Reflections

The Artist Who Forged His Way To Fame – Stuti

There are two varieties of art crime: art theft, and art forgery. You could ask: Why should anyone care about art crime? Well, believe it or not, stolen art is often used as currency by terrorist organizations. Experts estimate that…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

Unprecedented Times Require Unprecedented Measures – Jasmann Narang

“It’s a time of firsts,” something that we hear almost every day now or find us saying to ourselves each day. Most mornings have now become peaceful yet the world is in chaos, the air is unsullied yet we have to…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

Sweet Summer Souvenirs – Mira Sehgal

July 10th Dear Diary, The landowners came in today. As I stood in one corner of the café, I could feel a thousand emotions flowing through my body at once— nostalgia, anguish, delight, uncertainty and friendship (well, lost friendship). My worst…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

Historical Fiction | Paint the Town Read – Bhavya Nayak

Paint the Town “Read” Chapter 3: Historical Fiction — The Legacies We Leave Behind – “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin History is much, much more than the facts…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

Vacancy – Tanvi Jain

I can never get over how an insignificant choice in my past changed the course of someone’s life. I climbed up the stairwell on the bus, its steps steeper than my pencil skirt could permit. As soon as I…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

Hindsight: Always Twenty-Twenty? – Romita Handa

The quote, “After the event, even a fool is wise” by Homer, is very appropriate and relevant, especially in these tumultuous times where everything is chaotic and in a mess. Man has always been selfish and to fulfil his desires,…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

One Year Later – Sanjali Sharma

31st December, 2019: Hazy lights. People jostling. Loud music. Iconic venue. Famous Orchestra. “5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Happy New Year!” There was a newfound hope in the air, the smell of roses, and well, overwhelming deodorants. I was wearing…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

Whatever Happened in Tashkent, Stayed in Tashkent – Aayushi Bawa

Disclaimer: The theories presented in this write-up are through the eyes of the writer and do not represent the views of the magazine. The purpose of this article is to only analyse the event. “The possibility of a murder…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

A Retrospect of Time – Ananyaa Mihir

Sugar melts like it’s meant to be with water, One of those love stories, The ones which fill your bleeding heart with laughter. I was so young when I dedicated my life to uncanny words, Naïve fiction came to…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

Bargain – Radhika Chugh

A step and then another, I gathered myself and pulled up further, To mountains that lay ahead, And nothing more that needs to be said. But days until the day, When the eyes finally met the array, Before I…

2020 / Article / Hindsight

December 30th – Ananya Pareek

20th December, Sunday, 2:30pm Lo and behold! This piece of metal and wires has suddenly stopped working. It has given up on life, and that too out of nowhere. Never have I ever exhausted it (okay, maybe while watching a…

2020 / Article / Hindsight / Review

Our Good Place – Mysha Urooj

“I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” — Chidi Anagonye, 2×03, Somewhere Else In 2016,…

2020 / Article / Under the Microscope / Within the Surreal

Under the Microscope | Bulbbul – Anandi Ganguly

BULBBUL– A petrifying visual spectacle/A breathtakingly sinister revenge In 2020, we witnessed a dark, gripping and thought-provoking fantasy tale in the form of Netflix’s Bulbbul. Earlier this year, I came across a video by the YouTube channel “Long Live Cinema”,…

2020 / Article / Within the Surreal

Another Me – Aliyah Banerjee

That particular school building had always been a mystery. Rumours surrounded it, resulting in multiple stories circulating among the students like folklore among ancient villages. Although similar in appearance to the rest of the school, it stood at the far…

2020 / Article / PTTR / Within the Surreal

High Fantasy vs. Low Fantasy | Paint the Town Read – Bhavya Nayak

Paint the Town “Read” Chapter 2: High Fantasy vs. Low Fantasy — a Detailed Guide – “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” – Lloyd Alexander The magic, the world-building, the sweeping romances and…

2020 / Article / Within the Surreal

Rekha – Tanvi Jain

A line. A simple word, yet so many connotations. A simple stroke of the brush that later gives birth to creative masterpieces, a phrase that stands out in a poetic verse or a limit set in stone, one that must…

2020 / Article / Review / Within the Surreal

Review: Paranoia Agent – Vrinda Rastogi

“A world a person perceives is filtered by their own fantasy and paranoia” – Satoshi Kon From the mind of one of the most lauded creators of Japanese animation, Paranoia Agent is the story of a city terrorized by…

2020 / Article / Within the Surreal

Ramayana as a Metaphor for Kalank – Aayushi Bawa

There is a wave of creators and consumers dipping into the rich well of Hindu mythology that never seems to dry. Hindu mythology has continued to remain a favoured trope across mediums and genres in Indian popular culture. A similar…

2020 / Article / Within the Surreal

Tenebris – Jasmann Singh Narang

“It’s beautiful,” he told himself. With nothing but hope in his heart, John finally swayed into the surreal, cosmic place he had always dreamt about. His heartbeat was so elevated at the sight of it that he wasn’t even afraid of the…

2020 / Article / Within the Surreal

Zombie Culture – Ishani Singh

Welcome to zombie culture! No, it does not refer to a culture where people cosplay with fake blood or have fangs in place of their canine teeth. It refers to the modern-day world. The present; where people exhibit thoughtlessness, unfocused…

2020 / Article / Within the Surreal

The Boy who 𝖫̷𝗂̷𝗏̷𝖾̷𝖽̷ Helped – Mira Sehgal

Sirius Black is trying to fly away with Buckbeak to escape the dementors. What happens next is quite ironical… As Black rose higher and higher into the air, sitting on the magnificent flying creature, with its gloriously large wings…

