Philosophical thought experiments are hypothetical situations that are intended to help with the exploration of complex philosophical concepts and issues. These hypothetical situations frequently put ...

Poetry evokes emotions. Perhaps when the world turns a blind eye to the horrors in Palestine, it is crucial to read poems. In these crazy times, there is nothing like poetry to remind ourselves of ...

Austin Kleon’s 2012 bestseller Steal Like an Artist is about advice: the writing ones, the creative ones, and the stealing ones. Advice, nonetheless. In those 160-odd creative pages—with glittering ...

Madeinusa is a 2005 Peruvian-Spanish movie directed by the then-29-year-old Claudia Llosa. It tells the story of a young coming-of-age girl named Madeinusa. The story is set in a fictional small ...

The first time I encountered a philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche, I was made aware of the pitiful life he had led: the love interest that never really took off, a desirous quest into the abyss, ...

Not every day do you hear a story where you are not just left puzzled but also get you all too excited to read more about – and even write about. While working on a project about Members of Parliament ...

Hamza Alavi’s ‘The State in Post-Colonial Societies: Pakistan and Bangladesh’ is one of the highly influential essays on postcolonial societies. An influential Marxist sociologist from Pakistan ...

I completed a few books I had read halfway through, wrote reviews for those books I had read in between, and even managed to read fiction in a day. In this newsletter entry, I will list out some of ...

Recently, I sat (somewhat reluctantly, guilt-ridden by the number of movies and series I was hooked on) to watch Kiran Rao’s latest Netflix film, Laapataa Ladies. I must admit, at the outset, that it ...

Aníbal Quijano, a Peruvian sociologist, in his essay “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality”, originally published in the 1990s, makes a case for the role of modernity/rationality in sustaining ...

In this newsletter, I try making sense of writing and life. I will instead put the rest of my energy into writing my newsletter.

Writing an academic CV (Curriculum Vitae) is both a science and an art. There is a scientific method to structuring your CV as much as an artistic tune to how you build your profile. More importantly, ...