Srinagar, Nov. 6 -- The question of what it means to be a human has been discussed in philosophy and forms an important component of social thought. From the Cartesian thinking subject to Kantian autonomous individual, from Nietzsche's Ubermensch to Iqbal's Shaheen, human beings have often been understood through their capacity to think, feel, choose, create, question and transcend the conditions imposed upon them. Humans don't merely adapt like other animals do , they express themselves too. Paulo Freire in the Pedagogy of the oppressed, calls a human being not a finished entity but an unfinished being capable of reflection and transformation. Humanization , he argues , is an ongoing process through which individuals exercise consciousne...