The other day, I was watching the Slumdog Millionaire. I’ve seen it in parts a few times before when I was younger, but this seemed like the first time I watched a substantial part of the film in one sitting while understanding what was going on. The film does an…
Beechwood Penitentiary, in spite of being a large and complex underground facility, housed only one inmate within its metallic walls, in a padded cell, at the end of the corridor on the lowest floor. Sat inside was Bryce Felhart, a convicted serial killer, a blotch of colour between the pristinely…
To Cinema, With Love Episode 7: Character Arcs ————————————— Note: This article is heavily surrounded around the Godfather and therefore will contain some major spoilers (here is a link to its summary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/plotsummary) Writing is one of the most fundamental aspects of filmmaking (It also happens to be one of…
Yashasvini Verma of Amity International School, Noida speaks with Mrs Chetna Sahoo, a mountaineer with extraordinary zeal and courage, who summited the world’s highest peak at an age many perceive to be ‘too old’ for such a feat. Read the full interview below or listen to the audio at this…
While watching an action movie a couple of days back, a thought ran through my mind like a jolt. What I realised was that we all have been watching these action films, without realising the appealing factor behind the movies. An action movie is a direct representation of a dystopia. Let’s…
Humming and thumping, Hoping to feel the vibration, Hoping to feel something, And, hearing that hope shattering. My ears are powerless, I’m programmed to respond to nothing. The silence however, isn’t unheard. Not a day, nor a minute, can I block out the deafening silence, It makes my head pound,…
come morning, my hair tighten and wound themselves to fit into thin braids, knitted as one in elaborate dos wince in discomfort before accepting their fate sit like dutiful nationals— head down and ears twitching in wait of liberation. deprived of resources and rights, my hair is inundated by bands…
DEAD SPACE Summed up in a line: Atmosphere Memorable quote: OCHEDIN VALANNOR! Genre: Survival Horror Online: N/A Open-world? No Feels? Yes. Platinum Hunt: Medium difficulty Atmosphere. This game has an atmosphere—something most modern horror games lack. It’s not “oop, there’s a zombie, shooty it in its head and yay, we’re…
The first memory I have of my mother is of when I was four years old. She held my hand as I went down the slide, straight into a puddle. She giggled as water sprayed on her and hugged my soaking wet self. When I was ten, I fractured my…
The man, dressed dapperly in a black suit and crisp white shirt, slowly lowered the girl onto the floor. She smiled at him with her blue eyes bright, her unnaturally silky blonde hair flying as she bounced up and down in a hurry to get home. “Rodriguez!” The man barked…
Researchers are trying to figure out what life on planet Mars would be like by training under controlled, Mars-like conditions in four of Earth’s most severe habitats– inside an active volcano on Hawaii, in cold and isolated Antarctica, in a barren desert in Utah, and submerged in the ocean near Florida.
-Illustration by Siddharth Johar
I like this!The voices truly wake up, When you stop seeing the world, Out the glass of the window, And notice instead, your own reflection. Examining every nook; The longer you stare At your smudgy echo, The more faults creep up. The cracks of skin, At the corner of your lips, But also the…
She walked into her room after another day of nothing. It was torturous, going through the same old, boring routine again and again. She saw no point in it all- the world, life. It wasn’t sadness. All she knew, was that it definitely wasn’t happiness. And all she wished for,…
“What’s the time?” you ask me And wait for me to look at my silver watch That my mother gave me As my father, an ardent Shakespearean, quoted, “For those who love, time is eternal.” So you wait, looking at me. Instead, I look up to you And hold your…
What this world lacks desperately is creativity. With an abundance of mainstream ideas and competition, there is a rush to find new inspiration. People travel to different cities, countries, simply to gain a sliver of inspiration, but have you ever heard about travelling to space for it? It may sound very…
Looking out the window, Into the dark night, I see a light– Glowing bright and shiny, Making the moon look tiny; It’s walking towards me, Coming nearer every second. It takes my hand, In its long shiny tentacles. It pulls me, It takes me in, Into the velvety black shadows…
Cultures call for seizing the day, yet with all our unique movement caged in an aviary, it may be difficult to still overcome the interludes of perpetual possibilities. Such is the call of the mild, that the contempt descends from seventh heaven till six feet under, from the embryonic starting…
