Freedom of Expression. A much debated, analysed, construed and scrutinized issue. The press battles for its freedom, being the first to be clamped down in times of crises. A writer struggles to find the freedom to voice his or her thoughts, while trying to keep in mind the sentiments of the readers, and the state. [...]

I walked with my head down, carefully pulling the hood of my sweatshirt firmly over my head hoping to slide past people unrecognised. If there was anything I would want right now, it most certainly had to be the power to be invisible. The power to just vanish and re-appear when things seemed settled. I [...]

The construct of the “manly Englishman” of Colonial times was an idea painstakingly created in the vicinity of Oxbridge and exported worldwide in the rhetoric of imperialism and as justification for colonialism. As I type, I look around the New Bodleian Reading Room at Oxford, where I am. Several men around me are working away [...]

Rape. Crime. Punishment. How would one rate the impact of these actions at, an individual level and by societal standards? Does rape stand at the highest point in its demolition of society, and punishment at the lowest? That’s how the victim or those related to  the victim would see it. It is indeed understandable; isn’t [...]