Creativity in Dream Mode
John Xaviers Arackal The curiosity about what is cannibal about cannibal metaphysics led me to go through a book review of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s Cannibal Metaphysics. While going through the book review, it felt like a Brazilian version of post-colonialism. Non-western systems …
As a B1 FLE student, I searched for a French comedy on Netflix India and found Pourris Gâtés (spoiled brats). The millionaire dad who pretends to be broke to reform his spoiled brat children, the plot itself is very humorous, …
I came across both terms while searching how to blog directly from a mobile phone: “Second Brain” and “Digital Garden”. “Second Brain,” as described by Matt Giaro, focuses on outcome-oriented note-taking for monetizable content creation. It is a commercial version …
I first heard about Hanumankind in Ashwath Kok’s review of Aashiq Abu’s Malayalam film Rifle Club. I have written about how Aashiq Abu foregrounds the collective protagonist in this film, which is also Hanumankind’s debut as an actor. Then I …
At the film’s end, there is an arresting final image of the Rifle Club as a collective protagonist. It dawned on me when Unni Vlogs pointed out in a review that there is no one particular “hero” in the film, …
In The Vegetarian, it’s the same set of events, Yeong-hye’s decision to be a vegetarian, but from the perspectives of three close relatives of the protagonist: her husband, her brother-in-law, her sisiter. It’s only when reading part three, from Yeong-hye’s …
When my cinephile friend Akhilesh Sreedharan (from my JNU days), recently suggested the film White God on Mubi, I was immediately curious. I have never seen an art house film like White God, that has moved me so much. I …
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