Vanilla and Cinnamon

“A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing”                                                                            -Birdman                                                                                 On 10th July, Turkey labeled the museum of Hagia Sophia as a mosque. The question that I want to answer through the article is “Will Hagia Sophia become a mosque in its essence?” Now before we delve into that paradigm, let's understand...

The first time I read about ‘Metamorphosis’, I was in eighth grade and the word intrigued me enough to answer an objective question of “What is Metamorphosis?”Little did I know at that time that I was going through a kind of metamorphosis too. With raging hormones and mood swings, I stepped into the realm of puberty. Change is not easy for anyone and change is an organic part of puberty. You begin to like songs which you thought were meant for the hippies, you begin to read things you found boring in childhood. It was in this part of my life when I read Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”. Even though I did not understand anything I found the word induced with enough intellect to use it in all my poems. The reason I am writing this article is because I feel I am currently going through Metamorphosis, and this continuous process of evolving yourself can at times furnish one ennui but mostly we just continue to allow it to make the changes for better. All of us are going through this proce...

  “ No nation has friends only interests.”   USA and Iran like any other nation has no friends but only interests. To simplify the US’s interest is to create a vacuum of power in the middle east by toppling the Iranian government for various reasons extending from usurping its natural resources to create a demand of arms in the region which USA will cater to. The role of arms sales in the USA’s foreign policy is arcane. Iran’s interest, on the other hand, is to establish a Shia hegemony in the heart of the middle east. Quds force or ‘Jerusalem’ force (English translation of the Farsi word Quds)   is a part of Iran’s revolutionary guard sharing the same goal.   General Soleimani of the Quds force, who was a De-Facto Foreign minister reporting directly to Ali Khamenei (the Supreme Leader of Iran) has been assassinated on 3 rd January at Baghdad Airport. This demands a foresighted view of US-Iran relations. They have had a tumultuous relationship since the time...