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Tag: Samhita Y

  • Walls, Gardens, Ladders and an Obituary to a Resisting Internet

    The internet wasn’t always this closed off. Once upon a time, users found ladders for every wall — torrent sites, file sharing, open forums. Now? You’re stuck in a walled garden, can’t post a link on Instagram, and even Wordle Bot is behind a paywall. In today’s article, Nidan Ali Basheer writes an obituary to… Read More

    4–6 minutes

  • Review | Learn to die, you learn to live | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

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    In a world obsessed with hustle, Morrie Schwartz taught Mitch Albom to pause. To cry. To forgive. To love. And to do it all with open hands. Read this review of Tuesdays with Morrie by our correspondent Roshni Ramanan. She promises that this book will change how you look at love, loss and all things… Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • The Last Promise

    They went to the mountains to say goodbye — two best friends, one final retreat. But the forest had its own memory, and the cottage had hosted them once before. Or maybe… never let them leave. Read The Last Promise by Garima Satpuri to find out what happens in this eerie short story. Read More

    2–3 minutes

  • Reading Between the Hashtags

    A few weeks ago, I was at Crossword, browsing the half-price section. A group of girls stood next to me, scanning the books before them. One of them picked up a book and exclaimed loudly, “This book is amazing. You all have to read it.” Curious, I turned my head to see her holding It… Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • Welcome to Wonderland (Not Really)

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    Hostels are also spaces that make you feel full of life and lonely at the same time. You get to know people while waiting for your laundry to finish or in the lift because they are humming a song you love. These are friendships that do  not make sense out of context and you both… Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Review | Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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    Kawaguchi’s characters, while telling tales of hope and emotional growth, are also representative of certain moral positions. The four stories have a moral message to send, for instance, placing filial piety above individualism. Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • The Pink Elephant in the Room

    Come 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… Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Attention Span And Social Media

    Over the recent years, content on social media – be it written text or video content – is being tailored to the supposedly reducing attention span of humans, having attention-grabbing and clickbait-y titles. Short-form content is growing increasingly popular also because of the sense of universality it has in its creation and consumption. It breaks… Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • Review | The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph

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    What makes a father ponder about his son’s life three years after his suicide? When Ousep Chacko finds the last cartoon his son drew, he restarts his journey for clues about Unni’s death. From this point, the story slowly unravels the life of Unni Chacko, a seventeen year old talented cartoonist who had jumped from… Read More

    4–6 minutes