The Gazelle
Feb 9, 2026
Karno Dasgupta
(Mis)remember now, because otherwise, we will not only forget but detest the brave ones. And we will lose the spirit of young people who gave their lives to a cause.
Subversive, permutative and passionate, *Parthenogenesis* at the NYUAD Art Gallery was a layered and complex experience.
In Come and See, all war is pyrrhic. But what can we learn from Klimov’s masterpiece on the human condition during times of war and violent injustice?
On the pitfalls of learning to read, and adore, against and in excess of one’s cinematic norm.
Why Memoria is so good, even while, or precisely because, it refuses to make — what we insipidly value as — sense.
Theory offers conceptual empowerment, reorganizing our ability to comprehend injustice. It does not precede action — often it is concurrent — but you can only dismantle frameworks once you know where and how to look.
The way we’ve been socialized to think about prophecy predisposes us to dangerous conflations in futural cartography.
At its peak, Game of Thrones was a masterful execution of brilliant storytelling. Recently however, its quality has been steadily diminishing, leaving viewers with disappointment… and not much else.
With never ending stories and, calculated execution, all Endgame gives us is heroic actions punctuated by infuriatingly short glimpses of what could have been.
Dive into unconventional Asian cuisine at Ortego’s Deli, a small spot for those wishing to escape the fast food craze near Al Wahda Mall.
