Articles by Yusuf Aziz

Kiarostami’s Cherries Leave You with a Bittersweet Taste!

Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Taste of Cherry’ is one of his most renowned works which was released in 1997. In the midst of heavy censorship in the Iranian ent...

GUIDO RENI: A LESSER KNOWN ITALIAN ARTIST

THE RESISTANCE IN HUMAN BEINGS AND THE UNJUSTIFIED ADMINISTERING OF FREE SPEECH

PLEASE LIKE ME: AN ODE TO THE COMMONNESS OF HUMAN BEINGS

In this day and age of television when there’s an ocean full of shows, series and mini-series with varying genre, what we need the most is something t...

Remembering Shōtetsu

Seigan Shōtetsu is a forgotten Japanese poet from late fourteenth-fifteenth century. Even after losing more than 30,000 of his poems in a tragedy, he ...

THE FOUR KINDS OF SPACES: A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT WHAT IS AROUND US

WABI-SABI: PERFECTION IN IMPERFECTION

Zen, a school of Buddhism, is full of philosophies that should be adopted by each and every human being. Wabi-Sabi (侘寂) is a world view, which is cent...

LIVING AS ONE ALREADY DEAD

The Midnight Gospel – Trippy, Raw, Intimate & Existential

The “Midnight Gospel” on Netflix is a show that surpasses the likes, “BoJack Horseman“, in many ways. I recently binged the entirety of the show and I...

The Facade of Secularism in India

THE PLATFORM – A STUNNINGLY HORRIFIC SATIRE

BACKDOOR FOR ISLAMIST EXTREMISM

Shashi Tharoor and Sadanand Dhume are not bigots and anti-Islam, instead they are sensible liberals who know how to stand in this fight for secularism...

OTT: The Next Craze, Indian TV’s Downfall

Indian Television Entertainment is at its lowest and Netflix India, Amazon Prime & Indian YouTube Shows are raising in popularity and viewership, day ...

BOJACK HORSEMAN – SAD OR HONEST?

While the final season (part 2), airing 31st January 2020, of BoJack Horseman looms upon our heads, it is about time we tear apart this beautiful anim...

Students of the World Unite

15th of December will be registered as a black day in the history of Jamia Millia Islamia when the students of the university were subjected to barbar...

The Irishman: An Adieu by Scorsese?

Just when the world thought they had had enough of the ‘Italian-Mob’ based movies and shows, Martin Scorsese, The King of Crime genre, delivers us wit...

Religion: Good Cop; Bad Cop

As we have moved towards a new decade, it is high time to introspect the spiritual thread binding the people with other worldly power. Is it just an o...

Indian Education Industry: An ‘Iso’ 1947:2019 Certified Company

A country of 1.3 billion people that is engaged in producing students in ‘robotic’ form further constitutes to 20% of India’s population and 35% of wo...