Category: Op-Eds
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Caste, Class, Gender and “Elite” Institute Teams
Read more: Caste, Class, Gender and “Elite” Institute TeamsIn Institute terms, the “Elite” teams are somewhat intuitively understood as “prestigious”, hard-working teams for which there is a high demand with respect to favourable extra-curricular CV points that high-paying non-core companies tend to favour.How do questions of caste, class and gender play out between the links of this ‘Great Chain of Being’? If you’ve…
6–9 minutes
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Colours of Absence
Read more: Colours of Absence‘To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence’………beauty, poetry, love, art and expression are the things which make human lives richer, more painful, more poignant. This article explores the workings of absence in all these beautiful facets, and how it adds shades of it own…
3–5 minutes
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‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted’ Defence of Ye
Read more: ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted’ Defence of Ye“Hip hop music is the first art form created by free black men. And no black man has taken advantage of his freedom more than Kanye West,” declared the American comedian, actor, and filmmaker Chris Rock, introducing Kanye West a few years back during a Wyoming listening party for Kanye’s album “Ye”.
4–7 minutes
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Flickering Rainbows
Read more: Flickering RainbowsThe temporal dimensions of queerness are a product of an intricate interplay of individual agency, societal pressures and the intersection of personal and external factors. Only through ever-evolving dialogue, can we uncover the beauty and complexity of identities and sexualities that defy easy categorisation.
5–8 minutes
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“A Breath. A Heartbeat. And Messi”: Remembering The Greatest Night of Football
Read more: “A Breath. A Heartbeat. And Messi”: Remembering The Greatest Night of Football“Scaloni will be fated, Messi will be sainted” Peter Drury’s words served the ceremonial climax to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in celestial lyricism as we huddled up in front of the screen, with beaming faces and full eyes, watching Leo Messi lift the World Cup, an image of imagination, now stretched on the white…
5–7 minutes
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The Pink Elephant in the Room
Read more: The Pink Elephant in the RoomCome June 1st, all merchandise is splashed with rainbows and all companies have pride flags in their logos. Instagram hashtags are colourful, and we’re faced with puns (sometimes cringeworthy) that declare their support to the queer community. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and advertise their “inclusivity” in order to increase sales. This is…
3–5 minutes
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Of Hurt Humans
Read more: Of Hurt HumansThe day I came to Indian Institute of Technology, Madras for the first time – 15th of September 2022, on the verge of beginning my next academic endeavour for the following half decade, excited to belong to a college renowned for its exclusivity, meritocratic nature and competitive spirit, thrilled about the life I was on…
5–7 minutes
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How On Earth Did We Pull Off a Pride Parade in Insti?
Read more: How On Earth Did We Pull Off a Pride Parade in Insti?People from all over the campus, many for the first time, participated in a queer event. And there was no fear of violence or hate, only the breath and the voice and the scents of many who believe in love and revolution and freedom for all, mixed and twirled relentlessly in the air that heard…
4–6 minutes
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A Cursory Criticism of Collectivism
Read more: A Cursory Criticism of CollectivismThroughout the history of politics, various political parties and ideologies, spanning the entire political spectrum, have often criticised the “selfishness” of individual thought and today, I, like many before me, aim to illustrate the significance of individual greatness while offering examples of the inconsistencies within proponents of collectivist thinking.
5–7 minutes
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Dissenting Opinion: On Facial Recognition Data Collection at IIT Madras
Read more: Dissenting Opinion: On Facial Recognition Data Collection at IIT MadrasThis article merely serves the purpose of historical record – a note in which we would like to make known our dissent and displeasure against such a move.
6–10 minutes
