Working Group for Women Land Ownership (WGWLO)
The WGWLO has been working since 2002 with the goal of promoting the land rights of women in Gujarat. The organisation is actually a...
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- Jun 12, 2019
- 5 min
The Ever Relevant George Orwell
Last week marked 70 years of the release of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984. Written during the beginning of the Cold War,...
- Jun 11, 2019
- 8 min
Flights Review: Winner of 2018 Man Booker Prize
A quick Google search for the meaning of the word ‘Contuition’ proves utterly unfruitful. I see a handful of search results from random...
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
How To Write an SOP like Donald Trump
Here is how, in my imagination, Trump would pen his Statement of Purpose for admission into a business school. What is advisable is that...
- Feb 11, 2019
- 8 min
The Invisible Apologist
1. Can you be a LGBTQ+ person and a Muslim? Yes 2. Can you wear the Hijab and pray 5 times a day like other practicing Muslims? Yes 3....
- Jul 14, 2018
- 11 min
The Two Cultures Revisited: On Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ | Jared Marcel Pollen
Does the Enlightenment require a defense? Aren’t its truths demonstrative and self-evident? In 2018, that a book like Steven...
- Feb 25, 2018
- 5 min
Shakespearean women: Were they truly independent? | Ananya Bharadwaj
William Shakespeare is often regarded as one of the greatest pioneers to have contributed to English literature. Rightfully called ‘The...
- Feb 6, 2018
- 11 min
What It Means To Be A Hero: American Superhero Comics v. Japanese Shonen Manga | Rajsi Rajora
The human mind is conditioned to ubiquitously perceive the concept of happiness as something meticulously interlinked with the constructs...
- Dec 24, 2017
- 4 min
How I Read Harry Potter | Bruhad Dave
Bruhad Dave Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much....
- Dec 24, 2017
- 5 min
Review: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time | Bruhad Dave
Bruhad Dave I do not much like spiders. I don’t know why. When I was younger I used to be fascinated by them because, of course,...
- Mar 29, 2017
- 7 min
Unrequited Love: On Canvas & In Our Lives | Neep Saikia
Neep Saikia “Love is sweet but unrequited love is a sweet poison.” Dante and Beatrice- A tale of two souls who were so near yet so far...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 6 min
Anthropomorphism in Literature: Seeing Minds in Others| Rajsi Rajora
Rajsi Rajora “There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 5 min
Urdu: The Fallen Language|Sumaira Nawaz
Sumaira Nawaz Urdu thrives in a milieu as varied and accessible as daily conversations, revolutionary calls, poetic gatherings and Hindi...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 10 min
Jaipur Literature Festival 2017|Abhishruti Sarmah
Review: Abhishruti Sarmah Image Courtesy: Tamanna Rafique As I walk on through the bright pink gates on a sunny winter afternoon, weary...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 8 min
Tennessee Williams: The Theatrical Rationale of an Emotional Man|Rajsi Rajora
Rajsi Rajora “Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 2 min
Outliers: Book Review|Vamsi Karedla
Vamsi Karedla Malcolm Gladwell explores a simple phenomenon in his third book; The phenomena of a few people reaching the zeniths of...