Sadhana Nadathur Jayakumar
Head Editor, III Year
Sadhana is an old soul trapped inside a young person. She’s obsessed with finding sociological explanations in seemingly common cultural practices. She strongly identifies with the spirit of a panda and loves blinding sunflowers. In her free time, you can find her watching food videos, making endless lists, roaming through quaint bookstores and fangirling over Michelle Obama or AOC.
Abhirami G
Executive Editor, III Year
Abhirami likes sitting in quiet places, as far away from the rest of humanity as possible. She is interested in the intersection between language and gender, and can be found up at various ungodly hours doing something she should’ve done much earlier but had forgotten to do.
R Madhumitha
Correspondent, III Year
Madhu lives for rainy days and sea breeze. She is interested in economics, development, and Bharatanatyam. In her freetime, she dreams of houses with red-oxide tiles and thatched roofs. She likes discovering soft rock on Spotify and listening to Ilayaraja on the radio. (Yes, a radio). Lately, she has been rediscovering the genius of good murder mysteries; and takes care of all books like they are children.
Amina Mehboob
Correspondent, III Year
Amina lives in Chennai and is from Ernakulam. But she actually lives in her own head where she has a small cottage (with four rooms, 2 maids, 1 footman and a carriage) somewhere in the countryside of Bath. She also debates on various social issues and wins every one of them in her bathroom. She is interested in History and Anthropology, but only did very little reading on the said subjects.
Vibhu Krishna
Correspondent, III Year
Vibhu, like Plato, thinks the visible world is but an illusion. He prefers spending time in the world of essences, where he is an academic, a pianist, and a veteran swimmer (among others). He sleeps longer to enhance his experience in the world of essences. However, he doesn’t shun his mortal obligations, and makes it a point to keep his gastric juices periodically engaged.
Lakshmi Priya
Correspondent, III Year
Lakshmi is a lover of Pandas, mangoes and cold rainy mornings. She is enthusiastic about books, movies, gender and caste studies. She thinks that everything should be in shades of pastels, yellows and blues and set to a vintage filter. Her dream is to run across a field in a white lace dress, sit under a willow tree near a brook and read Wuthering Heights. Her current hobby is lying curled up in her bed watching Paramore concert videos and wishing she was at one of those.
Devika Dinesh
Correspondent, II Year
Devika is an immortal, and cannot contain herself in mere words. However, for the sake of appearances she’ll be attempting the very act. She grew up on a healthy diet of Disney, Bollywood and K-dramas, and attempting to argue with her against the fact that magic very much exists and Narnia is next door, will only end up with you being smacked on the head with her flying broom. Her more mundane interests include horses, karate, bikes and pretty dresses. Can be found listening to Imagine Dragons on repeat.
Samaja Penumaka
Correspondent, III Year
Samaja claims Schrodinger’s cat to be her spirit animal and will read about anything that is strung together in good phrases.
Sharanya Kannan
Correspondent, I Year
Sharanya’s main aim in life is to have a cat. She is constantly trying to disappear from Earth and escape into a fictional universe. Currently, she is obsessed with playing Breath of the Wild. Please do not attempt to communicate with her after 10 PM, she is extremely attached to her sleep schedule.
Sharanya Kannan
Correspondent, I Year
Sharanya is an extrovert with a terrible sense of humour. She’s mentally still a child who’s obsessed with carpets, vacuum cleaners and vacuuming cleaning carpets. Her coping mechanism involves slapping the phrase “this too shall pass” at all gloomy instances of her life. She enjoys the social sciences and finding obscure connections between theories. She despises integral calculus and Sambar. She also happens to be a sucker for ‘who done it’ novels and murder mysteries. Lastly, technology and Sharanya don’t go hand in hand because 13 months into the lockdown and she still doesn’t know how to create a zoom meeting.
Samyukta Mahesh
Correspondent, I Year
Depending on when and how you meet Samyukta, you may either find her reading or aggressively convincing someone to engage in Tamil pop culture. You’ll never find her binge watching, that’s for sure. She likes writing, debating, theatre and dance but her talent in any of these is questionable. She hates being late, loves submitting assignments five days before they’re due, has a negligible appetite and an unhealthy obsession with Rajinikanth, CSK and tamil poetry.
Aparna Venkittan
Designer, III Year
Aparna unironically longs to exist as an anime catgirl but is daunted by the feminist implications of it. In her free time, she doodles pretty girls and calls it art, and maintains a poetry journal. Aparna does not believe in the concept of cringe, and therefore is free to be a manic pixie dream person and tries her best to give it new dimensions by actually having a personality (sort of). She loves playing dress up and wants to own many many cats someday. She is currently interested in gender and queer studies, and prefers MBTI over astrology because 16 boxes to pick from is more interesting than 12.
Archa Narayan
Designer, II Year
Bed is her valentine and food is her sidekick. High chances of running into this nocturnal being at the pristine hours of night, strolling the IITian jungle, discussing anything under the sun and moon. She is an emotional ganache when it’s raining. If found, please keep distance.
Shatabdi Deori
Designer, III Year
Shatabdi is a lot of things, confused being the one thing she is not confused about being. Her life exists in a constant flux between the things she has half-baked knowledge about and the barrage of new info that constantly bombards her already messy head. She is constantly pointing out the wrongs in society and her family isn’t interested in having debates with her anymore.
She lives by a dialogue she heard in a movie she does not remember which basically said that any place is only as good as the people you know in it. Sometimes, she spends her time wondering about the universe and the stars and the sky, and likes how small (in the best way possible) they make her feel.
Diya Binu
I Year, Social Media Coordinator
Diya is someone who puts herself together every morning, who tells herself “Ok, today less scrolling, more living ” and ends up in bed with her favourite movie. Screenshots became a part of her story. Of course, like any other human-being she does have mood poisoning sometimes but food has always been there for her. She chooses to evolve, ready to fix her ponytail and try again!
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