Manipal Digest

By Srikruth Reddy  “Is everyone making money but you?” I t’s a tranquil Saturday afternoon; you thanked your professor and closed the MS Teams application, concluding your online classes for the day. You reach for your phone, and involuntarily, your fingers slide to Instagram to look at your scantily familiar online commune. You see a multicoloured ring around your classmate's profile picture and click on it to see what he is up to today. The story appears to have a screenshot of his investment portfolio’s rallying trendline. He captions it, “650% return!! Onwards and upwards!!!!!”.  Good for him, you think and slip to the Insta reels section.  Uninterested by a few daft dances, you keep scrolling, only to find a finance guru to lock your interest. He attempts to provoke your interest in a specific cryptocurrency by showing off his $2 million portfolio. He remarks how people who aren't investing in crypto are choosing to stay poor.  The next day at your family rendez...

 By Stacey Lilian Ever read a murder mystery and wondered how the author came up with it? Yeah, me too...... The morning sun rays sneaked in through the curtains, waking him up. Will went about his routine like any other day, brushed his teeth, took a shower, and meditated in solace. William Stilinski, a young, fair-skinned, taut-bodied, 6 feet tall man in his 30s, was an author by profession and earned enough to maintain his one-bedroom apartment in Texas. After he had relished his caramel cold coffee, he set about to do the next task of his daily routine, one that he religiously followed, writing his murder mystery.  He sat pleasantly in his teal blue barrel-back sofa that was positioned right across his vitrine. His attention was caught by the familiar Writer’s Digest Award kept on the top shelf of the vitrine, an award he was immensely proud of and for good reason too. His hazel eyes meet the peculiar collection of objects he had arranged on the shelf below, a neon pink no...