History of Marginalia | Prerna Anilkumar
Prerna Anilkumar Marginalia is a Latin word which comes from marginis (in the margins). There is something beautiful and erotic of being...
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- Jan 24, 2017
- 10 min
A Prisoner Of Birth-The Trial and Conviction of the Last Fuhrer
Aniket Singh Charan On the 1st of May 1945 Admiral Karl Donitz of the Kreigsmarine (The German Navy) became the last Fuhrer of the Third...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 5 min
Don’t Keep the Door Open|Bruhad Dave
Bruhad Dave Little Jonny and his sister Lizzy were playing on the front lawn of their house. It was a sunny day. The sprinklers flashed...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 4 min
Looking Through a Lens: South Africa|Tejas Rao
Tejas Rao How do we respond to 2016? A year where nobody’s predictions came through (no animal, not even Paul the Octopus could have...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 2 min
Beloved|Ankit Jaiswal
Ankit Jaiswal Seize all the lights of heaven and earth. Pack the moon, dismantle the sun My beloved is in her grave, The grave is too...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 4 min
Trumponomics and Europe: The Gathering Storm|Vamsi Karedla
Vamsi Karedla With trump’s win, a new set of dominoes are poised to fall in Europe. It is simply a question of when. What is the one...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 6 min
Pete Seeger and Protest Songs: Explosive Art| Dr. William Nunes
Prof.(Dr.) William Nunes The tune and the song ‘we shall overcome’ as well as its translation resonated time and again as one that ...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 6 min
History of Blue | Prerna Anilkumar
Prerna Anilkumar Blue is the colour of distance. Of melancholy. Of emotion. Of desire. Of solitude. Of eroticism. Of the unattainable. Of...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 5 min
Disciplinary Regimes|Hipster Jesus
Hipster Jesus It was a dreary Tuesday afternoon. It was just one of those days. Those days where you question the point of attending...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 3 min
On Non-Absoluteness, Hypocrisy and The Ideal
Sujoy Sur The society has forever been, is, and forever will be impregnated with exceptions. There is no absoluteness, with the one...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 4 min
Why we owe DNS a big time | Vishal Raj Dutta
Vishal Raj Dutta Take a moment, and imagine life without a contacts list .Imagine having to remember the phone numbers of all those you...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 12 min
Morality and Governance in The Republic: The Good, the Bad, the Individual and the State
Sujoy Sur Introduction The Republic is an exhausting read. The book, which is actually a dialogue divided across 10 books, is the most...
- 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...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 4 min
Dead Men Working|Hipster Jesus
Hipster Jesus It’s a corporate life. The kid gloves are off. It’s time to step into a whole new world. A world of earning money, getting...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 5 min
Understanding Post-Truth Political Language|Swagat Baruah
Swagat Baruah It is a well acknowledged fact that politicians are supposed to be professional liars, even better than actors, and that...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 6 min
Bad Behaviour|Lalit Panda
Lalit Panda A briefing on what economics has been up to while you were studying it at school. Recall the first time you learned about...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 2 min
To Boddah|Gaurav Haloi
Gaurav Haloi Those days are gone. Am I troubled spirit, intoxicated like pope fingers on dead Galileo? Those thoughts are tabloid words....
- Jan 24, 2017
- 3 min
Dead Cafes|Slowhand
Slowhand Morbidity. Decaf. Silence. I now sip my coffee, I sip it slowly, I take it in, I breathe in the aroma first and then I look at...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 3 min
Mechanical Justice|Bruhad Dave
Bruhad Dave “The resonance of the drum beats startled me out of my sleep,” said the little man. “Do you deny that you were sleeping on...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 4 min
The Trump Doctrine and the End of Pax-Americana|Amreeta Priyadarshini Das
Amreeta Priyadarshini Das For years now the primacy that US enjoyed post World War II has been gradually eroding, but the high...