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 [...]
By Rama Vivek Gulavani, Junior Editor Source Virat Kohli, the former captain of the Indian cricket team, once said, “The bat is not a toy; it is a weapon”. While the sportsman was referring to his game, India has proved his statement true in various fields. Born in southeast England, the first documented proof of [...]
By Ananya J., Junior Editor A research paper titled “From Cradles to Canes: the Cost of being a Female Consumer”, noted that throughout the course of their lives, women pay a “gender tax”, wherein they incur a hefty amount to purchase similar products as men. To give you an idea of this hefty amount, the [...]
By Srishti Menon, Editor-in-Chief When was the last time you streamed your favourite artist or podcast on Spotify? Did you frustratedly sigh into your phone, as you impatiently waited for those repetitive ads to ebb away? Maybe you should have signed up for the premium version, after all. Sounds familiar? Many of us have [...]
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 [...]
by Surabhi Chhikara Deputy Editor Source Whether or not one claims to be unaffected by the Korean wave or ‘Hallyu’, they cannot deny they’ve heard of it- be it BTS, finger-hearts or kimchi. At a time when South Korea or the Republic of Korea to be precise, has made huge leaps in terms of its [...]
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 [...]
By Gitika Arora, Junior Editor In today's world the fear of being ghosted is more than the fear of seeing a ghost itself. But today we aren't here to talk about why you were ghosted (it is not your fault honey !), but rather about Ghosting in the Big Buck world of Stock Markets. According [...]
An Analysis of Consumerism Gitika Arora, Junior Editor “Cristal, Maybach, Diamonds on your timepiece” go the lyrics of “Royals” by Lorde, an anti-materialistic anthem that sought to call out the hyper-consumerism propagated by the music Industry. But the irony is the single—a product created and sold by major labels propelled the singer to stardom and [...]
By Medha Arora, Deputy Editor It’s no secret that Gen Z is really big on trends- whether it’s a dance on TikTok, a talking dog audio on Instagram reels, some sort of #challenge or even sweatpants and septum piercings. This digitally native generation follows trends from across the world and never fails to kickstart new [...]
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