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Star Campus anniversary: One year at full gear!

Shayera Maula

"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
-Mel Brooks

It's not as creepy as it sounds. Every individual has within himself layers of perspectives, of experiences, of truths and of lies. It is when the roaming of these thoughts and words in our heads come sinuous onto paper that you, as a writer, suddenly feel a moment of glory and regret. Glory, because you have transferred it from abstract to real and regret because you feel separated from your inner mind suddenly exposed to a mere piece of materiality. It is complete when you feel satisfied in being able to parallel what you see on the paper and the thoughts within you.

Over the past twelve months, Star Campus has gripped both writers and readers every week stimulating individualism beyond anything ever before. Numerous writers across every part of every district finally found access to a platform where they could for the first time employ their creativity!

“Words cannot express what I feel right now.” Oh but that's never really true for they can go as close to it as possible. So close that it revives your senses to a point where words like “aromas of lime in the air” could actually water your mouth for sour cravings. That is the power of words. That is the strength of writing. You can engrave anger, mark an opinion, eroticise romance and doubt a question only so directly and yet carelessly with a pen and paper. It makes you who you are and you as an identity can never be lost from history because of the art of writing.

This is what the magazine has demanded from its writers and there are perhaps people who never dreamt of having the chance to express themselves. It is in this hunting that someone might just feel encouraged to scribble down a few words, note down a few observations and then suddenly prosper into a renowned writer! It might seem far-fetched but life is unpredictable and so we should take our chances while it's there.

This magazine is also somewhat of a chance. Take it.