LU Chronicles
Exhaustion is glorified in our society. People parade their sleepless nights and their emotionally draining experiences as a sign of extreme ambition. The need to be perfect was once considered obsessive behavior, but today it has been wrongly interpreted as self-discipline, productivity, and “high standards.” It is praised by society […]
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 […]