"One could almost smell death through the screen."
Tag: lockdown
‘Thinky Pain’: Trying to Figure out What’s Real Anymore
A Buddhist studies student ruminates over the lockdown.
Finding Meaning in Nostalgia While Waking up to Bigotry in Mysore, My Home
An editorial written in the Star of Mysore in April that targeted the Muslim community raked up memories of the past and how what should have been red flags were …
One Lockdown, Two Women, Two Stories
The real-life contrasting stories of two working women and their experiences during the lockdown.
Jinxed It
'I am not used to being happy for more than a second, without it getting ruined.'
How the COVID-19 Lockdown Has Changed the Way We Fall in Love
After two years of embracing the shallow-ness of 21st-century romance, I found myself flirting with the idea that maybe, despite the apocalypse, love could go beyond a few heart …
An Uneasy ‘Dis-consonance’: The Medical Profession and Social Reality
In the ‘shareholder primacy model’ of healthcare the reigning deity is ‘profit maximised’, and not the ‘patient’ – let alone the ‘human being.’
The Secret of the Gol Roti
A poem on young girl growing up to discover the patriarchal connotations of marriage.
The Rooftop News Channel
In this story, translated from Hindi to English, the author narrates how the highlight of her day comes at 5 pm when a group of women step onto their …
Joke About It
Joking about a situation where human lives are lost may seem tone-deaf. But it is humour that gets us through.