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…5 min read·Dec 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…5 min read·Apr 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…4 min read·Dec 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…4 min read·Nov 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 —…4 min read·Nov 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 —…4 min read·Jun 5, 2019----
Umang KalraEdward Hopper and the Suspension of Loneliness in TimeImage: Edward Hopper — Room in New York (1932) via edwardhopper.net5 min read·Apr 27, 2018----