Share List Sana Syed I lost my father to Covid and certainly with him a piece of the sky overhead went missing too. But, before I could mourn his loss, the misery and desperation unfolding all around my social space dried up my tears and what followed has been aContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed A day off from technology is often a resolution we take only to break. But why has it become so difficult to survive without any Google searches for even a single day? I could not get an answer to the question until a prospective job interviewContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed Failing crops, and falling prices when the produce has been abundant, are a recurrence beyond differentiation in the agriculture sector of India. The two factors have a direct bearing on the predicament of farmers. With an atmosphere of unpredictability looming large, it is not surprising thatContinue Reading
Share List S.S. This journey started a decade ago. In 2010, when I first stepped on the US soil, it was never a thought to settle in a foreign land away from family and friends. It was just not the unaccustomed weather and culture but even the fruits and theContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed It was a chilly December morning in the year 2012, when Delhi and the entire India woke up to the torturous news headlines of a gruesome gang-rape. As the details of the crime emerged, one could not help but cringe and shudder at the thought ofContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed The plethora of advertising jingles and taglines playing intermittently on our television screen create needs and demands of insane proportions and we inadvertently become consumers. While the industry pushing its product is invariably the winner, consumers have to ponder whether they happen to be smart buyersContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed It is the age of communication and precisely marketing communication where selling the idea is important and that is how ‘statesmen’ keep the masses informed or uninformed. Masses, naïve and predictably meek, are beguiled by the mantras manufactured by PR firms and chanted by cult leaders,Continue Reading
Share List Sana Syed It was a lesson in the sixth grade English textbook – an excerpt from the letter an exiled father wrote to his teenage daughter, which was later published by Allahabad Law Journal Press titled as ‘Letters from a Father to His Daughter’. Parts of the letterContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed Family is the smallest unit where humans interact and engage. It consists of a household with different personalities and our engagement at the micro level determines the society we intricately yet unknowingly build at the macro level. Many of us react vehemently to societal inequality playedContinue Reading
Share List Sana Syed Sitting comfortably at home, with a computer screen in front, and a full belly, if I pretend to understand the misery of a migrant worker trudging hundreds of miles back home, I am lying. On social media, there is anger, appeal, and acrimony among groups andContinue Reading