Ever wondered what happens to the data when you swipe your card for a transaction with any multi-national brand to pay the bill? How and where does the company store your financial information? Does it store it within India or does it gets processed outside the country? What is data localisation Worries begin in cases…
Science is expected to undertake an effort which would understand the world objectively. After all, earth’s gravity is not subjective to one’s assumptions. It is taken for granted as if it is real, and exists as part of our daily experience beyond question. However, how legitimate are the claims that Science is not a knowledge-discovering…
Of the very few things I always carry along, Rubik’s cube is one. If you are my friend, you most probably know it. This obsession with the cube started a couple of years back. I remember one of the evenings during my college when I was with one of my friends named Joshua. We were…
At the very outset, I would like to inform the reader that the piece is not an academic intellectual work. Neither is the author equipped enough to write academic articles on acclaimed or intellectually popular topics in contemporary news. The piece is a result of observation and self-realization, which has happened in the course of…
There are two significant problems one can see in the contemporary Telugu cinema. One, the spatiality of our movies are either city-centric or rural or a mix of both. Second, notwithstanding the spatiality, the stories are majorly elitist, which invokes false aspirations or a sense of escapism with regard to the audience. In other words,…
These topics become mine, for articles on Gandhi have occupied my Facebook wall more than any wishes of ‘Gandhi Jayanthi’. Perhaps this is so because of the increasing online publications in India. On a different note, the movie ‘Joker‘, which hit Indian screens on Oct 2nd, 2019, also opened to excellent reviews. “I am fortunate to have…
What is the greatest paradox, according to you? For me, it is a paradox of existence. Whenever I think of it, it either proves I am nothing, or it puts me in front of a situation that appears to be a haven for questions without answers. Heidegger’s famous quote summarises this paradox: ‘Why are there…
“The era of good content is here, and audiences want to see the most disruptive, different content in every genre. I am glad that people are connecting with the kind of cinema that I am doing, and it only motivates me to be braver with my film choices,” Ayushmann Khurana said about the success of…
The much hyped Telugu movie Dear Comrade released in cinemas last month & made its digital debut on Amazon Prime recently. The Rashmika Mandanna & Vijay Deverakonda pair returned to screens after their hugely successful outing Geetha Govindam. Dear Comrade was a highly anticipated film because of various reasons – Deverakonda’s rising stardom, its release…
Disclaimer: The following article contains potential spoilers from the movie. So, reader’s discretion is advised. Also, this is just my perspective about some of the best scenes in the movies I’ve watched. Not intended to affect the original idea of the creator. Oh, and the images used in the article rightfully belong to the makers…
I am a girl. We live in a society where patriarchy gets its business done without anyone’s notice. It is so deeply ingrained that we fail to identify it every time it gets into action. Many conversations with a patriarchal undertone easily pass off as normal. In this post, let me share three of my…
The viral activist concerning climate change, Greta Thunberg, is apparently the highest paid activist (it was disputed though). She is also from a privileged family of artists from Sweden. Though she appears to be popular since a year after a protest in front of the Swedish parliament, she attracted more popularity after the recent “How…
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