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Prophet of the Global Economic Problem

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Ink

Published in the Founder’s Issue of The Doon School Weekly, 2015.

For the simple lack of paper I

jury-rig your shifting form,

Wipe the deck and dip the pen

in the ink pot of your storm.

***

For the complex lack of paper I

bolster poems across your arms,

Paint my stories on your skin,

Pour my souls into your palms

***

I drop the anchor, pull you closer,

Rake our forms from stern to stern,

Watch…

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Editorial: Thinking In The Lamplight

Editorial: Thinking In The Lamplight

Published in the Founder’s Issue of The Doon School Weekly, 2015.

Penning this Editorial has been a surreal journey. It started three weeks ago, in the warm glow of a nocturnal lamplight at 4am in the morning. The grand silence that pervaded my thoughts was deafening, because there was so much going through my head that it seemed as though the House Feast was in full swing outside. I shut my…

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Monochrome Tales (September 2015)

Reviewing Michael Kenna: A Journey Through Asia (A Tasveer publication)

Published in the September issue of the JetWings magazine, operated by the Jet Airways airline.

Michael Kenna: A Journey Through Asia, is a carefully curated collection of images that encapsulates the British photographer’s ethos of a duality of stillness and movement, reality and ethereality.

Text: Arnaav Bhavanani

It’s rather rare to find a photograph that transcends the reality…

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Your Story Published in the Founder's Issue of The Doon School Weekly 2012. Sitting in a cramped compartment of an armoured car, driving out into the heat of battle.

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The Cold Shoulder Published in the Founder's Issue of The Doon School Weekly, 2011. Somewhere a dog barked In the cold, freezing night,

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A Century of Violence, An Eternity of Death Note: This Speech won the Shrivindu Mehta Trophy for the Best Assembly Speech 2014 (An intra-school individual award).

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JetWings International: Weekend Trails (August 2015)

JetWings International: Weekend Trails (August 2015)

WEEKEND trails

Looking for someplace new to visit this weekend? Try the following getaways from three exciting destinations.

Text: Arnaav Bhavanani

CHALSA from Bagdogra

WHY: Known as one of the most beautiful destinations in India, Chalsa is a town in the Doors region of India’s north-east that holds swathes of tea plantations and wildlife such as elephants and the one-horned rhinoceros.…

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Editorial: A Rambling Nostalgia

(Published in Issue No. 2409 of The Doon School Weekly)

Saturday, August 8 2015

I wrote this on a Thursday night, a day before the Weeklygoes for print. There was very little time, and with so much to do I was getting a bit apprehensive. I didn’t want to sound clichéd, and I didn’t want to come across as didactic, asking students to buckle up because this term is going to be busy. What’s the…

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A Critique of Dan Brown's Inferno

(Published in Issue No. 2404 of The Doon School Weekly)

Saturday, April 25 2015

Before we begin, it’s important to note that this article (sadly) functions as a spoiler alert for those who have not read the book and plan to. For those who have, we hope that this critical evaluation of Inferno serves as the much needed opposing argument to Brown’s solution.

In his book, Dan Brown presents a…

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Achilles

With eyes that pierce the darkness,

He watches Mother’s door.

Grasps the soldier Father gave

An armored doll of war.

In time he’ll be a legend,

Entombed in marble bust.

When the flags of Troy lie in the ground,

Their poles conceived of rust.

But for now he watches Mother’s door,

And hopes she’ll walk inside.

A Nereid’s laugh, so captivating,

As soft as silken tides.

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Will

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(Printed in Issue No. 2286 of The Doon School Weekly)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

  The cancer struck

My decrepit, sad frame.

My will to fight,

Has gone down the drain

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I’m lost in darkness,

Fumbling blind

Aching for

My once young mind

 ***

The last thing I feel,

Before I’m gone,

Is the unholy sadness

Of being alone

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As I once more plunge

Into the darkness,

I’m letting go,

Of my dark essence

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Editorial: The Nature Of Our Service

(Published in Issue No. 2400 of The Doon School Weekly)

Saturday, March 21 2015

Our Main Building is the oldest building on campus. Its foundations are solid, and its structure is incredibly strong. But time is ticking, and nothing old is indestructible. Change is required, because all things are vulnerable, and in time, the foundations of the Main Building too will collapse. Scary thought,…

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Editorial: Here's To 2015

80 years. The Dosco’s have come a long way since the first student discovered the hallways of the Main Building, and yet it seems as though there’s such a long way to go. Browsing through Weeklies of previous years, I noticed that the last Editorial written in the New Year’s first Weeklywas back in 2010. That was another milestone: DS75, the Platinum Jubilee. It seems fitting, then, that the next…

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Simple, beautiful & ad-free. Read the manifesto:

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Bad economy.

