Kendall Roy is a drug addict. Kendall Roy steals a lighter from a store and throws it in the trash. Kendall Roy has had adulterous relationships. Kendall Roy has borderline murdered someone. And yet, Kendall Roy is not the worst character in Succession. In fact, I’d say that by the…

When a film begins by thanking “Science” and not “God”, you know it’s going to upset a lot of people. Lovely. The very same reason why Bruno was burned at a stake and Galileo was persecuted, science and rationality are themes that are slowly fading away into the folds of…

I woke up today morning to read the news of an honor killing here in Kerala. It’s a supposedly educated and progressive society over here. But their education stops at their pride. We humans are a social species — this is something my parents always tell me whenever I refuse…

It takes a very compelling idea to pull someone like me out of a writer’s block. It could be a beautiful Anurag Basu-film like Barfi (2012), which compels you to introspect human bonds and undermine the superficiality of language, or it could be in the form of an Anurag Basu-film…

Until a few years ago, I was not very comfortable with using social media. It is inevitable that during a time when life without oxygen seems more imaginable to the human brain than a life without networking, fears about who/ what might be at the receiving end of your message…

We had to study French- Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (1960) as part of our undergrad course. A widely popular absurdist play, Rhinoceros is a satirical take on the totalitarian regime that was prevalent across the world during his time, especially the Nazi forces. Last week, the Supreme Court found…

A purely opinionated piece, you can call this a rant if you want. Every year during the month of Karkkidakom (according to the sidereal solar calendar that Malayalis traditionally follow), my grandmother would wake up early in the morning, light the puja lamp and then ritualistically read the Adhyatma Ramayanam…