2020 / Article / Within the Surreal

Lucifer, A Continuation – Vaasvi Sethia

This story is a continuation of the show “Lucifer”, from where it left off season 5. Beware of potential spoilers. “It is quite suffocating here.” Being in a storage room with my kidnapper’s identical twin wasn’t something I was…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown / PTTR

Crime Fiction | Paint the Town Read – Bhavya Nayak

About the Series “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book” – J.K. Rowling Here’s what I believe; every person has that one book which sings to the rhythm of their soul and speaks…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

Why Do We Fear the Unknown? – Adya Chauhan

‘One fear to rule them all, one fear to find them, one fear to bring them all and in the black box bind them.’ This statement from Tolkien’s text (1954) This statement from Tolkien’s text (1954) establishes a good foothold…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

The Spirit of the Savoy – Tanvi Jain

Nestled amongst great pines and deodars, stands the Savoy. Even a glance of its grandeur strikes a feeling of awe. Its gleaming white walls stand tall and proud, the European-esque architecture reminds us of its history. The Savoy is a…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

The Curious Case of ̷B̷e̷n̷j̷a̷m̷i̷n̷ ̷B̷u̷t̷t̷o̷n̷ the Bermuda Triangle – S. Mysha Urooj

October 11, 1492: Christopher Columbus and his crew see a candle-like light which rises and lifts up. 1918: A Navy cargo ship with 300 men and 10000 ton of manganese disappeared between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay without sending a…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

A Glance at the Timeline of our Universe – Siddhant Shrivastava

Where do we come from, where do we go? The contents of this small article deal with the nature of our universe, and where it’s heading. As odd as it might sound, this theory was popularized by a mobster…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

Each Day Is A Blank Canvas – Ishani Singh

“Nothing’s for sure, that’s for sure” One day, as I sat at my study table jotting down the things I had to do for the day, it occurred to me that the idea of uncertainty in life has always made…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

Just Another Road Not Taken – Mira Sehgal

June 28, 1914; the yellow streets of Sarajevo; a nationalist ethos; and one wrong turn. This was all that was needed to start the first world war— one of the most disastrous and vicious wars ever to be fought on the planet;…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown / Under the Microscope

Under the Microscope | Dil Bechara – Anandi Ganguly

Seri? “Gaana adhura kyun tha? Kyunki life hi adhuri hai.” You rarely come across a film in which it becomes impossible to separate the art from the artist. On the 24th of July, the entire nation braced itself to witness…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

Feeling Fearless – Riya Jain

Fearless is an imaginary term. One can pretend not to have fear but it dwells in everyone’s mind. Some fear death, others fear the outcomes of their decisions, but everyone fears the uncertainty of the future. We have all come…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

The Big Bang: Time and Entropy – Rishit Verma

The basic laws of the Physics, things like F = ma, gravity is inversely proportional to the distance squared, Schrodinger’s equation, and so on, don’t say anything about ‘The Direction of Time’. Surely they relate what’s going on now to…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

The Nexus of Coping with Actuality – Arshia Khanna

“Aberration stamps reality; Regularity births distorted self.” Today the movie ‘Contagion’ as directed by Steven Soderbergh in 2011, no longer wrecks my spine! One of the realms which stay veiled is the apparatus of normalcy— or rather, lucidity. Vulnerability is…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

Questions Unanswered – Ananya Yadav

How does one begin to write about something one knows nothing about? The more one tries to delve deep into the realms of the unknown, the more ignorant one gets. What happens to the soul after death? For how many…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

Please Help Master – Ananya Pareek and Sanjali Sharma

It was a pleasure to go outside. It was a reunion; though we have stayed together for over two years now, but to go outside was heaven. But inside, it sure as hell wasn’t. I slept, which I don’t understand…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

Getaway – Tarsuha Singh

Tell me the dark doesn’t frighten you and I’ll call you out as a falsifier instantly. You’re saying that the image of what seems like an incessant corridor extending into an oblivious dark shadow doesn’t make you quiver? It terrifies…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown / Story

Chasing the Northern Lights – Bhavya Nayak

I’m sorry, Noah, it reads on the back of the faded postcard he holds. It’s not safe here. Go home. I’ll catch you later. There’s no signature, not that Noah needs one. Not when he can find that familiar lopsided…

2020 / Article / Into the Unknown

The Quandary of the Mandela Effect – Stuti

In a place like our Universe, there exist hundreds of thousands of unsolved and unusual phenomenons. One of my recent fixations has been the Mandela Effect. The first question that arises: What is the Mandela Effect? According to The Reader’s…

Unknown: A Feeling – Ichcha Walia

“There are known unknowns”

~Donald Rumsfeld

Does something like the “unknown” even exist? The knowns were once unknown and maybe in incognisant ways, we step into “unknown” situations every day. I believe the “unknown” is a place you’ll become used to someday, the “unknown” is a person you’ll find the most comfort in someday and I believe the unknown is a feeling you’ll want to experience every day. Right this second, something is waiting to be known, to be explored, and we’ll always keep pushing the boundaries of the unknown to get there. The unknown is limitless, just like one’s desire to know more. But as Pema Chödrön says, “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all”, we’ll never really know everything. Something will always be unknown to us or maybe the unknown lies within you? And you’ll know it when the time permits.

– Ichcha Walia, The Millennium School, Noida

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2020 / Article / Into the Unknown / Review

A Not-So-Boring Film Recommendation – Jai Gupta

I’m sure everyone has spent a considerable amount of their time thinking about the uncertainties of life. At least for me, as a kid, I was often befuddled in my own imagination by several challenging thoughts. Thoughts such as “What…