In Banu Mushtaq’s "Heart Lamp", one encounters experiences of patriarchy, tradition, misogyny, and age-old customs.

It has been a while since 2024 is over--and it is time for a 2024 recap. Years pass by, and with every new year, we reflect on how previous year was.

It’s that time of the month when I provide an update on my PhD. And in this newsletter, I discuss how I tried to take a meaningful break from PhD.

MC Jithin’s directional ‘Sookshmadarshini’ is a Malayalam fun thriller, moves away from a conventional police procedural when a crime happens.

Dinjith Ayyathan’s ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’, a 2024 Malayalam thriller, enmeshes emotions, familial relations, and mystery in his storytelling. Monikered after Ramayana’s Kishkindha Kaandam, where Lord ...

Mehta asks: “Despite having a functioning democracy for almost five decades, does the entire repertoire of our habits and practices outside the sphere of formal politics conduce to the formation of ...

When I watched Jeo Baby’s Malayalam movie “The Great Indian Kitchen”, I felt unease about gender dynamics that sustain Indian households.

‘Conclave’ is a political thriller that revolves around papal elections, which are woven together with a tinge of ambition, intrigue, envy, and mystery—keeping you at the edge of your seat. The story ...

What starts off as a dabbawalla home business in Thane’s suburbs spirals into a drug operation in this new thriller ‘Dabba Cartel’, monikered ‘Narcos Thane’. A homemaker, Raji (Shalini Pandey), her ...

DeepSeek and the Politics of Knowledge It seems a new AI player was in town. Founded two years ago, in 2023, the Chinese AI company DeepSeek had already achieved what would have seemed almost ...

Traffic signals halt our movement and absorb us into the world for a moment. Just as we wait for signals to start blinking, we feel, observe, smell, rationalise, envy, smile, and smirk all at once or ...

Murder Mindfully, two seemingly opposite words strung together, makes for a good TV story. At one end, there is a murder; at the other, there is mindfulness—a sense of calm one craves but struggles ...