BY JOAN LI Cutting the red string with Honey and Clover “An ancient red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.” According to this ancient Chinese proverb, the gods above link soul mates together with a red cord […]
The Independent’s Arts section is excited to have two columnists this semester: Joan Li ’17 and Christina Bianco ‘17. Our columnists will alternate writing each week, with Joan’s first article appearing in this week’s issue, and Christina’s appearing in next week’s. As a publication, The Indy prioritizes content that not only engages readers, but also […]
BY JOAN LI Introducing Pandora Hearts as a Gateway Series If you’re like me, then you suffer from a kind of wanderlust for places that neither the wondrous stretches of the T nor any amount of funding from the OIE can satisfy. That’s because unfortunately, you can only get to Hogwarts via platform 9 ¾ […]
BY WILL HARRINGTON The branding of Russia at the Olympics Games A friend of mine spent the fall in Siberia improving his Russian. His bags didn’t include a winter coat when he left in late August. He reasoned that nobody in the world would make warmer winter coats than the Russians in Siberia, so he […]
BY MICHAEL LUO A comparative look at 2 Broke Girls and Archer Fridays for me usually consist of watching family-friendly Pixar films, alone, consuming microwavable SpaghettiOs, alone, and falling asleep to Nas’s Illmatic, during class. You might say this is not the ideal college experience, but I argue otherwise. The education attainable through such elegant […]
BY JOANNA R. SCHACTER Inter-University comedy festival brings improv to the Loeb Drama Center’s ex-theatre. Friday and Saturday night’s LaughRiot, an improv comedy festival hosted by Harvard’s Immediate Gratification Players, made laughter simple. Comedy is a undeniably a difficult medium of expression; jokes can very easily fall flat, audiences can be an unresponsive bunch, and […]
BY SHREYA VARDHAN “Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.” -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Mrs. Bennet’s hopes in this regard were to remain unfulfilled — her daughter Jane did not die of a broken heart after […]
BY ANDREW LIN A look into the world of mental wellness and science fiction. Into the padded cell the patient goes, probably wrapped in a straitjacket and gagged for good measure before being carted around to psychologists, wardens, and therapists inside a huge prison of an asylum, itself most likely done up in miserable and […]
BY SARAH ROSENTHAL Why boredom and cynicism are preferable to drugs. In high school I — a student as enthusiastic about those four years as Daria Morgendorffer — gave tours as a Student Ambassador. I remember one tour when an enthusiastic parent, noticing the AP Art class’s work in the hallway, stated about one particularly […]
BY ADITYA AGRAWAL Who needs the Arts anyway? …Or do we? Four months down, I still shudder every time an American pulls out the all-too-beaten card: How different is America from India? Harvard-tired as I often am, I deflect further probation with a superbly exuberant ‘It is just so different!’ with calculated crumbs of ‘culture […]