This blog examines 15 of the most intriguing and perplexing philosophical thought experiments, which will test your understanding of reality.

Poetry evokes emotions. Perhaps when the world turns a blind eye to the horrors in Palestine, it is crucial to read poems. In these crazy times, there is nothing like poetry to remind ourselves of ...

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, by Ulrich Beck is centred around two concepts: “reflexive modernisation” and “the issue of risk”.

MC Jithin’s directional ‘Sookshmadarshini’ is a Malayalam fun thriller, moves away from a conventional police procedural when a crime happens.

DeepSeek and the Politics of Knowledge It seems a new AI player was in town. Founded two years ago, in 2023, the Chinese AI company DeepSeek had already achieved what would have seemed almost ...

An outstanding academic CV must emphasize on one's credentials and competence in a certain field of study. This CV guide will show you how!

Austin Kleon’s 2012 bestseller Steal Like an Artist is about advice: the writing ones, the creative ones, and the stealing ones. Advice, nonetheless. In those 160-odd creative pages—with glittering ...

Aníbal Quijano, a Peruvian sociologist, in his essay “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality”, originally published in the 1990s, makes a case for the role of modernity/rationality in sustaining ...

Today, one may easily access digitised archival sources on India and South Asia thanks to the internet on mobile phones.

I want to discuss about Paul Graham. Prominently, his writing—and the advice he gives us on how we write and ought to write.

Recently, I sat (somewhat reluctantly, guilt-ridden by the number of movies and series I was hooked on) to watch Kiran Rao’s latest Netflix film, Laapataa Ladies. I must admit, at the outset, that it ...

In Taoism, the term “wu wei” (無為 in Chinese) refers to “doing nothing” or, as some claim, “non-action”, “effortless action.