Vox Populi
By Luke, Perseus, and Aristu
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The act of remembering
“What is 13 times 7?”, my father would ask as he sat on the cot. Two odd numbers, something the adults used when they meant business. My eyes would widen,…
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A Greener Revolution
One fruit of India’s economic progress that people don’t think about enough is the increased number of hours Indians end up spending in ironical stillness. In more and more of…
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Men – The Lineage of Emotional Denial
We often discuss coping as a method, a reaction, or a healing technique, but rarely do we question the underlying architecture. For men especially, coping is not just a response…
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On Walls
One of the first structures that humans must have learnt to build as they settled down from a nomadic existence must have been walls. Walls have been with us since…
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Imprints in Print
Nearly 41 years ago, the “Queen” released their song “Radio Ga Ga”, a year before they rocked the world in their iconic live aids performance. The song is a beautiful…
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Organized Chaos – Rethinking The Idea of Borders
“A bird doesn’t know when it flies over India or Pakistan. The air doesn’t pause. The sun doesn’t check passports. But we, the only species capable of imagining a border,…
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On coming to terms with life
Is something truly dead if it was never alive? And if it were alive, would it not make sense to look at it through the phenomenon of its existence rather…
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Confessions of a Night Owl
[Some context for the reader: My name literally means “the end of the night”, which, I always felt was a rather violent and roundabout way to say “dawn”, but after…
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Downloaded Minds And Designer Beliefs
There’s a quiet war waging in every mind. Not with guns or fire – but with algorithms, dinner table values, religion, advertising, trauma, patriotism, Instagram reels and coffee shop conversations.…
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Can we get more for less?
This is not going to be a socialist diatribe against the wealthy bourgeoisie. I would like to make a few confessions of faith right out the door. I do believe…
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