Was he the poet Tagore had been waiting for? No idea, although Subhas, like him, posited his faith in man, especially those who constituted the majority…hapeless, homeless, landless, jobless and oppressed always.
Category: Art
Hiran Mitra’s Japan Diary
Hiran Mitra, aka Stalin da as a painter, illustrator, advertising designer, cinema poster designer, author, art historian, film and theatre set designer, book cover designer, magazine cover designer, experimentor, Barnographer
LGBT & Art
by Anushree Ghosh “What is thy name? He said, ‘My name is Love.’ Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, ‘He lieth for his name is Shame,” The above lines are extracted from the poem ‘Two Loves’ by Lord Alfred Douglas, where he expresses his passion for his beloved playwright, Oscar…
Rationality of being Agnostic
In the words of Marx, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of the soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.” If religion is a system of dogma for the benefits of a particular sect than analysis has no value but if religion…
Movies That Came Ahead of Their Time
Here is a list of movies that we think would have done much better if released later – Pyaasa: The whole concept of existentialism was dug and presented in the soulful song of the movie “Yeh Duniya agar mil bhijaein to kya hai”. The words of Sahir Ludhianvi transcribes Guru Dutt’s tragic take on this…