Can you be socially active when you can't attend protests?
Instagram artists have begun using their art to participate in social activism during the pandemic Feature story on political artists...
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DISCOVER THE CULTURAL REGIME
Parnika Shriyan's perspective on everything that encompasses our culture. All these cultural aspects are viewed from a film, writing & photography lens. Passionate about creative strategy and visual storytelling, I have successfully managed diverse projects, including brand strategy for a communications coaching enterprise and the production of short films, podcast episodes, and photoshoots. Thriving in collaborative environments, my work focuses on delivering quality and impactful narratives, overseeing the entire production process from conceptualisation to post-production.
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Mrs. Dalloway: Modernism, Trauma of war & Homosexuality
Modernism can be observed in literary works from the beginning of the 20th century, continuing a few years after World War 2 ended. A...
This is not a film by Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi had been behind the camera making films for most of his life, going from an army cinematographer to an assistant director to...
The multiple personae of Jason Holliday and their performance in Portrait of Jason
Jason Holliday enters the screen with his towering presence, larger-than-life persona, armed with great charm and wit as he navigates...
Mumbai Warli artisan resorts to farming due to pandemic struggles
Lack of projects implies challenging times ahead for the artisan who conducts word-of-mouth business. Feature story on the effect of the...
The French New Wave on modernist films
One of the most striking features of the modernist movement is the focus on the development and experimentation of production and...
Music and Science in the Depths of Modernist Art
I have always associated science, particularly the laws of physics, as being a quantifiable element, whereas the abstraction in art...
Brutalist and Organic Elements of Modernist Architecture
The modernist movement started with the need to dispose of history and tradition in the architectural structures and bringing in...
Cinematic Representation of Indigeneity, particularly the Maori Culture
With any form of representation, it is essential to have a particular sensitivity while depicting it, especially when it is being...
What makes a literary text feminist and what is nature's role in a human's life?
The Whale Rider, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Frankenstein are three significantly complex and interesting texts. Each of them is...
A look into Post-Structuralism with Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’ lens
Structuralism is the theory that studies society and its culture as elements within a broad structure. It essentially tries quantifying...
Goddess Durga vs. Vidya Bagchi: The Protagonist's Identity
Kahaani, the 2012 Hindi language mystery thriller starring Vidya Balan as the female protagonist, is one of the most prominent examples...
Janie's voice and the reality that I perceived
Reality: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' by More Neale Hurston in comparison to 'Malgudi Schooldays' by R.K. Narayan 'Their Eyes Were...
“Ghoonghat or Hijab, all women are in a pinjar”
As the philosopher Stanley Cavell remarks, in The World Viewed, “the sheer power of film is unlike the powers of the other arts.” Within...
A look into the modern world with the Marxist and Frankfurt School’s lens
When a Marxist theory is brought up, most people's first thought is Karl Marx's observation of capital and what is wrong with having a...
Communication Theories and Family Dynamics
A common topic of conversation within my family revolves around current political situations and decisions. As is the case with most,...
An Exploration of Gustave Flaubert’s Masterpiece
"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it." Who better to establish such a great quote than one of the greatest writers in...
How much is too much privacy?
Privacy is one of the many indefinite terms one comes across. When thinking of how to define privacy, then we can think of a state...
A Greek Ordeal
A short story retelling the Greek myths of Pandora and Prometheus in the perspective of the respective Greek legends Hope with a capital...
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