Recent Issues

National

Indian Navy: Guardians of the Ocean, Shapers of History

In recent times, global attention has returned to strategic maritime chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz, where countries like the USA and other powerful nations demonstrate their blue-water naval strength by imposing blockades on enemy shipping routes. Whenever we see such news, we naturally wonder about whether the Indian […]

Features, Op-ed

Heteronormativity as a Historical and Social System

The claim that heterosexuality is “natural,” this essay argues, persists not because it is self-evident, but because it is continually reproduced as such. What often appears as common sense – that men and women are inherently different, that they are naturally drawn to each other, and that society is organized […]

Cinema

Would I Go Back?

There are, to me, two kinds of speculative readers: those who are driven by plot, and those who are driven by character. The distinction is not absolute; both elements exist in any meaningful story, but most of us lean instinctively toward one. I find myself, almost stubbornly, on the side […]