2019
The Inmate at Beechwood- Aman Thukral
Beechwood Penitentiary, in spite of being a large and complex underground facility, housed only one inmate within its metallic walls, in a padded cell, at the end of the corridor…
Character Arcs | TCWL – Siddhant Chandak
To Cinema, With Love Episode 7: Character Arcs ————————————— Note: This article is heavily surrounded around the Godfather and therefore will contain some major spoilers (here is a link to…
Interview | Conquering the Highest Peak – Mrs Chetna Sahoo
Yashasvini Verma of Amity International School, Noida speaks with Mrs Chetna Sahoo, a mountaineer with extraordinary zeal and courage, who summited the world’s highest peak at an age many perceive…
Utopia / Dystopia- Tanishq Khurana
While watching an action movie a couple of days back, a thought ran through my mind like a jolt. What I realised was that we all have been watching these…
The Sound of Silence- Muskaan Saluja
Humming and thumping, Hoping to feel the vibration, Hoping to feel something, And, hearing that hope shattering. My ears are powerless, I’m programmed to respond to nothing. The silence however,…
Indian Hair- Ananya Grover
come morning, my hair tighten and wound themselves to fit into thin braids, knitted as one in elaborate dos wince in discomfort before accepting their fate sit like dutiful nationals—…
Under the Microscope | Dead Space – Caitanya Singh Jaswal
DEAD SPACE Summed up in a line: Atmosphere Memorable quote: OCHEDIN VALANNOR! Genre: Survival Horror Online: N/A Open-world? No Feels? Yes. Platinum Hunt: Medium difficulty Atmosphere. This game has an…
Hold My Hand- Tanvi Jain
The first memory I have of my mother is of when I was four years old. She held my hand as I went down the slide, straight into a puddle.…
The Girl Who Felt- Yashasvini Verma
The man, dressed dapperly in a black suit and crisp white shirt, slowly lowered the girl onto the floor. She smiled at him with her blue eyes bright, her unnaturally…
Simulating Martian Life on Earth’s Harsh Environments- Siddharth Johar
Researchers are trying to figure out what life on planet Mars would be like by training under controlled, Mars-like conditions in four of Earth’s most severe habitats– inside an active…
Demons of the mind- Kreetik Thakur
The voices truly wake up, When you stop seeing the world, Out the glass of the window, And notice instead, your own reflection. Examining every nook; The longer you stare…
Nothing, Everything, and the Line in Between- Urvi Shukla
She walked into her room after another day of nothing. It was torturous, going through the same old, boring routine again and again. She saw no point in it all-…
What’s the Time- Atipriya Dev Sinha
“What’s the time?” you ask me And wait for me to look at my silver watch That my mother gave me As my father, an ardent Shakespearean, quoted, “For those…
What the Moon is to an Artist- Rimjhim Sayana
What this world lacks desperately is creativity. With an abundance of mainstream ideas and competition, there is a rush to find new inspiration. People travel to different cities, countries, simply…
Luminescence- Aditi Banerji
Looking out the window, Into the dark night, I see a light– Glowing bright and shiny, Making the moon look tiny; It’s walking towards me, Coming nearer every second. It…
Why Moderation?- Savyasachi Singh
Cultures call for seizing the day, yet with all our unique movement caged in an aviary, it may be difficult to still overcome the interludes of perpetual possibilities. Such is…
The Bubble Worlds We Create – Kreetik Thakur
And one day you look, Look piercingly deeper, Or are forced to listen, What you wish were lies. To find that a truth You had built yourself upon Had been…
Awakening Glory-Grace of a Lioness- Zaerah Iqbal
Glanced the lioness through her tears, Were her insecurities her real fears? She deepened the gaze in her tears; Realising her looks were so fierce. No wounds deep enough to…
A Love to Die For – Snehal Jindal
Sanya and her childhood boyfriend, Vikrant, had finally moved into their own home in Green Park, New Delhi. Everything was going well for them as they had to no more…
Ladylike- Krutika Srivastava
The scars on her body said it all, How much she was tortured all night long. The accused was bailed, Much to her dismay, Was it her fault that she…
A Platform for the Crazy – Tanvi Jain
Guinness Book of World Records is a name which is recognized worldwide. The idea was the brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, which hit him…
Life: A Blend Of Emotions- Ishani Singh
Hellen Keller once said, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”. Life is a rollercoaster…
Aftermath of an Extremist- Vanya Tandon
How fast and thorough we are to cut off everything in our lives when minor inconveniences occur. Now, this may not be the same with everybody but coherently all of…
Twisted Passions- Rimjhim Sayana
The line dividing emotions and the thing that makes them destructive/extreme, is a very thin one. Humans experience so many emotions, and maybe it is the amount of each emotion,…
A Mixed Bag of Emotions- Asmi Aggarwal
Too many cooks spoil the broth, That’s why between emotions we get caught. Sometimes we cry and mourn, Sometimes we laugh from dusk ‘til dawn. Happiness doesn’t lie in following…
Without You- Isha Goel
These nasty places People with double faces They never affect me With all this drama The bitching of the karma I can never be the perfect me I never let…
Oh, Ridiculous Love- Geet Monga
Does it ever seem that everyone around you is having an easier time adjusting to life than you are? Do you ever feel that you have much more adversity in…
Deeply- Purvaa Shah
It’s human tendency to feel everything deeply. We love deeply, when we feel our love is ‘true’. We hate immensely, when we dislike someone else’s point of view. We laugh…
Soul-searching – Romita Handa
How often is it possible for all of us to close our eyes and not think about work, family, our loved one or any other matter? It all rests in…
From the Editor’s Mac- Ananya Grover
Desire is a fickle thing; one moment it is safe in your hold and the next it flutters away out of reach. You feel like you have complete control over…
VReality- Sunpreet Singh Dhiran
VReality- Sunpreet Singh Dhiran
The Impending Future – Ramya Rajendran
Trudging down the corridor that connected your formidable past and ominous future, images flooded your mind. Beads of trepidation rolled down your forehead and a flush coloured your cheeks. Emotions,…
Choosing Your Reality- Snehal Jindal
What is ‘reality’? At a macro level, Google defines reality as “the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” But…
Oblivion- Tanvi Jain
It was as if the past one year had gone by in the blink of an eye. As Ahmed lay on his death bed, breathing his last few breaths, he…
The Truman Show and a PoV | TCWL – Siddhant Chandak
Episode 6: The Truman Show and how to do sh*t in film ————————————— Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide No escape from reality…
The Other Side to Seven- Tanishq Khurana
As I compile these thoughts tonight, I want you to stare at this hideous sight. Agony will surround you, as the smell of his blood Diffuses within the air and…