“The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.” “Who is the father of computer?” I asked my 9-year-old niece. “Charles Babbage,” she replied promptly. Then I asked her, “And who is the father of cinema?” “What is cinema?” the fourth grader asked me. “It’s the art of films,” I tried to Continue Reading

“I think that the interactivity of New Media is a false promise… The game is rigged, and what is invited is not honest contemplation, but merely “figuring out the next movie.” Audience Activity A film, without any visible protagonist, plays with the audience and forces them to become active as the invisible protagonist. The audience Continue Reading

ee cummings: To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. “Here’s a recent quote that I found: ‘we do not talk, we bludgeon one another with Continue Reading

There are certain moments that I’ve waited so yearningly but when the moments finally arrived, I was not there to witness them. What could an aspiring writer eagerly wait but his publication? One day I was at my college, by chance, and saw a group of students hanging around the notice board. Some eyes were Continue Reading

Photograph: Suzy Allman/The New York Times “What is it to be a human being?” David talked about the commercialization of human emotions. Wallace was sentimental. There is some solace for intellectual minds in his words — a reason to let not the death of a genius disappoint us. That the cost of sensitivity is not Continue Reading

What is evident from the debate surrounding whether Pather Panchali should be dabbled into color or not is that the question doesn’t have easy answers. After watching Vittorio De Sica’s Ladri De biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) in 1951, one 35-year-old artist was tempted to experiment with the visual medium of expression. But he couldn’t convince any Bengali producers to Continue Reading