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About the writer
“The world will not change in a day, or from one piece of writing. But we cannot remain idle.”
My name is Fatima Mohsinah. I am a university student at UCL, reading Education, Practice and Society. With this degree I hope to contribute to improving education systems so that they are accessible to as many people as possible. This website, inspired by my father, is part of my effort to advocate for justice and to illuminate injustice.
The state of the world — socially, economically, politically and humanly — is constantly changing. Progress has been made, yet that progress is tainted with unfairness. One party always suffers while another benefits and ignores the destructive aftermath. Take colonisation as an example: colonisers tell a story of triumph and civilisation, while the colonised experience mass murder, stolen land, erased history and generational trauma. Yet when questioned, these powers cover their crimes with excuses that the world accepts. I firmly believe it is our responsibility to question this disparity and to illuminate injustice, so that the perpetrators are held accountable.
As days pass, misdeeds continue in more creative ways, and we slowly conform to what those in power want — world leaders, politicians and colonisers who make decisions that affect all of us. Colonisation continues physically, as it does in Palestine, but also invisibly, through education. Histories written by perpetrators omit the stories of their victims in order to appear heroic. Other methods include introducing ideas that make people question their own identity, creating spirals of self-doubt and ruin. Though this is not obvious to the general public, illustrating current events may help people navigate the world more carefully.
The world will not change in a day, or from one piece of writing. But we cannot remain idle. Our pens and our words are weapons. One day, I hope they make a difference to society and to the world.
The essays gathered here were first published in the Bangladeshi newspaper Amar Desh between 2023 and 2024. They are reproduced with their original wording; only formatting has been normalised for reading on screen. Each essay records where and when it first appeared.