Published in 1985, Don DeLillo’s White Noise depicted an America blinded by consumerism. Ahead of Netflix’s adaptation of the novel, it’s worth revisiting DeLillo’s masterpiece, which remains one of …
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History
A poem on how authoritative regimes have constantly intervened in altering history in an Orwellian manner.
Putin’s Brazen Manipulation of Language Is a Perfect Example of Orwellian Doublespeak
Putin often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they normally do – a practice diagnosed by political author George Orwell as ‘doublespeak,’ or the language of …
The Dystopian Present
'A system run by monsters clothed in human skin.'
Big Brother Again
'The experts and the Inexpert are busy blaming you, but none of them has the slightest clue about what the hell they were going to do'
Once Upon a Time in ‘Utopia’
There's a big difference between saying and doing.
From Engineering to Women’s Studies, Traversing New India
In New India, it has become a new crime to be compassionate, to speak the truth and uphold the idea of constitutional justice.
Dibakar Banerjee’s Short in ‘Ghost Stories’ is a Warning for India
'Ghost Stories' is hardly about ghosts as we understand them in common parlance; it is about the demons within, and social evils which go unchecked.