There are various ways in which Shakespeare, hell everything in life and fiction, can be interpreted and performed. However, when it comes to Hamlet, one just can not imagine an aggressive Hamlet, and Mel Gibson’s version of Hamlet is precisely that. If Hamlet had been aggressive, there might not have been a tragedy. However, apart [...]

Well, not that there has been a forest visit earlier that I’m talking about ‘The Forest Again’ but I simply find it to be an amusing title as it heads one of my favourite chapters in The Deathly Hallows. However, now the forest I’m talking about is not the dark, forbidden forest, but a very [...]

Seriously, what is it about the snow that it is so poetic and piercingly dreadful at the same time? In past two-three years spent roaming around Europe gave us no idea of what snowed in could mean, until last weekend. And we were out at the time we were supposed to be sitting inside, sipping [...]