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I am writing because this song changed me… and also because I tried to get an AI to write this article, but the AI does not have religious trauma, so it sucked at writing this.
As the year 2022 comes to an end, we look back at the year through the prism of the James Thomson building and celebrate (read rue) the year that it’s been
There’s a thin line between being born with a uterus and being dragged through the world’s fixed ideas of womanhood. There’s an even thinner line between what it means to be a woman to oneself, and what it means to be a woman to the world, to m...
Our beloved SAC building turned 4 yesterday. Pity that none of us remembered it. A little disappointed, the SAC building wrote its heart out in this article. Read on to know what the SAC has to think of you and (mhmmm) the other buildings of II...
Because even when I tried hard to fit in, I would still be a subject of ridicule for people in school; they always knew—even when I didn’t—homophobes do have an impeccable gaydar.
Do I have to defend my sexuality when people assume I’m straight? Do I have to defend my sexuality to myself because I tried so hard to be completely gay just so I could get into the cool queer kids club?
An indispensable part of the education provided in schools and colleges is the culture that one experiences in that institution. What defines this culture cannot be put into writing but the lack of it was definitely experienced.
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Today had been a bad day. But then every day felt like a bad day. The professor admonished him again for being listless, preoccupied, inattentive. His girlfriend accused him of not “getting her” while she ranted about her day. The disappointmen...
This editorial aims to critique and appreciate the brilliant symbolism found in the movie ‘Masaan’. The article looks closely at defining moments of the movie, and readers are advised to watch the movie first, in order to thoroughly soak in thi...
Among the innumerable problems that a person faces in his/her life, a select few individuals decide to concentrate on the quandary of finding their true self.
Being a melting pot of all things bizarre, from 60 feet tall robot-alien hybrids to scantily clad people with sinful bodily proportions duking it out in interplanetary cat-fights, horror is admittedly not the first genre that comes to mind when...
Located across the street from the Ravindra Bhawan Mess, Old KB paints the perfect picture of a haunted house.
What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life—that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has...
With the recent dissolution of Article 377, the LGBTQ movement has been gaining momentum nationally and this provided Watch Out! with an impetus to appraise the climate of the campus with respect to gender sensitisation and awareness about gend...
A word of warning from the authors : this article is long and extensive. We would be remiss to not let you know that this is a laborious read.
Your first Pride walk can be nerve-wracking, especially if you are new to the city and know absolutely no one. This was the situation with me, but I was equally determined to attend it, not knowing when my next opportunity would come.
Anti-natalism: The moral/philosophical standpoint posits that it is morally impermissible to procreate and give birth
In the dystopian world of George Orwell’s classic 1984, the readers are introduced to a fictitious language christened ‘Newspeak’, an ingenious mechanism to curb the proliferation of rebellious thought by meticulously eliminating the essence of...
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is”. The predominant intention behind writing this editorial was its being read; to gain appreciation from as many people as possible. Because that is what defines the success of an article.<...
That classmate you have been crushing on for the longest of times has finally agreed to go out with you. You know you have one shot at this. You also know that they like Chinese food, but if you picked an Italian place, you wouldn’t have to ris...
Follow your passion! But how does one discover passion? Does everyone have a passion? Or should we just make do with what we have rather than searching for the unknown?
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.
Literature, which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality – seems to me the end toward which all human effort would have to strive, if it were truly human and not just a welling up of our animal self
Are intelligence and rationality the same thing or being intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean being rational?
“The problem with people is that they are so stupid. So stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.” - John Cleese
Albert Camus once said, “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is”. I guess he simply felt that our need to be acceptable takes away a part of us that was meant to define our individuality and instead leaves behind something alien ...
Wars are absurd. World war II was more so in the sense that it was fought by people who had no place in it - school teachers, bakers, farmers, fishermen and fresh graduates - ranks and ranks of people enlisted as bullet fodder. These people who...
What is it about the Wailing Wall of the Herod’s Temple or the St Peter’s Basilica that it leaves us gaping in awe at the majestic structure? What is it about the stupendous pillars of Karnak, rooted in the ground and outstretching out to the s...
Humans are the only species to have evolved so gracefully that they have had the ability to use their brains at a creative level. Add to that, we were given the chance to do what we wanted to with one whole planet as we deemed fit. Thi...
Anonymity over the internet and the effect it has on people raises several interesting questions about human nature, especially in the aftermath of Wikileaks and The Fappening. While the first utilized this anonymity to raise a voice against wo...
Speaking in cliches is an easy thing to do. Sometimes, you let slip a few words that are supposed to be spoken in particular circumstances like a programmed machine. You trust they are appropriate and don’t stop to ponder about what they truly ...
When Thorace was giving the world two of the most beautiful words to live by, he perhaps did not foresee how the profundity of his thought could lie so overshadowed by the poetry of his phrase.
