Together X Tomorrow

By Stuti Rawat “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”, said Karl Marx.  What isolation or quarantine feels like when people don’t treat you well is something that every woman must have experienced at some or the other point of time in her life. The restrictions that are imposed on one when the person has COVID 19 are pretty much similar to those that were imposed on women in the past during their menstruation and are still put on women in some households.  The drill is very much the same: you are meant to be away from people, you can’t be at public places, you have to eat your food all alone, no one dares to touch you, you have to wash your own clothes and utensils, you can’t touch your closet and what not. The only difference is that when a person is tested positive for COVID 19 the person is suffering from a disease which is communicable and can harm the masses if we don’t take proper precautions and follow the proper isolation norms.  But can you e...

By Aaditya Shukla   A lawyer was arguing for the release of 46 convicts facing death penalty. Just then his assistant dropped in and gave him a small piece of paper. The lawyer read it and kept it inside his pocket and continued his arguments. During the lunch break, the judge asked him, “What information did you receive?”  The lawyer replied, “My wife died”.  The judge was shocked and asked, “Then what are you doing here? Go”.  The lawyer replied, “I can’t bring back my wife’s life, but I can help these 46 men get life and prevent them from dying”. The judge, who was from Britain, ordered the release of all the 46 men. This lawyer was none other than Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

 By Bhoomi Gupta (Final ASL Speech) ‘A Letter to God’, written by the Mexican writer G.L. Fuentes is a story where Lencho, a farmer, writes a letter to God when his crops are ruined. The reason I like this story the most is that this was the only chapter we could do during regular classes before COVID 19. I still remember the question sir asked us, ‘Do you believe in god?’ and our answers to it.  With the world shutting down and leaving everyone in doldrums, the re-broadcast of Ramayana and Mahabharata brought a huge comfort to us. This got me thinking ‘why do people believe in god?’. The more I thought about it, the more puzzled I found myself. Even the countless walks on my terrace couldn’t give me an answer but now that we have lived a year in the pandemic, I think I have an answer.  The problem was that I was focusing too much on “GOD”, while the whole point is about “BELIEF”. We all need someone to hang on to in difficult times. It may be our family, friends, work, m...

 By Tarang Jain (Final ASL Speech) This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. brings to mind the word 'acquiescence'. Acquiescence - the reluctant acceptance of something without protest. What if the Mathura rape case, Nirbhaya case had been ignored by the public? What if it had become just a headline and not sparked a nationwide candlelight marches or forced the government to make changes in sexual crime laws? I remember a poem by a resistance fighter that we read in 9th class in our history chapter about the rise of Hitler, it raised the question if other people had not simply become inured to the pre-eminent policies, would Hitler have risen to power; would the holocaust have been the cause of their death? First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist The...

 By Koshika Jhavar

By Stuti Rawat What makes me beautiful? Is it the cosmetics I use? Is it the perfume I smear?  Is it the jewels that I carry? Is it the clothes I wear? Or is it the words I speak?  Is it the way I treat you? Is it the love that I shower? Is it the empathy I show?