Category: Arts
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Can slow content consumption fix my brain?
~Maximalist art to soothe the senses~ Three years ago, my family and I went on a summer holiday to Europe, with Paris as our first stop. We only had four days in the city to cover four very different agendas, and so our itinerary was the dubious result of several tantrums and paper-thin compromises. Something…
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an introduction; finding home in art
It’s monsoon in Mumbai. This year’s season has been moody, with long strings of hot dry days woven in between the wet ones. But when the rain does fall it’s torrential like always, and I see people on motorbikes with their raincoats glued hard to their bodies under the weight of the water pouring down,…
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Anna Karenina for Overthinkers
*spoiler alert* While reading, please bear in mind the visibly patriarchal, conservative, and religious nature of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, set and published in 19th century Russia — a world of elitist Francophiles and post-serfdom tension. I have returned to Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina about once a year for the past three years, because every time…
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