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The Dark and the Derogatory of Humour
Let us descend into the dungeon of dark humour with contrasting takes on drawing the line between what’s funny and what’s insensitive. Or...
“My Honor Is Not My Vagina”- Edicts From A Midnight Generation Feminist
Picture Credits: SheThePeople Kamla Bhasin, a robust Indian feminist activist, an articulate writer, poet, social scientist, and an...
VHP Outfit Burns Copies Of Kamasutra: Whose History Is It Anyway?
An ancient treatise was set afire; An event of no consequence to the average Indian conspired. But the implications inherent to such an...
An Eponymous Corollary: Judicial Activism or Judicial Overreach?
Time and again, we have found ourselves debating over the vague lines that exist between judicial activism and overreach. Interestingly, ...
Anti-Asian Hate: Through the Lens of Past, Present, and Presentiment
Picture credits : Mint The West, particularly the United States, has always been considered as a land of opportunities, mainly because of...
A Red Lunar Lust: The Exodus of Identity
“It is the very error of the moon; she comes nearer earth than she was won’t, And makes men mad” ~ William Shakespeare Image Credits:...
Cinematic Chronicles of Casteism
Jai and Veeru from the iconic film Sholay were caste-less in the 1980s, and then, with ‘progressing’ times, we acquired ‘class’ in Indian...
UAPA and the Subversion of Civil Liberties in India
On September 13, 2020 former PhD scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a political activist, Umar Khalid was arrested by the...
Dada Movement: Artistic Nihilism Mocks the 20’s
Nouveau Dadaism/Shitposting- Exhibit-A: A modern parody of Edvard Munch’s ‘TheScream’ Exhibit-B: A modern parody of Vermeer’s ‘The Girl...
The Paradox of Freedom of Religion in India
Guest Opinion Introduction Image Credits: 21wilberforce Article 25 in Part III of the Indian Constitution can be formally understood as...
The Internal Strife: Civil Hostility Towards Armed Forces and the Vicious Cycle of Violence
Guest Opinion Ever since the beginning of time, the functions of the military have been kept separate from the civilian actions in the...
Gender Roles and Development of Individuals: A Cross Cultural Comparison
Guest Opinion Image Credit: NPR What an individual thinks at a particular moment is not a reaction to a situation alone, but includes...
GameStop and the Stock Market Fiasco Through the Eyes of Class Divide
Guest Opinion You can’t expect to understand the movie if you started watching it after the intermission, so here, let me rewind it for...
यथा राजा तथा प्रजा : दास्तान – ऐ – COVID 2.0
“ दुख के जंगल में फिरते हैं कब से मारे– मारे लोग जो होता है सह लेते है कैसे हैं बेचारे लोग .. नेकी इक दिन काम आती है हम को क्या समझाते हो...
West Bengal Elections: Politics of Language and Legacy
Image Credits: India Today West Bengal has turned into a political hotbed, it always does, just before elections. This time there’s a new...
1232 KMS: A Documented Harsh and Bitter Reality
Guest Opinion It is a well known fact that migrant workers faced a state of crisis following the Covid-19 lockdown last year. This ‘new...
Vaccine Diplomacy: A Tool to Garner Soft Power
The earth has completed one revolution around the sun however, there have been no significant changes in the situation as compared to the...
The Soldierly Conduct: The Unheard Voices of Military Atrocities
The chauvinistic grandeur of the military forces has a paradigm of valour, gallantry and chivalry on the face of it, but on the other...
On Suu Kyi: The Enigmatic Burmese Icon
Guest Opinion Like many of my age, I first learned about Aung San Suu Kyi through my Political Science textbook. What is still firmly...
Women, Tyranny and Politics: Unfolding the Reich and Present
On the occasion of International Women’s day let us look upon the allegory encompassing women and despotic political trends with a...
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