Jean-Paul Sartre says that humans live in a constant state of abandonment and anguish. You are what you are and not what you are not, but you can choose to be what you are not by not being who you are. It’s the simplicity of existence & the undying need to hold yourself accountable. While … Continue reading
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Send me your sky, I’ll send you mine
Featured Image by Vijay Sarathy I’ll send you my sky framed in the pixels of my phone, and you send me yours, promise me that you will, so that we can try to find the same details in both the pictures like it’s a puzzle from kindergarten. I want to know which cloud is from … Continue reading
The Material Series: Part 3
Part 3: The Self and Relationships “People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” … Continue reading
The Material Series: Part 2
Part 2: Mental Health and Self Care “Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” … Continue reading
The Material Series: Part 1
Part 1: The Pandemic The pieces of our material worlds, the nestling of our identities sewn into their seams — shift, turn and transform in significant ways with each turn of change in our lives. It has then, perhaps, not been unsurprising to observe that elements of our material realm have developed into new meanings; … Continue reading
Growing Pains – September 2020
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
At Your Service
The photo series is set in the milieu of the 2020 pandemic’s impact across the world. Saloni, with her pictures, hopes to relay gratitude for those who’ve been ‘at our service’ through this rough patch. By Saloni Thakur Dehradun’s Saloni Thakur is a passionate photographer with balanced aesthetic sensibilities. She has the ability to blend her own experiences … Continue reading
Hair
Featured Image by Ishani Das Deep slumber has met its end I get off my bed a black waterfall rises and falls beyond my shoulders a million streams of water dark as the night relish in their freedom just as I grab a hair tie tie them up and get to the day. Hours … Continue reading
The Whispers of Antiques
By Shaily Mishra Shaily Mishra is a final-year undergraduate student of journalism at Kalindi College, Delhi University. She is a budding cinematographer who likes to be called a feminist visual storyteller. She mostly drifts around mining the repository of forgotten and underrated Indian Cinema or attempts to unclog her writer’s block. She can be found … Continue reading
The Local Thrift — A Garage Sale Project Fostering Sustainable Practices
In the wake of our current crisis, we see–deeply and prominently–the detrimental human impact, us as a collective has had towards the environment. One of the more cultural aspects of our existence is tied to our clothing and our clothing is tied to our identities. Using sustainable and non-exploitative methods to buy clothes is, quite … Continue reading