This article has been written by Megha Mehta (Batch of 2019). One of the side-effects of living away in a small, gated community isolated from urban civilization by dense patches of forest and bad roads is that it is easy to form toxic and often co-dependent attachments to others living within the same community. This is especially because a lot of us do not have access to home, hence we rely upon rank outsiders, about whose childhood and real background we have no informatio

This article was written by Aniruddh Nigam (Batch of 2019). I’m done with Tinder. Yup, it’s over. Consider me retired. Someone take my phone and drag the Tinder icon to the ‘uninstall’ icon. Let’s be clear what my grouch is not about. It’s not about the one Tinder incident which everyone in college loves to exaggerate and joke about (screw you Bunty, I did not ask you what you were wearing). It’s also not some regurgitated crap about how vain Tinder makes us, because I’m the

Nupur Raut (Batch of 2017) Those who date nonconformists often wonder How they must please their significant other. But I’ve figured one of these types out: Let me tell you how it’s to be gone about. The first thing to do is to stay away from convention (Fancy dinners are something you must never mention). Do whatever you can that’s not the norm, Find a way to not conform. Don’t gift him on his birthday, because dates are an illusion. Heck, find him a way to start a proletari

Vani Sharma I’m lying back on my couch, making love while the nation burns In a pixelated fire, conjured daily in news studios and fuelled by The words of errant anchors; words that the nation doesn’t want to know And would be better off silencing, really. I shift beneath him and sigh, arch my back, my eyes shut: While a woman loses face to blackness and pain I voluntarily embrace the blindness that pleasure brings. I listen not for the sounds of dissent, or the sounds of hat