phosphorescent glory is pregnant with expectation, with alien sights and sounds that are… Read More Dancing With The Thanators
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