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Justice for Atul Subhash: A heart-wrenching plea for help

Discover the heart-wrenching story of Atul Subhash, a man failed by a broken system, whose tragic death calls for urgent justice reform. A poignant plea for accountability and systemic change to prevent more lives from being lost in the pursuit of justice. This captures the emotional weight of the story while focusing on the call for […]

Why misplaced patriotism and eagerness for war needs to be curbed

Social Media has always been full of keyboard warriors spewing ignorant comments about topics they don’t fully fathom. And one such topic from the recent days which a lot of people hold dear while posting their erroneous judgements about, is war. And how beneficial war will be because it will “teach those Pakistanis a lesson” […]

Aristotle’s Lullaby

What if you could punch your brains from the insideA swinging logical uppercutRight under the amygdala.Such that, that the very foundations of those fluids shiver and die.A single punchRight from an Aristotle’s lullaby Oh you’d sleep like a baby thenAs mind curls without an iota of distortionAnd harmony prevails like a stillborn cloud of fog.No […]

Review of Hooligans of Kandahar by Joseph Kassabianf

This is the memoir of a US army corporal (who later gets demoted to specialist) and his deployment in Afghanistan with his squad nicknamed The Hooligans’. Living up to their name this notorious squad did plenty of outrageous things ranging from mostly harmless stuff like stealing another squad’s air conditioner to the potentially fatal firing […]

To Kill a Mockingbird

The spectrum of human behavior is vast and wide. While a part of the mob understands the extensiveness of it, most of us tend to turn a blind eye to what seems “abnormal” to us. Ironically, the subjectiveness of ‘normality’ in itself is an abstract. Dealing with such colourful personalities requires one to be equipped […]

Fearless by Eric Blehm

Drugs, seems like a cool idea isn’t it. No matter how much we are all warned against even trying them, it has got ambassadors of its own. Steve Jobs famously asked students at Harvard if they smoked pot as if it was nothing unusual and completely ordinary. Founders of google looked for their CEO at […]

Interview: Knowing Kumar Milan

We had the chance to interview Kumar Milan who’s a budding published author over email and whatsapp. And had his book published in June 2015 by Author’s Ink India “Things End But Memories Last Forever” while he was still pursuing his B.tech Degree. This interview was conducted nearly a year back and we’re only releasing […]

Safarnama – Cultural walk through Purana Qila

Upon usual and aimless, perfunctory scrolls through my Facebook feed, I stumbled upon a page called Safarnama. They were planning a walk in the Purana Qila. Motive of this walk was to re-visit the history of Purana Qila and to discuss Mahabharata through the eyes of Draupadi. Safarnama was started by History graduates, Anna Menon and Aakriti Suresh. […]

JD Salinger; his oeuvre and his genius

Conversations about my favorite authors will always revolve around David Foster Wallace, Camus, Kafka, Vonnegut and the likes. However in the shadows, the way the man liked it himself, a certain J.D. Salinger will always be extant.Touted unfairly as a “one hit wonder” for his opus Catcher in the Rye – or on the contrary […]

Is “Love In The Time Of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez really what you think it is?

This is an interpretation article and thus obviously delves into potential spoilers.Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez wrote with such titillating and tantalizing charm and pizazz that he is arguably noted as one of the most significant authors of the preceding century. He has left behind a large legacy of novels and short stories dealing with […]