With tear-filled eyes he recounted his experience bereft of any sense of nostalgia. There was an expression of pain on his face – a deep-seated pain. It almost felt like he had been wounded afresh. Ou...

Terrorism is never aimed at the targets of the attacks. When there are terrorist attacks anywhere in the world, the death of the victims isn’t the aim of the terrorist. That is rather a massacre. Terr...

In this world there are many people who wish their opinions were heard by as many people as possible. We all have a message, we might not know it until we are given a microphone to speak. But one woul...

So, she sits in her not-too-sophisticated consulting room, offering her services to the rape victims who take turns to recount their painful ordeals. Their aim is simple: to get someone to hear their ...

I would like to start with a quote from Propoganda’s popular spoken word piece, ‘The Gospel’. In that piece he said, ‘there is not a religion in the world that doesn’t agree that there is something wr...

In Sociolinguistics class, we were taught that there is an imaginary device in human beings that allows us to pick up any language we have repeated contact with. This device, the Language Acquisition ...

Lawlessness results in anarchy.  A world where there is no law both to guide the actions of men and also predict the actions of natural bodies such as the sun, will be excessively chaotic. Hence the n...

She walked into the class confidently and headed straight for the lecturers’ table at the front. It turned out the course wasn’t the only thing new to me that day, the lecturer was too. Female writers...

‘If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer them the other one too…’, this has to be the most outrageous advice ever. It totally defies the expected reactive action. Human reflexive instincts will withi...