Will Smith summed up what a lot of us feel about the Internet’s great ability to broadcast stupidity in this 2013 appearance on the Russian talk show Evening Urgant. He was talking about his son Jaden, whose existentialist outpourings on Twitter
Dil Dhadakne Do Director: Zoya Akhtar Starring: Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Rahul Bose Rating: 3.5/5 Two of the best expository scenes in Dil Dhadakne Do, Zoya Akhtar’s excellent third film, take place in the
“At Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953, when England fell to the Hungarians. Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the
Walk in C-minor Peggy Mohan Harper Collins Rs 350 | 280 pp There is no originality. It is the same old cliché. You just can’t say it is out-of-the-box and get away with it. There is nothing out-of-the-box in
The other day, I looked out into the balcony and the 35-year-old jacaranda tree seemed happy. The sky was overcast, and I kept thinking of what a grand sound the word ‘tempest’ made. Spring has turned into a near monsoon
Concerns around spectatorship in art and culture gained a new dimension with the growth of electronic media and with the appearance of the term ‘interactive’. Starting from a gadget-based interface, the concept of interactivity spread over spatial experiences as well
The summer is here in Delhi, which can only mean one thing: a marked increase in senseless violence. An article in The Times of India, published on May 11, reported that there have been ten recent incidents of road rage ending in
When Freud segregated the areas of the mind into the conscious, unconscious and subconscious, he compared the unconscious mind to the bulk of the iceberg, submerged beneath the water. The metaphor exceeds beyond mere size when it is applied to
“And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche “Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female, For me those that have been boys and that love women, For me the man that is
There is an ancient technology called “text”: a visual representation of an idea or object, often by way of an intermediate set of symbols called “words”, which are phonetic representations of a thought or object. Humans built up this technology,