In case you, like me, haven't heard it before, I am here to tell you that there is such a 'thing' in the English language called 'non-native writing.’

I simply never changed my belief that every one of us has an intrinsic need for self-expression. Even before we had words, we used various art forms, from handprints to drawings and carvings, to do just that.

Around this time last year, I wrote an article on loneliness, which, without almost any changes, could easily apply to this year too.

Of all the carefully sown, nursed and propagated hatred, the oldest and the most persistent one is undoubtedly that against the Jews.

It was on the 6th of November last year that I posted my first-ever article on Medium.

While the tragedy and the ensuing trial were fictionalised and sensationalised numerous times, according to the director Christopher Holt —The Devil on Trial is the first attempt to examine the real events recounted by those who lived them.

As I watch the ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East and the biased reporting that often follows, I feel the need to provide a concise summary based on historical facts.

If any of the ancient people, whether a learned scholar or an illiterate peasant, suddenly found themselves transported into our modern world, there would be only two things they would recognize — war and religion. Interchangeably.

That we are creatures of time, that time is change and change is entropy and without entropy, there would be no time. At least not for us.

It was a cold November night in 1870s when a renowned Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) discovered the meaning of life in a dream, or the protagonist of his short story did.

Contrary to the popular cliche that geishas were predominantly recruited from impoverished rural families unable to feed their daughters, Kiharu, born Kazuko Yamamoto in Hokkaido on the 14th of April 1913, came from an affluent family that moved to Tokyo while Kazuko was still a child.

Hello humans, Just an update on how this whole artificial intelligence thing is going.

Of all the endlessly and passionately debated subjects across countless media platforms, freedom of expression stubbornly maintains its top position.

Unless you are completely off the grid, chances are you did not escape the media frenzy about the latest drama unfolding in Russia.

If you lock the men inside four walls and the only window left open is the one on their computers screens — is there any wonder they will fall in love with just about anything that pays them some attention?