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Surbhi Inani

Love Triangles: Are they really worth it?

These days, every show with a remotely romantic subtext loves to throw in a love triangle in its story arc and drag out those completely disastrous relationships for several seasons. It always goes along the lines of “Oh! I simply cannot choose between these two attractive boys with no real personalities” or “Why will I […]

Altered Carbon | Review

If death wasn’t a guaranteed phenomenon in our universe, how different do you think our world would have been? The ultimate utopia? No wars fought in the name of god since everyone would be god? Peace and harmony for all of eternity? I, personally, think that the world would be no more different than the […]

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

After over 30 years, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) gets its harrowing TV adaptation and even the mighty author herself cannot believe the raw impact made by its disturbing premise on screen. Watching, rather than reading, the horrors of enslavement, subjugation, rape and mutilation faced by women in the service of men in her alternate apocalyptic […]

Book Boyfriends and how they lead to unattainable standards

To all the fan-girls out there who are in constant state of agony from the unobtainable hunky dreamboats in literature, I feel your pain all too well. Damn those Young Adult fictional men who ruined me for real men since my adolescent years. Even without real boyfriend experience, I knew that no actual teenage male […]