Money without which we cant get through this world we live in, has taken several forms throughout history. Bitcoin, a blockchain based crypto currency and several other cryptocurrencies are the newest entrants in to the present monetary system projected to cause disruption in the financial ecosystem. Bitcoin is a blockchain based system with a decentralised ledger system operated through complex mathematical function with digital miners mining currencies through high end computing systems. Money and its nature of evolution and its function can be best understood with Marxian monetary theory. Primitive economies developed rudimentary concept of money as intermediary for facilitating commodity exchanges. Marxian theory developed in 19 th century as mercantilism is going through changes effected by industrial revolu...
There is a shot in the film Ayyappanum Koshiyum where a spider web is shown and Koshy Kurien is walking towards it. They film for me is about the insect "Koshy" trapped in the web of patriarchy fighting to survive in it without ever thinking of ways to escape from the web The movie revolves around two men fighting to salvage their bruised egos. One is Koshy Kurien, a pre-college failed middle aged retired Havildar( just a Havildar in his father John Kurien's view) from a rich and influential background, locking horns with straight forward and honest Ayyappan "hybrid" Nair who pricks the bloated ego of Koshy with "2" tight slaps. Koshy is a complex and intriguing yet comes out as usual caricature of rich bully. He drags a simple fight that could have ended with a simple sorry, but egged upon by sycophants around him he continues to make the fight into life or death situation. A moment of compromise appears and Koshy is willing to go...
Art as a form of expression, in general, takes two distinct styles. One that depicts what an artist observes as it is and the one that expresses what the artist feels and perceives about them. Like every art, cinema can either visualize social reality as it is or can take the metaphorical route. The end purpose is to make the consumers of art introspect themselves. Kammatipadam and Snowpiercer are two distinct yet closely related films on systematic exploitation either by caste or class. Kammatipadam takes the realistic route, and Snowpiercer turns to the metaphorical course to bring it out the nature of the system that runs on exploitation forcing the people to fight against each other. In contrast, the system continues to devour the fruits of sacrifices and labour. Kammatipaadam's story is rooted in the village's transition into a sprawling urban centre, consuming the blo...
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