Khaleesi Archives

“Honey I Cracked the Screen”: Budget Phones for the Eternally Clumsy

Some phone owners manage to break a very important feature of their brand-new device just 10 seconds after it’s handed to them by the delivery boy. For these butterfingered individuals, these phones under ₹10,000 are a god-send.

Arré Bench July 10, 2016

Pop Culture

Why Jon Snow Should Have Remained Dead on Game of Thrones

Maybe George RR Martin has a personal dislike for Jon Snow, which the writers of Game of Thrones inherited. It’s the only explanation I can think of to justify how many times the plot has swerved Jon, who can never retire his sulking expression for too long.

Dushyant Shekhawat July 8, 2016

Pop Culture

A Song of Ice and Fire and Global Warming

Game of Thrones, this rollercoaster of tits and dragons that we’ve been riding for the last few years, is a veiled allegory about the threat of climate change.

Dushyant Shekhawat June 22, 2016

Pop Culture

It’s Not the Night King or Cersei, But Ambition That is Game of Thrones’ Greatest Threat

Season Eight’s fourth episode, “The Last of the Starks”, reveals that the greatest threat to humankind wasn’t external. Rather, we’re more than capable of tearing ourselves apart in our pursuit of power, even without the threat of an impending apocalypse.

Dushyant Shekhawat May 17, 2016

Pop Culture

Game of Thrones: Are We Ready to Let Go of Jaime Lannister?

When Game of Thrones began, nobody could have predicted that the person to best embody why second chances matter would be Jaime Lannister. If Jaime is to fall in the next episode’s battle, he will be the most sociopathic, twisted, and occasionally inhuman character for whose death I’ll shed a tear.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 30, 2016

Pop Culture

Game of Thrones is Dead, Long Live Lord of the Rings

Nearly 20 years after the first film, and half a century after the book’s release, JRR Tolkien’s LoTR is returning to Amazon. It proves that tits, blood, and swear words do not a fantasy epic make.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 13, 2016

Animals

Enter the Dragon: My Battle with a Bat, Straight Out of Game of Thrones

I am surprised at the number of perfectly rational people who display phobias like the fear of household lizards and heights. And I was perfectly rational too… until a bat entered my room, looking like a mini dragon, while I watched Game of Thrones.

RayC April 9, 2016

Pop Culture

Why Game of Thrones Did Not Deserve the Emmy for Best Drama

Despite sprawling set-pieces and CGI-fuelled dragon fire, GoT has failed on three fronts that made the show a success: writing, suspense, and logic.

Arré Bench March 30, 2016

Pop Culture

Why it’s Game Over for Game of Thrones and Me

It hurts to say that, as the show’s final season finally arrives, I have officially broken up with Game of Thrones. With its reliance on CGI dragons and impending apocalypse, GoT has become almost conventional, nearly predictable — and utterly disappointing.

Kahini Iyer March 22, 2016

Pop Culture

Winter Came Hard: A Light-Hearted Breakdown of the Heart-Wrenching Battle of Winterfell

After a relatively tame first two episodes, the 82-minute third Game of Thrones episode gave fans a dose of what propelled the show into must-see TV in the first place - the gruesome and unpredictable deaths of their most beloved characters. Warning, an article has many spoilers!

Jackie Thakkar March 21, 2016