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Stories from the Echoes desk
Essays, reviews, and reflections written by the club.
By Meera
THE LESS I KNOW THE BETTER
For those who have loved too deeply, lost too quickly, and been changed by the truths they were never ready to face, there comes a time when they learn that pea…
By Prabhnoor Arora
Love And Its Counterparts
How many loves do you get in a lifetime? How many before the heart is worn and the skin detached? Do you sit and wonder if that one person was your last love, o…
By Asmi
I Think Therefore I Am (Tired)
There are days I wake up feeling like someone else has already lived half of me. Like I’ve walked through corridors I don’t remember entering, nodded in rooms I…
By Thetsu
A Thousand Clocks in the Same Room
You open the door, and the first thing you hear is chaos. Ticking. Whirring. Clicking. Time hits you in the face. Definitely not like a breeze, but a storm. A t…
By Nimar Sidhu
Confessions of a Sheep in a Wolf’s Clothing
I was raised by a set of parents with equally volatile emotions as mine yet somehow they did not come out passionately enough. However, this is no commentary on…
By Pakhi
Petrichor
I fell in love with the rain the day my mother put a name to the smell after the first show. The eerie silence in the air and the numbness in the soil, that dre…
By Anannya Singh(Published on: 18th November 2020)
A Letter to my Future Self (4 years later)
Dear future self, hi. Not to sound too dark but I’d be surprised if this letter ever finds you because honestly speaking, the place I’m speaking from, man next …
By Review by Modita Sharma
A Walk to Remember
Book Review "It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember." A Walk to Remember is a drama ro…
By Anamika Srivastava
All Love is Loving
People fear for their lives simply because they love. If you ask me, it’s rather sad that love is countered with hate. Every person is unique and they are a man…
By Mila Mitra, Academic Head, STEM & Space andNetra Hirani, Student, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology(Published on: 21st August 2020 in Hindustan Times E-Paper)
Cracking The 'Code'
Machine code, or simply code, is the language that computers understand and in which they accept instructions. Coding, or developing machine code, is at the hea…
By Aditi Puri
Did God really make us do it?
A fisherman is heading home at dusk. The river is narrow. Suddenly another boat is headed straight for him, approaching rapidly. He gets upset and starts to yel…
By Anamika Srivastava
Doubt
I wonder how the world gave you reasons enough to doubt, the smile that you are made up of and the constellations you’re all about. How can a mug of insecuritie…
By Review by Kartik Arora
Game of Thrones
Book Review We all have good and evil in us. There are very few pure paragons and very few orcs. A villain is a hero of the other side. Game of Thrones is a fan…
By Guest Review by Suvrat Arora
Girl Made of Gold
Book Review Girl Made of Gold, the debut novel of Gitanjali Kolanad is an intricately crafted piece of literature. The story is set in the 1920s in Thanjavur, i…
By Netra Hirani(Published on: 29th November 2020)
More than Strangers
The sun shines brighter lately, your nose ring glinted across the window, lightening one eye into looking light brown, the other a dark shade of wood. Twisted h…
By Sparsh Lamba
Power of Tensor
This could be it! Google recently announced their new flagship line-up, Pixel 6 and 6 pro. The purpose of this post is not to review the phone, but to talk abou…
By Review by Netra Hirani
Pulp
Book Review “Well, the rain had stopped, but the pain was still there.” If you are a newcomer to the works of internationally proclaimed American writer, Charle…
By Shreya Gupta
Pygmalion's Sword
You may or may not have heard of the Pygmalion effect. It's a phenomenon that states that higher expectations lead to better performance, taking its name from a…
By Modita Sharma
Shame
It truly is a shame, How girls to the society are still a stigma and a bane. What I want is not so hard To be understood by a person with or without a legal car…
By Review by Anamika Srivastava
The Da Vinci Code
Book Review The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a fast-paced, engaging thriller revolving around Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, in a race against time to rev…