Will there ever be a ‘United States of Europe’?
The new year is upon us. It dawns upon this reader (and not just because it is close to 8 AM with no sleep…
Gazing back to the past, when I see my naive 17 year self staring at the tiny little airport of Pune for the first time with wide eyes and an anxious heart, I cannot help the small smile that naturally comes to my lips and eyes. I could not call upon this smile so easily when I first came to this city, it…
“If you make them laugh, they open their mind. And when they open their mind, there’s room for change.”
Time is a tough concept for the human brain to comprehend. We manage to live a century, at best, on a planet that has been around for billions of years. In the grand scheme of it all, the amount of time we spend here is almost irrelevant when you look at it from scale. However, during…
Even though ‘We bought a Zoo’ is a movie which entails spectacularly shot scenes of lions within…
The first time I was introduced to the ‘internet sensation’ Qandeel Baloch, it was through a video of her proposing to a Pakistani cricketer. I scrolled through the comments, mocking her alongside a friend, seeing how most comments agreed with me.
In 2015, there were 372 mass shootings in the United States of America. That’s a big number, and yet, it doesn’t seem to have brought about a sense of realization amongst most Americans.
“And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
And there was light — — “
‘The Last Question’, by Isaac Asimov- the rockstar of science fiction.
A prickling sensation
Few red drops
And a marred shirt.
All the job of a pin
In her elegant hands
Sewing the button on.