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Reflections

Philosophising in excess

Reflections

Retribution or Rehabilitation: Death Penalty as Final Justice

Akriti Kanodia -
There was a time in history when people were hunted down and burnt to death for being witches, without any evidence.  Although the lack of...
Reflections

An Existential Guide to Risks and Relationships

Shreya Sharma -
Growing up, I would go into construction sites and pretend they were haunted or contained forbidden, secret chambers. Once, an unenthused, older boy announced...
Reflections

On The Pursuit of a Room of One’s Own

Sneha Roychoudhury -
“Woolf is right. Women need a room. Women need floors to kick, walls to beat, air to scream into or they will wind up dead.”
Reflections

Walking

Shanna Jain -
“Is the neck of my top too low, are my breasts moving a lot, is there a bike ready to knock me down, are the neighbours noticing me too much?"
Reflections

On Grief and Mortality

Abhishek Kar -
“As a woman of science, my mother is relentless in her search for answers. Why must we die? If we are to die, why do we ever live? Who designed this system?”
Essays

Lockdown, Loneliness and a Love Letter

Yamini Krishnan -
"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."
Reflections

On Childhood, Fear, and Retrospect

Gaurav Kamath -
The world is, at least at an instinctive level, less scary as a grown-up.
Reflections

On The Semantic Wonder of Foul Language

Gaurav Kamath -
"Profanity conveys emotion in a manner that ‘cleaner’ language struggles to—and who wouldn’t want the ability to so powerfully and instantaneously express emotion?"
Reflections

Reinhart Koselleck and The History Question

Gaurav Kamath -
The ways we place ourselves in the grand scheme of things
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Inside Outside

Rithika Abraham -
“These in-between spaces, where the rules of confinement are temporarily modified, have, once more, become areas of yearning for blurred lines.”

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