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On this birthday of my mother I reflect upon the woman she was; and the woman I am. My mother died when I was not yet twenty, hardly a woman, hardly an adult. To say that I knew her as a woman would be an exaggeration; I barely knew her as…

Around 2500 years ago Democritus, a Greek philosopher, expounded the theory of atoms for the very first time. He said that all matter is made up of small indivisible particles called atoms, the word atom means indivisible. Later on as…

THEN: When you have been wronged, when your heart has been broken, when your trust in others have been shaken to the core, when the life you carved out has been snatched away form you, when you have been betrayed and left alone,…

I don't know if it's irony or life just laughing at you; I don't know if it is with everyone or fate just chose me to experiment on; I don't know if the awareness of it now is a blessing or a curse - but things are never, as they seem to be…

The unmeasured wrath of men is stifling the life out of me. In the recent past, anger is bursting at the seams like the swell of flooding waves engulfing mortals, beasts, fields, villages and cities alike. In my country everyone is angry;…