Brown Study

  DUMP THE OSTRICH POLICY Re: Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (Sebastian Eriksson Art "Ignoring the ignorance"  ) After a long time, I finally put myself to the task of reading Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Having heard so many negative reviews from my fellow mates in 10th form about the book being terribly boring, flimsy, infantile, dull and monotonous, I never could bring myself to pick it up. However, once I held the pages open in my hands, then I simply couldn’t put it down. I have been so utterly moved by the diary, that I had to share my thoughts and make it known to everyone who’s looking for something real and soul-stirring. It’ll be inhuman to judge it because it isn’t a literary piece of work published to feed the critics their most awaited snack. It’s the heart of a young girl poured out on sheets of paper at the most dreadful stage of her life.   I remember reading it in one of her entries, “Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.” A t...

  “FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS” India celebrated its 75 th Independence Day this 15 th of August. All forms of media - digital or print - were brimming with expressions of felicity and displays of flag waving.   (Ahhhh! Flag Waving. 72 nd Republic Day. Red Fort. Oh, what a blotch on memory now!) Unfortunately, however, the merrymaking had a tinge of guilt concealed this time. Why? AFGHANISTAN. Here we were, celebrating our Independence; while there, people lost their sovereignty to the Taliban in a most sadistic takeover of power. If cries could kill, every person watching the news of the Afghans would be dead. Every status update and every wish of joie de vivre was accompanied with a sheepish sigh of relief, “Thank Heavens! At least we are Free and Independent. ” Each one of us had a skeleton hidden in the closet, a shared secret embarrassment. After years of shaming and blaming our nation and questioning democracy, questioning our rights, our constitution, questioning FREEDOM...