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CHAIRS

Chairs are fundamental concept. If I had to be anything, I’d be a chair, the best inanimate object there is. You sit on it, you choose it, you (technically) sleep on it, you fold both legs up onto it when the cold gets to you. A chair holds whatever shape you...

ARE YOU A GOOD WIFE?

Recently saw this movie called ‘Maa Behen’. Interestingly enough, watched ‘Obsession’ also a week before this. First of all, women are viewed so differently in cinema. Take a single woman: she either likes a guy or she doesn’t....

Performing Patriotism by Modi and Tagore

Authored by Shranya and Angel The Patriot’s ChecklistOn May 9th, PM Modi paid respect to Rabindranath Tagore, and the next day he did exactly what Tagore warned against. The Prime Minister, in a public address, appealed to citizens to showcase their “patriotism” by...

AI MODELS

Authored by Pragya Gupta From the Catwalk to the Code:When AI stole the runway Lights. Camera. Walk. These three words describe the Nineties, a decade so extravagantly beautiful that it refuses to die and keeps resurrecting itself in every other Vogue retrospective....

Vrindavan Pandits are DJs!

The Architecture of Devotion vs. The Marketplace of Salvation Modern-day Vrindavan is a battlefield. Our journey to this “city of spiritual bliss” (Anand) has revealed that it is equally a spectacle of profound spiritual exploitation (Saza). The sacred sites are no...