Comedy as a vehicle for ridicule on November 24, 2018In the final analysis, very few people realise that the boundary line between how far a joke is just a joke and where it begins verging on ridicule. To quite a few, nonetheless, this distinction is very clear. Still, they don’t lose any opportunity of coming up with jokes that hurt other people’s sentiments of […]
Politics for the youth? on July 30, 2018At 2:00am past midnight as the GE Results were being announced, I sat in my room watching a video clip of a group of people of the Awami Workers Party (AWP) discussing the gains made and lessons learnt during the electioneering process and how could that help the party shape its future political itinerary. Earlier […]
Why fear disagreements? on July 27, 2018Imagine you wake up one morning to the fact that your computer has acquired the faculty of thinking and no longer operates on the input-output mechanism that you are so accustomed to. That means you cannot lord it over anymore; that means you’re helpless and have to conceptualise it as having an agency; that also […]
It is when we ask questions that we truly grow and prosper on July 15, 2018As a first-time visitor to a place, you have to ask questions to navigate your way. Since thoughts and events in this world never cease to amaze, you just can’t help questioning them. From the Babylonians, the Chinese, the Greeks and Romans right up to this day and age, it is precisely the act of […]