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Life: A Zero-Sum Game?

Aug 23, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Jerry Pinto

Representative Image Photo: via Getty Representative Image Photo: via Getty The collective disappointment of a nation on our near misses at the 2024 Paris Olympics sheds light on an inescapable aspect of human existence: failure, and our ability to process it. Only a Boddhisatva can claim to remain unaffected in the face of life’s vagaries on whether it meets one’s expectations or not. And, it is not just grand goals on which we pin our hopes.
Translated play: Rajat must deal with an honest, ailing playwright and a sanctimonious civil servant

Aug 20, 2024 | scroll.in | Swadesh Deepak |Jerry Pinto

Rehearsal room. Rajiv: Have you read the new play? Did you like it? Mahendra: Yes, I read it. I was suddenly a child again, a child grappling with a dictionary. God, the language! A flood of words, a veritable flood. It will drown us. And the audience too. Kanta: I read it twice. I didn’t even understand the subject. Mahendra: That’s because you’re beautiful. Kanta: What is that supposed to mean? Mahendra: Beautiful women are generally stupid. Beauty and brains seldom go together. Kanta: Watch your step.
Reset - Open The Magazine

Aug 9, 2024 | openthemagazine.com | Jerry Pinto

Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2024: Poem A poem (Illustration: Saurabh Singh) No Gurudev, with all due apologies, And so much respect for your sonorous voice, It won’t work that way. ‘Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, Let my country awake?’ We can’t be caught sleeping. Freedom, that inconstant sprite, slips away To taunt other people’s dreams when we sleep. Father, let my country keep vigil. Mother, teach us to defend the freedom of others. Everyone, ask this question: If you and he and...
Reset - Open The Magazine

Aug 9, 2024 | t.ly | Jerry Pinto

Cover Story | Freedom Issue 2024: Poem A poem (Illustration: Saurabh Singh) No Gurudev, with all due apologies, And so much respect for your sonorous voice, It won’t work that way. ‘Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, Let my country awake?’ We can’t be caught sleeping. Freedom, that inconstant sprite, slips away To taunt other people’s dreams when we sleep. Father, let my country keep vigil. Mother, teach us to defend the freedom of others. Everyone, ask this question: If you and he and...
Where Do We Draw The Line With Artists Accused Of Heinous Crimes?

Jul 31, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Jerry Pinto |Saikat Majumdar

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Monsters, Masters: Artists And Their Personal Life Violations

Jul 31, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Jerry Pinto |Satish Padmanabhan

Artwork by Anupriya Artwork by Anupriya “The night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard.” Few sentences capture the ironic but inevitable sequence of the different stages of colonialism—the military violence of the battlefield followed by the psychological violence of the classroom. Hard and soft power in perfect symbiosis for Europe to control Africa.
The Vertigo Of Wokeism

Jul 31, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Jerry Pinto

Something to Hide? Alice Munro at Trinity College, Dublin, in 2009 Photo: | Getty Images Something to Hide? Alice Munro at Trinity College, Dublin, in 2009 Photo: | Getty Images As an adolescent movie buff in the early 1990s who became fascinated by old cinema largely through the work of Alfred Hitchcock, I had read enough to know that Hitchcock’s treatment of some of his leading ladies (and his gay or bisexual leading men) could be sadistic.
To Separate Art From The Artist

Jul 30, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan |Jerry Pinto

Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal About two decades ago, my late-teenager-self encountered a major heartbreak: I learnt that the Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda—whose passionate poetry and sensual language were an integral part of my life—was a rapist. It was not someone’s allegation; he confessed to it in his memoirs. How could such a powerful writer of love poems rape someone?
Separating Art From The Artist

Jul 30, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan |Jerry Pinto

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal About two decades ago, my late-teenager-self encountered a major heartbreak: I learnt that the Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda—whose passionate poetry and sensual language were an integral part of my life—was a rapist. It was not someone’s allegation; he confessed to it in his memoirs.
Iron In The Soul: Where Do We Draw The Line With 'Flawed' Artists?

Jul 30, 2024 | outlookindia.com | Jerry Pinto |Saikat Majumdar

For a Little Bit of Love: A still from Hateship Loveship, a movie based on Alice Munro’s short story For a Little Bit of Love: A still from Hateship Loveship, a movie based on Alice Munro’s short story In the short story Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage—in the collection of short stories by the same name—by Alice Munro, two young girls, Edith and Sabitha, the first callous and the second conflicted, play a mean prank that changes many lives.