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Not a lot of people who have seen this popular meme on the internet know its true purpose. this cat is different from the others simply because it advocates a distrust and misplaced dependency on the economy. it is, essentially, a cat suffering from a falling economy and rising prices. it is the quintessential commoner, in an animalistic sense

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Joy, Depression, and the Volatility of the Holiday Season

The holidays are usually a joyous time where children excitedly await the arrival of old Saint Nick and the populace scramble to stay ahead of the Christmas rush. Retailers avidly rely on this time of year, typically making at least a third of their revenue during the holiday season. The economy can hinge on the amount of cash outpouring into the retail sector. Everybody’s happy, but not really. Given the current state of horrific events, depression is apparently as much a part of the holidays as the commercial sell-out of Santa and the holiday season itself. To our dismay, the dark events of the season can overshadow the joy it was meant to bring, but this is not a current trend.

A December 17, 1951 Life article ran a story titled “Santa Claus to Santa Stooge”, all about the horrors of Santa shilling products and participating in promotional stunts. Apparently this was a new thing for the Greatest Generation to cope with, on account of the behavior of one of the guys playing Santa in a parade in Ontario. He found himself being rushed by excited children to the point of losing his temper. He responded by kicking wildly at all the children that were mobbing him. The sight of Santa kicking children is enough to make even the toughest of cynics cringe but the emotional damage to children is unfathomable.

For those of us with our mental health intact, it’s time to reach out to others that are alone or who are going through a rough period during the holidays. Humanity has the combined power to blot out a sizable chunk of the volatility and stress that has taken ahold of the holidays. Think of the movie A Christmas Carol, where a disagreeable, money-grubbing, old man was spiritually transformed to see the beauty and feel the love of his fellow man during Christmas. We all have the ability to transform ourselves and others to see that the joys of life can overshadow the negative, and we don’t have to go bankrupt, financially or spiritually, while doing it. Happy holidays.

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This is one of the numerous reasons our economy is falling in upon itself. Capitalism is not a perfect system, and it has taken time, but we are now realizing that there is simply not enough money to go around, and printing it isnt helping anyone when the inflation jumps by leaps and bounds. the poor get poorer, and the rich start having to paay more attention to the money theyre holding. it is the seed of chaos

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Criticizing the Critics

Every once in a while, a man comes along who criticizes the established order. he goes against the system, he bends and breaks the rules. if his motives are powerful enough, his way becomes the way of people other than those he seeks to convert, and his life becomes a movement. this is known as an uprising. and often in the arena of economy and its intensely complicated networks, it is welcomed. and as an observer of such phenomenon, i decided to critique the critics. 

is our economy really falling apart? are we really as useless at controlling our economies as we 'should'? every economy goes through its highs and lows. the world economy as a whole goes through a very sketchy unpredictable graph that can go either way depending on future economic breakthroughs or meltdowns. are we really so qualified to critique the very economics that economists themselves have a hard time undersatnding? 

look at the graph below:

Do you see a pattern? hardly. the only 'pattern as such is that after every high in an economy, there is a slump, when the bubble bursts. such a burst happens due to x number of reasons, and it is very very hard to locate and identify a single source of the burst except in rare cases when the economy falls because of a certain occurrence. 

note: the reason i have taken a GDP graph is because in most cases, GDP is considered a measure of economic growth, even though it does not take into account external factors such as environmental and psychological impact and the like.

as such, we see that the economy cannot be ever said to be falling, because falling is meant to be indefinite, and according to the history of economics as depicted above, the economy has never 'fallen'. it has gone down, and risen. every time. because someone, in a mad dash to save the falling economy, does something that helps it rise. it shall be like this for a long time to come, even though the approaches to economics are altering radically with every slump the world faces. it changes us, and hopefully, we learn from it. 

the planets resources are dwindling. who will be the next one to change our fortunes? somebody brilliant. its all in or nothing.