In every neighbourhood, there are detectives and the supposed mysterious characters. Every family holds that one character who tends to get sceptical of everything and does not and will not accept ...

Dinjith Ayyathan’s ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’, a 2024 Malayalam thriller, enmeshes emotions, familial relations, and mystery in his storytelling. Monikered after Ramayana’s Kishkindha Kaandam, where Lord ...

The Indian state works interestingly; it is powerful and powerless simultaneously. Take the police as a state institution, for instance. Even to this day, after seventy-five years of Indian ...

We all go on trips with friends. Those car rides. Those stops on the roadside to sip a cup of chai. That loud music and too much noise huddling between soothing classical tunes and the ...

When Sam Altman’s OpenAI released ChatGPT, I was clearly amazed. ChatGPT did most of everything that Google did before it, calculators did before Google, and humans did before calculators. In the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

In today’s technocratic world, control is the highest virtue. We are urged to control our routine, our surroundings, our peers and family, our relationships, our mobile phones, our data—and at last, ...

Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and The Last Man is an essential book on international politics. Published in 1991, it has garnered praise and scorn for its proposed claims. Every book on global ...

Nearly four years in Delhi now, today, on May 28 th 2023, I visited Delhi’s famous Sunday book market. The experience of treading through things to do books all around has been ecstatic. With people ...

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 ...

Philosophical thought experiments are hypothetical situations that are intended to help with the exploration of complex philosophical concepts and issues. These hypothetical situations frequently put ...