Category: Features
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Traversing through Insti: Places Known and Unknown (Part I)
In this series, we bring to you a bunch of places around the insti, some that are thronged every day, while some wear a deserted look most of the day. This series gives you a glimpse of the popular places in a new light and an opportunity to explore the lesser-known ones. Read More
3–4 minutes
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Sacha, Satire and Sarcasm ?
– Surbhi While one can find political satire in many contexts and movies, in my opinion, none comes to par with those produced and acted by Sacha Baron Cohen. His films like “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Read More
4–6 minutes
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Travelling Typewriter #2 | Interview with Amalie
— Khushi M P I first met Amalie at an informal Vannam meet, where we spoke about our countries, culture, college and more. I recently had the opportunity to interview her, to get a taste of what an exchange student’s experience at IITM is like. Amalie Farestvedt is a Norwegian foreign exchange student, currently in Read More
4–7 minutes
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HSSpeak #12 | Discourse
— 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
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Review | Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
— Gowri Raj Varma Today morning, I woke up to the smell of rain and decided that I simply had to read. It had been months since I’d finished a work of fiction even though my bookshelf has been fully stacked. I decided to go down the good-old Libgen/Z Library route, scouring through its catalogues Read More
5–7 minutes
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Review | Persuasion by Jane Austen
— Neha Cherian Not long ago, Netflix earned the dubious distinction of precipitating an unprecedented spike in the global demand for smelling salts with what can only be described as a truly horrific adaptation of Persuasion. The New Yorker sagely observed that “Fans of Austen’s novels often respond to new adaptations by following an Austenian playbook. Read More
4–7 minutes
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Masaan – A Story of Love and Death
— Khushi M P There are few movies that leave the audience in a state of exuberant melancholy. Masaan is one of those movies. The movie came out in 2015 and stars some of Bollywood’s most talented, albeit underrated actors. The movie is set in Varanasi, a town in Uttar Pradesh. Varanasi is a place Read More
4–6 minutes
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HSSpeak #11| Art and Authoritarianism
— 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
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Conversations With Strangers
— Gowri Raj Varma My family doesn’t travel much. They’re more of the “stay at home during the weekend lazing on the couch while watching a movie together on Netflix ” kind of people. The prospect of planning an entire trip for five people with vastly different schedules and interests has always resulted in petty Read More
6–9 minutes
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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
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