Category: Features
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Ripe Vinyl #10 | Born on the Bayou – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #10 | Born on the Bayou – Creedence Clearwater RevivalWhen the words Creedence Clearwater Revival are spoken, one image undeniably stands out from all of the rest – The Vietnam War. The band might as well have been married to the War, considering the profound influence they drew from it and how they influenced the counter culture movement of the time. Born on the…
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Ripe Vinyl #9 | Juice – Lizzo
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #9 | Juice – LizzoThere is something very different about my Spotify playlists now. They used to be dominated by your run-of-the-mill white alternative bands singing about liking or hating or breaking up with girls, accompanied by a borderline-cacophonous instrumental setup in the background. It sounds like I’m generalising (hit me with the Not All Bands, yo) but there…
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Review | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
Read more: Review | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond CarverThe first time I heard about ‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’ and its author Raymond Carver was, well, when I actually held the book in my hand. It was the hopeful attempt of two concerned parents to get their 15 year old daughter out of her post board exam lethargy. It came along with…
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HSSpeak #5 | Nihilism
Read more: HSSpeak #5 | NihilismNihilism is one of those philosophical beliefs that most students will end up believing in temporarily at some point or the other – like when one has an exam to study for, or a deadline to meet. (If you haven’t done so till now, good. Stay away, it’s not fun.) It refers to the philosophical…
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Review | Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
Read more: Review | Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi“Of all the celestial bodies, the moon is the closest to the matters of this lower world. And so it is a guide to all things. Contemplate the state of the moon until you know it well. Its soundness is the strength of all things, its ruin the corruption of all things.” I first heard…
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Ripe Vinyl #8 | Defying Gravity – Wicked the Musical
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #8 | Defying Gravity – Wicked the MusicalBelieve me, I know all that you have to say about Defying Gravity – a song that ran its course, a song that sticks in your head like a gnat of a memory. But hear me out. I might be 16 years too late to the discourse, but I say Defying Gravity is a feminist…
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Ripe Vinyl #7 | Whatsername – Green Day
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #7 | Whatsername – Green DayI was introduced to Green Day when I was maybe thirteen. One of my then closest friends, fifteen, had been badgering me to listen to some of the songs he liked. While most of them were pretty unmemorable (read: I don’t remember them), one of them, American Idiot, stuck with me. I spent the next…
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HSSpeak #4 | Absurdism
Read more: HSSpeak #4 | AbsurdismLiterature has always offered a platform for the human mind to run wild – an outlet to express its best thoughts, its worst concerns and even its most nonsensical perspectives. The concept of the ‘absurd’ is one such perspective that a group of philosophers and writers (especially dramatists) began to embrace in the 20th century.…
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HSSpeak #3 | Soft Power
Read more: HSSpeak #3 | Soft PowerSoft Power. One might have encountered this term used with an air of nonchalance in lectures, newspaper articles or even while walking by in the department corridors. Seemingly oxymoronic, this concept is one that rose to mercurial popularity during the 1980s. It is an important concept in International Relations that shaped many an academic debate…
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Ripe Vinyl #6 | Lemon – N.E.R.D and Rihanna
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #6 | Lemon – N.E.R.D and RihannaAmerica has always boasted of a vibrant and diverse musical scene, owing to the large number of ethnicities and communities that have made the country their home. New Orleans, located in the Southern state of Louisiana, is an example of a site of musical creation and evolution pioneered by its historically predominant African-American population. It…
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