For years, tales of heinous crimes have dominated the front pages. We talk about themover lunch with friends and click on breaking bulletins during a pause from our hecticschedules. But what about these dark narratives captivates us, pulling us into a realm ofhorror and intrigue despite their grim realities? Do we enjoy the thrill of... Continue Reading →
India’s Urban Mobility Crisis
India is treading down a dangerous path. The country is at a crossroads, much like the West was for most of the 20th century. It needs to make critical decisions that will shape life in urban India for the next few decades. India's urban centers are grappling with a rapidly growing population and a corresponding... Continue Reading →
Breaking the Silence: On more and more students taking the big step
Year after year, one gets to hear of more and more students who decided it better to lay upon their lives rather than take any more of the academic burden upon their shoulders. The most recent example being the Goa campus, where it is the third time a student took the grave decision in just... Continue Reading →
An opinion piece on NYT’s Opinion pieces
By Vaibhavi Pandey (2023), a leftist who still reads the paper - mostly to check my blood pressure. If The New York Times’s Opinion shop set up at Fervour, it would sweep ELAS’s Devil’s Advocate: not because its arguments are consistently sharp, but because few institutions have turned contrarianism into a house style quite so... Continue Reading →
The Internet: Home to Bigotry and Everything Else Too
Over the years, the Internet has evolved into a home for various spaces and communities. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic made it practically impossible for one to live without an online presence of any capacity. This strong, inescapable relationship with the online atmosphere has too many impacts to explore exhaustively, but one of them is the... Continue Reading →
