Ayasofya, Istanbul’s defining landmark at the heart of the city in history-soaked Sultanahmet is often referred in guidebooks as one of the greatest monuments a traveler will ever see. From the outside it isn’t very impressive – its exposed brickwork and peeling façade only downplaying and readying you for the dizzying effect it has upon [...]

I’m recently returned from Goa, where I was at IFFI for a few days, doing mostly non-IFFI things, hedonistic and aimless. I saw a couple films, but that’s not what this post is about.
I was at IFFI because I’d been on the Panorama non-fiction jury. Did I want to take on this onerous task? Not [...]

Wonder if there is anything called an objective reality unless of course you are calling a ‘chair’ as a ‘chair’ without any strings attached. Most times it becomes kind of difficult to separate the raw physicality of a particular thing or an event and the meaning that we normally attach to it. The meaning itself, [...]