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Travelling Typewriter #2 | Interview with Amalie
Read more: Travelling Typewriter #2 | Interview with Amalie— Khushi M P I first met Amalie at an informal Vannam meet, where we spoke about our countries, culture, college and more. I recently had the opportunity to interview her, to get a taste of what an exchange student’s experience at IITM is like. Amalie Farestvedt is a Norwegian foreign exchange student, currently in…
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HSSpeak #12 | Discourse
Read more: HSSpeak #12 | Discourse— Lakshmi Yazhini What comes to our minds when we hear the word discourse? Perchance, do you think of long discussions in classrooms about how it highlighted so many sociological aspects of our country? More importantly, would you have thought of it before coming across the term in our course? Linguistically speaking, a discourse refers to…
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Review | Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Read more: Review | Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid— Gowri Raj Varma Today morning, I woke up to the smell of rain and decided that I simply had to read. It had been months since I’d finished a work of fiction even though my bookshelf has been fully stacked. I decided to go down the good-old Libgen/Z Library route, scouring through its catalogues…
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Myriad Perspectives: On Restructuring the MA Program
Read more: Myriad Perspectives: On Restructuring the MA Program— Lakshmi Yazhini “Hello! Where do you study?” “IIT Madras” “Wow, that’s amazing! Such a prestigious institute. Which course?” “An MA Integrated in Development/English Studies, from the Humanities department” “What? An MA in IIT? Never heard of that. And what is this about Humanities?” Not sure about the rest of the HS student body, but…
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Review | Persuasion by Jane Austen
Read more: Review | Persuasion by Jane Austen— Neha Cherian Not long ago, Netflix earned the dubious distinction of precipitating an unprecedented spike in the global demand for smelling salts with what can only be described as a truly horrific adaptation of Persuasion. The New Yorker sagely observed that “Fans of Austen’s novels often respond to new adaptations by following an Austenian playbook.…
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The Ease of Reading
Read more: The Ease of Reading— Khushi M P Bookstagram. Booktok. Booktube. These words have been created by blending the word ‘book’ with different social media platforms. They refer to a significantly large online community that deals with books. Bookstagram is probably the most popular and influential community, so we will be examining it in this article. This community is made…
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THE END.
Read more: THE END.— Adithya Beera It’s apparent that we humans are becoming more progressive by the day. Increasingly, people believe that no one should be discriminated against based on color, race, gender and the like. Breakthroughs in science and widespread education taught us that there is nothing stopping anyone from becoming the person they want to be: that…
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Masaan – A Story of Love and Death
Read more: Masaan – A Story of Love and Death— Khushi M P There are few movies that leave the audience in a state of exuberant melancholy. Masaan is one of those movies. The movie came out in 2015 and stars some of Bollywood’s most talented, albeit underrated actors. The movie is set in Varanasi, a town in Uttar Pradesh. Varanasi is a place…
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Our Tryst with Sociality
Read more: Our Tryst with Sociality— Lakshmi Yazhini Gregariousness is believed to be a quality central to the lives of humans. The American Psychological Association defines gregariousness as “the tendency of human beings to enjoy the company of others and to want to associate with them in social activities.” Over time, the word gregariousness came to be associated with feelings of…
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HSSpeak #11| Art and Authoritarianism
Read more: HSSpeak #11| Art and Authoritarianism— Neha Cherian We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!… Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. In 1908, a young Italian poet, Filippo Marinetti, was driving his Fiat near Milan when he encountered a cyclist. To…
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