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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.)
atomicrakshasi
Feb 208 min read
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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atomicrakshasi
Feb 136 min read
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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atomicrakshasi
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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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atomicrakshasi
Oct 1, 20246 min read
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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atomicrakshasi
Jul 12, 20245 min read
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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atomicrakshasi
Jul 12, 20245 min read
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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atomicrakshasi
Jul 12, 20243 min read
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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atomicrakshasi
Jul 12, 20243 min read
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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