“Orwell as prophet” is an idea widely accepted by literary enthusiasts over the years. Now again it is highlighting itself, in a conflict too close at home. It happened in…
What can be stated to be the PG-13 version of Orwell’s 1984 has actually stood on its own grounds through the years. This is because George Orwell used something so…
Freedom Writers is a 2007 biographical drama based on the true events of an actual school teacher, Erin Gruwell, and her 150 students in Woodrow Wilson High School in Long…
Death. It’s always depicted as having many faces. But more complex than death, I think, are the dimensions before it. Death itself is finality; it is the totality of possibility…
The era of Bollywood that makes movies on Indian history and Indian history-making people, has been a bittersweet success; bitter because facing history, from whichever narrative true or false, is…
Guy Ritchie’s “The Covenant” is one of those almost classic American action war films that traverses all the conventional routes of cinematically capturing the action, emotion, and drama of a…
There are books that make you feel that you’re not good enough to exist within their literary presence. Yet here we are. The Kite Runner is one of those literary…
(Before you read this review, I would just like to state that everyone has their own set of reading appetites. When once a certain article of literature does not suit…
A book that delves deep into uncharted territories of relationship stereotypes, questionable human behavior, and the absolute marvel of discrete psychological manipulation. No trope keeps readers on edge and keeps…
It is a terrible feeling, and though it is privately felt, it is universally understood. It has happened to us at some point(s) in our lives. We had a chance…
