Featured animation by Varsha Naren The year that passed has been monumental. We have travelled in the interiors of our own perceptions of love, fear, heartbreak, existential confusion and visceral pain. To bring out undertones of that very rumination of life, ‘Hope against Hope’, our January playlist is a subtle indulgence. For us, as an … Continue reading
Featured artwork by Ravi Mandlik Language has insurmountably guided our ways of seeing, ways of knowing, and ways of hearing. Our subject realities are bound and woven with its yarns – as Nietzsche said, we use language to both conceal and reveal reality. What does it mean, then, to submerge ourselves in the lack of … Continue reading
In times of chaos, we remember the past—a little too sweetly—with a sense of nostalgia and an unending ache to re-live moments of tender glee. This list of songs hints at a time—not lost—but rediscovered. A call to our past which includes the dazzles of 2000s Bollywood music, crystal pop, a recollection of sonic atmosphere … Continue reading
Featured Image by Katrien De Blauwer Dotted across the days of September, it has often felt like time is rushing through us. It keeps pouring in, the minutes finding themselves disintegrating into each other, and pours out with a swishing blur. These long drawled out visceral moments of knowing nothing really visceral is happening – … Continue reading
One of the greatest thriving, throbbing fascinations with happiness lays in our ability to feel and sense movement. Cracking knuckles, soft turns of the ankle, a swish of the arm–it is perhaps here, in the act of movement intertwined with escape and catharsis, where we find a shared sense of joy. It is in the … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Kira Issar New growth can be panoramically different from other phases of life. Chrysalising into a newer semblance of personhood is as painful as the nostalgia of readjusting to a previous life, an entire pathway unknown. Why are we fascinated with blackholes? Is it because we are exceptionally curious or is it … Continue reading
The sun sets early these days, and as someone who is completely powered by the sun and her light, I’ve fallen into an all too familiar pattern of occasional sadness. These songs aren’t connected to any particular memory but together create a feeling that I’ve felt these past few months. When Amanda Seyfriend sings, “…I’m … Continue reading
For the days you need to dip your fingers into honey and let cubes of sugar melt on your tongue, for the days you need to go back to the window-sill at the third floor – where the cars don’t seem to bustle as much and your heart is steady. For the days you need … Continue reading
One of the many definitions of Revolution is that it is an instance of re-evolving. Change isn’t fun or as hopeful as the eye of retrospect narrates it to be. Revolutions take place every millisecond; with every thought that shifts your perspective amidst events of ceremonial proportions or with movements as small as writing those … Continue reading
Somewhere in the middle ages a saint named Valentine was destined to glide through all of time as a marker of romance. His name today, globally commemorates love and gratitude. The history of Valentine is as complex as a Shakespearean play: catapulting between misinterpretation and dark realities. Nevertheless, love isn’t only neurons firing away dopamine … Continue reading
