Journal

Jan 18, 2018
2 min

Music of the Week | The Cranberries

If you watched MTV in the winter of 1994, it was impossible to ignore “Zombie” by the Cranberries. The music video’s director, Samuel...

Jan 13, 2018
1 min

Film of the Week | The Skin I Live In (2011)

The film of this week is the Spanish psychological thriller The Skin I Live In. The Antonia Banderas starrer won the Best Film Not in the...

Jan 11, 2018
1 min

Music of the Week | Devendra Banhart

Our story beings on a Sunday afternoon, just between Halfway Tree and Spanish Town, where a young boy, not yet the cock o’the walk that...

Jan 9, 2018
6 min

Praying For Rain | Bruhad Dave

Written with Wonderful Wonderful by the Killers playing on repeat in the background. Evaluation, they say, is essential to improvement....

Jan 2, 2018
6 min

Time: In Memoriam | Bruhad Dave

One of the most common fears that we harbour, as a generally (but justifiably) paranoid and terrified species, is the fear of death. The...

Jan 1, 2018
1 min

I Hate New Year’s Day | Antonio Gramsci

This week’s timely Sunday Reading list addition comes from the Italian Marxist, Philosopher and Politician Antonio Gramsci. Titled ‘I...

Dec 30, 2017
1 min

Film of the Week | Sicario (2015)

This week’s film is the 2015 crime thriller Sicario, starring Benecio del Toror, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Jon Bernthal, directed by...

Dec 27, 2017
1 min

Music of the Week | Logic ft. Alessia Cara, Khalid

I don’t wanna be alive I don’t wanna be alive I just wanna die today I just wanna die I don’t wanna be alive I don’t wanna be alive I...

Dec 24, 2017
2 min

Intellectual Vocation & Political Struggle in the Trump Moment | Cornel West

This week’s addition to the reading list comes in the words of Dr. Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard...

Dec 23, 2017
1 min

Film of the Week | La Cérémonie (1995)

Inspired from the real life murder of a family by the Papin sisters, a murder which provoked class-conflict intellectual debate and even...

Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Music of the Week | Khalid

I’m so high at the moment I’m so caught up in this Yeah, we’re just young, dumb and broke But we still got love to giveWhile we’re young...

Dec 19, 2017
4 min

Formality is Boring & Overrated | Bruhad Dave

Bruhad Dave I have often felt that I, unlike some people I know, am not so invested in any pursuit or subject, that I can safely call...

Dec 18, 2017
2 min

What Is Education | An Anthology

This week’s addition to the Sunday Reading list is an anthology titled ‘What is Education?’. Written by a group of students from Denmark...

Dec 15, 2017
1 min

Film of the Week | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)

A combination of David Lynch and Werner Herzog is like asking for 100 micro-grams of LSD on your death bed (something which Aldous Huxley...

Dec 13, 2017
1 min

Music of the Week | Prateek Kuhad

After very long in the Indian music scene, someone has been able to bring in a great mix of music and writing. We bring to you Prateek...

Dec 11, 2017
2 min

Toxic Lozenges | Jenny Diski

Any curious kid growing up must have read Agatha Christie at least a dozen times before concluding that murder is really very exciting....

Dec 8, 2017
1 min

Film of the Week | The Perfect Human (1967)

Jorgen Leth maybe remembered in America most memorably for his ‘Andy Warhol Eating a Burger’ scene in 66 Scenes of America (1982) but it...

Dec 6, 2017
1 min

Music of the Week | Cliff Richard

Cold and mystical. This week’s music comes from the evergreen bachelor boy Cliff Richard. His 1976 single hit Devil Woman, a story about...

Dec 3, 2017
2 min

Politics As Vocation | Max Weber

A potpourri of Political Science and Sociology, this week’s addition to the Sunday Reading List is Max Weber’s essay ‘Politics As...

Oct 8, 2017
1 min

How To Hide It: Inside The Secret World of Wealth Managers | Brooke Harrington

A year ago, the Brothers Obermayer/ier, journalists for Suddeutsche Zeitung exposed the Panama Papers which comprised of 11.5 million...