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The Dangerous Cocktail of Internet Sleuthing and Personal biases

Crime has become a genre of entertainment. Everyone has their favourite crime show or documentary series. The million dollar industry spear-headed by YouTubers, bloggers, podcasters, and the traditional medium documentary filmmakers. Gruesome and blood-churning crimes have been the fascination of humanity since the dawn of time. The change in how they are consumed has evolved with…

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"Being in the Comfort Zone," the New Insult Towards Happy People?

Everyone talks about comfort zones, but does anyone know what the meaning of the world is in a dictionary. I am not going to deny the positives of moving out of something comfortable to level up. Universal truth for the ambitious and growth seekers. As an introvert and someone who is happy with the simple life that I was born into and have now, I have heard this all the time. And frankly, this…

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Will the Websites that don't Rank and have Weird URLs be the Lost Media of the Future?

Lost media is the form of content that is believed to be lost or are very hard to obtain. The example I would give is a film released in the 1930s where copies of it haven’t survived over the years. So, the recollection and the joys that it brings are only reserved for the ones who have watched it, and the existence of it dies with them too. As such, the part of media, even worse a part of…

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Stories of Vampires : From Monsters to HeartThrobs, An Introspection

Vampires, fictional undead human-like monsters associated with blood, gore, and literary western homoeroticism. It is interesting where the story of vampires starts. A terrifying and unbeatable monster that roams the night and devours the living. A beast with no remorse, with a human intelligence, and with the face of someone that we once knew. This was the description given to them according…

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Beyond the frame: the hidden tale of Kirkpatrick's Mughal Portrait

My article about Kirkpatrick, an 18th-century British officer who famously fell in love and married an Indian Muslim woman, is out in the inkling website. Please do check it out if the speculations about the socio-cultural ecosystem of colonial India interests you. https://blog.indialostandfound.com/2024/09/20/beyond-the-frame-the-hidden-tale-of-kirkpatricks-mughal-portrait/

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Conversations to be had about Toxic Femininity

Toxic masculinity is a term that everyone knows at this point. A behaviour that is learnt or taught from external peer pressures or internalised bias echoed in society about what it means to be a man. History and gender identity since the beginning of human evolution act as a blanket over these behaviours, which the world sometimes rewards. We, as in everyone on the globe, know what toxic…

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Are We Conditioned to Not Like Simple Stories Anymore?

This thought popped into my head while I was playing a popular game known as Heavy Rain, to make the long story short, I made the two of the main playable characters end up together without any drama. I felt happy at first but then, I wasn’t satisfied with the ending of their arcs. I couldn’t understand why I felt that way. What was it that made me think like this? I realised that I wanted…

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Why does Everything Feel "Vintage" Now?

Vintage is a topic that I have been involved in understanding for many years. Fun fact, my master thesis was on vintage fashion- “Vintage Fashion and 21st-century consumerism”. Vintage is a word that brings forth into our minds different things. We live in a world where the terms retro and vintage are interchangeable. My definition of Vintage is something that is made and shows the style for…

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A Silent Extinction of Local Breeds. Are We Going to Say Goodbye to "Stray Animals"?

Stray animals are the disgraced and forgotten part of our streets. Once pet, dirty pieces of the concrete jungle. I wanted to explore what I am seeing and what is not acknowledged. Animals that I have loved have gone extinct since I could remember. This also seems like a continuation but in the back of people’s minds, they want these animals gone. An erasure of history, of sorts, how those…

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The Dismantling of 9 to 5 Work Culture

9 to 5 Work Culture is one such thing that comes under the latest modern belief or thought process that should be for everyone. It is something that we see as a construct of an idea but we would rarely see it being part of our lives in the real world. I want to focus on the word, “Dismantling”, because I have seen that the people are moving away from it and that there are individuals who want to…

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Is the Historical Fiction Genre of the Present Becoming a New Type of Escapism?

Historical fiction has always had a place in the literary and socio-cultural landscape of the past. Historical fiction has been a way to revisit history without the boring fact-telling history textbooks. It conveys the feel of a particular scenario and setting unique to a specific period that allows the viewer to explore it. The reasons for this might be to learn or to romanticise an aspect of a…

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I have opened an Instagram account for the blog

I have opened an Instagram account for the blog

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I have opened an Instagram Account For The Blog

https://www.instagram.com/where_thoughts_becomes_blogs?utm_source=qr&igsh=MTVobXZqbjR4dXJ1bg== Please do follow and check it out

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Why are Some Things Called " Cursed"?

My definition of cursed has evolved into something that just brings bad luck from a thing that is just unbelievably horrid like a physical manifestation of Cthulu. I feel that the Internet might have had a hand in this. The current Internet lingo states that anything bad is ” cursed” which is widely different from what I learned as a child. Moving on, I chose to talk about curses or cursed…

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Will the "Lying Flat" Chinese phenomenon spread to other countries?

“Lying flat” or Tang Ping ( as it is known in Chinese ) is the trend of Chinese youth rejecting societal pressures and ‘lying down flat – do nothing’ regarding the rigid expectations placed on them due to the competitive nature of Chinese society. I was introduced to this trend because of the YouTube algorithm. For myself, the comments under these videos were more fascinating than the frequency…

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Can We Start Considering Reptiles as Domesticated?

Whenever we ask, the general census is that reptiles are not domesticated. There are points to be made for this. The thought process is that they are not like any of the other domesticated animals. They are not our companion neither are they providing something for us. Here I want to look at it from an archaeological side of evidences that provide the statement to be true or false. How I got…

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Bride kidnapping, The Story Trope

Bride kidnapping is as the term says the kidnapping of a female with the intention of forceful marriage. A story trope is defined as a recurring or frequently used plot device in a piece of fiction. Since the beginning of time, this trope can be seen in stories throughout history. A popular example of this would be the Kidnapping of Helen of Troy in Greek Mythology. I think I need to explain…