Article 19

Category: Op-Eds

  • Break or Burden?

    — Khushi M P I spent all semester waiting for the semester break, the time where I can do whatever I want and live life the way I want it. No college to decide when I get up, when I eat and how late I should stay up. I don’t need to adhere to any Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Flanerie

    — Neha Cherian I have always taken unembarrassed delight in the sounds of the French language- its softness and slight musicality, the abundance of “z” sounds, the elusive “r” and the maddeningly unreasonable rules of pronunciation. So it made perfect sense that when I stumbled upon the word that would have described an ideal semester exchange Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Movie Stockings: A Christmas Watch List

    — Lakshmi Yazhini “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr Seuss What does Christmas mean to you? The one day you get to set up a beautiful tree in the middle of your house? That day your neighborhood is filled with trilling Christmas Carols? Or Read More

    4–6 minutes

  • Myriad Perspectives: On Restructuring the MA Program

    — Lakshmi Yazhini “Hello! Where do you study?” “IIT Madras” “Wow, that’s amazing! Such a prestigious institute. Which course?” “An MA Integrated in Development/English Studies, from the Humanities department” “What? An MA in IIT? Never heard of that. And what is this about Humanities?” Not sure about the rest of the HS student body, but Read More

    4–7 minutes

  • The Ease of Reading

    — Khushi M P Bookstagram. Booktok. Booktube. These words have been created by blending the word ‘book’ with different social media platforms. They refer to a significantly large online community that deals with books. Bookstagram is probably the most popular and influential community, so we will be examining it in this article. This community is made Read More

    4–7 minutes

  • Our Tryst with Sociality

    — Lakshmi Yazhini Gregariousness is believed to be a quality central to the lives of humans. The American Psychological Association defines gregariousness as “the tendency of human beings to enjoy the company of others and to want to associate with them in social activities.” Over time, the word gregariousness came to be associated with feelings of Read More

    2–3 minutes

  • All The World’s A Reality Show

    — Devika Deevasan If you’re offered 1 million dollars to spend five months in a house with six strangers having your every action documented for the world to see, would you do it? Let’s take a look into the larger, invisible ramifications of agreeing to this hypothetical offer.  The first-ever ‘soap opera’ reality show, The Read More

    6–9 minutes

  • Combating climate change – Our dystopian future  

    — Sharanya Kannan Tick, tock, tick, we just lost a tree. Statistics says that we lose an area of primary forest equivalent to a football pitch every six seconds. The spectre of climate change haunts us today and deciphering this environmental catastrophe is unthinkable considering the amount of cooperation and coordination that is required. In Read More

    6–8 minutes

  • Anger, Exhaustion and a Neverending News Cycle

    —Sharanya Kannan Recently, I’ve been avoiding the news. I haven’t opened the newspaper in over a month. I’ve muted all the political Instagram accounts I follow. When my parents switch on the TV at night, it takes just one “BREAKING NEWS” flashing across the screen in a violently obnoxious shade of red to send me Read More

    5–7 minutes

  • Profile | Stan Swamy

       — Juanita Rose Thomas Stan Swamy was widely known as a Human Rights Activist. So, it was surprising for the country when he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). “Human rights” and “terrorism“ are not words you often see together in a sentence or are they? In a Read More

    5–8 minutes