Current Issue

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  From Ragamala paintings to Hindi film songs: Spring as a Time for Love

  The piece show how spring has been visualised as a narrative tool to show different stages of love–from yearning to the culmination of love

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  Getting lost in the city

  Running away from home and homecoming in Ritwik Ghatak’s Bari Theke Paliye (1959) are metaphors for the cataclysm of Partition

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  The Impossibility of Middle-brow Hip-Hop

                 There is no real debate on hip-hop’s place within the general culture. Most think of hip-hop as being a […]

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  Three Films: A note on Motion and Stillness

  How do you see the world if you don’t move through it? Perhaps, you see it as it moves while you remain still.

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  The Transcendental Cinema of Arby Ovanessian

  If the spectator of Chechmeh could live the transcendental content of the film, the film itself could give the spectator the poetic depth that he/she wishes to see.

Feb Issue

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  Kids on Bikes: A Stranger Things Retrospective (Part II)

  By taking the humanity out of the monsters and backdrops of the TV shows and presenting audiences with increasingly computer generated landscapes and monsters, viewers become distracted by spectacle and are less able to relate their emotional fears to the media they are watching.

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  Kids on Bikes: A Stranger Things Retrospective (Part I)

  The subgenre levels with young viewers and allows them to admit, even if subconsciously, that being bullied or saying goodbye to childhood does feel horrific on the same level as having your life threatened, and it effectively allows these feelings and fears to be processed.

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  Hungry for Meaning: The Visual Power of Food in Tarantino’s Universe

  Tarantino’s movies are not typical ‘food films’. One cannot say food forms an essential part of the plot in his movies. Nevertheless, food forms an integral part of his storytelling, be it the setting, the foreshadowing it creates, or the background action it inspires.

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  Listening for Politics in Tamil Rap

  Artists like Arivu do not distance themselves from popular rhythm in order to signal seriousness; they lean into it.