“Gimme my bag!” Steve tried to yell at the group of four, the Bully Boys as they were called at the school. Mitch, the oldest
Category: Art/Literature
Interactale 9 – Before the End
How does it feel to learn you are about to end—that you will never be here anymore? And how does it feel when you know
Outrage over a Painting in South Africa
A picture is worth a thousand words, so by corollary, pictures can have the impact of a thousand words. Perhaps it best manifests when art
The Perfect Writer – Adapting to Imperfections
One might think of creative writing as a gradual process of mastering an art. It’s essentially movement from scratch to perfection. But if you try
Appreciating Art – Audience, Time, and Culture
Do great works of art find timeless appreciation? This is so interesting a question. Saying that great works of art find appreciation in all times
A Tale of Two Cities: Self-Deception in Dickensian Fiction
Daniel Goleman in his interesting book Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception ingeniously draws the relation between repetition and skewing of attention to
Prejudice and Revenge in Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’
by Max Skinwood “If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? Why, revenge.
Gattaca (1997)—Thematic Depiction of Escape, Dream, and Reality
Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca (1997) is a sci-fi film set in future in a society where children conceived under supervision of the state are considered genetically
Beating the Fire
“LIVE spelled backwards is EVIL”, says the publicity tag of the movie The Spring (David Jackson, 2000). Now that sounds witty, probably even ridiculous. The
Interactale 8 – The Easy Fix
Grocery shopping had never been his thing, but since his wife’s license was suspended and she was unwilling to risk driving without it, he had