Athira Unni is from Calicut, India. She respects the value of the written word, and intelligent cats. She lives on coffee and thunderstorms.

Rediscovering Haiku during COVID19: Poetry and Directness of Expression
A Haiku while it seems small and simple enough, can be analyzed to mean and signify many relevant and important things. Articulating experiences with an astute eye for detail requires a clear sense of direction and use of specific language.

Zizek on COVID-19: On burnout and other crises
As a project deeming itself free of external and alien limitations, the I is now subjugating itself to internal limitations and self-constraints, which are taking the form of compulsive achievement and optimization” Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society. A society under lockdown is a prime example of stringent external limitations being imposed on people. Due to the…