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Have you seen my Mother tongue?
By Pradnya Pradhan
My mother nags me every day about how I cannot stand up for myself. This time, she made it clear to me that she would not call the clinic and book my appointment for a vaccination dose. After 16 short, comfortable years of hiding behind my mother’s back and pulling on my father’s sleeve to avoid answering questions and holding conversations, I was on my own.
To say or not to say: ParrhesiA
BY MAYANK GAHLAUT
Who decides which ideas and opinions deserve to be respected? Do statements and ideas that seem morally and ethically incorrect deserve to be heard? If so, Does that mean freedom of speech is inherently subjective instead of objective? All questions valid. All required, all necessary. And that is what I attempt to discuss.
A Gentleman in Moscow
By NITYA KHIRWAR
A Gentleman in Moscow’s blurb describes the book’s central character as having been “deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal,” which aptly sets the mood for Count Alexander Rostov’s appearance before the Emergency Committee of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs.
HEATED ARGUMENTS AND CONDESCENSION
BY ADA SETHI
Anger. So, I went ahead and yelled at my brother because he wasn’t getting up from the chair I wanted to sit on. The other day, my dad and I got in an argument over our government’s expenditure. Overconfidence. So, because he is older than I am his words/ arguments hold more value.