First impressions: how opening lines shape literature
“Here is one way I propose that you read this book.” That's how one of India’s most iconic works of fiction began. R.K. Narayan’s...
Arpo Irro: The youth festival modernising Onam
The sound of the drums, coupled with the ecstatic chant of “Arpo…irro, irro, irro” echoed through the Penrith Regional Sports Centre during Sydney’s first...
Shashi Tharoor: Lost in a wonderland of words
A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language, with its penchant for purloining from other languages, its hermetic spellings, its...
Ananya’s ready to make a splash at VSSS
Singer Ananya Hariharan remembers when she first found out about the annual Victorian State School Spectacular (VSSS), via a Facebook ad her dad saw...
Vir Srinivas’ film on the hidden victims of AI
Mophat Okinyi has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2024. A former content moderator, Nairobi-based Okinyi helped...