Reverse character-building
Book Fox, “You’re building characters backwards.” Why are we developing characters based on how they look rather than what they believe in? Build characters based on the following sequence:
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The uniformed man with offerings for Lord Shiva
The pilgrimage, a travelogue of a graphic novelist through the heartland of the subcontinent is not peaceful, considering the assault of the vibrant public life. Words: quotidian/sacred
Post-colonialism with a shocking name?
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 of knowledge have to be given equal valence. This book is not directly linked to …
Is Nicolas Cuche relying on Hollywood comedy formula?
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, and the film lived up to my expectation. As a genre, it looks like an …
Why “Digital Garden” Wins Over “Second Brain”
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 of Tiago Forte’s note-taking life-hack. In contrast, the “Digital Garden,” championed by Maggie Appleton, offers …
Is Hanumankind a Poet?
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 saw Hanumankind on an Apple Music podcast and I realized that he is not just …
How Aashiq Abu foregrounds the collective protagonist
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, despite the unassuming jovial figure of Avaran, the secretary of the Rifle Club. The film …
How Han Kang uses multiple third-person of non-protagonists
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 sister’s perspective—in the third person narrative— that it occured to me that we never heard …
White god – anthropocentrism in new clothes?
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 was literally in tears, by the end of the film. The feeling was similar to …