Gateway to Zeena's world

                                                              It was 9 a.m. Twenty-one-year-old Ruth entered Bethel City Church, all prepared to worship God and fulfil her task of ushering. The church was situated in Sikanderpur, Gurgaon- a beautiful millennium city next to New Delhi, the capital of India- at about 40 kilometres away from her university campus. Its shopping malls, metro stations, call centers and crowd depicted the lifestyle and ambitions of the people residing it. Ruth greeted her two Pastors, John and Kay, and her friends. She was tall, well endowed, and her Indo- African ethnicity gave her a dusky complexion. Those who knew her said she was charismatic.She had been serving in the church for one year now and her face reflected the feelings of peace and happiness she experienced there, with an honesty tha...

                                                    " Dis crimination between human beings on the ground of race, colour, or ethnic origin is an offence to human dignity and shall be condemned...as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights..."                                                                                                   On 20 November 1963, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It recognized that in spite of progress, discrimination b...

                                            Life is like photography; You use the negatives to develop.   Dear younger Zeena,                             You have been through a long road. Things have not been easy, but you've survived and made it through alright. You have been through ups and downs, and just when the world thought you would be shattered, you overcame the obstacles of life and became even stronger.     I FORGIVE YOU  For all the times you should have been thankful for every single thing your parents did for you, but were not, I forgive you. I understand you were not fully at fault. After all, you grew up as Daddy's little princess: a girl who led a luxurious and comfortable life, unaware of the struggles and hard work her parents went through just to keep...

  Studying journalism can be exciting and at the same time a serious task. Recently, I attended my educational institution, Apeejay Stya University's Annual Media Festival organized by its School of Journalism and Mass Communication, which offered me a plethora of wonderful learning opportunities and allowed me to make new friends and memories to last forever.   What says journalism also says news, facts, current affairs, thinking out of the box and being attentive; and the one person who truly gripped my attention during the  media festival was the smart and good-looking, India-based Syrian Journalist, Dr Waiel Awwad.                            Dr Waiel Awwad during his lecture at Apeejay Stya University, February 2016 The journalist talked about Syria and the Arab world, a topic very relevant today, which, ominously enough most, of us either misunderstand or do not dare to talk a...