LIFESTYLE

We scroll for fun, laugh until it hurts, and somehow realize our personality is now just a 15-second absurd reel. 'The internet fried our brains but at least we got good reaction images out of it.'; image: Google, Illustration: Kavya Lajpal By Kavya Lajpal There was a time when personality came from the things you loved or believed in. Now it’s made up of memes you barely remember, ironic jokes you pretend not to care about, and references that only make sense, if you are alw

We used to lose ourselves in long stories for hours. Now we can barely sit through a 30 second video, thumb already hovering over 2x. By Hansika Kohli '15 second feels long now, and that says a lot about how we consume things today'; image- Google, illustration- Hansika Kohli Open Instagram. Start watching a reel. Now be honest, did your thumb already move toward the right side of the screen? Maybe to skip ahead. Maybe to speed it up. Maybe to just move on to the next one. No

'ofcourse we are design students' ; in frame- Kelyie Tdar, Jasraj, Darsh Rungta, Yana, Diya Chandiram, Riddhi Minda, Anshika Singhal, Rituraj, Pranav Sahni, Uditanshu Singh; videography and editing- Saanvi Mohan and Brinda Girish Gowda When every deadline tests your limits, every critique questions your voice, and every small win feels like survival. -Saanvi Mohan and Brinda Girish Gowda Creative chaos is probably the most accurate way to describe the life of a design student

In a country obsessed with chai, Gen Z has found a new way to brew suspense — one campus confession at a time. By Aryaki Verma Even, the model herself says, " chai tastes better with a verbal tea."Photography and Styling- Aryaki Verma. Models- Archisha Dixit and Vrinda Dhiman Three paper cups of chai sit between four students at Pearl Academy’s canteen. The steam rises, but no one drinks. “Wait,” Anoushka Nair, 19 Fashion Design student at Pearl Academy, says, lowering her vo