Issue X: Modernity

Life has never been static, and there has always been something or the other happening at any given point of time. And yet, the world feels heavy right now. 2025 feels consequential and historical in a way that seems unprecedented to our generation, because of the state of the world but also of the collective emotional turmoil that seems to be taking us all by storm.

Amidst all of this uncertainty, we bring to you modernity. Drawing upon Baudelaire's definition of modernity as "the ephemeral, the fleeting, the contingent," and Foucault's characterization of modernity as "the will to "heroize" the present," we bring to you a theme that aims to celebrate our decennial issue by chronicling this current year and era through your words.