How much longer? How much longer till we can leave our houses again? How much longer till we can speak to our friends without half our faces covered? How much longer till our phones stop chiming with the death toll every night? It’s been over 540 days since the first case of COVID-19 was identified […]
What it feels like… By Kisavi Jayawardena and Shamindri De Sayrah *Trigger warning* Another day. Just another day. I can hear the sound of my parents shuffling about in the next room, and a hint of sunlight colours up my room. It’s morning, time for me to get on with my life, […]
I bullied. Trigger warning – bullying, suicide. And the walls closed in on me, it was like as though the proceedings of one day kept playing on loop, a vicious cycle with no end to it as the voices in my head grew louder, I could hear snobby Jessica from school calling me a loser […]
The Challenges faced because of COVID19 The invisible enemy COVID – 19, a perilous pandemic has been a global health crisis and one of the most deplorable challenges the world has ever faced. The COVID-19 situation is particularly stressful because it’s hard to predict how things will develop, and our circumstances are changing rapidly. This […]
When Cyberbullying Meets Cosplay: A Fangirl’s Story by Shamindri De Sayrah What is it that makes someone hate on someone they don’t even know, so much and repeatedly, online? That makes them press send on such hateful, insulting and sometimes downright destructful things be it in the comment section or in the privacy of your […]
Stop Your Trolling – Types, Causes and Effects of Cyberbullying Many of us have experienced different forms of bullying in our lives. From rumors, to exclusion to having your belongings stolen or vandalized, we’ve all experienced some form of bullying. One increasingly popular type of bullying is cyberbullying. This is where the activity of harassment […]
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), a German philosopher and cultural critic, had presented the idea of “Eternal recurrence” as a thought experiment. It was simply for the purpose of creating a metaphor in our heads, to ask ourselves one question. Just one. Eternal return/recurrence is a concept that the universe and all existence has been recurring and will […]
Social media vs Real Life “Social media is bad for you” is an annoyingly common statement you probably hear frequently. Social media isn’t bad, but the over-usage of social media is. The strong importance and relevance social media holds over you is unhealthy and leads to a feeling of emptiness and inadequacy of life […]
One day you’re 8 and you are cocooned in the embrace of your parents, they’re trying, desperately to keep you safe after hearing the news of another little girl being brutally raped. You’re now 18, trying to wear what you please, but instead you a receive a look which clearly says – you’re not leaving […]
A Look Back “Humans are fascinating creatures, no? We think of ourselves as the most advanced among all the Earth’s species (which is quite egotistical if you ask me) and maybe we do have the right to deem ourselves as such. We have changed the world so much for the sake of making […]
