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Partition and Patriarchy: The Story of Thoa Khalsa

On 3rd June 1947, the last Viceroy of British India, Lord Mountbatten, announced the Partition of India into two independent nations on...

Perpetuating Problem Unknowingly: The Principle Of Shirky

Clay Shirky in his book ‘Here Comes Everybody: the power of organising without organisations’ writes “...Social Networks provide new ways...

Dispelling the Artistic and Cultural Iniquities of Obese Identity:From Genesis to the Quotidian

“But let me, even in my sorrow, eat. There is no thing more shameless than the belly; however tried we are, whatever pain assails our...

A Castrated Oedipus

A New “Hindu” Rate of Growth: History and Perspectives

The political regime matters. It matters insofar as to indoctrinate an outlook for where the nation is headed. The regime is asymmetric....

Opinions

Turning A Page From An Activist’s COP-Diary: The 26th ‘Carbon’ Copy

In my opinion, every COP seems exclusive because of the fact that young students like me from the Global South always struggle to find...

Analyses

Scottish Independence: An Escape Route from Brexit

The victory of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) in May, 2021 for the fourth consecutive term has reignited the call for independence...

Contrariwise

“Elliptical Refractions”: The Unfolding of Cultures in Transit against Politics

Column In geometry, an ellipse is popularly defined as a closed curve and the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from...

The Gaze

Making the Perfect Citizen: The Hindu-isation of Non-Normative Identities

This article looks at the construction of citizenship for non-normative gender identities through Ditilekha Sharma’s paper The State and...

Letters From A Young Contrarian

The Malcontents of Science Fiction: An Anti-legacy From Frankenstein to Dune

If you are reading this literary column, it can be said with some certainty that you love to travel (mostly on the wings of words, of...

Dissecting the American Dream

‘Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people...

Opinions

A Façade of Anonymity: Grindr’s Breach of User Privacy

The article extrapolated upon a lack of stringent privacy and verification policies in various dating apps. It further illustrates...

A Castrated Oedipus

The Sound of Panopticon

"In most universities, all examinations and tests are nowadays done by writing, so in theory, one could actually survive the whole of...

Analyses

Post-Punjab Election Victory: Kejriwal Will Become Prime Minister of India In-waiting

Image Credits: IndiaTV News In 1783, Baghel Singh and Jassa Singh Ahluwalia galvanized a Sikh force and marched to the Red Fort hoisting...

Polis Review

Political Economy and Political Sociology of Farm Protests

I On the 19th of November Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the cancellation of the three farm laws following more than a year-long...

The Gaze

Natalie Wynn’s Contrapoints: Humor, Drag, and Philosophy

Column In Picture: Natalie Wynn Credits: Dazed The article reviews the work of trans YouTuber Natalie Wynn (who runs the channel...

Letters From A Young Contrarian

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri And The Malady of Writing Writing is not an easy task at all. Often ideas come to you like flashes, the wisp of a thought...

Forthrightly Speaking

When the Marginalised Threatens the Mainstream: A Representation through Art and AI

‘In our robotic future,’ begins The New York Times’ article on Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein, ‘Victor says, “Humans will be like...

Polis Review

Limits to Cultural Hegemony, Political Democracy and Constitutional Justice

Image Credits: Youth Ki Awaz On the 2nd of November 2021 ‘Jai Bhim’, a Tamil movie was released on Amazon Prime starring Suriya, Lijomol...

Opinions

“Global Village”: A Fallacy?

Do you know how many hours you spend on your smartphone daily? Do you care? It was one Tuesday evening in 1964 when the late Marshall...

Analyses

Caste Census: The Conundrum of Counting Caste

Guest Opinion With the decennial census at our doorstep, the demand for a 'Caste census' has also intensified. Let us analyse the...

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