Tag: culture

Vinyard in Nowhere

Last week my family and I had a brief escape to Igatpuri, a hill station about two hours away from Mumbai. After two days of frolicking in waterfalls and feeling vertigo from the heights of Camel Valley, we checked out of the resort. Before going home, we took a 45 minutes detour to check out…

August 3, 2019
The Magical Deceit (Exhibition review)

All photos courtesy of the Wellcome Collection. Everyone loved magic when they were little. Grand spectacles and fantastic miracles, magicians seemed to have powers mere mortals couldn’t dream of possessing. We could watch a pencil disappear into thin air and would be convinced that something supernatural was at play. Everything is different now. As adults,…

May 29, 2019
Super-Fatigue

2018 is going to be the year of superhero movies. These comic books adaptations have grown to become immensely popular over the last ten years. With seven live action comic book movies, and countless more animated ones this year, the aforementioned statement becomes increasingly apparent. Though it seems that along with the their fan following,…

January 23, 2018
Human Hypocrisy

WARNING – THIS POST EXPRESSES SOME HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL AND UNPOPULAR OPINIONS. IF YOU GET EASILY TRIGGERED PLEASE TURN AWAY NOW Humans. Of all possible traits they could ever express, hypocrisy had to be one of them. We are all hypocrites. I’m one, you’re another, we all are; we’re just too afraid to admit it. We…

September 25, 2017