On phasing out my past 'edgy' self.
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Taking a Gap Year Was Like Taking Frost’s Less-Travelled Road
We often treat norms or rules as 'truths' just because they are practised so often.
Festivity and Fervor: My Struggle With Religion as an Upper-Caste Queer Person
For a closeted queer person who has been born and brought up within the binaries of conventional notions, Durga Puja has been more than just a festival.
‘A Treasured Friend Gone Too Soon’: A Tribute To Slain J&K Officer Arshad Meer
On September 12, 25-year-old Arshad Ashraf Meer, a sub-inspector with the J&K police, was killed by militants in Srinagar. In this essay, his childhood friends pay tribute to their fallen …
Why I Like Reading Without a Purpose
The process is more affecting than analytical, with emotions being a main character throughout.
A Prolonged Ordinary
I’m surprised by the power of consumption; how our increased consumption of something – even death – makes it so astonishingly normal to us.
Telling My Family and Friends That I Was Going to Study in Israel
While my friends were sceptical of the decision, my father's colleagues were supportive. But as a student of International Relations, it is my duty to neither blindly worship Israel nor …