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Ripe Vinyl #17 | Veridis Quo by Daft Punk
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #17 | Veridis Quo by Daft PunkDaft Punk, with its history of experimenting with genres and styles like electro, punk, jazz, rock, prog-rock, etc. attains their electric peak in Veridis Quo, where we witness and feel their musical brilliance stripped to its bare and beautiful essentials, all so slenderly slight that they lead a quiet pulse full of existence into the…
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Dr. Foong Ha Yap R&D Lecture
Read more: Dr. Foong Ha Yap R&D LectureOn the 23rd of August 2023, The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, IIT Madras, organised an R&D Lecture titled “Voices for Climate Change: Analysis of Creative Public Service Advertising on Environmental Issues.” Foong Ha Yap, Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,…
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Dissenting Opinion: On Facial Recognition Data Collection at IIT Madras
Read more: Dissenting Opinion: On Facial Recognition Data Collection at IIT MadrasThis article merely serves the purpose of historical record – a note in which we would like to make known our dissent and displeasure against such a move.
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Attention Span And Social Media
Read more: Attention Span And Social MediaOver the recent years, content on social media – be it written text or video content – is being tailored to the supposedly reducing attention span of humans, having attention-grabbing and clickbait-y titles. Short-form content is growing increasingly popular also because of the sense of universality it has in its creation and consumption. It breaks…
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നിൻ ഋതുഭേദങ്ങൾ | The Seasons, Through You
Read more: നിൻ ഋതുഭേദങ്ങൾ | The Seasons, Through Youഇണയുടെ പേരോതുമ്പോൾ / വസന്തമുദിക്കും നിൻ / ചിരിയുടെ മാന്ത്രികവലയത്തിൽ / ചിറകടിച്ചുയരാനൊരു ശലഭമായി / ഞാൻ മാറട്ടെ? — In the magic of your smile / That blossoms like spring, / When the lover’s name is uttered – / Shall I take flight like a butterfly?
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Lecture by Siddharth Sareen | Governing multi-scalar low-carbon transitions across sectors.
Read more: Lecture by Siddharth Sareen | Governing multi-scalar low-carbon transitions across sectors.On the 11th of August 2023, the HSS Department was fortunate to be able to conduct a lecture by Professor Siddharth Sareen, a student of the first Integrated MA batch (2006-11). Sareen, who serves as a Professor in Energy and Environment at the University of Stavanger, and a Professor II at the Centre for Climate…
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How to Politically Neuter Your Social Sciences Department (With Surprise Example!)
Read more: How to Politically Neuter Your Social Sciences Department (With Surprise Example!)The sad, hollow, neutered artificiality of a Department which decks itself out with ostentatious, politically provocative tribal art yet remains “aggressively apolitical” certainly gives us a lens into our times. If the 5-Year Integrated M.A. Programme – this amazingly exciting, unique initiative that planned to introduce students to a whirlwind romance with the Humanities and…
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Department Fresher’s Meet | Batch of 2023
Read more: Department Fresher’s Meet | Batch of 2023The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences saw a Department-organised freshers’ meet for the first batch of the MA students constituted by HS23. The meet was facilitated and organised by the PhD scholars of the department in a departure from the tradition of freshie nights so far (though I do wonder whether this was a…
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HSSpeak #13 | Conservatism
Read more: HSSpeak #13 | ConservatismI must begin this article, as Barry Goldwater wrote in his book “The Conscience of a Conservative”, by stating that it “is not written with the idea of adding to or improving the Conservative philosophy.” This article neither offers a defence of conservative ideals nor does it provide a caricature of it, but rather furnishes…
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Review | The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
Read more: Review | The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu JosephWhat makes a father ponder about his son’s life three years after his suicide? When Ousep Chacko finds the last cartoon his son drew, he restarts his journey for clues about Unni’s death. From this point, the story slowly unravels the life of Unni Chacko, a seventeen year old talented cartoonist who had jumped from…
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