Golf Charlie Papa

The case of journalist-turned-government minister MJ Akbar in India got me thinking about the probability of guilt when a man is independently accused of sexual harassment by a number of different women. At last count, 16 different women have come forward...

[Some spoilers ahead]
I've been enjoying watching Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and as I near the end of Season 3, I'm struck by some remarkable parallels with another serial I saw not too long ago - Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Two shows with an intended audience of teenage girls have been strangely fascinating to a middle-aged man......

A few days ago, I received a pack of DVDs from an online seller that made me delirious with joy. The DVDs contained scanned comic books from the 60s and 70s (the so-called Silver Age), and among these were many that I had owned when I was a child.
Going through this set gave me many nostalgic moments, and I realised that my very way of thinking has been profoundly altered by their influence....

[Spoiler alert]
The 3-part Netflix serial "Ghoul" is scary, and I'll tell you why.
Not because it's a supernatural thriller (there are no such things as ghouls, after all), but because it's an allegory for something that is already happening in India, and in a few other places in the world....