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Manasa Kashi

Manasa Kashi

Full-time student. Part-time writer. Amateur musician. Professional eater. Obsessive stylist. Compulsive reader. Editor@Snipette.

36 posts •
Bellandur Lake

The Burning Lake

Drought, overuse, tourism, climate change? No: here, the problems are different. There is a place, where the road narrows for a few dozen choked meters, and runs right alongside the rajakalu...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
magic

The Last Sorcerer

Newton was an alchemist. Mary Poppins may have been a witch. What are scientists today?

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
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    Manasa Kashi
Dirt

Born from Rock

Ordovician life, the importance of dirt, and tips for being a lazy gardener

  • Thuận Sarzynski
    Thuận Sarzynski
  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
Crime

The Criminal Mind

Criminals usually pay for their misdeeds. But who is really to blame for crime? Adrian Raine is a renowned criminologist. He teaches psychology in the University of Pennsylvania and has writ...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Anniversary

Two Years of Snipette

Dear Snipette readers, This 11th of June, we are celebrating our second anniversary. (!!!) That is not a sentence we ever expected to be able to write. Neither are the ones that follow. We...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
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    Manasa Kashi
Editorial

Some Changes at Snipette

Hello, Snipette readers! Change is afoot, and we wanted to let you all know. Social Media Good news first: we’re glad to welcome a new member to the Snipette editorial team. Trisha Sam [htt...

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    Manasa Kashi
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    Badri Sunderarajan
health

Comon Cold

We’ve been catching it since time immemorial — so why does the cure still elude us? Have you ever had a cold? I certainly have. In fact, I have one right now, even though you (obviously) can...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Editorial

Diversification — and a change in schedule

Hello, Snipette readers! This is to inform you of some upcoming changes in content and scheduling. A lot of you sent in responses to our Year-End Survey, and after taking a careful look at ...

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    Manasa Kashi
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    Badri Sunderarajan
biology

Left Brain, Right Brain

Are we basically two people at once? We like to think that each one of us is only one kind of person, a whole comprised of various facets and feelings. And as an extension of that, we like t...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Authors

Copy, Write

Taking a closer look at the inside cover of a book. What do you own?A house, maybe? A car? Some land? Or, if you’re a teenager like me, basically nothing? Or, should I say, basically nothin...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Editorial

New Year 2019 — and a poem!

Hello, Snipette readers! It’s time once again, for a new year to come round — and with it, more new things that we’re planning at Snipette! In this email, we’ll take a brief look back, and...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
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    Manasa Kashi
Books

Reading Mind

It’s not just about turning text to thoughts: how you read, and what you read it on, can literally change your brain. This piece began in my quest to try and find an answer to the age-old de...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Snipette

When do you read Snipette?

We asked you when you read Snipette. Thanks for letting us know the answer! Your answer will help us decide the best time to publish Snipette articles. We’ll let you know when the change is...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Air Pollution

Pretty, Polluted

How Diwali celebrations make for prettier sunsets The sky is a picturesque watercolour blend of grey and orange, the tangerine evening sun bleeding colour into the bleak grey dusk. There are...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Bitcoin

Trust Money

You can’t always trust people to pay you — but what if you could trust the money itself? Money: what is it? We all use it. We all want it. We all think about how to make more. Money can be ...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Aliens

Looking for Life

Nobody’s found signs of alien life yet. So why do they keep on looking? Extra-terrestrial life. What images just popped into your mind? Little green men? ET, the gnarly but ultimately friend...

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    Manasa Kashi
Dreams

Your Mind at Night

You go to sleep. What happens next?

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
culture

Road Rules

No jaywalking allowed? Actually, roads were for people. Here’s how the cars took over. The city centre of Bogotá is quiet. Well, quieter than you might expect. The low purr of engines and th...

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    Manasa Kashi
physics

The Sound of Music

How can water make such musical sounds? And, how does anything make sound at all?

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
Editorial

Snipette Quarterly Review: Bibliography, Email updates, and our first anniversary

Hello, Snipette readers. We are now officially one year old! While we published our first article in February of 2017, the magazine in its current iteration of Understandability, Perspecti...

  • Badri Sunderarajan
    Badri Sunderarajan
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    Manasa Kashi
Arctic

Warmed to Wintriness

Thought climate-change would warm the world forever? Think again. Today, humans are damaging the environment at an unprecedented rate. By the time you are done reading this article, we will ...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Anniversary

Our One Year Anniversary

One year ago, when we sent out our first letter, Snipette was a small publication with seven followers and a handful of stories under its belt. We’ve come a long way since then. A hundred an...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
biology

Exile by Oxygen

Some organisms never quite worked out how to live with it. This is the story of where they went. Off the coast of Japan, for four months a year, the deep blue sea is transformed into a stunn...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
environment

The Defeat Device

When cars get self-conscious: a brief look at the Volkswagen scandal Diesel is cheap — cheaper than petrol. That’s why car companies have been investing heavily in developing diesel engines ...

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    Manasa Kashi
Letter

Snipette Quarterly Review: New Writers, and #AskSnipette

Hello, Snipette readers. We hope you’ve been enjoying our articles so far. We’ve covered several new topics these past three months — but before we look at them, we’d like to ask you a ques...

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    Manasa Kashi
Atom

The Story of my Life

Childhood memories of a Carbon atom Actually, come to think of it, “life” may not be the most fitting term. To be considered alive, I’d have to meet several criteria —being able to breathe, ...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Christmas

Santa’s Mailbox

Ever wondered where all those letters to Santa go? Christmas. ’Tis the season to be jolly and deck the halls with boughs of holly and everything else detailed in that carol that I can never ...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Conservation

Deserting Rivers

Dam It: Part 2 When what was river becomes land Last time [https://medium.com/snipette/drowning-valleys-d280af3635c7], I outlined the effects of dams on the areas immediately surrounding the...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Adivasis

Drowning Valleys

Dam It: Part 1 When what was land becomes river Dams. The only man-made constructions that can block the flow of the mighty river. They stop the water from flowing where it is, and help the ...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Letter

A September Update

Hello, everyone! Right from the beginning, we had planned to send a letter when we reached fifty followers — but over the last few weeks, you people helped us cross fifty so fast that we di...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Book Review

This Is My Story

A rambling review of This Is Not Your Story by Savi Sharma Savi Sharma’s This Is Not Your Story came highly recommended by a friend over email. A few weeks later, I discovered a signed copy ...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Animal Welfare

The Problem With Forest Roads

Have you ever played a video game where an obstacle showed up on your screen out of the blue? What happened after that? Nothing too troublesome, I’m guessing. You probably just restarted th...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Business

Natural Capital

If planet earth was a company, it would be doing very badly. Every businessman understands the concept of capital — the amount of money and resources necessary to start a business. For insta...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Fun

Introducing Snipette

Welcome to Snipette, where we write about everything — from Google to Garbage to Greenhouse Gases. The range of articles we publish is diverse: science, environment, programming, social issu...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
Algorithms

Are Algorithms Dictating Your Life?

If you’ve ever clicked the first search result you received, then the answer is yes. Have you ever heard of the search bubble? It’s the term for what happens when you use too much personaliz...

  • Manasa Kashi
    Manasa Kashi
culture

The Length of Things

It might not seem something as constant as length would have a history, but it does. In fact, it goes back to the times of ancient civilizations. To begin with, you can’t really specify the...

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    Manasa Kashi
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