Category: Category 1


  • From Solid Modernity to Liquid Modernity: When Certificates No Longer Guarantee a Comfortable Life

    Few days ago, my phone beeped. A credit alert. Arrears from our newly negotiated salary. In this battered economy, any alert should provoke gratitude. Money is money no matter how small. But instead of joy, I became angry. The alert arrived while I was still haunted by what I had witnessed on my way to…

  • THE TRAGEDY OF BEING PRESENT BUT TOTALLY ABSENT

    Many years ago,  a young girl came to see me. The moment she walked in, I could tell something was terribly wrong. Her face was crumpled with sadness; her eyes looked heavy, and there was a deep anguish in her expression that words could hardly explain.‎‎I gently asked her what was wrong.‎‎Suddenly, she broke down.‎‎She…