By Harshitha Veeravalli Spooky season is coming up and all people can think about is how to incorporate a mask into their outfit for this year’s Halloween. The coronavirus seems scary enough, but it isn’t stopping us from carrying out the much-required trick-or-treat. When we say trick or treat, it’s a natural expectation to expect…
June Edition – Controversy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Photojournalists Note by Manya Srivastava and Tanisha Jhaveri The resonating fact that echoes through history is that there will always be two sides to the same story, two faces to a coin. While history may capture one and the media may portray another, that doesn’t invalidate either. Here at the Casual Observer, the photographers tried…
Radical Free Speech: The Onslaught of Bigotry
The Cambridge dictionary defines a bigot as “a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life”. It seems society is filled with these bigots who refuse to open their mind to simple facts, such as the validity of homosexuality, or…
A Friendly Guide to Activism Done Right
Read this article & tag 10 people who won’t break the chain! As 2020 continually rears its behemoth loathsome head, we have seen so many atrocious facets of its personality. However, one thing we do have to thank it for is the incessant source of Instagram stories! From “Pray for Indonesia” and pictures of koalas…
Colonialism: A Clique?
Colonialism is a questionable period in history for several nations in the world. For some, it represents an oppressive and exploitative reign of enforced power, an ugly stain in their pages of history, while for some it represents an important historical and cultural time of extensive development for the nation. When prompted with the word…
Trump: Two Sides of the Same Coin
That’s right. The person everyone loves to hate, and the person who loves to love himself. The man, the myth, the “Donald”. The 45th President of the United States of America is unpopular amongst most, with an approval rating of around only 40% (according to Gallup news). Most of the world, or rather should I…
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…
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