Guilt and Resistance: Han and the June 10th Movement in Colonial Korea

By. Cherry Hitkari This article was presented in the two-day Satyam Jha Paper Presentation Series under the theme 'Histories of Crime, Guilt and Innocence' held on 19th and 20th January.  Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide and violence.  Emotions play a major role in shaping history, guilt being no exception. In colonial Korea …

The Last flicker or a Dying flame: The Dialectic of Remembering and Forgetting in Gurdial Singh’s Marhi Da Deeva

By Madhav Nayar. Situating Marhi Da Deeva The novel Marhi Da Deeva revolves around the economic life and relations of two families: that of landowner Dharam Singh and farmworker Thola and his son Jagseer. Thola assists Dharam Singh’s father in turning vast stretches of his sandy, rocky and uncultivable land into an arable one. In …

Peering Through the Lens: Pictures and Perspectives

By Shilpa Mariam Joseph and Soumya Singh. Authors’ note: This article has been written in tribute to Danish Siddiqui. The massive outpouring of grief, alongside an appreciation for the kind of exceptional work he had done is a testament to the power of photography. Danish Siddiqui's work truly embodied art; subtle details and  implications. Photography …

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Later-Life Sexuality: A Slow Transgression in Cinema By Anushka Pragya.Disclaimers: Spoiler Alert. Mentions and details of sexual intercourse and activities, and associated stigma. A healthy sex life, which brings with it more than just procreation, is now recognised as important for one’s mental and physical well-being. But there is a vast difference in approaches towards …

The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions

By Ishita Agarwal. The Olympic motto, ‘Citius-Altius-Fortius’ (Latin for ‘Faster-Higher-Stronger’), resonates in the minds of spectators with the coming of each new Games. One can rightly say that the history of the Modern Olympics, dating back to 1896, runs parallel to that of human distinction. Myriad stories of origin of the ancient Olympic Games have …

Flower Women, Tropical Crazes, Beatniks: Snapshots of Fashion from Post World War II North America and Europe

By Oshin Tomar. ‘Fashion is not an island; it's a response.’- Amanda Hallay On February 12, 1947, a French couturier, the renowned Christian Dior, presented his debut haute couture collection, Corolle, to le Tout Paris (the cream of the Parisian society). It was welcomed with much love and excitement. ‘It's quite a revolution, dear Christian! …

A Warm History

By Vishwanath Varnika Priyadarshini This article explores the many uses of knitting and crochet through history: as art, on sculptures, as a tool for political activism, for survival during the Irish famine, as street art and vandalism through yarn-bombing, and more. It also traces the history of these fabric-creation techniques, and their predecessors -- from …

Jaw, Jaw: Strife, Shortage, and Snack

By Chaitanya Rawat. War, they say, changes everything. This is more exacerbated in the case for World Wars, arguably the most gruesome form of 'Total War' ever witnessed on such a scale. The changes brought forth by them, are too numerous to count, and that calculation would not even consider other conflicts throughout history. Thus, …

Arranging the Blocks: The Enemy, the Union, and the Game

By Chaitanya Rawat. For as long as they have existed, representations of entities in the media have often drawn the ire of members of the academic community. An interesting example of this would be the modern depiction of the Soviet Union through one of the most widespread means of interactive media – videogames. To begin …