The Dystopian Uncertainty Principle

An insight into Chapter 4 of the book The Discovery of India authored by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru when he was lodged at the Ahmadnagar Fort Prison Camp from 9 August 1942 to 28 March 1945. Incidentally, the concerned Chapter is titled, The Discovery of India. It is more than twenty months since we were brought here, more than twenty months of my ninth term of imprisonment. The new moon, a shimmering crescent in the darkening sky, greeted us on our arrival here.  The moon, ever a companion to me in prison, has grown more friendly with a closer acquaintance, a reminder of the loveliness of this world, of the waxing and waning of life, of light following darkness, of death and resurrection following each other in interminable succession.  ~Jawaharlal Nehru, Ahmadnagar Fort, 13th April 1944 The main context of the chapter is that it seeks to discover Indian history from the beginning of civilization in the subcontinent area, i.e. the Indus V...

7.2/10 IMDb 86% Rotten Tomatoes If you liked Leila, you will love this. Just don't watch it alone at night, will give you the creeps. ******************************************************************************************************* 12:59 am 27/8/18 Is Netflix’s next big Indian drama ‘Ghoul’ just a supernatural thriller or an extension of the sectarian/divided/dystopian view of India? In a drama with ghouls and cults and other supernatural elements, Is the background of a future unsecular, terrified dystopian India (the collective nightmare of India’s liberals), the actual fear this Orwell meets horror feature tv show trying to showcase. Very Orwellian from the beginning, the TV series plays not on fear of ghosts (at least in the beginning) but the fear of an India where, in the name of security and protection, it has lost its roots and is a full-blown totalitarian regime. Phrases like “beloved nation”, “national security” are being thrown in the dozen w...