May Edition – Looking Forward

Photojournalists Note by Manya Srivastava and Tanisha Jhaveri There’s the past, that’s gone, and the future that’s yet to come. Both we have no control over. We can either choose to focus on what’s done or what is yet to come. In this edition of the Casual Observer, the photographers focused on this theme of…

The Future is Yours

Here we have an insightful article written by Vidhi Modi, a student who has founded her own jewellery business, XVXII. Explore her story with entrepreneurship and learn about how you can achieve success with it too. Starting a business has always been my childhood dream. Believe it or not, it actually runs in the family!…

The China Paradox

The consequences of COVID-19 are truly unimaginable. From the ever-mounting death toll to the surge in unemployment, nobody could imagine how a disease could bring the world to its knees. China, without doubt, is at enormous fault for this. Its lack of transparency left the world unaware of the dangers posed by the virus. It’s…

From Secret to Not-So-Secret

5 May 2020, 12:00 PM “ 3… 2… 1…publish it!”That was the inauguration of OUR NOT-SO-SECRET DIARY just a few weeks ago. When our IGCSE board exams got cancelled, who would have thought that two months later we would be doing something other than binging Netflix? But you see, we soon realised, to move ahead…

Enlightening Creativity

One of the most important phases of your life is when you are bored. Boredom is active, unstable, and demanding. Boredom is good! It forces us to get uncomfortable in our comfort zone. It forces us to look the other way and explore. It forces us to wonder ‘what if?’. Boredom is not caused because…