Category: Art

  • It’s okay not to be Okay

    To blame policies is easier than accepting things yourself, however. Even though it absolutely sucks, I think we need to take care of ourselves and our close ones. It is easy to let all the rush take you over, but what I have learned from the short time I have been here is that the…

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    4–7 minutes
  • A Night With the Harmonies of the Indian Choral Ensemble

    Acapella requires tremendous effort and coordination to deliver a piece of arrangement and doing it live in a beautiful auditorium for an audience of 500 is nothing short of a wonder. This was made possible by the Indian Choral Ensemble, an acapella troop of 40 led by Kalyani Nair and Karthick Manickavasakam at the Museum…

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    5–7 minutes
  • Time to Submit

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    When academic pressure meets procrastination, the race against time becomes a familiar struggle for many. The poem, “Time to Submit” captures, with humour and relatability, the chaotic process of academic writing.

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    1–2 minutes
  • A Misfit!!!

    Being an IITian myself for more than a year now, however, I feel discomfort in labeling myself an IITian. This is not because of my general aversion to labels and labeling myself. The discomfort, or the sense of being a misfit emanates from the repetitive interactions, anecdotes and general observations of mysurroundings on the campus.

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    2–3 minutes
  • Welcome to Wonderland (Not Really)

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    Hostels are also spaces that make you feel full of life and lonely at the same time. You get to know people while waiting for your laundry to finish or in the lift because they are humming a song you love. These are friendships that do  not make sense out of context and you both…

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    3–5 minutes
  • Zaitoon

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    Our guest correspondent, Carol D’Souza, fondly reminisces on the mundane beauty of the everyday spaces within campus we traverse on the daily through a short, crisp verse by drawing out the simple ritual of savouring a cup of tea at Zaitoon.

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    1–2 minutes
  • On Chaos: Within and Without

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    In a world marked by alternate symphonies of turbulence and quiet, chaos in nature finds reverberations in human lives as well. ‘On Chaos: Within and Without’ explores the parallels between nature and human life, trying to make sense of how they influence each other. After all, we are but a part of the bigger cacophony,…

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    1–2 minutes
  • When Godot Arrives

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    In “When Godot Arrives”, our correspondent Akhil crafts a haunting narrative that reflects the anticipation and eventual disillusionment of the post-war era depicted in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”.

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    2–3 minutes
  • between revolutions

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    “between revolutions” is one where each act of care becomes a manifesto, and each gentle gesture, a rebellion against the cacophony, as the quiet ones redefine strength through the soft symphony of compassion.

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    1–2 minutes
  • Lost in translation

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    Buffeted by waves of Malayalam Background music of late youth…..

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    1–2 minutes