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I have been writing for well over five years now, unfortunately previous websites have been lost due to my own then technical inability. All the articles here are musings that have been formed either many years prior and reworked on. I don't think of texts that curate upon its environment to be necessarily written down in stones, so before citing them do recheck for potential updates to articles you might have previously read. I sincerely hope that you find some insights in my writings, for there is no fruitful bearing if knowledge is behind gatekeepers of certain social or academic echelons.

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Why the young commit suicide over video games | Thoughts #26

July 22, 2020

I'm sure you've seen the headlines, its almost every other week or so we see a detrimental act by a teen or child sometimes even adults committing because of a video game. Now all I see in response to that is shock and confusion, as to why would one kill oneself, or take loans (to buy items) for the game, after all they're just pixels running around. Firstly I'd like to defunct the reductionist view of the matter, if video games are just pixels running around, well then we're just atoms running around, that doesn't mean that we don't matter and nor do our actions. If it seems like an unfair...

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You have an opinion and that’s not fine | Thoughts #25

July 20, 2020

Ah, don't we all live in a free society overflowing with the sentiments of freedom of expression and speech. Ample amount of channels capitalising on this exercise exist too, Twitter, Facebook, IG, and the the good old Reddit. We are allowed to express our opinion, with that opinion when needed to be pushed onto the ruling state we have freedom to protest, but it all stops with the nonexistence of freedom to overthrow a government, sounds unsettling I know, but what that entails is that there is an end to all the opinions. Aside from the division in the population of opinion which thus creates a barrier in ever thinking about...

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Why internet is still not a fundamental right | Thoughts #24

July 18, 2020

Thank you for internet that I'm able to write the blogs that I do. The lockdown and the restrictions has had a huge toll on humanity as a whole, but I'd say it's not so bad considering we have internet. Imagine the time of Black Death, what in the world did they do to pass time in their lockdowns, actually isolation and moreover that disease was far more potent in killing than COVID-19. We literally cannot imagine our lives without internet, I know this is cliche almost, but it's not. When in 2011 the UN came with Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to...

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The false premise of reading | #23

July 16, 2020

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." That quote was said by Margaret Fuller, and is pretty famous for I'd say its short length and rhyme rather than its meaning. The dictionary definition of reading is to look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by mentally interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed. Quite technical of a definition I must say, 'comprehend', 'look at', 'interpret' the character and symbols i.e. language composition. Now let's look at another verb: the dictionary definition of watching is to look at or observe attentively over a period of time. You'll see why the two parallels are important. So, we...

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Terrorist or freedom fighter? | Thoughts #21

July 12, 2020

I find it necessary that we get our definitions right because in the world we live in, labels are more powerful than guns. I find it ignorant of people that they support "freedom fighters" and denounce "terrorists" the reason being because the line diving is so thin that it goes unnoticed when we cross the borders. To filter out the premises of the two and their branches namely, militant, separatist, martyr, victim, 'war on terror', 'war on peace', 'war for peace.' To better understand the classification of the two main terms here, let's use the Oxford dictionary. According to it terrorist means a person who takes part in terrorism (where terrorism...

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A nation’s spending is what the nation is | Thoughts #20

July 9, 2020

We've all heard the phrase "put your money where your mouth is" I don't think many people realize that it is more deep than the abstract "deep" relatable quotes they share. I like thought exercises, so here's one for you: imagine you have around 10 Lakh rupees of savings, presumably for something you want to buy, and suddenly someone dear to you is in need for that kind of money, for let's say medical treatment. Now, I hope you give that person the 10 Lakh, because if you can't even do that for the people "dear" to you, well, I hope you stay away from me. Anyway, what this tells us,...

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Should separatism be illegal? | Thought Bites #19

July 8, 2020

This topic is an interesting one for many reasons, because depending on a country's notion and people's opinion it can be instinctually legal or illegal. Before moving further into its discussion it is important to understand that a popular opinion does not mean that it's right. To really think about it, all those who think that slavery is bad, and so is Nazism, if those people lived in Nazi Germany, it's not an overstatement to say that they themselves would be Nazi's, and if they lived before 1865 (when US abolished slavery), they'd most probably enjoy the service of the slaves, you'd have to get used to be called a separatist...

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Jammu massacre 1947 | Kashmir Files #18

July 6, 2020

Kashmir needs to be written about, and what better place to start than the year of partition of the Indian sub-continent. A lot of misinformation surrounds the history of Kashmir in the mainstream networks and information hubs. We all know Jammu as a Hindu dominated region of J&K, and the part where most of the vote bank exists by the accord of those who actually go out to vote. But this wasn't always the case, Jammu was divided into Hindu and Muslim majority, different from now where its mostly Hindu dominated. The way this shift took place, as you can probably tell by the title, was through a massacre. Now this...

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Reason(s) behind overthrowing Gaddafi’s regime | Declassified #17

July 4, 2020

If you read the news articles on the death of Gaddafi of 2011 especially; his regime's atrocities, his dictatorship, the crackdowns, and suppression of voices will be put forth in them as reason that US had to intervene as the saviour of the Libyan people, give them the ever desired US freedom. Well, when the Clinton emails were declassified over the years, something came up which either was met with total media ignore on, or people were just too in their lives to care. It is a war crime to kill the captured in custody, the Libyan authorities said that Gaddafi was killed in crossfire, between his convoy and the rebels....

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COVID-19 in India might never end | Thought Bites #16

July 3, 2020

With the cases peaking day-by-day an even somewhat close to normal lifestyle seems farfetched. A population of near 1.5 Billion, the spread can wipe us out possibly, the healthcare infrastructure isn't capable of handling such calamities. After banging utensils and throwing not-so-nutrient rose petals on migrants, we've reached a breaking point of hope, but don't worry about hope, no matter how worse it gets our government will find a campaign, a slogan, an idiotic exercise to revive our hopes, and hope will blind reality. Now we can go on about how it is the Government’s mismanagement that's causing it, but what about the ones that chose the government. Education, information, perception,...

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