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Ebbing Innocence in Theo Angelopoulos’ ‘Landscape in the Mist’
(Previously did this piece for Cafe Dissensus Everyday) For better or for worse, this era foreshadows an explosion of images in future. A painting, a photograph, a movie hardly stirs our sense of wonder anymore; they have become as common a thing in our life as a saucepan in the kitchen. Still, questions of beauty,…
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The never-ending search for ‘home’ in Wong Kar-Wai’s movies
(Previously did this piece for Cafe Dissensus Everyday) Each movie of Wong Kar-Wai reminds me of what Jean-Luc Godard once said during an interview with Youssef Ishaghpour: “…cinema is much more the image of the century in all its aspects than some little novel; it’s the century’s metaphor.” True enough! Despite their pessimism and sad…
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Tourism Industry in Sikkim: Boon or Bane?
Just three days in a place like Sikkim and that too in the rainy season didn’t quench even a speck of my thirst for the beauty I encountered. Surely another trip is due and next time I’ll stay for a longer duration. But my observations while travelling around the place and my word with a…
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Suspended in Space
(I) The night drew out on his last words. Silence, like a palm reddened in vermillion, Tenderly touched and left its print on a new leaf. It’ll die with the mark, will it not? (II) Many a winter stumbled Over the heap of results of someone else’s Perplexed senses. Questions to answers or maybe answers…
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Enchanting Disenchantment in ‘The Band’s Visit’
(previously did this piece for Cafe Dissensus Everyday) And I dream of a different soulDressed in other clothes:Burning as it runsFrom timidity to hope,Spirituous and shadowlessLike fire it travels the earth,Leaves lilac behind on the tableTo be remembered by. (“Eurydice”, Arseny Tarkovsky) With his directorial debut, The Band’s Visit (2007), Eran Kolirin must have entered…
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