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Rakshasi's Ramblings
Welcome! Here I will be serving up art, musings on society and the periodic existential crisis. WARNING: All work on this site is mine, born of blood, sweat, tears and the occasional summoning ritual (so tread lightly, copycats.)
Tom Cruise: Hollywood's Ageless Vampire
(Photo Creative Commons License, FMT) When the time came to put together our class magazine, I was sure to turn up with a few good...
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Apr 116 min read
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The Great Indian Marriage
Everyone knows that the traditional Indian family raises its sons to be providers and daughters to be mothers, but the script of The...
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Feb 208 min read
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How to Kill Time: Michael Ende’s ‘Momo’
Vincent van Gogh, Withered Sunflowers , 1887 I had a classmate in college whose laid-back approach to work used to annoy me, but as I...
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Feb 136 min read
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Updates On My Youtube Channel
My YouTube channel has resembled a tomb long enough and finally found its purpose. As mentioned in my previous newsletter, my blog posts...
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Dec 19, 20241 min read
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Three Stalkers - Which One Is Your Favorite?
The generic stalker has a relationship with his prey, and the relationship only goes so far as the prey gives. Anything is encouragement...
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Oct 1, 20246 min read
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Walter Mitty and the Perils of Maladaptive Daydreaming
When I was in primary school, an English lesson hit me a little deeper than usual. It was the story of Gauri the Dreamer , generically...
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Jul 12, 20245 min read
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My Liberation Notes: Escaping Mundanity by Doing Dumb Things
Three siblings are stuck in time without the will to leave their parent's house because they don’t have the courage and the finances to...
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Jul 12, 20245 min read
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Monstrous Fathers and Wayward Sons: ‘Tumbbad’ is More than Just a Parable About Greed
It’s been twelve years and Vinayak is old enough to know that his mother has no status and therefore, neither does he. A lack of status here
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Jul 12, 20243 min read
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Great Expectations (1998): The Narc and the Incel have Their dayÂ
You’re in a tizzy. Submissions are due and life generally sucks, but you have no time to think about that. It’s 1998. You depend on music...
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Jul 12, 20243 min read
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