Cinematic Diplomacy: The Raj Kapoor Way

By Ananya J., Junior Editor  Did you recently find yourself watching a Bollywood “blockbuster” and were sent into a spiral of calculating the misfortune you have been struck with? Did you feel disheartened by the ubiquity of these monotonous dull movies, falsely marketed by the filmmakers as the next big blockbuster, prompting you to question [...]

Economy, Power and Politics

( By Rama Vivek Gulavani, Junior Editor ) The year was 1919, when the Palace of Versailles stood on the outskirts of Paris, waiting to create global history. The marble walls of the hall of mirrors had the presence of 27 delegations representing 32 powers. The four representatives of the principal allied powers—France, the USA, [...]

Policymakers are More Lethal than Oppenheimer.

By Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD, Department of Economics, SRCC  The recent Barbenheimer trend smashing the box office—watching Barbie followed by Oppenheimer or vice versa all over the world--was rather a silly fad. People are not aware that conservative governments and their economists can be more destructive than physicists such as Robert Oppenheimer. The Hindu scripture [...]

Fun Fact : Women, War And Restaurants

By Gitika Arora, Junior Editor Downton fans will remember that it took Carson - The Butler, an anxiety attack to finally stomach the fact that women were going to serve in the great hall. While today, when you think of servers the picture of a “sassy” waitress pops up popularised by the likes of Penny [...]

Inter-national Treasure: Cultural appropriation and Consumption Pattern.

By Sarthak Sarkar, from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata          Abstract This article tries to establish a relation between cultural appropriation and presence of social media and how their interaction affects consumption and production decisions. Introduction Culture remains one of the most widely used yet one of the most vaguely defined terms in the common parlance of [...]