Society and Lifestyle

Are online friends worth it?   I was in sixth grade when I went online for the first time to chat with couple of my friends. They were the same friends with whom I spent most of my day at school. Facebook was new and so were we to the internet. We used to plan and decide the timings to co-ordinate our presence on the internet world. This world was so fascinating that it ended up in our daily routine time table. I vividly remember that I always managed to take out time in between homework and playing outside to sit and chat in front of a desktop. And now, history has repeated itself. Here, we are sitting in front of our screens again. The only difference is, this time we are not excited at all. We are not excited to chat with a friend who lives just 15 minutes away. The pandemic has not only jeopardized our physical well being but has injured the intimacy as well. We are talking to our best friends as same as we are talking a new person. How will these digital friendships t...

WHAT ARE TWENTIES FOR?  “Your twenties are going to be the prime years of your life.” What does it mean to have “prime years”? Does it mean to suffer for a successful future or to make it a life of a party? Existential crisis is the term which came into existence during 20s. The self critic is so active that you may feel worthless .  Establishing self identity, balancing intimate relationships and forming a career, is a lot on the plate to begin the adult life with and can be a catalyst to drown the mood.                                                                                                         Every chapt...

'Feminism' is a topic I think about everyday. It is very important to understand when you are a part of society. Feminism, on a basic level, stands for uplifting and empowering women to be treated as equals in society. We all are well aware of the fact that we live in a male-dominated society, where females are troubled in one or the other way, due to their gender. But this goes way deeper than that. It not only talks about the gruesome behavior women face, but it also talks about the injustice done in terms of opportunities. The global idea of  feminism  refers to the belief that men and women deserve equality in all opportunities, treatment, respect, and social rights. In general, feminists are people who try to acknowledge social inequality based on gender and stop it from continuing. While this basic idea of feminism seems simple enough, many people misunderstand what the goal of feminism is. Some people imagine that all feminists are angry, bitter women who only want...