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Nahian Jamal Joyeeta
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Joyeeta is a hoarder of stories, be it from nature, streets, bookshelves or even random people around her. She didn't chose to be a writer- it’s the only way she could salvage the tales that imploded in her mind, and now has become the only she can make sense of her existence. Despite being a published author, Joyeeta seeks validation from herself through her rants.

Appreciating the Rollercoaster Ride of Never Have I Ever
Netflix's original series "Never Have I Ever," from the creative duo Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, follows the life of Devi Vishwakumar, a South Indian adolescent navigating high school in America. As a viewer from a similar cultural background, I…
Gehraiyaan Puts in a Surface-Level Effort to Portray Complex Relationship Issues and Childhood Trauma
Gehraiyaan (the depths) is Dharma Productions’ Amazon Prime movie which appears to be a family-drama/romance in the beginning but soon loses itself in the depths of pseudo-psychothriller/surrealism. The plot revolves around the frustrated, distraught Alisha (Deepika Padukone), who is in…
Devi Becomes More Problematic and Self-Obsessed than Ever in the Second Season of Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever... been so disappointed in a character (hint: *Devi*). At this point, I would like to congratulate Nalini for staying sane despite having a daughter like Devi, whose world revolves around nothing (and perhaps juggling two boys)…
Broad Strokes: Fraternizing with an Anarchist
Dhaka in a Gotham setting with neon logos of Mimi, BTV, Sunlite, Keya, Nabisco staring back at you; a distant news bulletin rumbles about the possibility of a terrorist attack while you smoke away your woes in the darkness of…
The Motherly Warmth of Bedtime Stories
Fiction has surrounded me, coddled me and raised me in a way that my reality never could. My first childhood memories are of my grandmother curled up with her arms around me on the high, vintage-styled four-poster bed, listening to…
Bombay Begums is An Incomplete Tale of Unconventional Women
Through a 13-year-old’s voiceover (Shai, played by Aadhya Anand), directors and screenwriters Alankrita Shrivastava and Bornila Chatterjee underline the narrative of Bombay Begums placing Rani (Pooja Bhatt), the newly appointed CEO of the fictional Royal Bank of Bombay in the…
Sincerely Yours, Dhaka: a Metropolitan Saga, on its way to Oscars
The 2018 movie, Sincerely Yours, Dhaka (available on Netflix) is being considered for an Oscar Nomination, so I decided to revive an old piece for the occasion. The post-modern, metropolitan cinematic anthology about Dhaka city, “Sincerely Yours, Dhaka”, is a…
Aly Zaker : Another Rhinestone up the Horizon
Admiration alone is not what drives me to write this obituary for Aly Zaker sir- my parents were closely associated with him from their theatre days; they have been through rough patches together in the political field, struggled to bring…
COVID 2.0: Will ignoring a pandemic end it?
We are on a BREAK…from the ‘rona, of course. The submission to masks, lock-downs, work-from-home and online classes for 9 months have seemingly hit rock-bottom as people simply refuse to believe that the impostor (read pandemic) is still among us!…
Thankful in 2020: an Unlikely Saga
*drumrolls*… I have been searching for something cheery to gratify myself and you all about this year, but I can only come up with utter silence and buzzing of crickets. Thanksgiving seemed as good a time as any to reflect…