Category: Features
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HSSpeak #10 | Hamartia
Read more: 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…
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2021 Sri Lankan Economic Emergency— a Product of Macroeconomic Mismanagement
Read more: 2021 Sri Lankan Economic Emergency— a Product of Macroeconomic Mismanagement— Neeraj BR Imagine going to your ration shop every month. Whom do you see? The store owner handles the supplies, and a small group of people line up to get them. What if the next time you go there, it is not the store owner but a military officer handling the supplies, and the…
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Hear the Subaltern Speak
Read more: Hear the Subaltern Speak— Nandhiga Ramani B MOVIE – Karnan Directed by Mari Selvaraj, Karnan is a portrayal of the struggle of a village of lower castes against caste discrimination and exploitation by the upper castes folks of the neighboring village and the local police officials. A simple storyline, what makes this movie truly stand out is the…
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‘Putin’s War: An Overview of the Russia-Ukraine War
Read more: ‘Putin’s War: An Overview of the Russia-Ukraine War– Juanita Rose Thomas What is happening to Ukraine? On February 24, 2022, after months of military build-up on the border with Ukraine, the Russian forces invaded eastern Ukraine in what Putin acknowledged as ‘special military operations’. This was two days after his recognition of the independence of two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine- Donetsk…
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Review | Arnyakam (Woodlands) (1988)
Read more: Review | Arnyakam (Woodlands) (1988)– Navaneeth MS Arnyakam is a Malayalam movie from the late 80s, that is sure to leave a deep mark on any cinema lover. The script is powered by the famed author M T Vasudevan Nair and supplemented by the directorial brilliance of Hariharan. It’s a movie of startling contradictions – on one side it’s…
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Ripe Vinyl #16 | The Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #16 | The Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov— Yatin Satish It’s a simple life. Gregory Alan Isakov is a farmer, and he’s got a nice little patch of land – about three-quarters of an acre – in beautiful Boulder County, Colorado, where he sows his produce. The man is extremely satisfied with everything he grows – Turnips; Carrots; Beets. Mostly quick-turning crops.…
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When I finally made the call…
Read more: When I finally made the call…— IV Year, HSS Dept. I never cried when I was younger. And when I say that, I mean it. Before the last year, I remember maybe 2 times in my whole life when I cried. I thought I was incredibly strong-willed and things just failed to faze me. I was proud of it before…
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HSSpeak #9 | Subaltern
Read more: 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.…
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Bojack Horseman and many shades of forgiveness and change
Read more: Bojack Horseman and many shades of forgiveness and change— Sharanya Kannan The article contains spoilers! BoJack Horseman, in its six-season run, explored an absurdist, fictionalised version of Los Angeles filled with anthropomorphic talking animals. BoJack is one of the wittiest shows to be made, that is full of clever dialogue, hilarious guest performances, animal puns and innumerable background gags. At the same time…
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To Be Human
Read more: To Be Human–Gowri Raj Varma I didn’t know what to call this mood board, so I came up with the most pretentious title I could think of. The best way to describe it would be to call it a ~vibe~ of sorts because there’s no assertion that one can make claiming they know what it means to…
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