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Yamini Krishnan

Yamini Krishnan is a graduating student of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University. She enjoys writing poetry and culture pieces. Her writing has been published in Vayavya Magazine and Scroll.in amongst others.
Armchair Arbiters

Gossip Is Serious Business, says Kelsey McKinney

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In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “To a philosopher, all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it...
ALMAxFeatures

“Poetry is a way of stopping time”: An Interview with Jeet Thayil

Yamini Krishnan -
“I think when the poems came back to me, there was a kind of a lightness, a recklessness that I hadn’t experienced before”, Jeet...
Culture Couch

Love Through the Looking Glass: Taylor Swift and Referencing the Self

Yamini Krishnan -
“Lookin’ backwards/ might be the only way to move forward”—Taylor Swift, “The Manuscript”. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”—Lewis Carroll, “Through...
Essays

Lockdown, Loneliness and a Love Letter

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"The magic of Lorde’s music doesn’t lie in providing solutions but in its ability to assure the world that it’s okay to feel hopeless; to idle in a musty room."

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