Voting for the first time

Voting. Something that I have been looking forward to doing for a long, long time. My first election related memory is me accompanying my father to the polling booth in the 2004 General Election. But my own interest in politics started in the sixth standard and since then I have had an undying interest in…

The civilizing mission of our journalists

Members of every profession tend to aggrandize themselves, and attempt to portray themselves as the basis for everything. Lawyers, Doctors and Engineers all fall victim to this trend. But a singular group of people that stand ahead of these professionals are the self-proclaimed 'guardians of democracy', Journalists. Their arrogance and obsession with the greatness of their…