Sri City: In an age defined by volatile trends and consumption culture, we are ceaselessly bombarded with advertisements about “hot, new” products that everyone supposedly needs to purchase. And as these manufactured desires trump actual needs by creating a perceived lack in our lives which these products can fill, how do we draw a line between our own wants and needs - more importantly, our own perceptions and identities?   Image Source: https://youtu.be/PnX3S5vfNWQ?si=9XjN5

Sri City: How would you go about designing a city? Imagine that you have the best urban planners in the country, a wealth of resources at your disposal, and your location boasts a great climate with a long coastline. Would you build superhighways to accommodate traffic or build a metro rail system for efficient transport? How would you plan for sustainable growth, natural disasters, and create a thriving community of millions of people who will eventually call this place hom

Sri City: Dispatches from the comfortable side of disparity, on privilege, contradiction, and the politics of comfort.  I study and live in a university where my bedroom and washroom are cleaned for me on alternate days. The akkas that clean, call me ‘madam’ and apologise if they wake me up even at 12 pm. This university was almost certainly built on land violently grabbed from the villagers that lived there for centuries. I live in a city which is one of the biggest contribu

Sri City: 15,243 minutes, that’s how long I listened to music last year, or at least pretended to. It was one of the few highlights of my Spotify Wrapped. For those who are not aware, Wrapped is a yearly event that showcases our top 5 artists and the music we listened to throughout the year. It’s essentially just a page with some useful stats, but for me, it was different. I had poured all my heart and soul into curating my Wrapped, and I had it perfected down to a science. P

Sri City: “They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite

Sri City: I come from a people who pray five times a day and make tea. I admire the way they do both. How they drop to the ground...

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