Charlie Chaplin (um... not quite)

I was either on acid or I had watched a sad movie before attempting this piece. A strange juxtaposition of Chaplin and Hitler.

๐Ÿ—“ June 9, 2020     1 min     ๐Ÿ”–  sketching

Gandhi

My first attempt at drawing after dabbling in caricature pieces in my childhood :)

๐Ÿ—“ June 9, 2020     1 min     ๐Ÿ”–  sketching

Oslo, August 31st (2011) by Joachim Trier

Verdict: โ˜… โ˜… โ˜… โ˜… โ˜† Check out this review on Letterboxd Anhedonia. The Wikipedia entry for this word says: a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure. At one point or another, we have all experienced some version of this phenomenon - may be characterized by an oversaturation of love, or caused by a prolonged mediocrity in life, or as in the case of our protagonist here, the complete loss of will and motivation to feel anything....

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Check it out on Goodreads How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....

Fear

Check it out on Instagram Iโ€™m scared. No, not because thereโ€™s a pandemic going on, even though that itself is enough to make one lose their mind. Thereโ€™s another deadly virus crawling its way into my whole being. Slowly eating away at my sanity, feasting on my thoughts, mutating inside my head as if a colony of ants was given an open invitation to a room full of sugary syrup....

๐Ÿ—“ April 25, 2020     2 min     ๐Ÿ”–  poetry ยท  writing

Waking Up by Sam Harris

Check it out on Goodreads A disappointing jumble of thoughts Disappointed. I am an atheist interested in the power of mindfulness and the whole world of so-called spirituality, so naturally, I am the ideal audience that Sam Harris is looking for. But it disappointed in almost every domain that I had expectations in. Using deep-sounding difficult words and wrapping them in an almost mythical aura of โ€œConsciousnessโ€, this one was a huge letdown....

Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru

Check it out on Goodreads World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....

The Darjeeling Limited (2007) by Wes Anderson

Verdict: โ˜… โ˜… โ˜… โ˜† โ˜† Check out this review on Letterboxd You can spot Wes Anderson trademark from a mile ago, although this is the only movie by him which left me dissatisfied. The unique and swift camera movements are still there, the colors still pop out like from another universe, the absurd comic timings still bring a smile to your face - but you wonโ€™t feel the kind of personal emotional investment into the characters like you would in the rest of his filmography....

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

Check it out on Goodreads Reasons you should read this book: If youโ€™ve ever had a panic attack. If youโ€™ve ever counted the number of times the ceiling fan rotates, just so you could avoid dealing with the endless voices in your head. If youโ€™ve ever felt ashamed to admit that you might be suffering from the D-word. If reading about personal stories of how people overcame their mental illnesses soothes you....

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg

Check it out on Goodreads I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....