Mental illness is not a topic of everyday conversation amongst most families and friends. In this respect Desis are no different. What is different is we do not tend to seek help as much as Caucasians or African-Americans do even when we are afflicted with psychiatric disorders. The research article titled, “Manifestation, Attribution and Coping [...]
Age, sex location, the most common words that we see while chat online. “INTERNET RELATIONSHIPS”, probably the most newfangled trend in today’s world where people wrap themselves in anonymity, share all their feelings for hours together behind a simple LCD monitor, least they know that the person on the other side is a genuine or [...]
It takes all kinds to make a school… All five fingers can never be the same. We tend to categorize them as the long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones. Other than that, we put people in a color chart, and title them black, white, yellow, and brown. All different races, colors, castes and [...]
Human societies have traditionally been male-dominated, owing to the male’s superior physical strength. However, as higher intellectual concerns gained importance, change became inevitable in the status quo with some cultures being more receptive while others, resistant. Over the last hundred years, Western societies have seen a change in attitude, with emancipation and empowerment of women [...]
Bricks, sand, steel and the deafening sounds of dreadful machines; as far back as she could remember that’s how her life had become. Her feet had long forgotten the soft feel of a pair of comfortable shoes or even remotely fashionable sandals; her only comfort was that wooden plateau that would bend a fraction to [...]
Mental illness affects people around the world, transforming their lives into a continuous struggle for preservation of their dignity and human rights in societies that do not always understand them. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” -The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Throughout history, mental illness has been associated [...]
She is sitting alone in the corner of an empty room wrapped in a white cloth stained by the blood seeping from her bruises and wet from the tears she has been shedding. In the other room her mother is being comforted by a few friendly ladies, when she shrieks again “Ooh God they ruined [...]
“Violence against women is a violation of human rights that cannot be justified by any political, religious, or cultural claim.” ( Amnesty International ) Are women’s human rights given the importance they deserve? Discrimination against, and exploitation of, women is rife in many societies of the world be they developed, developing or under-developed. Unfortunately, violence [...]
A light, satirical view of the fairer approach to driving. “My missus wants to drive here in Pakistan! Barmy, my missus… mad as a bag of snakes!” confided my British friend one fine day, shaking his head. I smiled to myself, and wondered secretly whether he was more concerned about his wife or other road [...]
Mothers! Mothers of the nations that burn. Burn with the insecurity of our kings, who sit back and see the mothers of nations beg for the lives of their sons. The sons they bore with equal pain as Queens did. As queens bore their princes. These mothers waited for their sons to return home, now they [...]