Picture this: You see a boy and girl hugging for a ‘long time’ in school. You think it’s inappropriate. You ask the students to disengage. The boy refuses. You get enraged at this open act of defiance. You warn them and demand a written apology. Despite both actions, you suspend them. Students admonished for such…
Category: Potpourri Perspectives
Going Hair-Free (And Loving It)
Why I chose to shave my head.
If News Were Pick-Up Lines
If you’re coming here from the NewsRap episode, then HELLO FAM! 😀 Here’s the guide to some amaze pick-up lines, all inspired by my favourite thing in the world – The News! #1: Hey girl, are you China? Because I have some area you can illegally occupy. China and India are currently engaged in a…
10 Tips for a Spectacular Trek to Triund, Himachal Pradesh
Why: Triund is a beautiful mountain-top area in Himachal Pradesh, accessible by a 6 kilometre up-hill trek from McLeod Ganj. The night-sky is inexplicably vivid and the stars and moon will never be the same for you again. How to get there: Bus from Kashmere Gate ISBT, New Delhi. Costs Rs 600 – 1700 Flight…
Dye Another Day: My 5-Year Hair Colour Journey (and more to come!)
Combine the infinite resources on the internet and plenty of foolhardiness – and your head can become the embodiment of Joseph’s coat of many colours. To everyone out there who’s terrified of colouring your hair, here’s the journey of someone who’s had the entire colour spectrum on their hair and isn’t bald now. (Yet) Streaking…
The MRTS Saga: The Story behind a News Story
A story of how we tried to cut through the red tape (and failed hilariously) for a news report as naive journalism students. Why We Needed to do the Story: It was the Reporting module week in my first term at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. We were told to come up with…
When Men entered the Women’s compartment of the Delhi Metro
On Misogynistic memes, women reinforcing patriarchal norms and why we need separate spaces for women in public spaces. It was around 10 o’clock on a Monday morning. I made my way to the Noida sector 18 metro station, hurrying up the escalator as I heard the Delhi Metro pulling into the station. I raced towards…
One Week in Flood-hit Chennai.
It had been raining heavily since a month, and we were used to it. Chennai was transforming itself from a sweaty furnace to a frigid shower that had no drain. Roads were flooded, traffic was at a snail’s pace – yet the city went on. It rained heavily in the third week of November and…
Is Music Activism a Farce? : #KodaikanalWont and Sofia Ashraf
In the 23 days the “Kodaikanal Won’t” music video has been on YouTube, it has gotten (as of 21 Aug): 3,051,728 million views 86,692 signatures (just short of its 100,000 mark) asking Unilever to own up, on jhatkaa.org, the organization that launched the video. #kodaikanalwont and #unileverpollutes trending on Twitter. Written and performed by rapper Sofia…
First post, firstpost?
Aloha readers! You may have stumbled upon this blog by choice or by chance, but I hope that this helps you in some way. Maybe it will make you laugh, or think or even give you a reason to share it with other people. Bottom line, I hope it helps. I started this blog for…
Satshya (n.) Being Witness 