Review
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A review of the French film, An Urban Allegory, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, exploring Plato’s concept of “The Allegory of the Cave” in today’s digital times.
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A review of the novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”, capturing the details of the latter chapters. Understand the journey of the protagonists by going through this review.
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Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai’s long-awaited novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is a detailed account of two young Indians settled in America and of their navigation of culture, roots, and identity. The story unfolds steadily and gives an early impression of another set of confessions and nostalgic longings of an Indian American author. However,…
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Some movies leave an impact by portraying realities as they are. They succeed tremendously in navigating through the nuances of human emotions, enabling the audience to dive into the world of passion, grief, joy, jealousy, and more. One might also wonder, at times, whether such films are all about their own personal and emotional journey,…
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I just finished reading the novel “Honour“, written by the Turkish author Elif Shafak, and have so many thoughts and views to share on this book. The plot of the novel is sensitive, contemplative, heart breaking, real and nostalgic; I would say it’s a story that resonates with our own personal struggles in the face…
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I recently picked up a romance novel to satisfy the writer and reader in me. On the contrary, I felt sickened by its excessively decorative language and repulsed by the entire concept of love that leads to idolization and dependence rather than liberating two people in love. I guess my ideas about love have drastically…
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Some movies have a tendency to leave cinemagoers forever changed. The impact is so powerful that each scene of the movie remains etched in memory. Irrespective of time and place, one can still feel the same sensation as when watching the film. One of such movies, without any iota of doubt, is the classic…
