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Shumaila Khan
Founder & President
Meet the mind behind the magic. The storyteller. The visionary.
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world"
Fun Fact: Starts 10 projects at once.
Founder & President
Meet the mind behind the magic. The storyteller. The visionary.
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world"
Fun Fact: Starts 10 projects at once.
For the lovers of literature. Not just readers, but interpreters. We annotate, debate, and chase meaning into its deepest caverns. Here the bookworms graduate into unapologetic bookmonsters. 'Cause it is a truth universally acknowledged that the stories do not end at the last page they linger, they evolve and they shape the way we dream.
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Because movies don't just live in books, they move, breathe and burn on screen. And Cinecore is for those who see beyond the screen. We don't just watch films; we decode them. Cinema here is not entertainment alone; it is text, testimony, and mirror. WE BRING TO YOU: CURATED SCREENINGS AND CINEMATIC DEEP - DIVES, SCRIPTWRITING AND REVIEW WORKSHOPS SO YOU CAN ONE DAY WRITE YOUR OWN LA LA LAND.
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Welcome to chronocore. The Home of LU.Chronicles (The College Daily) and LU.LitCore's bridge between Literature and Life. Through LU Chronicles and student journalism, we sharpen questions, resist easy answers, and give public life the dignity of detail. In Bibliocore, we read; In Cinecore, we watch; In Chronocore, we live the story.
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Feminism here is not elective; it is elemental. We inherit a tradition of voices long silenced women, yes, but also queer, trans, and non-binary voices who have always written against silence, and write into it our own. We ask, we unsettle, we create platforms where love, identity, and equality are not abstractions but urgent realities. It is how we learn to question, to resist, and to imagine freer ways of being, together.
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Here, we wander India's cultural past; scriptures, songs, philosophies, not to enshrine them, but to question, reinterpret, and converse with them. For the curious, the rooted, the rediscoverers Indicore is for those who seek to know where we come from. in order to see more clearly where we might go. It is not nostalgia, but inquiry; not reverence, but reimagining.
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Strong voice promoting empowerment and social awareness
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Excellent contribution towards regional literature and cultural writing
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