Culture & Arts

Six Crimson Cranes: an attempted fusion of cultures & fairy tales

Once upon a time, a princess, pampered and raised in the lap of luxury since birth, is exiled from her kingdom when her wicked stepmother transforms her six loving brothers into white birds. As if her fate isn’t already terrible enough, she is cursed into silence, for if a single word passes her lips, one […]

by Rui Ho

#BoycottBigBrother: the reality show’s brush with censorship

After ten years of Big Brother on Channel 4, the reality show became a smash hit because of its raw, human, yet dramatized portrayal of a social experiment: placing sixteen people living in the UK, from all walks of life, into one house. Throughout the show they are given tasks and spoken to by the […]