Category: Features
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Ripe Vinyl #9 | Juice – Lizzo
There 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 Read More
2–3 minutes
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Review | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
The 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 Read More
4–6 minutes
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HSSpeak #5 | Nihilism
Nihilism 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 Read More
2–3 minutes
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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 Read More
3–4 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #8 | Defying Gravity – Wicked the Musical
Believe 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 Read More
3–5 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #7 | Whatsername – Green Day
I 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 Read More
3–4 minutes
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HSSpeak #4 | Absurdism
Literature 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. Read More
3–4 minutes
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HSSpeak #3 | Soft Power
Soft 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 Read More
3–4 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #6 | Lemon – N.E.R.D and Rihanna
America 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 Read More
3–5 minutes
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HSSpeak #2 | Post-Modernism
Among the many terms any student in the department comes across, the one term that successfully baffles juniors and seniors alike is ‘postmodernism’. Even though the term evades definition and has its own connotations across multiple domains like literature, philosophy, art and architecture, among many others, we shall try to understand some of the central Read More
2–4 minutes
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