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The basic theme of Ready Player One has potential. We have all read newspaper reports about couples immersed in games like Age of Empires, Fortnite etc.forgetting to attend their own babies. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/05/korean-girl-starved-online-game)However, we have treated such deep level involvement in games as aberrations. RP1 turns this on its head and imagines a society where everyone …
‘Dystopia of Abundance’ is what I felt after watching the imagery in the movie ‘Annihilation’ . Dystopia is the favorite theme of most sci-fi movies, however the dystopia is mostly barren, deserted, a jungle of concrete, broken landscape, full of death and misery. In short it is the full cocktail of depressive imagery. Annihilation breaks …
After quite a volume of articles on the basics of Jyotish, we must take a pause and explore the necessity or utility of Jyotish. Well, as far as necessity goes, some famous philosopher has remarked about God; if there was no God, then we might have needed to invent God. Or, like the columnist Peter …
आपली स्मरणशक्ती फार फसवी असते. मागच्याच रविवारी दामूच्या लग्नात खाल्लेला मेनू आठवत नाही, पण लहानपणी रद्दीचे पैसे जोडून खाल्लेल्या मस्तानीची चव क्षणात जिभेवर येते. कोथरूडच्या उद्यानाला मी निदान पंधरा-वीस वेळा गेलो असेल, पण मला आठवते ती आमची तिसरीतली सहल. पु ल म्हणूनच गेले आहेत, मुंबई आणि पुणे हे सोडून जगात पाहण्यासारखे तरी काय आहे! आमच्या …
Qawwali’s are simple performances, without a wide array of instruments or orchestra, etc. A chorus of claps modulates the underlying rhythm. Human anatomy limits the maximum beat that can be created by clapping. Hence, Qawwals use a table to get around this limitation and introduce faster beats in between the claps. A Harmonium is mostly …
