danika's digital diaries

  Almost every day for the past 4 years (would have been 8 if not for the gallantry of covid 19), excluding Sundays and holidays, I have gone to the same school and subsequently, the same bus route. Every day I see the paddy fields framing the vast cerulean sky, with its cotton like clouds being reflected on the field, and even though the road is pockmarked with dents, that route has a small part of my heart deep in its clutches. I know, “it’s not that deep” but it’s quite a bittersweet feeling when every day, I have gone about the same path and see new neighbourhoods slowly coming up in place of those familiar fields, I wonder how in a few more years, I might forget the remembrance of it altogether. Memory tends to fade with time and so will this part of my life. And I often dream about the life I have ahead of me, my goals, career, aspirations, the passion projects, the freedom, the…everything! It might be so that I’m heavily influenced by the romanticized versions of colle...

Influencers– in layman terms –are people who have the ability to influence a large group of people. “Do influencers have a moral obligation or responsibility toward their followers?” if I were to speak in a non-conflicting and peaceable way, then– yes, they do have a moral responsibility because they have the resources to persuade and sway the public sentiment (especially creators with a large fanbases) and thus, they need to be mindful of the effect their posted content will inevitably have on the common person– but if I were to express my true opinion, it would prove to be a bit unconventional. You see, I ardently believe that the internet and the social media platforms on this internet should be used in a true and righteous manner, but the problem which arises is that these terms such as “true’ and “righteous” are relative depending on each person. Everyone has their own definition of what is “right’ and what is “wrong’, thus, we cannot really blame the person (or in this case–i...