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Essays

From glowing reviews to zany histories

Armchair Arbiters

The Miniaturist of Junagadh–Deafening Silences and Blank Canvases

Saumya Singh -
Kaushal Oza’s short film is a gently crafted meditation on grief, memory, identity and art
Essays

The First Supper

Sneha Roychoudhury -
In the first year of undergraduate school, unable to conjure the words for “homesick” and “lonely” in an unfamiliar city, I wrote ever so...
Culture Couch

How ‘Killing Eve’ Buried Itself Along With Its Gays

Pritha Deshpande -
Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for Season 4 of Killing Eve Killing Eve has, not to put too fine a point on it, a killer repertoire....
Armchair Arbiters

Season 6: A Pesky Peaky Compromise?

Yuvraj Nathani -
Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for Season 6 of Peaky Blinders “It means you f*** people. F*** people over. Don’t give a f***. It means you covet...
Culture Couch

The Tunes and Fortunes of Celebrity Musicians

Swastik Mandal -
In the wake of Kendrick Lamar announcing his fifth studio album, ‘Mr Morale and the Big Steppers’, I found myself intrigued by the methods...
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...
Culture Couch

How Dracula Became the Freshest Internet Phenomenon

Pritha Deshpande -
If I were to tell you that in May of 2022 the #1 trending topic on social media for two weeks straight has been...
Essays

Kalkattewali: The Goddess and Her City

Souraja Chakraborty -
A temple in the northern part of Kolkata, the Thanthania Kalibari has a marble slab, on which “Shankar’er hridoy majhe, Kali biraje,” (Kali reigns...
Culture Couch

Queen Victoria, ‘Consumption’ and Goth Culture

Harshit Verma -
The first thing that many will visualise upon the mention of ‘Goth’ is the mohawk, black lace, powdered faces, spikes and metal on ‘uncivilised’...
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.”
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