When Visualization Turns Into Illusion Scroll through Instagram or Pinterest at the start of any new year and you’ll see it everywhere: perfectly curated vision boards. Soft beige backgrounds, luxury cars cut out from magazines, dream houses with huge windows, quotes in cursive fonts saying “This is my year” or […]
Op-ed
Anti-Intellectualism Is Bad for LU, and India
“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 […]
Animal Farm: The Hopelessness of Being a Pawn
I read George Orwell’s Animal Farm the other day, and felt a sense of hopelessness when I finished the novella. the story is set around a farm called the ‘Manor Farm’, owned by Mr. Jones, a farmer who was once a hardworking man who took care of his animals, but […]