FROM THE LEGENDARY “NO” OF ROSA PARKS TO BARACK OBAMA’S VICTORIOUS “YES WE CAN”: THE IMPORTANCE OF ABSENCES AND “NO”S IN THE BLACK AMERICAN SENSIBILITIES
What is freedom but an absence of bondage? Freedom is the ability to have a voice. Freedom is to say ‘No’ to segregation, to oppression, to abnegation. Most of all, freedom is to be visible. Freedom is to exist. From Rosa Park’s legendary ‘No’ to Barack Obama’s victorious ‘Yes We Can’: Black America has traveled [...]
The Red rebels and the trend followers: JNU fashion
We all know that story. God told Mr. Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit. Nevertheless, he eventually did. Well, this Mr. Adam was the first student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (technical not but ideologically yes). Nested in a thousand-acre campus, JNU forms a world of its own. The walls of the administrative block, the [...]

