by Ayesha Gajre Frank Ocean’s set at Coachella 2023 was, on all accounts, a messy affair, leaving many fans disoriented and longingly nostalgic for his last performance at the festival in 2016. Nonetheless, the pandemonium can be viewed as a reflection of the artist’s constant evolution, evident in his exploration of metamorphosis in his personal…
Category: Opinion
Why We’re Doing Beauty Wrong.
By Osheen Khurana *Disclaimer: This article is an opinion piece, and the thoughts reflected within it are those of the author. This should not be considered scientific, nor a substitute for professional mental help or guidance. What is beauty, really? Is it what we see in magazines and large department stores? Or on our phones,…
Can We Consider Astrology a Science?
By Jia Dsouza For centuries, our ancestors have turned to the stars to reveal their fate, and who could blame them? It is not easy navigating through a world full of unknowns. However, uncertainty is probably the only constant in our universe. Whether it is seeing a pandit with your parents or manifesting a better…
Karmic Justice: Is it Real?
By Yashas Ramakrishnan To many a mind, religion is the single most important factor when it comes to practically anything, from making life decisions, minor or major, to their day-to-day actions, to even their self-driven code of conduct. Indeed, having a religion, a faith in some being or cosmic force so far greater than oneself…
What Goes Around, Comes Around
By Nandini Sharma “Karma – what goes around, comes around. One day you will get punished for what you did today.” The first time I heard about this fascinating idea was from my teacher in third grade, who scolded a student for bullying his classmate. And what came next surprised me. It was like a…
Karma: A Teacher Interview
By Nandita Chennakrishnan, Yashas Ramakrishnan and Others Hi there! We’re back in February, which means the Casual Observer is bringing you another edition of the much-anticipated teacher interview segment. This month, for the highly controversial theme of Karma, we asked our beloved NPSi teachers (Ms. Radhika, Mr. CK Tan and Ms. Shiba) engrossing questions to…
Life as a Spiral: An Abstract Commentary on Perception
Take a look at the picture above. It looks like a spiralling rope against a checkerboard pattern right? What if I told you that the image just consists of concentric circles? This image explores the very vast phenomenon of perception and serves as proof that everyone sees things differently. I like to believe that our…
Time Travel – The Dangers of Looking Back
By Sehjot Singh Have you ever looked back in history and thought to yourself, “I could have done this better”, or, “if someone just changed this one detail, everything would have been better?” If only the world had a time machine, people could have gone back and stopped major catastrophes like the holocaust by killing…
Immunity and the Constitution
By Anonymous The time has finally come where us adolescents are finally getting our doses. Alas, the time has come where we finally have sure-shot protection against the novel coronavirus. The pace of the entire process in which vaccines have been developed, tested and administered has truly been remarkable and is reflective of this generation’s…
Positive Causal Sequences
By Atreyi Roy All of us must have heard about the phrase “domino effect” at least once in our lives, right? The domino theory started as a geopolitical theory prominent in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s which was used to incite fear that if one country in a region came under…
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