Stark Archives

Getting Over Endgame: How to Survive the End of a Franchise that Feels Like Family

Our emotional investment in the characters on screen – be it Iron Man or Tyrion Lannister – is more than most millennials invest in a relationship. But is this merely a mindless addiction, or is there something more that we’re missing?

Meghalee Mitra July 4, 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

Bollywood

PETA & the Pollution Fuss: How Priyanka Chopra’s Asthma & Love for Animals Disappeared at Her Wedding

Priyanka Chopra, an anti-pollution campaigner and lover of animals, is in the internet doghouse for her wedding that featured fireworks and an elephant. But what is the point of celebrity endorsements, anyway? Does anyone take them seriously? How many people saw that damn Manyavar ad and decided to get married?

#VALUE! March 3, 2016