Article 19

Category: HSSpeak

  • HSSpeak#18 | Absurdism

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    As students, more often that not, we struggle with feelings of futility and dread when faced with a future that seems impossible and inevitable. This HSSpeak article tackles the notion of attempting to negotiating one’s existence through the absurdity that is everyday life in an indifferent world. Read More

    4–6 minutes

  • HSSpeak#17 | Rainbow Capitalism: Pride for the Showcase?

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    Corporates don their rainbow capes once a year, but are they heroes or just flashy extras? When Pride is a marketing ploy, it loses its punch. Let’s peel back the glitter and see who’s actually standing for equality once the rainbows fade. Are you spotting real allies, or just here for the sprinkles? Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • HSSpeak#16 | Feminism

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    Feminism is a term that’s often misunderstood— It’s not about erasing differences, but about recognizing that equality in rights and opportunities doesn’t require sameness in physicality. This article aims to break down the term, bust a few myths, introduce the waves and branches of feminism, and explain why fighting for gender equality is still relevant today. Read More

    4–6 minutes

  • HSSpeak #15 | Risk Society

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    The study of “Risk Society” is not as risky as we think, but the word “risk” needs to be evaluated a little carefully. Risk generally denotes the possibility of something bad happening as a consequence of a certain action, and the term risk society is no different. It is just a mere extension of this… Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • HSSpeak #14 | (The Late-Stage) Panopticon

    We are being watched (maybe not optically) wherever we go, whatever we do by people that we might not even know exist, doing things you didn’t know they could do with your data. We are living in the age of the Panopticon(s). Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • HSSpeak #13 | Conservatism

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    I must begin this article, as Barry Goldwater wrote in his book “The Conscience of a Conservative”, by stating that it “is not written with the idea of adding to or improving the Conservative philosophy.” This article neither offers a defence of conservative ideals nor does it provide a caricature of it, but rather furnishes… Read More

    8–12 minutes

  • HSSpeak #12 | Discourse

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    — 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 Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • HSSpeak #11| Art and Authoritarianism

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    — 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 Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • HSSpeak #10 | Hamartia

    — Sharanya Kannan What do the stories of Achilles, Gatsby, Macbeth, Oedipus and Othello all have in common? Well, apart from the fact that they’re all tragedies, of course. The answer: all of them use a plot device called hamartia. What’s hamartia, then? Well, apart from being a word thrown around by ES-types, hamartia can Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • HSSpeak #9 | Subaltern

    —Yatin Satish ‘Subaltern’ is yet another term you will hear being used as a buzzword by HS boffins fresh out of class – all off their rockers on Sociology. Rather well-known, it is used in every context imaginable – and is also the subject of the worst pun I have ever heard in my life. Read More

    3–5 minutes