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Greeting the Season: Winter To-Do List

By Ekasmayi Naresh

Winter brings with it the season’s own traditions! Here are some must-do activities for this holiday season.

Morocco’s Gamble In Western Sahara

By Rayomand Bhacka

Years into the conflicted state of the Kingdom of Morocco, take a glance at the heated Saharan dispute.

Deconstructing Weegee: Capturing Urban Disorder in New York City

By Vasundhara Singh

Look at this famous photographer through Vasundhara Singh’s lens as he turned victims of crime scenes into art.

Real Life: Reel Stories

By Rhea Sabherwal

When the occasional realistic and believable movie comes along, we shouldn’t forget to appreciate it. This is a list of 5 must-watch biopics made in Bollywood.

Grandma

By Devi Dang

A poem dedicated to a grandmother: the pillar of a monument called family.

Reel/Real

By Hues_n_Blues

Real vs. Reel takes a new meaning with this poem, based on the version of you known by everybody-and-nobody.

Love’s Broken Symmetry

By Nisha Joshi

Love left me aghast, with my frozen heart in my hands, which I willingly smashed into so many pieces that I don’t think I’ll ever really get around to putting them all back together.

Is It Really Me?

By Ekasmayi Naresh

A poem on crossing the revolving door of real and reel, into the cloakroom of existence by a vivid dreamer.

There is a fine line between ‘cutesy’ spooky and intimidating which most shows have never attempted to cross. Although, one cartoon network show portraying a little pink dog as a protagonist threw all that out of the window.

To Be a Writer

This musing talks about how sometimes, our words and sentiments are not ours alone; they belong to the writers who have come before us.

Modus Operandi

By Neeti Adhia ‘Every criminal has his own MO’ This is the basic perception all of us have when we come across the term ‘Modus Operandi’. This Latin term in criminology means the pattern of behavior of the criminal or his way of committing a crime. ‘Ted Bundy’, the American known for his way of…

Toxic: Slipping Under On-Screen Narratives

By Harsheen Sethi

Through the gendered narrative, this piece takes a closer look at the portrayal of toxic relationships and the trope of ‘broken’ and ‘fixer’ through popular TV series and movies.

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