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Young Lust

Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend is brilliant because it is darkly humorous, satirical, and poetically unjust.

Village Vignettes: Opium for Dinner

For most of us, opium usually paints a picture of the messy tangle of the narcotics trade, undercover dealings, and sometimes, a withered Chinese lady smoking a pipe.

Einstein and Faith

Einstein maintained that underneath the discernible laws of physics, there is a mysterious force that is responsible for the harmony that we see around us.

Cinephilia: Albert Pinto’s Wrath

Maybe Albert is not so angry after all. Maybe he’s just irritated, or insecure, or jaded.

U-bends: Rishikesh

When the river rises, the platform is submerged and Shiva rides the current, swells of water lapping against his thighs.

Wonderful Indeed

Mister Wonderful is not a book I would read too many times, but definitely a book I would want everyone to read at least once.

Village Vignettes: An Officer’s Apathy

He sat in a lazy slump in his rotating chair, complete with the mandatory towel that graces every government officer’s throne.

No Such Thing as First Class

A few rules that might save you some time and money when you’re flying, and ensure that you don’t miss the last five minutes of the in-flight movie.

Cinephilia: No Orchids for Miss Blandish

This isn’t the kind of bad film that has become everyone’s punching bag over time. Far more humiliatingly, it has just been ignored.

U-bends: Nachiketa

What must have begun as golden pinpricks had turned into monstrous orange tongues, cutting down giant trees like they were brittle winter twigs.

Lucky Cheng’s

I’ll say it again: Drag Queen Cabaret Bar. Sizzle!

The Great Thirst (Part One)

When fighting against forces much greater than yourself, and so much beyond your control, there’s only two ways to go about things.