Being Human
WHY HUMANITIES?! Why Humanities? This is a " question" which frequently comes across people when there are students like me who love Humanities more than anything else. Why is the youth facing this question? Is the stream not worth it? Don't we have the right to choose our careers? Why isn't the stream placed parallel to Science and Commerce? Believe me, I have faced these questions from the very second I chose to pursue Humanities. Being a class topper, everybody including my parents, teachers, relatives, friends and myself had the preconception that " Science" stream is the best for me. I was so sure that I will be studying Science and Mathematics in my high school period. But I realised that my decision was primarily based on the social conditioning my mind had gone through all these years. My father is a doctor, so from childhood itself I was seen as a stude