Article 19

Category: Reflections

  • The Threads of Gossip

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    A means to spread unobtainable information, or a stone that assassinates your character with small nicks? Musing on this dual faced nature of gossip, our correspondent Sivani has weighed it on the scales and found it wanting. Read More

    3–4 minutes

  • Gender and Gym: Being a woman in the world of fitness

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    Damned if you lift, damned if you don’t. Walking into a gym as a woman can feel like stepping into a world that wasn’t built for you. In our latest article, guest correspondent Doel reflects on the gym as a largely masculine space. Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • The Parkinson’s Law

    In this season of deadlines and scarce time, Roshni invites us to take a glimpse at something which might end up reorienting our entire bittersweet tussle with academia, and beyond. Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Five Minutes of Happiness: Smiling at Strangers in A Fragmented World

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    In 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. Read More

    4–6 minutes

  • Two Worlds

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    Confronting 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. Read More

    1–2 minutes

  • 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. Read More

    4–6 minutes

  • Lecture Notes#3 | Bandung at 70 or, What really happened in the world’s most famous International Conference by Prof Itty Abraham

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    Prof 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. Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • I Belong to a Different India

    Born 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. Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • One Hand on the Bag

    Set 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. Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • 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 Read More

    1–2 minutes