Essays

Shakespeare, Gender and Renaissance Comedies

In Shakespeare and several Renaissance plays, chiefly comedies, a particular aspect that can be singled out for its frequency and its repetition is the...

Greta Gerwig and Necessary Femininity

Despite only having three movies under her belt as a solo director, Greta Gerwig has already made a name for herself as one of...

A Retrospective: The Curious Case of Qala

Now that the dust has well and truly settled on 2022, and we wait poised for a summer of big Hindi film releases (although...

Between Nowhere and Manywhere

I am mixed. Multi-ethnic. Biracial, if you will, although this word is an uncomfortable one for me. While the word “biracial” suggests division, the...

‘THE CAR’ by the Arctic Monkeys

To entertain, in some way, is to surprise, to question, to tease, and even to ruffle. The Car, Arctic Monkeys’ seventh LP, does all...

The Miniaturist of Junagadh–Deafening Silences and Blank Canvases

Kaushal Oza’s short film is a gently crafted meditation on grief, memory, identity and art

The First Supper

In the first year of undergraduate school, unable to conjure the words for “homesick” and “lonely” in an unfamiliar city, I wrote ever so...

How ‘Killing Eve’ Buried Itself Along With Its Gays

Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for Season 4 of Killing Eve Killing Eve has, not to put too fine a point on it, a killer repertoire....

The Tunes and Fortunes of Celebrity Musicians

In the wake of Kendrick Lamar announcing his fifth studio album, ‘Mr Morale and the Big Steppers’, I found myself intrigued by the methods...

An Existential Guide to Risks and Relationships

Growing up, I would go into construction sites and pretend they were haunted or contained forbidden, secret chambers. Once, an unenthused, older boy announced...