Topic

Culture

A collection of 38 issues

Masks in Motion : The Aesthetics of Chaos, Seduction, and Selfhood at the Party

The Shattered Mirror of Selfhood There is a peculiar alchemy at work in the dim glow of a party. The lights flicker, music thunders, and faces shift like waves on a restless sea. Here, amidst the throb of bass and the clink of glasses, something curious happens to the self.

The Price of Time : A Personal Discourse on Valuing Life’s Most Fleeting Currency

In the relentless churn of daily obligations, demands, and the omnipresent noise of modern existence, I have come to one nagging question: What is the worth of my time? Time — this currency no bank vault can hold, no ledger can account for, and no contract can truly secure. Perhaps the

How Our Existence Unfolds as Contradictions?

Existence is a curious paradox, isn’t it? Here we are, suspended between the yearning for infinite possibilities and the stark finitude of our lives, caught in a web of contradictions that define our very being. We crave freedom yet cling to structure, seek connection yet guard our solitude, and

Elegy for the Coiled Souls

There’s a unique sadness I feel when I encounter people who embody, in their own way, the likeness of a snake. The sadness isn’t a sorrow I feel for myself or for the interactions we’ve had, but rather a quiet lament for them, for the human condition

Consumerism and the Absurd Search for Fulfillment : A Tale of False Promises and Empty Shelves

As I sit in solitude, far from the humming neon lights of shopping malls and the endless scroll of online marketplaces, a thought takes root in my mind : the absurdity of life is magnified by our insatiable appetite for consumption. We have built a world where fulfillment is not only

The Quiet Cage : How Society Has Been Domesticating Humans?

I have often wondered, as I sit in the silence of my solitude, about the invisible bars encasing our lives. They are not made of steel, nor are they obvious. They are the bars of norms, expectations, and institutional conditioning that I have come to see as society’s quiet

The Heart of the World is Broken : A Reflection on Fractured Wholeness

As I sit with this thought — that the heart of the world is broken — I wonder if such a statement is too grandiose, too metaphorical, or too visceral to grapple with. And yet, the more I contemplate it, the more I feel its undeniable truth. Is it not evident in

Living, a Multi-Dimensional Payoff Function

In navigating the contours of existence, I have often questioned the reductionist paradigms that frame life as a sequence of linear decisions aimed at singular, deterministic outcomes. Rather, I have come to perceive life as a multi-dimensional payoff function — a philosophical metaphor capturing the complex interplay of values, desires, and

The Fragile Reign of Reason : Why Perfect Logic is a Myth?

Logic, they say, is the highest faculty of human intelligence — a tool that sets us apart, elevates us from chaos, and grants us a semblance of control over a fundamentally indifferent universe. But as I sit here, reflecting on countless instances when reason faltered in the face of human complexity,

The Priori Principle of Thought : Beneath the Bedrock of Knowing

As I sit alone in the soft glow of an afternoon that insists on being both languid and restless, a question takes shape in the space between my thoughts : How is it that I think at all? Not the kind of thought that rolls easily off the tongue in casual