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Ripe Vinyl #3 | Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #3 | Dreams – Fleetwood MacText and graphics by Naomi Karyamsetty. Disclaimer: I’m not very fond of critical writing about music, and I’m bad at this lyric interpreting thing. So I’m a little bit of a hypocrite. Lorde once described Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours as the perfect record, so I count myself in good company. My friend and I would listen…
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Hop
Read more: HopLest An arthritic memory Of trees And barebacked mates Creep up her tendons She shall In a whopping Crescendo of habit Resign Her hind limbs to The splayed meanings Of this game of Hop. Feet shall, Over conditioned jerks, And falls, work, Lest She be swept over By her being That need be fed And…
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Ripe Vinyl #2 | Anchor – Novo Amor
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #2 | Anchor – Novo AmorRipe Vinyl #2 (Song Review by Ashraya Maria) Though I discovered Novo Amor through an indie page on Instagram a few months ago, I began to explore their discography very recently. Anchor was something I stumbled upon, something which stuck. I found myself playing it over and over again, often half listening to lyrics I…
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PhD Scholar Speak #1: Veena Vimala Mani
Read more: PhD Scholar Speak #1: Veena Vimala ManiVeena Vimala Mani is a research scholar in the HSS department conducting her study under Professor Mathangi Krishnamurthy. The interview was conducted by Basima P. Give us a dummies’ version of your ongoing research in detail. I look at the gendered experience of football in the region of Malabar. I look into how football can…
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Ripe Vinyl #1 | Sign of the Times – Harry Styles
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #1 | Sign of the Times – Harry StylesThis is first among a series of song reviews titled “Ripe Vinyl”. It was penned by Charcoal Masks, who is not a Directioner and never was. I first heard Harry Styles’ more recent track “Sign of the Times” on a train. The feeling was overwhelming, probably because the circumstances reminded me of the familiar: sitting on…
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Love at first sight (and in retrospect) (An essay by Keerthi Purushothaman)
Read more: Love at first sight (and in retrospect) (An essay by Keerthi Purushothaman)Chosen as Editor’s Pick of the Day (Essay) on WordPress Discover – 13 June 2017. “For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and another city which you…
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Blurry Faces. Everyday musings on the immediate public. (Rahul Nath)
Read more: Blurry Faces. Everyday musings on the immediate public. (Rahul Nath)https://maptia.com/rahulnath/stories/blurry-faces We pass by thousands of people everyday, from the person idling by the roadside trying to kill time to the person trying to break bread, trying to churn out his/her best possible from each day, people of several years, tales and experiences, each fighting their own demons, each having their own stories. Do we know…
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Stripes (by Charcoal Masks)
Read more: Stripes (by Charcoal Masks)Her lashes swept furiously against the plastic that magnified her vision. Magnified only slightly. But magnified, nevertheless. The lashes were tinged with salty water. Some water had traced itself quietly down her cheeks and into the sides of her mouth. An eager tongue popped out of mouth to receive the salty droplets. Salty. The rest…
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Corpse of the Soul (A poem by Shivoham)
Read more: Corpse of the Soul (A poem by Shivoham)Once nubile, pulchritudinous body, Now lies shrunken, pale. Fastidious creation now seems shoddy, Bare, without an ornate shell. You say, nothing left, it is dead. I ask, is it over indeed? Your answer, Yes! Don’t bang head. I look, sad, your eyes bleed. Banjara, they say, the Atman. (Banjara=Sojourner, Atman=Soul) It comes and goes, ever…
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The Crimson Wave – a curation of art on menstruation (Sanjana Acharya)
Read more: The Crimson Wave – a curation of art on menstruation (Sanjana Acharya)BOONDH came to IIT Madras to talk about menstrual hygiene and sustainable menstruation. I had recently heard of the menstrual cup and wanted to make the switch, so after I attended the event I went to have a chat with the two lovely ladies who spoke to us – Sonal and Bharti, and show them…
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