Capturing the Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life....

From cave walls to Instagram reels — what have communication technologies done to our imagination? This blog traces the journey of storytelling… and its slow transformation into endless consumption.  What if technology didn’t just change how we communicate—but changed how we think.  We once created stories. Now we scroll through them. What happened in between? From Embodied Expression to Algorithmic Mediation: A Cultural History of Storytelling Since the earliest traces of human existence, we have always been storytellers. Every artefact unearthed through archaeology — cave paintings, tools, carvings, scripts — can be read today as a form of content . We interpret them, decode them, and attempt to reconstruct the lives and imaginations of people who lived long before us. In that sense, history itself is an archive of stories waiting to be read. But if there is one thread that runs through this long history of storytelling, it is this: Stories change when technologies of commun...

From classrooms to communities, Public Humanities reimagines what knowledge can do. This blog reflects on why taking Humanities into the public sphere is no longer optional—it’s essential. Beyond the Classroom: Can Public Humanities Rescue the Discipline? In an age dominated by the language of outcomes , impact , and knowledge economy , the Humanities find themselves at a crossroads. A persistent question haunts academic corridors: How can Humanities subjects acquire new life in an era that values measurable results above all else? This is not merely a crisis of relevance. It is a crisis of imagination. While Sciences and even Social Sciences have successfully justified their existence through the framework of Translational Research — demonstrating how laboratory and theoretical findings translate into social practice — the Humanities are often perceived as remaining confined within classrooms, seminars, and libraries. But perhaps the issue is not that the Humanities lack relevance. P...