Category: Art
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Five Minutes of Happiness: Smiling at Strangers in A Fragmented World
Read more: Five Minutes of Happiness: Smiling at Strangers in A Fragmented WorldIn a world of exorbitant prices and ever-increasing costs, a boost of happiness (however fleeting) is a gift that keeps giving. Our correspondent, Anshira reflects on all aspects of this gift of smiles: the sad, the awkward, and the joy in moments.
4–6 minutes
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Two Worlds
Read more: Two WorldsConfronting another’s pain from within the safety of one’s own world evokes both discomfort and self-realisation. In “Two Worlds,” Alphin reflects on this uneasy distance between privilege and suffering.
1–2 minutes
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Grieving the Unknown (Over Cups of Tea)
Read more: Grieving the Unknown (Over Cups of Tea)Grief may be the thing with feathers, or a bitterness worn thin, consumed between sips. Reflecting upon the persistent weight of grief, Anoushka grapples with love that binds, one teacup at a time.
4–6 minutes
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fork-tongued psalm
Read more: fork-tongued psalm“fork-tongued psalm” sings of women who are made to kneel at the altar of malevolence and patriarchy, whose snatched offerings make for sacrifices, whose words are reduced to hissing.
1–2 minutes
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Lecture Notes#3 | Bandung at 70 or, What really happened in the world’s most famous International Conference by Prof Itty Abraham
Read more: Lecture Notes#3 | Bandung at 70 or, What really happened in the world’s most famous International Conference by Prof Itty AbrahamProf Itty Abraham’s lecture on the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference traced the complex roots and far-reaching legacy of the Bandung conference. Held in 1955, this landmark event gave newly decolonised nations a space to resist imperial binaries and reimagine global solidarity. Asha T writes a report of the lecture.
3–5 minutes
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I Belong to a Different India
Read more: I Belong to a Different IndiaBorn at the crossroads of two Indias, the one before 1991 and the one after, our alumnus Harshmann reflects on how the transformations has shaped his childhood, memories and imagination.
3–5 minutes
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One Hand on the Bag
Read more: One Hand on the BagSet in the warmth of a family gathering in Assam, the women in One Hand on the Bag by Anoushka, including herself, share quiet memories of learning to navigate public spaces. Rooted in the textures of place, this quiet yet powerful reflection reveals how generations of women have built an unspoken map for survival.
4–5 minutes
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Is love a dog from hell?
Read more: Is love a dog from hell?– Deepjyoti Sharma 2+2 =4, Tautology In whatever universe Is love same in every possible world Out there? In my observable universe David Wallace said: All this inside me To you, it’s just words That’s why Bukowski said: Love is a dog from hell Or what Rilke said like a princess waiting for us to…
2–3 minutes
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Perennial Mirrors: A biography of the unfinished self
Read more: Perennial Mirrors: A biography of the unfinished self– Satya Priya We find ourselves in people, places, poetry and perennial mirrors divulging the endless wavelength that is the self. But who is ‘I’? A fragmented whole in quest of coherence, of sense that selfhood makes and doesn’t. An essence, treading the speeding path of light, I traverse multitudes and reach the end empty…
1–2 minutes
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A Woman Inside a Woman Inside a Woman
Read more: A Woman Inside a Woman Inside a Woman– Hanna Any woman who is capable of expressing herself artistically yearns to dive deep into her relationship with her mother. To draw her, to write about her, to dream of her, and to worry about her seems to her as primal as breathing. I do not call myself a writer; I am merely a…
2–3 minutes
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