Most outstanding work from West Africa

‘Grandfather, I know now what it is that washes the water. It is the spirit. The water is clear and pure, but the spirit is purer still.’ Essentiall...read more

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East is East, West if West

I had picked up rushdie's ''east west'' from the library recently and wanted to share my thoughts and ask you for yours. starting from the shallow end of the po...read more

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Post-Modern Minimalist Cinema

Last night I saw ''Everybody says I am Fine'' at the DIA theater. I remember reading a review yesterday by Salma and wondering if its the same story line as ''S...read more

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Ray's true masterpiece.

Saw the Satyajit Ray movie adaptation of this at the Stanford theatre yesterday. Besides Pather Panchali this is my most favourite Ray film. Besides the plot it...read more

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Matrix Revolutions falls flat

I went to see how they wrap up the whole Matrix 'comes to an end' thing. I came out with a disappointment of seeing an incomplete and utterly poor sequel to a w...read more

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Savushun means mourning

Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun (in farsi it’s called Suvashun) is mourning for the state of women in Iran and Iran itself disjointed from its history as...read more

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Feminist writing at its best

''Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriag...read more

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Hooligan Literature

‘I’m a hooligan ( liumang). I’m not scared of anyone’ - Wang Shuo Wang Shuo began a literary movement known as “hooligan literatur...read more

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