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Arranged Marriages  E-mail
Written by Sahar Ashraf   

Arranged Marriages“Daughter, we have finally found a husband for you. He is a well-educated young man and he comes from a good family. And most importantly, he is very respectful to us. So your marriage has now been arranged, no need to fret anymore, in six months you will be Mrs. Amanpreet Singh, after which you will be living the remainder of your life on a farm in India. Best of luck!”  

 

No, that order doesn’t fly as well as it used to.

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York University: Students on Strike  E-mail
Written by Sahar Ashraf   

YorkU Let Us in!The scene is ghastly to behold. An obviously unproductive member of society has made a permanent residence out of his living room couch. He slouches dejectedly with a five o’clock shadow and signs of an impending pot belly. Potato chips in one hand, a remote control in the other, and a mad look in his eye are all he has to show for the progress he has made in the past two months of his existence. 

 

 His concerned parents are secretly planning to move to Alaska without telling him. They worked tirelessly for eighteen years to get the result of a drunken night out of their house, only to be back at square one. Desperate for answers, alone time, and a witness protection program, they are not alone in their misery.

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Video Gamers with a Vengeance  E-mail
Written by Sahar Ashraf   

Child playing video gameYou hear about it in the news all the time: wild child on a rampage. Little Jimmy from down the street wakes up one morning to shoot down all his neighbors with a G36C, then proceeds to hijack a car and run over all the women strutting around in skimpy shorts, finally ending his violent outburst by kame hame ha-ing the green alien that had set up camp in the backyard.

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The Contrast of an Image  E-mail
Written by S.N.A   

I am as happy as I am hurt
I am as free as I am imprisoned
I am as alive as I am dead
I am as emotional as I am logical
I am as open as I am closed
I am as bold as I am scared

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A Passage to India  E-mail
Written by Sahar Ashraf   

A Passage to India CoverLiterature is a term too generously applied to the worthless assemblies of sentences on paper. A frivolous love story here, a memorial to the Ku Klux Klan there, and so the free press yields to the nonsense often affectionately endorsed as writing. In the great jumble of rubbish novels, essays, plays and poems printed regularly, how can one be expected to successfully stumble upon “great literature”?

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