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Proud to Love: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

NANDITA BHYRAVBHATLA she speaks, in retrospect,
about her passionate and often
With pride month in full swing aggressive attempts to make it
and people all over the world in a cut-throat movie industry
embracing their true using the only weapon she
identities, the battle for the ever knew- her body. She also
right to love is as fierce as ever. narrates the rise and fall of her 7
Taylor Jenkins Reid understands famous marriages- full of power
this battle, making her novel, dynamics, calculated moves,
“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn passion, and pain. However,
Hugo”, a must-read. In this the true essence of the book is
All for love and love for all breathtaking story, protagonist the love story that never made
Evelyn Hugo embarks on a it into the newspapers. Evelyn
Hugo had a secret- a forbidden
Evolution of the journey to understand the meaning love that she should’ve never “A story of love and power”
of love, the love of power, and
had to hide. Reid spins a gut-
the power of identity.
Pride Parade of Evelyn’s eventful life from wrenching, yet empowering boundless and everyone has
The book recounts the story
tale that makes the reader feel the right to love freely. Evelyn
her perspective. Overcoming for her protagonist’s trials as Hugo was 16 years old when
a bisexual woman in the late she first sold her body for what
her horrific childhood, Evelyn
NANDINI NIGAM like Montreal, London, Mexico Hugo had become “the next best 20th century. Evelyn’s journey, she thought was love. It was not
and Sydney. This small event thing” of 1960s Hollywood. though fictional, is a story many until years later, her heart chose
The Pride Parades are a that started from the streets of people share today; a story of a different path. It was a path
reflection of the LGBTQIA+ New York had gradually become Decades later, she sits down love that is deemed disreputable most people misunderstood,
community: out, loud and a global event by 2003 when for a tell-all interview where and flagrant. However, love is but one just as beautiful.
proud. They are events that people from Japan, Europe, India,
seek to promote social and Africa, Serbia and many more
self-acceptance, legal rights and nations marched to celebrate The rise of NFTs and the
remembrance of the history of their existence.
the movement. The late 1960s economics behind them
saw an uprising of people from 2011 marked the organization
the LGBTQIA+ community of the world’s largest Pride parade
pushing back against police that took place in Sao Paulo, LAWRENCE S. them a higher personal value.
discrimination at many small Brazil with over 3.5 billion But this is hard for digital goods
occasions in cities like L.A. and attendees. What initially started From the ‘Nyan Cat’ which as they can easily be copied,
San Francisco. The Stonewall as a movement to come out of sold for $580,000 to top shots recycled and in essence, be
Uprising in the year 1969 stood the shadows into sunlight turned from NBA which sold for fungible. This is where NFTs
as a pivotal movement that led into something much bigger that millions, 2021 saw a frenzy in come in, as they use blockchain
to the first-ever Pride parade on is embracing diversity, feeling the purchases of Non-Fungible technology to further decrease NFT of the Nyan Cat sold for
June 27th,1970 in New York. safe and comfortable in one’s Tokens (NFTS) made possible the fungibility making each $580,000 in February
skin and creating awareness. by industry players of social individual set of data unique
The idea of queer people media, music, and sports. While to itself, attracting many young largely by speculative investors
marching through the streets of People often struggle with NFTs seem complex in concept, collectors of the mythos that is and by April 2021, experts
New York City, proudly declaring uncertainty, fear and disbelief. they can be understood simply digital data and or digital art. called their popularity to be
their existence at a time when Living out their truths is the as blockchain-based stored Still, the images themselves can an economic bubble after a
pride and love were considered best way to help them develop units of data that certifies a still be easily used by anyone as substantial rise and fall in the
extremely revolutionary. Rising into strong, kind beings who digital asset to be unique and the ownership of an NFT does market causing prices to drop
to break free from social norms don’t shy away from embracing not changeable or fungible. not inherently grant copyright significantly. Still, NFTs may
and oppression was an act that who they are. A huge reason to to whatever digital asset the just be the beginning for a whole
required immense courage. By celebrate Pride is so that their People tend to have a long token represents. new generation of technological
1980, Pride parades had taken struggles are not forgotten and attached emotional and aesthetic assets that compile together to
place around the world in cities to help continue progress. value to art or objects which give The craze for NFTs was led revolutionize digital economics.

E3 2021 – A lukewarm course with some amazing side dishes

RITIK SHRIVASTAVA making it unclear whether it and a year filled with delays, the crafted in collaboration with the excitement to eleven. While
would be back for 2021. It did reception to the first couple of George R.R. Martin, the man Bethesda hit the viewers with
In the year 2020, E3, one of return, albeit more digitally than days was lukewarm at best. That behind The Game of Thrones, two consecutive bombshells,
the largest Gaming expos, took one desired. Due to the digitally is not to say that presentations set the audience on fire with a showcasing Starfield, their new
a break due to the pandemic, fragmented presentation system did not have their moments of barely three-minute-long trailer. IP set in uncharted space and
glory but a lot of those were Following that explosion was Stalker 2, the sequel to the cult
few and far between. With that Ubisoft’s presentation giving us classic Stalker set in the irradiated
out of the way, here are some of an up close and personal look Chernobyl. There were also some
the announcements that carried at the new villain from Far Cry surprise announcements like
the weight of the show pulling 6, Anton Castillo, played by the Replaced, Twelve Minutes and
the ‘hype’ train with their sheer legendary Giancarlo Esposito. Atomic Heart. With everything
brilliance. After months and Ubisoft also teased a mysterious showcased so far, it seems like a
months of teasing, players game-mode which would have good couple of years for games,
finally got a proper glimpse the players play as the all too dotted with a little something
at From Software’s newest iconic villains from the Far Cry for everyone is finally coming
E3 2021 was held from the 12th to the 15th of June, endeavour, Elden Ring. A story series, single handedly dialling along.
through an all-digital presentation system.