El Estoque

Cultural Cooking

Dahlia Schilling and Mihir Vishwarupe • December 9, 2023

Diwali As Science Curriculum Lead Kavita Gupta began to fry the dough she rolled out earlier in a pan with oil, the smell of sweet fried dough and milk solids immediately begins to waft throughout...

Culture: the elephant (and donkey) in the room

Anika Bhandarkar and Meggie Chen • December 6, 2023

With all the social justice movements in recent years and the upcoming 2024 presidential election, politics is on the forefront of many people’s minds. As tensions between parties continue to rise and...

Glass Child

Meggie Chen • February 17, 2023

Exploring how mental illness touches the lives of siblings

Distance

Melody Cui, Minjae Kang, Sameer Maheshwari, Aashna Patel, Taryn Lam, and Aditya Shukla • January 16, 2023

Exploring instances of distance within a family

Aspirational Distances

Minjae Kang • January 15, 2023

Exploring the differences in career aspirations between generations.

Winter break traditions

Anika Bhandarkar and Megha Mummaneni • December 21, 2022

Examining the traditions students and staff partake in over the winter holidays

Far but close

Arjun Dhruv, Staff Writer • December 20, 2022

A mix of tears and blood ran down my face. I wasn’t in pain — I was frustrated that I could do nothing to get back at her. The voices of my parents yelling at my sister and I faded out, and I simply...

Large Extended Families

Sameer Maheshwari and Aashna Patel • December 16, 2022

Examining the dynamics within a large extended family

Aruna Venkateswaran

December 9, 2022

The charcoal smell of grilled chicken roasting in the small, well-preserved town of Kanazawa transports sophomore Aruna Venkateswaran back to her maternal grandparents’ home in Japan, which she visited...