by:Nandini Misra,16 ”Oh my god! You have put on so much weight, why don’t you go on a diet?you will look so much better!” ”Why don’t you eat? you look so thin and weak just like a stick!” ”You know you have really good features for a dark person.” ”You just don’t look Indian, look…
By: Shreya Sudan,17 and Aadyaa Shukla Tiwari,17 Eurocentrism is a distorted ideology that presents western civilization as the pinnacle of human progress to the global south. At the core of Eurocentrism lies a binary way of thinking which constructs a white, progressive, modern, “civilized” European identity juxtaposed to an indigenous, developing, and traditional identity. The…
by: Pia Mathur ,16 and Sabreen Sukhjia,16 All too often, we let the women around us define their self-worth by the way their body looks. We’re very quick to judge these women, label them as “artificial” and brush it off like it’s no big deal. We never stop to think about WHY this happens. The…
by: Madhav Gupta,16 As the nation stares at a possible outbreak of the coronavirus, the question of whether and how the nation will be able to cope with it arises. India was hit by the pandemic later than most countries but it was struck at the time that the virus was exploding in places such…
by: Aadyaa Shukla Tiwari,17 Now that we are holed up in our homes in midst of a pandemic which poses an unforeseeable future we find ourselves going through a variety of emotions: while some of us have succumbed to tedium others are struggling with the prevailing anxiety. Thus it is high time to scour through…
by: Sanjana Bhargava,16 When a girl gets attached She is loyal and faithful She is honest and dependable She is trustable Most importantly she is vulnerable She will be annoying Clingy on some days She will be jealous, insecure, a tiny bit insane But that is solely because her love for you is insane You…
by: Sabreen Sukhija,16 We can see what huge potential transgender people have if only people will give us the respect to let us live “ -Rudrani Chhetri Since the day you are born in this world you are taught to differentiate between good and bad, taught which certain words are meant to be spoken in…
by: Siddhant Agarwal,16 From a superficial perspective the political “enmity” ( an apt description for the relationship if based on the four conventional wars that have been fought between these nations or the first thought that comes into the mind of 70 percent of Indians when asked about their feelings for Pakistan and vice-versa) between…
by: Anonymous It is often the bully-the antagonist- who is blamed for his actions, but the underlying reasons which lead to the act itself are often ignored. So, what causes someone to cause another pain? What causes a kid like you and me to drive someone to hate themselves? The answer is simple. Violence begets…
