LU Chronicles
Dear readers, Six months is not a lifetime. It is barely a season and a half. It lacks the symmetry of a year or the gravitas of an anniversary cast in bronze. And yet, in the life of a publication, particularly one built on borrowed time, student resolve, and a […]
“Today’s backlash against intellectual life cannot simply be written off as a popular celebration of mindlessness,” wrote Adam Waters and E.J. Dionne Jr. in Dissent. It was true of America in 2019. It is painfully true of India now. Books written in other countries, in other decades, often feel eerily […]
A recent issue of Vogue wrote, and I quote, “Fashion is cyclical. No era is immune to a remix now and again.” And this is supported by what is called the 20-year theory, which suggests that fashion trends tend to return roughly every two decades, often driven by nostalgia from […]