Siya Girisaballa

Sri City : About a month ago, a friend and I found ourselves discussing our favourite childhood books, a conversation that, in hindsight, revealed far more about our present than our past. We were both once voracious readers, the kind who tore through fantasy novels with a kind of religious devotion. Yet somewhere between adolescence and the pandemic, this habit disappeared entirely. The more we spoke, the more difficult it became to ignore the uncomfortable correlation between our declining...

Sri City: At the fear of sounding like a nostalgic parrot to my friends reading this, back in my first year, the campus culture was very different in many ways. But one of the most profound ways definitely has to be the way that information was passed about events, i.e. marketing. There was a film club then that would host events like movie screenings and discussion circles, and they had one rule- no whatsapp messages, or stories, or any form of digital communication. Their way of spreading...