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Can we truly seperate the art from the artist? Should an artist’s personal controversies overshadow the cinematic achievements on screen?
Read my take on this complex and controversial ethical dilemma published on @highonfilms__
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‘listen to
the worms writing histories
in cursive tunnels,
archiving sorrow
grain
by
grain.’
“The Gravedigger’s Soliloquy” - poem by @anju_devadas thechakkar.com/home/thegrave…
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'Dust drips
from my palms
like exhausted prayers
(there is no hymn here)
the earth exhales
in broken syllables
names,
years,
hunger.'
"The Gravedigger’s Soliloquy" - a poem by @anju_devadas thechakkar.com/home/thegrave…
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Freedom has domestic consequences, and domestic consequences often become political, writes college lecturer @anju_devadas, whose ‘scooty’ empowered her day-to-day life, and gave her agency in ways she never anticipated.
Read here: 👉🏼 eshe.in/2026/09/22/anju-deva…
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'Rain ticks on the roof like regret.
A moth eats through her diaries.
The mirror sighs.
Her hands grow transparent,
pages flutter from them
like birds dying mid-flight.'
"The Madwoman in the Attic" - poem by @anju_devadas thechakkar.com/home/themadwo…
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The Madwoman in the Attic - Poem by @anju_devadas:
‘Ink spills like blood,
blotting the margins of her name.
Each word a bone,
each sentence,
a noose of syntax.’
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Highlights of recent poetry on The Chakkar, including work by Saurabh Suman, @anju_devadas, Gopi Kottoor, Prahi Rajput, Parismita Kakati, Ayaan Halder, and @silentoars instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0…
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Poem by Anju Devadas R D: ‘They say the river hums here, / but no one sings along. / In this village, silence grows / like moss on every wall.’
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Anju Devadas retweeted
‘They hum of rivers unbound,
of tongues like kites
cutting through the wind,
of a day when thread burns
to ash in the hearth.’
“The Village of Sewn Mouths” - Poem by @anju_devadas thechakkar.com/home/thevilla…
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The Village of Sewn Mouths: Poem by @anju_devadas
‘They say the river hums here,
but no one sings along.
In this village, silence grows
like moss on every wall.’
thechakkar.com/home/thevilla…
From Shammi, the portrait of toxic masculinity to the flamboyant yet vulnerable Ranga, FaFa's characters shift effortlessly between swagger, menace, and villainy. Here are the ten performances that stayed with me, published on @highonfilms__
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My top 10 picks of the best Malayalam movies of 2025 published on @highonfilms__
Find out which ones made the cut and drop your picks of the year...
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Lokah positions itself as Malayalam cinema's answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and perhaps an evolution of it.
Read my review of Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra on @highonfilms__
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As Sholay marks fifty years today, its legacy as the definitive “curry western” and as a cultural touchstone that reshaped language, music, and cinematic form invites renewed critical reflection. Read my piece on @highonfilms__
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Read my article titled "The Rajinikanth Effect: How Thalaivar’s Meteoric Charm Forged A Cultural Phenomenon" published on @highonfilms__
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Trace the Superstar's journey through decades of cinematic evolution, cultural myth-making, and mass psychology — a man who never set out to be anyone but himself, yet became the quintessential hero for generations. Read my piece on @highonfilms__
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Read my article on @highonfilms__ on the complexity of Kore-eda's cinematic families, with particular attention to his depiction of children, role reversals in caregiving, and the reconstitution of familial forms.
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Read my take on the compelling intertextual bridge between Malayalam cinema and Russian literary modernism. Find the Dostoevskian parallel in G. Aravindan's Chidambaram published on @highonfilms__
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"Exploring guilt, desire & redemption in G Aravindan's #Chidambaram (1985). Nuanced portrayal of gender & moral responsibility. Visual & sonic mastery. Parallels with Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov.
Read my piece on @highonfilms__
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Read my article on @highonfilms__ about how cinema has reconfigured the nymphet figure—what we might now call nymphetmania—by examining a constellation of films from the mid-20th c to the 2010s.
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Check out my article on @highonfilms__ Memory loss in Indian cinema - a narrative device, psychological insight, and socio-cultural reflection, explored across diverse cinematic traditions.
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