Quotes and Excerpts — Everyday as a reader of this online writing platform, I try to read stories of many Medium writers. Some stories of Medium writers make philosophical, some stories elate me with joy and some other stories inspire me to scramble for a new day. While reading those write ups, some lines…

Quotes and Excerpts Everyday I try to read posts of the Medium. Reading write ups in the online writing platform like the Medium is different from just reading posts in social media platforms like the Facebook, Twitter and the LinkedIN. Turns out, reading posts in the Medium has many benefits. …

Requiem for lives of women across the United States — “When talking about human rights, in truth we’re referring to men’s rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it’s called torture. When a woman endures the same, it’s called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world” — Isabel Allende …

Supreme Court’s Rule Skews Towards Expanding Religious Rights — Today, on June 21, the first circuit of the US Supreme Court, through a ruling, relaxes the obstacles regarding using the taxpayer’s money for sectarian education. The ruling of the Court (Carson v. Makin) has been announced today amid the backlog queue of much-talked controversial cases. The ruling criticizes the…

My Graduate Life and Quest for Knowledge — An International Graduate Student’s Perceptions I belong to a Bengali middle-class family where my erudite, bookish and ‘very sincere’ parents always endeavor to make me comprehend that without a ‘sincere’ academic life, I cannot achieve the desired aims in my life. My efforts, in tandem with their die-hard sincerity, paved me to enroll in the…

(1934–2021) — ‘The concept of privacy is a sort of screen to hide the fact that almost none is possible in a social universe.’ ‘The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them.’

(1946–2022) — ‘I don’t take vacations.’ ‘We don’t know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.’ ‘You’re only a victim once. The next time you’re an accomplice.’ ‘A dead end street is a good place to turn around.’ ‘No one’s born with their destiny stamped on their forehead.’ ‘Nothing…

(1948–2022) — ‘If you think positive thoughts, you’ll create a positive world around yourself and attract positive people to you.’ ‘Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.’ ‘I live everyday to its fullest extent and I don’t sweat the small stuff.’ ‘Let me hear your body…