myblog | Sylphia Basak | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/19015776/activity/ Activity feed for Sylphia Basak. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:15:50 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 b5394bef816f178834a96c06ad12a2d8 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=113 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:54:44 +0000 The invention of the internet has shrunk space, time, and distance on earth. The world used to seem much brighter before we were connected to everything and everyone all the time all at once. In some ways, I have […]

]]> 0 8da054c215bec7650128d8eb031590a9 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=112 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:52:08 +0000 Every now and then (though not as often as I should), when I visit a website and click “accept all cookies”, I stop to think about the fine print I don’t bother to read. The part that tells me in writing that […]

]]> 0 c1b689b7b830c52ac799d6ffeaa04ca4 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=111 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:50:23 +0000 As someone born in 2001, I have had the unique experience of watching internet infrastructure completely transform in real time. In fact, many of my childhood milestones seem to be intrinsic to the technological […]

]]> 0 fda0511b4b2364e230f4c4bc97b84194 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=110 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:47:36 +0000 To say that the 2017 Pepsi protest ad is infamous would be a colossal understatement. The advertisement so concisely captures the essence of performative capitalism it could be named as its […]

]]> 0 f07802c043364e039a914898e155d641 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=108 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:41:00 +0000 As the UK- and much of the world- reaches a point of inflation that feels as though it cannot possibly be pushed further, there is less and less room for debate about whether capitalism seems to be working. […]

]]> 0 8c17f1c72471d51fcbec11da5e44b97e Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site Blueprint https://longerformjournalism.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=228 Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:26:45 +0000 When Dr. Yana Hoffman was thirteen, she and her family watched Martin Luther King Jr. give his historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln memorial in Washington. She was among the 300,000 people who att […]

]]> 0 c52f0e0814eea48f8dda630c57e06f3b Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site TRAFFIC https://baj2pathwaysharedsite.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=371 Fri, 30 Apr 2021 04:44:49 +0000  In the past year, we have all seen the ways that a government can handle a pandemic right (see New Zealand or Thailand) and, arguably, the many more ways in which governments around the world have mishandled […]

]]> 0 9f6474d54ebac24203c705c8db5beba5 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site TRAFFIC https://baj2pathwaysharedsite.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=137 Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:13:42 +0000 What started as baking bread and playing Animal Crossing quickly morphed into the beginnings of political revolution and the rise of leftist ideology among Generation Z and millennials. Whether that was because […]

]]> 0 36485bbfac15774182dca9244c1e29b7 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=81 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:58:41 +0000 What is it like trying to find a home, both in the outside world and within yourself when the two largest parts of your identity seem so polarizing?

Vishnu: The Hindu deity for which he was named […]

]]> 0 794088e32211d5de8513315bf5f2f4f7 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=70 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:13:52 +0000 How can women in South Asian families forge their own path regardless of what their families and societies expect? What can we do to shatter the ceilings of the world around us and break the generational cycle of […]

]]> 0 268935503b9ace35add1094eaa7ddc38 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=54 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 05:42:07 +0000 Exploring what it means to be the child of immigrants in the 21st century and hoe we can find the balance between searching for a better life and not losing ties to our old ones.

By the time Sebastian and his […]

]]> 0 b64e9b4b065ccbf0dd314bfad39b3e94 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=30 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 01:47:56 +0000 “Nothing ever phases you”. It’s always said as compliment. People seem to admire the way I can laugh off anything and turn it into a joke that rolls off like water off a duck’s back. At the very least, I can […]

]]> 0 dabe8f9654fc26f02eb5bf119889f696 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=29 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:46:52 +0000 This article is part of the first person features that Vox does. Written by former therapist Shanita Hubbard, the article is a self reflection of her relationships and how they have lead to her to take a stance […]

]]> 0 e3025e06b257aed3c1d207a5075436da Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=18 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:19:15 +0000 When I went to see Cats, I knew it wasn’t going to be good. Panned by audiences and critics alike in almost every aspect, I was simply expecting a poorly made movie. However, I can confidently say that this […]

]]> 0 6546d5943c4b43f51f21e781d65cda5f Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=17 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:26:35 +0000 When Francis was 13, he came out as FTM (Female to Male) transgender to his friends, family and anyone who would ask. Since then, Francis’ transition has been about the journey to make his external appearance m […]

]]> 0 70d1866fc6ba2eb1bfc6939328e2b27b Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=12 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:50:28 +0000 Further investigation to be launched after evidence of a drone strike has been uncovered in the debris of the Thames emergency landing.

Flight US132 made an emergency landing on the Thames river en-route to […]

]]> 0 383dc774d0d4db8e41300bffbcef6861 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=8 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:45:58 +0000 UPDATING LIVE

No severe injuries or deaths on flight US132 to Amsterdam, which landed in the Thames at 10:20 am.

One person taken to hospital, all passengers have been safely evacuated.

Thousands […]

]]> 0 7687dafb3a653ed10798c3eef18de257 Sylphia Basak wrote a new post on the site why i read. https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=7 Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:12:07 +0000 Seven prisons in the United Kingdom have been the first to receive the benefits of a £100 million investment in security. With the hopes of cracking down on internal crime, the money will be used towards […]

]]> 0 89be254fc38abc305095cb4dc6b329d2 Sylphia Basak replied to the topic in the forum https://sylphias.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/hello-world/#post-5 Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:09:12 +0000 Oh, and this is what a reply looks like.

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