Category: ANURADHA DEV

It’s the holidays: most of us are off having fun, trying to unwind after a tough year at school. None of us are really thinking about school work, textbooks, or assignments. Most of us wait to do our holiday assignments the week before school reopens anyway. Some of us may have already received our reports from last year while the rest of us are still waiting for ours. CSEC and CAPE students are expecting their results early next month. Based on our results we’ll either be allowed to move forward…

“Technology is neither good nor bad, nor even neutral. Technology is one part of the complex of relationships that people form with each other and the world around them; it simply cannot be understood outside of that concept.” –Samuel Collins. In today’s world, to get a message heard halfway across the world you just need to tap at a couple of buttons without ever having to vibrate your vocal cords. It literally opened up whole new worlds: we can now reconnect with people we haven’t seen in years or connect…

We’re done. High school days are officially over. There’s no turning back the clock. Trust me – I tried. Even though I still fit perfectly into my third form tunic, I was still stuck in 2013 instead of being teleported back to 2009. I’ve had the best seven years of my life at Queens College. It’s just been two days since my last day ever at Queens and already the past seven years are being bathed in that warm, nostalgic glow. I always assumed that I’d have to be at…

“I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.” – Ray Bradbury 100. Triple figures. This is my 100th article! One of the reasons I got into writing was because I had so many opinions on things, and there were some issues that I thought just weren’t getting the attention they deserved. So why not write about them? And I love writing. It’s nice to have ideas and put them down on paper. And I’d like to think I’ve grown. I’ve…

One of my idiosyncrasies is that I like to keep memorabilia – old papers from school, scrappy artwork drawn during a particularly boring class, miscellaneous stuff. Now, I’m by no means a packrat, anything quite of that (disturbing) magnitude, but I do hold on to enough stuff that my drawers and nooks are quite chock full.Sifting through some of my miscellanea, I stumbled across (literally stumbled, given the amount of things I have strewn across my floor during CAPE exams – much to my mother’s consternation) my old speech from…

After I made a throwaway comment about having to “think like an adult” now that I’m finishing up my CAPE and had to do “Caribbean Studies” and “Communication Studies”, I was asked to elaborate by friends who’d decided to enter the real world right after CSEC. As a science student, I’d thought the “soft” subjects would be a real distraction from the real “stuff”. But over the last two years, I think CXC made a real good decision to make the subjects compulsory for everyone doing CAPE. From primary school,…

“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.” – Michael Jordan, basketball great. Or should I say 500 days until summer? Or 500,000 days until summer? Because it sure feels like we’re that far away from blissful freedom. And yes, I am aware that Guyana doesn’t have a summer (Dry season, anyone? No? After all, with this climate change kicking in, even that seems like a wish). And no, this isn’t going to be some long-winded review of the movie ‘500 days of Summer’. So you’ll be disappointed if you’re expecting…

The second Sunday of May, has been set aside as Mothers’ Day. Kids all over the world tried to do whatever they could to make their mothers feel special. Some gave their mother flowers or cards. Some even prepared a home-cooked meal, or took their mom out for dinner. When Mothers’ Day became a recognised holiday in the U.S. in 1914, it quickly spread to the rest of the world. And just as quickly, by the 1920’s it had become as commercialised as any other holiday. But why should you…