Witty Whispers

Going out for a film with your loved ones-be it family or friends, has always been a precious activity, a ritual almost, which I'm sure most of us are acquainted with. If you , dear reader, belong to the Gen Z, then you surely must have heard countless tales narrated by your parents and grandparents about the entire buzz that surrounded the act of watching a film in cinemas.They would wait for hours in unending queues, merely to secure a ticket. Oftentimes, this wait would not yield the sweet fruit of securing a ticket, which thereby inevitably led to frustration and a sense of several hours lost. With the advent of the Internet and the digitization of nearly every sphere of our lives, laying hands on movie tickets has become an increasingly simple task. Convenience is indubitably an advantage, coupled with the benefit of being able to view all the upcoming films, which theatres they air in, and a colour- coded map that enables you to understand which seats are taken and which aren...

Picture this: a woman enrobed in flowers with a grief-stricken expression painted across her face as she floats over a water body. You probably thought of the iconic painting of Ophelia by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, didn't you? We've all seen this painting, whether or not we know about the story of the tragic character of Ophelia, who barely finds a place in the pages of (and the hearts of characters) in Shakespeare's Hamlet.  As an English literature student who has done a detailed study of the text and considers this play my all- time favourite literary text, it has been long overdue that I did a comparative analysis of this overlooked character as depicted in Shakespeare's play vs Taylor Swift's latest hit:  The Fate of Ophelia . In the play , Ophelia seems to float through the world, bowing down to the whims and fancies of those around her, without any standing of her own. Her identity is shaped entirely by the pressures around her, and she...