Category: Art

  • Review | The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph

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    What makes a father ponder about his son’s life three years after his suicide? When Ousep Chacko finds the last cartoon his son drew, he restarts his journey for clues about Unni’s death. From this point, the story slowly unravels the life of Unni Chacko, a seventeen year old talented cartoonist who had jumped from…

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    4–6 minutes
  • Sacha, Satire and Sarcasm ?

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    – Surbhi While one can find political satire in many contexts and movies, in my opinion, none comes to par with those produced and acted by Sacha Baron Cohen. His films like “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for…

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    4–6 minutes
  • Left. Right.

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    – Surya Nandana Gazing at each other from across the rails, A line that separates the pages of our tales; We see the time ticking away, Closer to the end, when we finally say, “Goodbye, good luck; I’ll see you again: If, as they say, the earth is round” – when Unannounced, the engine chugs…

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    1–2 minutes
  • Coffee Table

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    — Navaneeth C V

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    1–2 minutes
  • THE END.

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    — Adithya Beera It’s apparent that we humans are becoming more progressive by the day. Increasingly, people believe that no one should be discriminated against based on color, race, gender and the like. Breakthroughs in science and widespread education taught us that there is nothing stopping anyone from becoming the person they want to be: that…

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    3–4 minutes
  • 72 Hours

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    — Nischitha G Dhruv was standing right there for an hour. It was late at night around 9o’clock. It had been raining since noon that day. Roads were clogged with water and the stationary vehicles in the traffic were making his wait for the bus increasingly difficult. Any slight movement in the vehicles was causing…

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    9–14 minutes
  • An Ode to Expired Friendships

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    — Devika Dinesh I’d read somewhere a long time ago that one’s twenties is characterized by the turbulent nature of one’s friendships. Essentially the notion that, ‘people come and go’. And yet, losing a friendship that had spanned half a decade felt like a cruel plot twist that I couldn’t have predicted.  All of a sudden…

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    2–3 minutes
  • The need to escape

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    — Khushi M P  I wake up, I check my phone. I have a break between classes, most of the time, I’m checking my phone. When I eat, my phone is often in front of me. I postpone sleeping by checking my phone. When I have free time, I barely have anything to do that…

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    5–7 minutes
  • Love?

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    — Garima Sane Pray, do not stand on ceremonies, my loveGranted, you love differently; But thatDoes not mean that you do not love me, does it? Sure, your lips take grotesque turns sometimesAnd your limbs, a life of their ownBut, my love, it is only because we transcend the ordinary, right? Yes, your eyes do…

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    1–2 minutes
  • naked

    – Garima Sane and there I layon the ground, barenowhere to hidenaked masquerade:for all to seethus none to know and there she stoodcovered in glitterall shiny and prettyvivacious upturned lipsher nudity, onlyfor my knowing eyes. her painted nails:scratches on skinmy biting words:covering her giggles.her hand in mine:soft and firm;my hand in hers:soft and firm. Design…

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    1–2 minutes