This is a GUEST POST by Prasanta Chakravarty “Slime is the agony of water.” ~ Jean Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness The Birth of Revulsion – Pranabendu Dasgupta No certainty where each would go — Suddenly the descent of a cloudburst, rain. We stood, each where we were, And stared at one another. It is not … Continue reading Rain and Revulsion: Prasanta Chakravarty
[Disclaimer: I am not an art critic, artist, or travelled in the world of art. This is just a memoir] (I) Fort Kochi, 9 Feb. 2017 Though I had already been to the biennale in January and had a roaring time, something kept urging me to go there again. That something, I believe, is my … Continue reading Longing for the World: A Memoir of Two Days at the Kochi Biennale
On New Year’s Eve, the Prime Minister in his much-anticipated speech amongst other commitments made a vague announcement of a “nation-wide” scheme for maternity entitlements for pregnant women.
This is a Guest Post by ARUNIMA CHAKRABORTY Let’s begin with the usual: by ruing over Indian mainstream media’s overlooking of what could have been treated as more newsworthy. Today, that is, 16th of December, 2016 witnessed a bandh in southern Assam’s Barak valley protesting against the statement by the union minister of state for […]
This is a guest post by Dia Da Costa ‘If Trump is elected, I will move to Canada,’ many Americans noted in passing, in jest, and then in all seriousness once the results were out. If it has taken this election result to make people recognize the pervasive racism in the US, that is because […]
If you’re battling depression, your Instagram account might show it. Researchers from Harvard and the University of Vermont have discovered a way to ‘correctly identify’ which users might have depression, using their photos’ attributes, including brightness and color. [1]
LA-based West of the Rockies Radio invited me on to discuss new information and research that will be featured in my book, Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film.
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