Positive? …

This year has been unusual and I do realise that’s an understatement. The year has been unpredictable. It’s derailed plans, changed cultures, redefined businesses and destroyed economies. It’s strained relationships, nurtured some too, highlighted behavioural flaws like never before and triggered our subconscious fears, dilemmas, thoughts in ways we might still not understand. It has…

Stuck in a loop

Only two weeks of classes to go and we’re done. Then it’s three months of work on the dissertation and just like that… poof! Time to go back home. That happened fast! On this day last year, I was gripped with anxiety. Work was hectic and I was barely getting any time to myself. I…

A ‘scholar’ful journey

Six years ago, the mere idea of being considered for a scholarship, leave alone get one, was nothing short of a joke to me. Neither was I an academically inclined kid. Right out of college I was someone who knew she wanted to be a journalist but probably had the worst knowledge of current affairs…