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 […]
This year marks the bicentennial death anniversary of one of the greatest authors to have ever lived- Jane Austen. With that in mind I thought it was time for a tribute to her genius. Austen was brilliant, and centuries ahead of her time. In a world that had ridiculous expectations of women, she created some […]
Necromancy is a term that is very intimate to the ones who love the dark side of the force. Let’s be candid enough. What force are we raving about? Are we talking about the supernatural force that drives the world or are we simply conjuring up some hallucinatory incorporeal envision of ours which palls the […]
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide”, began revered Philosopher Albert Camus, in his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”. Camus can easily be regarded as the greatest thinker of the 20th century and his influence on literature, arts and thinking has resonated through modern and postmodern epochs. However, the reality of […]
Aloof as the American continent can be geographically, it’s never been far enough to not disrupt, engage, captivate or at times attract criticism or humor (not humour) or even commendation from every corner of the world. Sure, the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans cut it off from the rest of the major landmasses on the […]
Upon usual and aimless, perfunctory scrolls through my Facebook feed, I stumbled upon a page called Safarnama. They were planning a walk in the Purana Qila. Motive of this walk was to re-visit the history of Purana Qila and to discuss Mahabharata through the eyes of Draupadi. Safarnama was started by History graduates, Anna Menon and Aakriti Suresh. […]
Conversations about my favorite authors will always revolve around David Foster Wallace, Camus, Kafka, Vonnegut and the likes. However in the shadows, the way the man liked it himself, a certain J.D. Salinger will always be extant.Touted unfairly as a “one hit wonder” for his opus Catcher in the Rye – or on the contrary […]