Did You Ever Love Me? by Rithvik Singh is a tender contemporary poetry collection about love, heartbreak, longing, self worth and learning to let go. Its greatest strength is emotional accessibility: Singh writes directly to readers who feel intensely and care deeply. The collection offers comfort without pretending heartbreak is simple, though its simplicity may occasionally feel familiar to seasoned poetry readers. Did you Ever Love Me? Have you ever loved someone so completely that, after they left, you were left wondering whether they had ever understood what they had been given? Not merely whether they loved you, but whether they ever noticed how much you loved them, how much patience you offered, how many small things you remembered, or how often you chose to stay when leaving might have been easier. There is a particular loneliness in that question because it rarely arrives at a dramatic moment. More often, it finds you while you are doing something completely ordinary. Yo...
today before applying for a job, a seat in an educational institution, membership of a house or a chair of responsibility almost everywhere in the world we are expected to pass a litmus test to determine which side of the great divide we fall on-a black? Or a white?
Recent headlines such as
"RACIST STATEMENTS HURLED AT SHILPA SHETTY AT A REALITY SHOW"
"FEAR AND LOATHING AT MELBOURNE"
Prove beyond the extent of any doubt that the global human family is presently facing "racist intimidation”. And it’s not just the recent times where we find traces of such dogmatism. Perhaps even sir Edward VII (1841-1910) were deeply agonized by this detriment when he said-
"Because a man has a black face and a different religion from our own, there is no reason why he should be treated as a brute."
Thus when we don’t care to deal positively or take fruitful steps to curb racism, only serves as a negative stereotype which is eventually transferred from generation to generation...and thus, the process of growth of racist feelings never cease to exist.
Unfamiliarity to a particular race accounts for yet another reason for the presence and growth of racial intimidation. People fear what they do not know or understand. Human psychology tends to treat strange people or objects as a negative presage to their being. This creates hostile or combative feelings.
The fear of intrusion of the others race in one’s own race also tends to give birth to bellicose responsiveness.
apart from taking steps at world level like THE RACE QUESTION and CRITICISM OF THE HOLOCAUST, we should tame ethnic intimidation by acting as responsible citizens of the human soceity.we should teach our young ones that a person is a Caucasoid or a mongoloid only because of their geographical surroundings and that the ethnicity doesn’t decide a person’s worth or credit.
- Ankeita Bharadwaj.
Recent headlines such as
"RACIST STATEMENTS HURLED AT SHILPA SHETTY AT A REALITY SHOW"
"FEAR AND LOATHING AT MELBOURNE"
Prove beyond the extent of any doubt that the global human family is presently facing "racist intimidation”. And it’s not just the recent times where we find traces of such dogmatism. Perhaps even sir Edward VII (1841-1910) were deeply agonized by this detriment when he said-
"Because a man has a black face and a different religion from our own, there is no reason why he should be treated as a brute."
Thus when we don’t care to deal positively or take fruitful steps to curb racism, only serves as a negative stereotype which is eventually transferred from generation to generation...and thus, the process of growth of racist feelings never cease to exist.
Unfamiliarity to a particular race accounts for yet another reason for the presence and growth of racial intimidation. People fear what they do not know or understand. Human psychology tends to treat strange people or objects as a negative presage to their being. This creates hostile or combative feelings.
The fear of intrusion of the others race in one’s own race also tends to give birth to bellicose responsiveness.
apart from taking steps at world level like THE RACE QUESTION and CRITICISM OF THE HOLOCAUST, we should tame ethnic intimidation by acting as responsible citizens of the human soceity.we should teach our young ones that a person is a Caucasoid or a mongoloid only because of their geographical surroundings and that the ethnicity doesn’t decide a person’s worth or credit.
- Ankeita Bharadwaj.
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