The Debate Workshop

Paradigm Shift conducted a debate workshop on the 7th of March to introduce and explain the concept and format of British Parliamentary debating. The room was packed to capacity with students eager to learn the art.

The workshop began with a description of the debate format and the enumeration of … Continue Reading

Summit Manipal MMXVI: The Workshop

Summit Manipal MMXVI, which will be hosted by Manipal Institute of Technology, is one of the country’s best and oldest college-level Model United Nations conferences. The much anticipated event will be held between March 17th to 20th. In anticipation of the event, Leaders of Tomorrow conducted an MUN Training Session … Continue Reading

Deadpool: The MTTN Review

With an opening credits sequence that insults every person who would be fawned over in a different movie, Deadpool confirms, right at the beginning, that it is exactly what it’s been sold as: A lesson in not taking yourself too seriously. If only the Indian censor board had paid more … Continue Reading

Bookstore Hopping

Like bar-hopping, except  cooler

In a town designed to provide everything a college student could want, fiction takes a backseat to academics on bookstore shelves. A Mecca for booklovers Manipal is not. Or so people believe. The quest, one warm Sunday afternoon, was to test the veracity of this statement. … Continue Reading

A Tale of Six Books

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Book: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Author: Susanna Clarke

Genre: Fantasy

Susanna Clarke’s 2004 debut fantasy novel is not an easy read but it’s definitely an engrossing one. It’s generously flavoured with satire and beautiful, if sometimes over-the-top, descriptions. Its many characters are well crafted and fascinating but difficult to … Continue Reading

Crossroads

What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that you had no reflection? You look into a mirror, any mirror, every mirror and blankness stares back at you.

This was the start of Aaina’s first play of the semester, Reflections. It was supposed to be about … Continue Reading

Lights Out

It is an evening in Mumbai in 1982. Imagine you are a woman trapped in a building by four men, terrified out of your wits. In the apartment complex next door, Leela, her husband Bhaskar and their friend Mohan gather for dinner. They are utter strangers to you and they … Continue Reading

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