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Mar 5, 14 • 64 Views • WTH • Swathy Sethumadhavan • No Comments
To those of you who have seen ‘The Prestige’, Nikola Tesla was that fruity British dude who just shows up, does cool shit and just when you start to like him, he fucks off to oblivion. And here is the fun fact for those who have seen The Prestige ( And...
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Oct 27, 13 • 423 Views • WTH • Aniket Dasgupta • No Comments
I had once written this article about China on this site and I still receive feedback about it. I thought I had it behind me. I thought I was done with it. But never have I been so wrong. A lot has changed since the time I wrote the article. I managed to make...
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Jun 5, 13 • 1099 Views • WTH • Swathy Sethumadhavan • No Comments
What does freedom of expression mean to you? Well, for the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei it means a whole lot more than it would to any of us, coming from a country where the word ‘democracy’ is banned from being used on the internet. China has one of...
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Dec 5, 12 • 189 Views • WTH • Ambreen • No Comments
I would expect very few people to know of Eric Weisz, or more precisely, Harry Houdini. The chances of coming across him are bleak because his life has been a jeopardy ever since his existence. Harry Houdini was an Austro-Hungarian stunt performer and...
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Aug 4, 12 • 695 Views • WTH • Aniket Dasgupta • 7 Comments
I woke up one morning with absolutely no memory of what I was doing the previous night. Turns out I was under the influence of certain substances, milk and Oreos to be more precise. Then I realized that they weren’t Oreos; they were Olios. I should have...
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Jul 1, 12 • 304 Views • WTH • Swathy Sethumadhavan • No Comments
It was an age of miracles, an age of art, an age of excess, and an age of satire. This is what F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the Lost Generation in ‘Echoes of the Jazz Age’, an article published in Scribner’s Magazine in November 1931....
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Jun 7, 12 • 134 Views • WTH • Mallika • No Comments
Bugs Bunny: “Eh…what’s up doc?” Daffy Duck: “You’re despicable!” Tweety: “I tawt I taw a putty tat!” Sylvester: “SSSSSssufferin’ SSSSSuccotash!” Didn’t you almost read all that in the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,...
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May 20, 12 • 486 Views • WTH • Swathy Sethumadhavan • No Comments
Reject rationality, embrace dysfunctionality. These are the prime ideals which were born out of the Dada Movement. Disgusted by the senseless violence that the First World War had brought to their doorstep, much of the European artistic community fled to the...
