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Apr 9, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Dallin Chicoine
I grew up interacting with print journalism, but I also witnessed the booming popularity digital media received in a matter of a few years. Many have wondered whether digital journalism will turn print into an obsolete form of news consumption.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Dallin Chicoine
The increased global acceptance of right-wing political parties and conservative ideology has gained much attention in the past few years. The deteriorating effects on the public sphere of governments that prioritize the interests of dominant religious groups, conservative ideologies and the free market are boundless.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Teegan Gillich
Strikes are meant to be disruptive. There is no way around it, because protesting for rights while meeting the needs of the administration workers are agitating against is simply not feasible or logical. In light of Brandon University Faculty Association (BUFA) voting in favour of a strike — which was only narrowly avoided on March 4 as negotiations with the university continued — anxiety around faculty strikes is rising.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Teegan Gillich
The results are in, and UMSU’s newly elected executive team for 2024-25 has been decided. Among the elects, Divya Sharma, the incoming president and incumbent vice president community engagement, campaigned on the goal of reinstating free international student health care.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Dallin Chicoine
Those who have ever had the misfortune of coming across the animated meme of two men sharing tea, saying “women” and laughing maniacally will have likely watched the origin of the insulting meme “women (followed by a tea emoji)” which probably happened around 2022. Readers may also have noticed “women tea” comments under videos of women where they are doing something supposedly wrong.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Teegan Gillich
Friendship is a deeply social process. bell hooks writes in All About Love, “friendship is the place in which a great majority of us have our first glimpse of redemptive love and caring community.”Many sociopolitical forces make us choose friends and maintain friendships, like race, class, gender, language, religion and more. These forces can also restrict friendship. For example, many women share the tired statement that female friendships are dramatic and they prefer friendships with men.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Teegan Gillich
Love has never been a complicated idea for me. I grew up watching my parents fall in love every day. I watched them sing old Bollywood songs together on long drives — they did pretty much everything together. They showed me it is okay to have disagreements. After all, you will learn to resolve conflict and learn from your mistakes because you ultimately love and respect each other. All four of my grandparents ran bookstores at various points in their lives.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Teegan Gillich
Following the reinstating of Arij Al Khafagi after almost two months of suspension, it is clear that there needs to be more focused conversations on the political identity of students and censorship in academic institutions. Al Khafagi was suspended for sharing an Instagram post that depicted a cartoon comparing an IDF soldier to a Nazi with the caption “the irony of becoming what you once hated.” This was deemed antisemitic by the university.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Teegan Gillich
I see similarities between Zionism and Hindutva — an extremist Hindu-supremacist ideology which promotes creating a single Hindu identity. In short, Hindutva advocates strive for a Hindu ethnostate. I’ve seen discussions about the similarity of the two ideologies before. But as I’m seeing booming popularity for Zionism and Hindutva in diaspora communities, I want to think about them more deeply. I vaguely knew about the Global North’s perception of India before moving from there to Winnipeg.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Lakshmisree Shaji |Teegan Gillich
Every new year, I set a reading goal for myself and spend the rest of the year trying to live up to January Lakshmi’s expectations. As a regular BookTube and Bookstagram consumer, my choices before borrowing a book from Libby are usually influenced by what I’ve watched. And this year, at least 25 per cent of what I read was solely BookTube recommendations. This interests me as an English student who keeps a tab of books I read outside my courses.
