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Of Blueberries and Red hot graphics- A short exchange with Anup Kurian and Baburajan

Posted by in Cover Story, Issue 01, Issue 01, Issue 1, Issues, Sections, Vol. III on 01. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments

“You are a software engineer and you want to pursue movies and so you join Pune film institute but you know you weren’t wrong to do so when you top the final exams. While the world plays safe and proceeds in a sure conventional way for their debut, you make your debut film on an [...]

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Thunder On The Hills

Posted by in Chain Reaction, Issue 01, Issue 01, Issues, Sections, SeeNEw, Type 2, Vol. III on 01. Jan, 2012 | 1 Comment

Text: Shahwar Hussain Photographs: Anuj Singh It is still not the height of summer but already the heat is unbearable in the plains and more so in Delhi, what with its concrete jungle and smog. I was itching to take a trip to the hills to enjoy the sights and the winding roads. But to [...]

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Top 10 animated features of all times

Posted by in Cartoons, Children's Section, Issue 01, Issues, Sections, The fickle mind's sickle, Vol. III on 01. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments

    It wasn’t long ago when the easiest way to calm down a wailing child was to switch on the cartoon channel. But animated movies or “cartoons” are no longer just certified for the kids. Every one of us has knowingly or unknowingly, at some point liked and cherished an animated feature. As the [...]

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Metamorphosis- Part I

Posted by in Fiction, Issue 01, Issues, Sections, Type 1, Vol. III on 01. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments

It was those days of yore. When romance still held charm. Lush carmine roses…. Liqueur chocolates rich… with many a Romeo abound. Still her heart beat for none…  which is the shame tch-tched everyone young and old… for a beauteous maiden; ‘delicate as a dewdrop’, ‘compact as a china doll’, ‘Surreal as a dream, occult [...]

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Why This Kolaveri Di Over A Fan Art? by Alok Sharma

Posted by in Cartoons, Issue 01, Issues, Random Take, Sections, Vol. III on 01. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments

A few days back, I left my copy of Kirigi Ka Qeher (one of my most favorite comic book titles for past two decades) with Saumin to scan it for Chitrakatha (www.chitrakathaonline.com). Unsuspecting Saumin was curiously flipping through pages one night and this comic played exactly the same role that mythical radio-active spider had played [...]

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The Big Baroda Show- event notification

Posted by in Issue 01, Issues, Press Release, Sections, Vol. III on 01. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments

Announcing the Big Baroda Show Date: 21 Dec 2011 – 12 Jan 2012 Venue: Priyasri Art Gallery 42, Madhuli, 4th Floor Shiv Sagar Estate, Next to Poonam Chamber, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai 400018 Time: 11 am to 7 pm THE PREVIEW RECEPTION was SCHEDULED 22 ND DEC 2011  Participating artists: Abir Karmarkar, Sunil [...]

Editorial

Editorial

Posted by in Editorial, Issue 01, Issues, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 4 Comments

As I sit and wonder what is so new this year, I find not much and quite a lot. Not much as it would be same as it was yesterday, but new year made me sit and think what I achieved in the last year. Well, it is nothing compared to what I should have [...]

As a Girl….

As a Girl….

Posted by in Children's Section, Issue 01, Issues, Sections, Type 1, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 2 Comments

– SHARMISHATHARANI, SANKAR AJAN JYATIO VIDALAYA, DULIAGAON, JORHAT

Free the Elephants from the cruel torture and use by humans!

Free the Elephants from the cruel torture and use by humans!

Posted by in Issue 01, Issues, Sections, Through the Lens, Type 1, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments

Fried Eye: The Story

Fried Eye: The Story

Posted by in Cover Story, Fried Eye Special, Issue 01, Issues, Sections, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 5 Comments

Like some folktale spun ages ago and handed down from generation to generation, this story begins with the tantalizing opening line : It all started with a phone conversation. Only this is no folktale. This is the story of how Fried Eye, one year young (I wouldn’t call it old, in any way) as of [...]

Guns & Guitars…

Guns & Guitars…

Posted by in Fried Guest, Issue 01, Issues, Sections, Type 1, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments

– Bidyut Kotoky, Film-maker On 8th of November this year I received a mail from the Editor-in-Chief of Fried Eye, Pramathesh, requesting for an article for their annual issue. I was in the Northeast for a shoot – hence, had a readymade excuse for not being in a position to write.

KIDDO

Posted by in Issue 01, Issues, Random Take, Sections, Type 1, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 2 Comments

As tough as it is – we all have to face the fact that we grow up and never see our pasts. Hard as it seems to see myself transition from a younger me to an older me everyday, it is even harder to see your most beloved people

Predict at your Own Peril

Posted by in Issue 01, Issues, Sections, Sports Desk, Type 2, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments

Game of cricket is a great Leveler and this famous saying has been again proved right in the last fortnight. Till the morning of 16th Dec. ’10 there were very few people who could imagine

HOLY BLOOD

HOLY BLOOD

Posted by in Issue 01, Issues, Random Take, Sections, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 2 Comments

17th December was the last day of the month of Moharram on the Islamic calendar. And it was also the day of the Tazia procession that Shia Muslims take out every year on that date. This is done to mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (Prophet Muhammad’s grandson) in the battle of Karbala by

Ramanujan

Ramanujan

Posted by in Issue 01, Issues, Random Take, Sections, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 4 Comments

Every Indian, no matter whatever is his mathematical prowess or his profession knows about a certain gentleman born in Erode, Tamil Nadu on 22nd December 1887 – S. Ramanujan. The modern Indian tradition in mathematics got a jolting shift with the advent of the sheer genius of Ramanujan. No man ever had achieved what he [...]

Happy New Year

Posted by in Issue 01, Issues, Miss Cellany, Type 2, Vol. II on 01. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments

Dear Diary, It has been a long time. Really! What a year it has been. I can’t believe it’s finally over. It has been a long year; and a tough one too. But I am not complaining. I am happy that I faced it all with a smile on my face. Well, that’s life, isn’t [...]