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Category: Philosophy
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Japanese films are divided in two categories- the jidai-geki or period films and the gendai-mono or modern-story films- which generally carry the conception of crime, thriller and western cinema. The jidai for long lingered with romantics and used age old film making methods. Among the films that are originally jidai, but in gendai style, Throne of Blood…
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I wrote a good omelet… and ate a hot poem… after loving you Buttoned my car… and drove my coat home… in the rain… after loving you
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A new trend is emerging in Indian cinema. Our new directors are fascinated about making derived films on real or known stories. Take Raavan, No One Killed Jessica and Raajneeti for example. These films had fictionalized an entire set of events, but viewers already knew whom they were seeing on screen. They kept comparing or contrasting, and due…
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In a modern sense, Nationalists and Communists are soul enemies. The last time a party combined the two and came to power, World War II happened and millions of people were killed. Interestingly, both the nationalists and the communists of India consider Shaheed Bhagat Singh as their hero. And why not? Bhagat Singh was among the few…
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Swami Vivekananda had written this letter to Shrimati Sarala Ghoshal, editor of The Bharati, Darjeeling, on the 24th of April, 1897. It is indeed interesting how, 115 years later, everything written about Indian education in the letter still applies.
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 