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Student’s Corner: The Heaviest Backpack
Personal Essay by Mansi Dhankar: ‘Since 2020, Indian students have faced a pandemic, online classes that turned homes into cages, rising coaching culture, paper leaks, collapsing mental health, inflation, unemployment, and a future that grows more expensive each time the rupee weakens against the dollar.’
Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur
In a deconstruction of Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), Ishan Mukherjee revisits the history, soundtrack, and the work of an inspired auteur director that truly made this saga a cinematic classic.
Student's Corner: Sports as a unifying element in India
From the school basketball courts to international cricket tournaments, how India’s diversity and divisions can be united under the umbrella of sports - by Adit Joshi in Student’s Corner.
Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem
There are places in India where culture and time stand still, where every door leads to somewhere new. - A photo gallery from Puducherry by Araan Suares for Student’s Corner.
Student's Corner: How the Bhagwad Gita can be a bestseller for children
How the mythological verse can be re-understood for young people in modern times - write Ishita Praveen in Student’s Corner
What’s in a name? India has a long history of rebranding cities, streets, and buildings to reflect the political influence of the time. Instead of this empty tokenism, Vipin Labroo argues for the country to shift priorities towards its more pressing concerns.