Too Loud Inside

Ohh God, You see, what your fans are doing, Slitting each other, while your angels are booing, Your words were supposed to take them towards the light, Instead they are indulging in an all out fight, Your calls for compassion have fallen on deaf ears, Their unmoored morality has blinded their fears, Some handful few been trading in your name for a while, Mobs enchanted, rendered docile, Kept at disposal, only to unleash havoc at will, Basking in delusive grandeur of their self-righteous kills.. Ohh Lord, You created me from the fire and them from the dust, You gave them desires and plenty of lust, Their greed for power and dominance has blinded their senses, They are avidly building long and beautiful fences, I did warn you against their creation, All I received in return was your wrath and condemnation, Got banished to hell to carry eternal abomination, I am the devil but lately, I am feeling little afraid of your creation.. -The.Crazy.Philosopher Dedicated t...

Image by Pixabay  2000 words. "I am sorry". These are the words uttered by the CEO of the biggest social network on our planet during the congressional hearing. Mark Zuckerberg was apologizing for not being 'careful enough' with the private data of Facebook's users which led to Cambridge Analytica scanda l. Chris Huges, the co-founder of Facebook, thinks that Facebook has become too powerful and should be dismantled. Chris Wetherell r egrets building the retweet button and compares it with 'handing over a loaded gun to a 4 year old' while Ethan Zuckerman feels guilty for coding the first pop-up ad on the internet. Some of the famous designers in the silicon valley like Nir Eyal who preach how to build habit forming websites, go great lengths to avoid getting addicted to their own designs as if drug dealers are abstaining themselves from 'doing their own stuff'. It's not very hard to see why these architects of our digital-scape are ...

2800 Words. 5th Dec 2019. The rape survivor from the Unnao case was set ablaze on her way to court hearing of her own rape case trial. After reading this news, I was furious and slightly disheartened. What triggered my furor the most was, how men with power try to suppress the voices of the victims by bending the law at their own will. Like most of us, I took it to the social media, vented out my frustration and sympathy for the victim. Days before this news, there was another unfateful incident which made it to the international news. A 26 year old vet, Priyanka Reddy 'Disha' was gang-raped and burnt to death in Hyderabad which sparked fresh outrage and countrywide protests. Last year, there was the Kathua case (An 8 year old Asifa was raped for days and later murdered as a pre-planned conspiracy against the Bakarwal community), and few years ago, the infamous Nirbhaya case happened (the case which shook our nation's conscience). Unfortunately, this list is endless. ...