Manipal Digest

  By Devapriya Menon Love can transcend boundaries formed by distance, sometimes even time. In this subtle rendition of the Japanese movie 'Kimi no Na wa' (Your Name), we explore the muddled up lives of two personages belonging to discrete timelines and places separated by great distance, who respond to the telepathic connection. Do they end up together, or does their connection succumb to the boundaries? Read to find out!    25.09.2021  The road ahead seemed unusually brighter with multicoloured flowers around him; the atypical environment did not throw his system into disarray. "This has been going on for a while now", he gave voice to his thoughts. He knew he had a calling, a calling to be elsewhere in a realm of nonchalance. "India today recorded 67,910 Covid cases; the death rates seem alarmingly higher", the exasperated teenager had been showing a tendency to read these gloom-ridden articles, first thing in the morning. Lately, a quintessential force h...

By Anushka On 26th September, TEDxManipal organized its first TED Circles event based on "Imagination" over a zoom meeting with 25 participants. TED Circles aims at bringing small groups of scholars together to build honest conversations around significant ideas and global issues. The hosts introduced the event to all the attendees and familiarized them with the guidelines. Dr. Raghu Radhakrishnan, Director of International Affairs & Collaborations, MAHE, was welcomed as the guest of honour for the evening. The event started by displaying a thought-provoking TED talk by Charles Faulkner. He discussed Immanuel Kant's idea that Imagination is not about what we think but how we think. He quoted Kant's words from 1780, "We do not see the world the way it is; we see the world according to our instruments." He further bridged this theory to the advancement of science through the centuries; explaining how with each technical rise, our instruments advance, exten...