LU Chronicles
Last week, I accompanied my youngest cousin to meet a career counsellor. The conversation unfolded much as I expected it would: subjects, entrance examinations, employability, prospects, leading with the familiar vocabulary of a world preoccupied with outcomes. She was thoughtful and impeccably professional, and I assumed the meeting would remain […]
Court No. 24 reminds us that constitutional crises do not always begin with a proclamation. Sometimes, they begin when ordinary legal rules acquire extraordinary political consequences. It was in this very courtroom that the legal preface to the Emergency was written. On 12 June 1975, Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha set aside […]
I often find myself revisiting old conversations, replaying vanished summers, searching for familiar songs, and craving familiar tastes. It makes me wonder whether human beings live more in memory than in the present, forever trying to return somewhere. We spend much of our lives looking back. We replay moments long […]