There’s a lot that’s happened this year, this month, this week. Maybe even in the past hour. 2020 has been a rollercoaster for almost all of us in different ways — as if moments of it weren’t supposed to happen,…
BULBBUL– A petrifying visual spectacle/A breathtakingly sinister revenge In 2020, we witnessed a dark, gripping and thought-provoking fantasy tale in the form of Netflix’s Bulbbul. Earlier this year, I came across a video by the YouTube channel “Long Live Cinema”,…
Glued to our screens, What is time? For our hundred year old peers, Nothing less than God we are. Moving faster than air on land, And beating the limits of land by air; We, humans, have come a long…
There once was a little boy, Who lived in a strange cottage; A shiny glass bottle was his favourite toy And his clothes were all different shades of beige Every morning, after eating a bowl of porridge, He’d trot…
That particular school building had always been a mystery. Rumours surrounded it, resulting in multiple stories circulating among the students like folklore among ancient villages. Although similar in appearance to the rest of the school, it stood at the far…
Something surreal is something unusual, like a starry night on a sunny day. If, some day, both day and night were visible at the same time — both stars and sunlight together — it would really be surreal.
1 Like Leave a commentDon’t let me study momma I have yet to go A mile before I reach Heaven or hell I’ve known it 3 years prior That my end is with you Maybe different times But it ends up the same The…
Paint the Town “Read” Chapter 2: High Fantasy vs. Low Fantasy — a Detailed Guide – “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” – Lloyd Alexander The magic, the world-building, the sweeping romances and…
This poem has been inspired by the “dress-up” games played by children, where they let their imagination run wild, imagining themselves as valiant knights or regal queens. Today, I thought that we should also let ourselves be swept away in…
A line. A simple word, yet so many connotations. A simple stroke of the brush that later gives birth to creative masterpieces, a phrase that stands out in a poetic verse or a limit set in stone, one that must…
“A world a person perceives is filtered by their own fantasy and paranoia” – Satoshi Kon From the mind of one of the most lauded creators of Japanese animation, Paranoia Agent is the story of a city terrorized by…
There is a wave of creators and consumers dipping into the rich well of Hindu mythology that never seems to dry. Hindu mythology has continued to remain a favoured trope across mediums and genres in Indian popular culture. A similar…
“It’s beautiful,” he told himself. With nothing but hope in his heart, John finally swayed into the surreal, cosmic place he had always dreamt about. His heartbeat was so elevated at the sight of it that he wasn’t even afraid of the…
I wish for an escape so eerie I hope it never breaks my reverie I wish I would view the things that I’ve never seen Be lost and yet be found in my own memories. My soul lies unrest…
I am alone, Crying in the dark, Where no one, No one leaves a mark. At the tip of the cone, Chilled to the bone, Thinking someone might arrive, Rescue me as I strive. As I walked on the timber,…
Welcome to zombie culture! No, it does not refer to a culture where people cosplay with fake blood or have fangs in place of their canine teeth. It refers to the modern-day world. The present; where people exhibit thoughtlessness, unfocused…
Sirius Black is trying to fly away with Buckbeak to escape the dementors. What happens next is quite ironical… As Black rose higher and higher into the air, sitting on the magnificent flying creature, with its gloriously large wings…
“[Surrealist music is] the combination of historically devalued musical fragments by means of such editing that allows them to give meaning to them within the framework of a new aesthetic unity” – Theodore Adorno Surrealist music is a fairly…
This story is a continuation of the show “Lucifer”, from where it left off season 5. Beware of potential spoilers. “It is quite suffocating here.” Being in a storage room with my kidnapper’s identical twin wasn’t something I was…
Being a part of a country like India, we’ve often stumbled upon the term black magic. It has been a part of ancient stories like the Ramayana. In fact, the Mayong village of Assam is still referred to as the…
