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Crypto- A good or bad investment? Cryptocurrencies are considered a safe haven of investment in the times of market  inflation and volatility.The current social situation and economic climate also acts as an catalyst for people to hold less cash and stay hedged against unstable markets. Investing in cryptocurrencies can make you filthy rich or a pauper. As like most investments cryptos are also exposed to a latitude of risks and at the same time it is an avenue for amassing vast digital rewards. Crypto is a good investment to get direct exposure to the demand for digital currencies and the businesses they facilitate. Several publicly traded companies can provide limited exposures to cryptocurrency market like Square, PayPal, MicroStrategy etc but this is not with the same focus as directly investing in crypto assets and blockchains. Crypto market is not without its risks and these are different than the traditional financial market like bonds and stocks. Most cryptocurrency exchang...

The Elephant Man by David Lynch Lynch 's association with warped and perverted Americana makes us forget that his first hit was set in Victorian London featuring top British thespians.This 1980 film is a biographical-history drama based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th century London.  Despite the usual Lynchian tropes of foreboding and a fascination towards grotesque, Lynch shows great sensitivity and restraint in its portrayal of its subject. It tells the story of John Merrick, the 'Elephant Man', a Victorian period person with severe disfigurement, rescued from a barbaric fairground show by kindhearted physician Frederick Treves and established as a fashionable figure among the society of London. There was a palpable foreboding a of John becoming the posh form of  freak attraction. John Hurt played Merrick with his distinct, quavering and remarkable gentle voice, while Treves portrayed by Anthony Hopkins is the muscular Victorian man of scie...