Being an outsider to Japan, Anshul Chauhan can comment more freely on the stranger aspects of their culture in his films. In Kontora, his second film, the protagonist is a highschool student who becomes interested in tracing her late grandfather’s history in the military after finding his diary. Drawing from his own experiences, he had hoped to spark an interest in learning Japan’s wartime history among the youth, who don’t particularly care about the topic. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
