Critical Theory From Germany to the USSR and Into American Classrooms
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Sexualising the Sacred and the Slave
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A Tuber's Journey to Coasts Unknown
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Beyond Trends - How Marketing Shapes Faraway Lands
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She Moves in Grace
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In Search of "Vibe"
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In Beauty We Thrive - Unselfing
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The Empty Aesthetics That Are Stealing Energy
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Culture through a clean lens - an uncluttered, uncolonised view of a wide world
IN PURSUIT OF SHIFTING PARADIGMS AND THEORIES FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
THE GAZE
The Gaze looks at the systems behind representation, the histories, commercial interests and political arrangements that shape which stories the world tells about which peoples, and why those stories so rarely originate with the people inside them.
Critical Theory From Germany to the USSR and Into American Classrooms
How does a state based on free market ideals aid a neo-Marxist theory used extensively by the KGB? The history and present of Critical Theory and its offshoots.
THE GAZE DESK
Sexualising the Sacred and the Slave
How the debasement associated with sexualisation carries through Abrahamic-binary into atheism and western discourse, demeaning the sacred, the helpless and the feminine overall
Sagorika
The Entry Fee
Developing nations are burdened to prove they are ready for investment and growth. The dependency cycle by international consultants is unfortunately self-inflicted.
THE GAZE DESK
The Most Expensive Advice In the World
The firms governments hire to write their laws also advise the corporations to be regulated. The cost of it is rarely paid by those collecting the fees.
The Editors
FOOD
Food tells stories of history and heritage. We tell the story of the farm, the farmer, the crop, the plate, the palette through a sense of taste, understanding and acceptance.
A Tuber's Journey to Coasts Unknown
Cassava reached Kerala and West Africa by the same ships, centuries apart. Kappa and fufu, born of one coastline once walked on foot, found their way back to each other.
Editors' Desk
Beyond Trends - How Marketing Shapes Faraway Lands
Unintended consequences of pineapple matcha (yes, it's a Bangalore thing) and avocado on sourdough.
Editors' Desk
TRAVEL
Travel is not always an escape. Sometimes it is an exploration of oneself and sometimes of the power of history and economics. This traveller arrives where welcomed in a quest for oneself.
CULTURE
Culture is the living argument a people has with itself across time. return. enters that argument as a reader, not a referee.
She Moves in Grace
Consideration is cultural wealth. Those able to afford it will go farther than those who dismiss it.
The Editors
In Search of "Vibe"
The person who tasted scarcity and resented becoming the crowd is the one that cannot stop complaining about democratisation of access.
Sagorika
In Beauty We Thrive - Unselfing
Beauty is not merely a matter of elitist aestheticism but of psychological evolution and civilisational progress. It is a parallel of functionality, not a "lesser than".
Sagorika
TECH
Technology changes more than lives; it changes and challenges the fabric of civilisation itself and needs a fresher eye each passing day to be made sense of through clarity, not conclusions.
PSYCHOLOGY
The mind is read here on its own terms, not through the frameworks built elsewhere to diagnose it. A people's psychology, understood without first being translated for someone else's comprehension.
"What's Your Type?"
The words we use for ourselves harden our identities into boxes that were not designed to trap, but explore. Today, they cut us away from the whole.
The Editors
Stockholm Syndrome Never Existed and Other Psychology Lies
Modern psychological frameworks that descended into pop culture lost their meaning when they did so. It is worth examining some of the popularly cited theories on how they came to be.
The Editors
Syndrome - A Diagnosis, An Alibi
Western medicine is very good at naming what it cannot explain. Syndromes leave the patient with a diagnosis where a cause and a cure should be.
The Editors