I Can't Remember What I've Forgotten!

SANJANA AYYAGARI explores the paradox of memory—both cherishing memory and, sometimes, the need to forget. She has come to see them not as opposites but as interdependent processes, shaping our understanding of our own identity.

- SANJANA AYYAGARI

The paradox of memory is so pervasive in the human experience that even J.K. Rowling alludes to it in her famous work, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. In the film adaptation, Neville, one of Harry's friends, receives a Remembrall from his grandmother. The smoke inside the marble-sized glass ball turns a scarlet red when he has forgotten something, to which Neville replies, “The only problem is, I can’t remember what I’ve forgotten.”