{"author":"Aysha Taryam","author_id":"Aysha+Taryam","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"Freedom of the press can never be the licence to say anything one desires. Freedom of the press is not the freedom to slander and attack and must never be used to fight other people’s wars. It does not mean manipulating a story into speaking your views. One might think it common sense but in the world of journalism a lot of what makes sense is lost to the lure of favouritism, greed and fame. Sadly, in this truth-telling business truth is hard to find.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["arab-media","arab-spring","freedom-of-the-press","journalism","media","media-studies"],"id":6139,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["grief","history","india","love","passion","shah-jahan","sorrow","taj-mahal"],"id":9711,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"We have reached the age of denial, we have become happiness seekers, afraid to feel. We are told to think positive, to seek only joy. Stores overflow with books selling you ways to rid yourself of ‘negative’ feelings.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["denial","happiness","negative-thinking","new-age","positive-thinking","self-help"],"id":14806,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["aysha-taryam","buddhism","christianity","faith","hinduism","human-rights","islam","judaism","religion-spirituality","theology"],"id":18172,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out and hope has drowned in gallons of innocent blood, the only respite comes in the form of the open seas and what lies beyond the horizon. So ships are boarded and pain is tolerated just a little while longer.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["africa","arab-spring","european-union","middle-east","migrant","political-philosophy","politics","refugee","united-nations","war"],"id":18251,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"The problem is not in the hashtag; the problem lies in the idea that one’s contribution in spreading said hashtag ends their responsibility towards that particular issue. It is a way of clearing our conscience towards the true atrocities happening around us, because in that moment that we send out a supportive post into the world of the web we set the notion that we are somehow absolved of our sins, for silence is a sin and the hashtag breaks that silence.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["hashtag","hashtags","social-media","social-media-behaviour","viral-ideas"],"id":21630,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"The long-term effect of Hillary’s loss could be more beneficial to the future of America than one might think. For if Obama’s reign placed hope in the hearts of the young and instilled in them a belief that differences must be embraced then Hillary’s crushing defeat has awakened them to the harsh realities of a hopeful indifference and raised their voices in opposition of all those ideals that would not only darken their future but the future of the entire world.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["american-politics","american-revolution","barak-obama","diversity","donald-trump","hate-speech","hilary-clinton","misogyny","trump-administration","united-states-of-america","us-elections","us-elections-2016","us-politics","young-america"],"id":37665,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has become a hindrance to the fulfilment of our positive selves.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["culture","judgment","justice","positive","positive-thinking","rape","rape-culture","viciousness","victim","victim-blaming"],"id":42407,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["arabspring","democracy","dictators","dictatorship","egypt","philosophy","politics","revolution"],"id":44818,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["body","casualties","casualties-of-war","dignity","human-beings","human-rights","humanity","identity","injustice","migration","refugee-crisis","refugees","sea","war"],"id":76190,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}