Since the age of 12, I’ve watched Friends 11 times (all 240 episodes of it). I’ve watched Friends with my mom while discussing philosophy, with my best friends, giggling at the innuendoes we felt smug about being grown up enough to understand and while lying…

‘The widower only sighed and puffed his cigar fiercely out of the open window. Perhaps he was thinking of that far-away time—little better than five years ago, in fact; but such an age gone by to him—when he first met the woman for whom he…

The word protagonist literally means ‘the actor who is first in importance’. Both parts of this definition hold equal weight. A protagonist must always be an actor- someone who acts on his impulses, ideas and thoughts. Further, while in most literary works, there are always…

To look at a Pre Raphaelite painting is to read a piece of literature; so intricate and detailed are these works of art. As a result, it is imperative to understand the common themes and motifs embedded in these paintings. On a purely superficial level,…

A wonderfully clichéd way to begin this analysis of YA literature is to ask the most basic question: What is YA? Jen Doll’s article, aptly titled “What Does Young Adult Mean?” answers this question with spot-on accuracy, concluding that it has no technical definition. Despite…

Talbot’s profile aims at dispelling notions about Green’s books, and about the kind of person that would write a YA novel. One would imagine a YA author to be either romantic and feisty, with a passionate belief in the power of youth, or simply interested…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFcCwHN0Uw These are just a few of the many ‘item numbers’ that you would find in a Bollywood movie. The songs are completely irrelevant to the plot, but are required to promote the movie, and give audiences a reason to watch it. Their over-the-top, unrealistic…

The typical one direction fan is extraordinarily conspicuous, making no qualms about her love for the  band by wearing 1D rings and tops while posting concert pictures on her instagram. She (at most one direction concerts, only about 2% of the entire audience is male)…