Features

Mirror, Mirror: Part Three

Man Bites Dog becomes not only a satire on the fascination for televised tragedy, but also tries to joke about the uncalled stain provided to cinema.

Pleasantly Plump

There’s no space on screen for even an extra inch of flesh. Or, for that matter, in T.V. shows, advertisements, billboards, music videos, or even in our own heads.

When Feeling Blue Is Patriotic

Unified by our indelible love for cricket, we are drenched in victory, thanks to our Boys in Blue.

Hyphenated

Labels are not easy to live with, especially hyphenated labels. There is a sense of disorientation when it comes to choosing one side or the other.

Images and Words

The First Annual Indian Comic Con sufficed as a commendable exhibit of talent and a fair of international stature for comic lovers.

Comic Conned

A visual walk-through of India’s first ever comics convention, the First Annual Indian Comic Con, held at Dilli Haat earlier this year.

Mirror, Mirror: Part Two

The central underlying theme of Peeping Tom is voyeurism, captured through an aggressive and violating camera.

The Other: Part One

Gender differentiation has played a significant role in hailing masculine art as ‘great’ or ‘serious’ and reducing so-called feminine art as the ‘other’.

Love and Longing in the Sixties

A petition may be a poem, and a poem may be a petition, but neither a poem nor a petition is the revolution.

Five Seconds of Fame

Welcome to a rage called MTV Roadies. Suffering has never been made so sweet.

Why I Love Delhi

Delhi’s oldness is alternative to, independent of, but equally conscious and respectful of the new.

Hidden-Away Surprises

Bylakuppe is a colourful slice of Tibet hidden away in the southern half of India.