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 […]
They tell you, politely, that the world is what it is: messy, dangerous, and therefore to be managed by people who have seen the maps and read the books. Questioning the necessity of weapons that can erase cities, nuclear weapons, the all-consuming instruments of modern statecraft, will earn you a […]
They never tell you that most good things start in fear. And that is the problem. Not the dramatic, life-or-death kind of fear, but the quiet, shaky, what-if-I’m-wrong kind. The fear that sits in your stomach when you try to do something bigger than yourself, something uncertain, something uninvited. The […]
The corporate world loves a woman who knows her place. She’s polite in meetings, punctual in email threads, and carries just the right amount of ambition to be seen as productive, but not enough to be seen as a threat. She smiles through interruptions, thanks people for stealing her ideas, […]
In most functioning democracies, education is meant to sharpen the mind, not dull it. The textbook, for all its institutional monotony and glue-scented pages, remains a tool of possibility: a place where a young citizen might first encounter injustice, rebellion, plurality, and the spine of their nation’s history. What it […]
The Playbook Let’s begin not with a tweet or a riot, but with a pdf. It’s 920 pages long, reads like a corporate mission statement ghostwritten by Machiavelli, and goes by a name only a Bond villain or a right-wing think tank could conjure: Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership. Officially, […]
Why today’s most “important” films feel like homework – and what we’re losing in the process. There’s a peculiar silence that follows the end of a prestige film – the kind reserved for funerals, or homework you’re proud to have completed. It’s not the stunned, breathless silence that trails something […]
Once upon a time, understanding the mind meant stepping into battle – not with capes or superpowers, but with the monsters inside us. Freud, armed with his theories of the unconscious – forever searching for the mother of all answers (yes your mother).Jung with his archetypes asking us to see […]
I lit a candle that smells like neoliberalism, poured myself a mug of herbal delusion, and tried deep breathing through the existential dread of unpaid internships and overpriced therapy. They told me self-care would save me. Turns out, all it saved was capitalism’s conscience. This is your gentle reminder – […]
From the moment a girl picks up lip gloss in one hand and a book in the other, the world starts glitching. Society loves its binaries – you can be pretty or smart, stylish or serious, soft or revolutionary. Apparently, if your eyeliner is sharp, your intellect can’t be. There’s […]
In a country where indifference is rewarded, and reposting an infographic counts as activism, picking up a book might just be the most radical thing you can do. What we are witnessing is not the death of democracy, It’s the theatre of it.The stage is intact – elections held, flags […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that in a heteronormative democracy, queerness will be tolerated-so long as it stays quiet, marketable, and non-threatening. Every June, the world goes through a “phase” that erupts in rainbows. Logos turn queer. Brands turn poetic. Influencers dig up last year’s captions. Pride becomes both […]
Dear readers, The innovation with which we publish this first issue today, 7 June 2025, is justified not by ambition alone, but by a set of increasingly urgent realities: the dullness of the moment, the thinning of discourse, and the rising appetite for something more substantive among the student […]