Starting with comics, I have developed a love for the form of the essay. Over the years I’ve also written on cinema, pop culture, and disorganised subjects that have been of concern to me at some time or another.
One of the biggest projects I worked on was to write essays on each and every one of Satyajit Ray’s fiction films. This was a labour of love and also compelled me to watch his entire fiction filmography. I have an entire separate site just for this that you can visit – www.raybyray.in
Apart from that you can also dive into any of these:
Cinema
Directing the Gaze – How ‘Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ Interrogates Our Ways Of Seeing
Le Genou De Claire – A Masculine Crisis
Why I Love Pyaasa and Hate Kagaz Ke Phool
American Pie is not the movie I thought it was
Foundation and Faith — What The Sci-Fi Series Says About Being Human
Two Films on Mental Illness, Back-To-Back
Free Guy and the meaning of a life without meaning
Aren’t the Avengers meant to be the best of us?
Spoiler Culture Is The Best Gift We’ve Given To Big Studios
John Wick’s Secret Four-Legged Weapon
People
What Being Shut In Taught Me About Love
All the talent we will never see
Hey you, your ivory tower is infected!
Satoshi Kon’s Opus and the Authorial Intent of God
A Rose With Better Language Skills Smells Sweeter
What You’re Afraid Of At Night Is An Extension Of What You’re Afraid Of During The Day
Given Power Will We All Turn Into Our Worst Selves?
When Did Democracy Become A Superstition?
The only thing that can stop a fascist regime is…the fascist regime