Umang KalraA Critique of ContraPoints’ “J.K. Rowling” VideoI spent Christmas weekend alone (boo) and got super into BreadTube during this time, which is, if you’re not online enough to already know…Dec 27, 2021Dec 27, 2021
Umang KalraIn Celebration of Self PublishingThe poetry “establishment” is a difficult and inaccessible one. “Prestige” within poetry seems to revolve around the US and some of its…Apr 15, 2021Apr 15, 2021
Umang KalraRothko and the Engineering of SuffocationI’ve always had a strange fascination with ~abstract art & what that abstraction means & what it is trying to achieve. I think two of the…Dec 1, 2020Dec 1, 2020
Umang KalraThe Tragedy of Loving Beth HarmonThere’s a lot of “discourse” lately about “gifted kids”, who, more often than not, are children who had class privileges growing up and…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
Umang KalraThe problem with ‘colonising’ MarsWe have always wanted to exist outwards. We have always looked at the stars and thought they meant things and wondered who lived there —…Nov 11, 2019Nov 11, 2019
Umang KalraWhen art becomes replicable — Yoko Ono, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and “modern art”I have always found a peacefulness in the silence of galleries and museums, imposing structures sheltering little pockets of stillness —…Jun 5, 2019Jun 5, 2019
Umang KalraEdward Hopper and the Suspension of Loneliness in TimeImage: Edward Hopper — Room in New York (1932) via edwardhopper.netApr 27, 2018Apr 27, 2018