(Photo Courtesy: Hindustan Times) Freedom of Speech. It’s so interesting that the once most celebrated human right is now the most controversial one. Sometimes you just get appalled by the sheer stupidity that surrounds you that you don’t even have words to describe them. And this results in immense frustration and all you can do is infuriate yourself by observing what’s happening around. Most of our sentiments were hurt when AVBP goons took over the streets of Delhi University, and as protectors of Indian culture and nationalism, started exercising their masculinity by thrashing and molesting people. As if freedom of speech is conditional to ideas and views of what a group sitting at the pedestal believes in. If they don’t like what you are doing, they will make sure you are proved wrong and brought to justice by breaking every law possible. Morality of course has no place here. Oh! That sounds like the patriarchal and Brahmanical structure that India has been battling fo...

The admission season is here and you as a university final year student have the privilege of answering a lot of questions, asked by curious admission seekers. This other day I happened to be in one of Delhi University colleges for some urgent work. As I walked in I bumped into a girl who was with her dad for the very obvious reason. I saw them looking curiously onto the Cut Off list and then walking into one of the rooms for admission. As I walked out, the same father daughter duo was waiting outside the gate, confused. As I waited for a ride, the girl’s daughter approached me and asked if I was a student with the University, to which I nodded calmly. He then asked me one of the most irritating question one can come up during the admission season, “My daughter has X amount of percentage, which course should I consider for her?” Well yes, I understand the admission anxiety and the value of opinions at this point of time. But I fail to understand the degree of confusio...