Editorial

Two Achievements of the Government and Two Failures of Lucknow University’s Institutions — From Sanskritiki and ABVP to Jantar Mantar

On any ordinary day, Jantar Mantar is a curious monument to time. The eighteenth-century instruments, built to measure the heavens, remind visitors that a nation once looked upward, to the stars, to possibility, to reason itself. For nearly three centuries, they have watched empires rise, governments fall, and flags change. […]

Perfectionism: The Most Praised Form of Self-Destruction

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 […]

Letter from a Young Newsroom 

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 […]