(UPDATE: This article got me the prestigious AGAHI Award Journalist of the Year 2021 in the category ‘Foresight and Futures’, honoring Pakistani journalists.) The French revolution was perhaps the biggest European media event. The massive dissemination of anti-conservative philosophy, feminist propaganda, and a thorough resection of traditional political framework was…

A geographic account for immune response in Caucasians, Blacks, and the Aborigines. — “In life, in general though, one has to understand the enemy in order to beat him, and that’s especially true in medicine.” — Jared Diamond; Guns, Germs, and Steel; 1997 Jared Diamond, in his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, made an important claim and his theory has yet to be…

Edward Said opened a new avenue for conversation once he published his scholarly book ‘Orientalism’. Albeit, east-west perceptions somewhat continue to linger, it did broaden the debate and introduce a new paradigm for how peoples would view other peoples. Alexander acquired his title ‘the Great’ for he was the unquestionable…

Naoki Urasawa’s MONSTER: Identity crisis engendering an absence of the self There are few things that can arouse a genuine fear of the psychology of man. There are lengthy discourses and non-fiction books explaining the depths of human psyche. There is a personal experience. But after Crime and Punishment (Doestoevsky’s…

Major spoilers ahead. If you haven’t read the manga Attack on Titan, then read no further. — Attack on Titan is no stranger to fame. Since the hit manga’s release took the anime world by storm, there has been no looking back for it’s author, Hajime Isayama. There was a time, Isayama modestly recalled in a BBC interview, when publishers refused to accept Attack on Titan on…

“Upon two-natured, great and ether-tossed Protogonos I call; Born of the egg, delighting in his golden wings he bellows like a bull, This begetter of blessed gods and mortal men. Erikepaios, seed unforgettable, attend to my rites, Ineffable, hidden, brilliant scion, whose motion is whirring, You scattered the dark mist that lay before your eyes, and…

Bioterrorism is not a rare theme in popular culture. A plethora of movies, video games, novels have delivered exciting tales of some deadly bioweapon sneakily leaking from some facility hidden in the mountains, or some young candidates of a eugenics experiment escaping their captivity, or some microbe infecting a pedestrian…

What keeps poetry from falling into the realm of prose is that visceral, evocative imagery; one that is too fragmented and obscure to not be unsettling. Not that good prose is incapable of the same, but in essence a short story or a novel cannot be too abstruse. …

A dying and rising archetypal god is a staple among many cultures and quite possibly one of the most popular and extensively studied. The Christians have Jesus, and parallels are to be found in most mythologies. However, birth-death-rebirth is a cyclical process and as such represents the beneficence of earth…