Darishini Thiyagarajan, Author at RICE

The economy stinks, bees are dying, and movies are pretty much all sequels now.

8 Articles

Coding Diaries: A Week In The Life Of A 25 Year Old Learning Coding From A Student

Coding Diaries: A Week In The Life Of A 25 Year Old Learning Coding From A Student

Image Credit: Markus Spiske on Pexels I was never great with technology as a student. Ironically, what I looked forward to more than the field trips were lessons at the computer lab. Those lessons were nothing short of pure luxury: air-conditioned rooms, comfortable chairs that made for hilarious

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

August 11, 2020

Heroin, Hubris, and Healing: An Ex-Drug Dealer’s Story

Heroin, Hubris, and Healing: An Ex-Drug Dealer’s Story

Images by Dennis Khung. “It was a lifestyle la.” For most drug dealers, past or present, the allure of cold, hard cash presented to you in the fastest way possible was too good to be true. The more drugs you dealt, the more extravagant your lifestyle became. From getting into every party i

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

April 14, 2020

From The Depths Of Self-Isolation and WFH: 4 Literary Classics You Need To Read

From The Depths Of Self-Isolation and WFH: 4 Literary Classics You Need To Read

Top image credit: Pexels.com “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” – Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This quote should actually be employed when teaching someone to read, from child to adult. D

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

April 7, 2020

Binge

You Don’t Have to Be An Alcoholic to Struggle With Your Drinking

You Don’t Have to Be An Alcoholic to Struggle With Your Drinking

Image credit: Pexels.com, unless stated otherwise. Drinking is usually fun. You let loose and enjoy yourself, bonding with people over the most random of things from someone’s hopeless fashion sense to the number of shots you just downed in the past hour. It’s something many of us do regularly

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

February 26, 2020

Social Media Responses to COVID-19: From the Questionable to the Best

Social Media Responses to COVID-19: From the Questionable to the Best

Top image credit: Soumil Kumar, Pexels. We’re only in the second month of the new year, and so much shit has already gone down. First, the Australian bushfires that are still raging on from last year. Then, rumours about World War 3. And then—regardless of your feelings about the guy—Kob

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

February 21, 2020

Inside The Mind Of Singapore’s First Virtual Influencer, Audy Bleu

Inside The Mind Of Singapore’s First Virtual Influencer, Audy Bleu

Influencers play a huge part in selling us dreams. I say dreams because the lives they lead are unimaginably lush—they don’t have to force themselves into the routine of a corporate drone, much like the ones we catch on the train every morning. They seem to always be ahead of the curve with t

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

February 10, 2020

Coming Of Age

This Couple’s Secret to a 54-Year Marriage: Ditch Texting for Love Letters

This Couple’s Secret to a 54-Year Marriage: Ditch Texting for Love Letters

All images by Zachary Tang. Love, at first sight, seems like an impossible phenomenon to someone as cynical as me. The perfect example of how I relate to love would be when I came across this video of a child many years ago, explaining what she thought love was. “Love is a neurochemical co

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

February 3, 2020

Intimates

A Brown Girl’s Guide To Navigating The World Of Online Dating

A Brown Girl’s Guide To Navigating The World Of Online Dating

Illustration by Marisse Caine. After a terrible introduction to the perils of young love, I stayed clear of boys (yes I mean boys, for men were a far cry from the kind I was surrounded with) for quite some time. Yet if dating—be it online or through friends—was not something I was keen on,

by Darishini Thiyagarajan

December 5, 2019