‘At a knife’s edge’

‘At a knife’s edge’

Shradhya Verma “Shradhya, what do you want to be when you grow up?” “I want to be an astronaut!” “Shradhya, Where do you see yourself in the future?” … “Future?” How do we label the sense of imminent doom, the paralysis beneath our feet and the pulsing and thudding abyss within our chest? What term encapsulates when the future becomes a fading fantasy slipping from our grasp and visualising a future, that 10, 20, 50 years from now is just a hesitant daydream? No convoluted jargon is needed to explain today’s fundamental reality, the earth is teetering at a knife’s...

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