Author: Shumaila Khan

A Brief History of Forgetting

In most functioning democracies, education is meant to sharpen the mind, not dull it. The textbook, for all its institutional monotony and glue-scented pages, remains a tool of possibility: a place where a young citizen might first encounter injustice, rebellion, plurality, and the spine of their nation’s history. What it […]

Elegance, Screwed

Let’s begin with a broken plate. Not metaphorically (though feel free to go there), but literally: a piece of fine china, fractured, splintered, and now reassembled not with dainty care but with steel bolts, barbed wire, and what looks suspiciously like industrial hardware pilfered from a junk drawer in a […]

Are Men Too Emotional to Be in Positions of Leadership?

It is a question that, on the surface, reads like satire. But then you remember the tantrums. The unfiltered tweets at 3 a.m. The sulking after parliamentary debates. The blood-boiling monologues in war rooms. You recall the finger-pointing press conferences, the volcanic bursts of ego on global stages, the treaties […]