Religious extremism in India: Hereto and the aftermath I stood theoros to your most rational actions of abstraction and civilization. Your civilization destroyed me, destroys everything, including itself. I couldn’t help but breathe the stench of blood when you further groped the entirety of my existence with your bloodied hands. Your filthy gaze reduced me to terra nullius. […]
Salman Rushdie and His Controversial Pen!
“Audacity” is the first word that comes to my mind when someone says the name “Salman Rushdie”. Literature has for the longest time been a tool of free speech and banning books is the system’s way to snatch away the pen from authors. The world needs to respect its authors and stop killing them. If […]
Wide Sargasso Sea: A Simple Book Review Through Feminist Lenses
Wide Sargasso Sea which was published in 1966 by Jean Rhys is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre. She through her writing, wanted to provided voice and historical context to Bronte’s ‘Bertha’ or ‘Madwoman in the attic’. Wide Sargasso Sea has been a text of great discussion among the critics in the field of […]
Looking back into Hergé’s Tintin, Is it racist? A post-colonial perspective
The Adventures of Tintin is a world-famous comic series created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, whose real name was Georges Remi, beginning in 1929. (1907-1983). The series consists of 24 albums, beginning with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets in 1930 and ending with Tintin and the Alph-Art (unfinished album). Tintin’s Adventures has captivated children […]
Report: Your Voice Magazine Launch (Issue 1)
On the 29th of October 2022, the Dialogue Box organized a virtual event to commemorate the launch of the first edition of its magazine, Your Voice. The event saw scholars and academicians from all across the globe, from Sussex to Ahmedabad, come together to unfold not just the start of Dialogue Box’s venture but to […]
My state of mind: A photo-essay
The state of mind has always been challenging to find new ways to explore the deepest and darkest fears that creates a boundary and restricts us to some extent, to move on. They say it’s a feeling but I say, if it’s there to stay, why not use it to document what the others are […]
Indian cinema and its jaw-dropping affinity to male chauvinism
This post is written by Ishita Goyal, a student of Symbiosis Law School, Noida. Her research interests include sstudy of social behavior and law. To quote the words of D. Bhoopaty, “cinema is widely considered a microcosm of the social, political, economic, and cultural life of a nation”. It is true that the impact of the […]
Darlings (2022): The Cruel Case of Coercion (Movie Review)
This review is written by Bilal Khan, student of Christ University, Bengaluru. Bilal is a prolific blogger with interests on subjects such as gender, domestic violence, religion amongst others. Read other blogs by the author here. OTT platforms in India allow more filmmakers to express themselves freely regarding societal issues. This freedom comes at the price […]
Aamis: Between the Plates (Movie Review)
This post is written by Bilal Khan who is student of Christ University, Bengaluru. What we consider normal or not usually depends on our perception of things. A person can conform to the idea of love being compared to a rose. The metaphor stands as old as English poetry, and an individual could agree with […]
Harry Potter and the Prison of Patriarchy
This post has been written by Bilal Khan, a student of Christ University, Bengaluru. Patriarchy and the Potterverse Harry Potter has always been a nostalgic piece of Literature, at least for Gen Z. In this nostalgia, what we remember and do not is an issue to think about. For example, we might remember the horrifying […]
