On which side do you lean, fate or free will?
One of the greatest and most lasting debates of humanity has been the role of destiny in our lives.
Are we the masters of our fate, or is everything pre-determined by powers beyond our control?
Are we (...)
It is a sorry spectacle watching the political scandals of the US. Where is the leader of the most powerful country in the world?
As we watched in dismay the fraudulent presidential elections unfold we could almost feel the power of America slowly (...)
Admittedly, we are tardy in presenting our bi-annual fashion revue, with the cold weather already at our doors.
What with coronavirus still raging in Europe and other parts of the globe, coupled with the pandemonium of the presidential elections (...)
We all wish to live long lives, but none of us wishes to grow old. Contradictory, but true. The fact is we can do both, live long and not grow old.
The number of years need not make you old. Age is only a three-letter word. It is not the enemy. It (...)
The UN is in a pickle. It has virtually been unable to take the leadership of the pandemic world crisis. The World Health Organisation (WHO) botched it, flip-flopping constantly and António Guterres, wailing and complaining, said “We need (...)
Viruses are ancient. They predate the divergence of life, thus infecting our last universal common ancestor.
Viruses are deadly. They kill twice as many people as cancer does — around 15 million people every year.
Viruses are simple. They are made (...)
We have become tired and weary of sitting idly with time on our squeaky clean hands.
We wait impatiently for this apparent absurdity to end, when our tormentors will be convinced it is time to resume our normal life. What a waste of precious time, (...)
Laughter is not easy, especially nowadays when we need it most. Fear and oppression have wiped away our smiles.
Panic-stricken that Covid-19 shall invade every cell in our body, spooked at the proximity of strangers, perplexed about the use of (...)
If you are reading those lines, you obviously do.
The whole world now speaks English or needs to. It has become the Lingua Franca, the international language of the world, since about the 19th century. It is the only language that absolutely (...)
One more scandal is infuriating the British royal family. The unthinkable, unaccepted, unimaginable has happened. “Never complain, never explain” is the dictum of the House of Windsor for the 19th and 20th centuries, but it always seems to happen.
A (...)
It has not been a very good year, to say the least. In fact, it has been so far another annus horribilis.
Most people surveyed have labelled it “the worst year of their lives” and for good reason.
Except for war years there has never been a year as (...)
She was the epitome of the most perfect woman on earth.
Beautiful, sweet, self-sacrificing, soft-spoken, patient, gentle, giving, and forgiving. Her selfless love and deeply feminine qualities endeared her to the public. They may be scoffed at (...)
Dear Reader, as you read these lines, you probably do not give a second thought to who you are.
You are either a boy or a girl, a him or a her, a he or a she. It is that simple, we think, but in fact, it is not.
The United Nations informs us that (...)
The task of the historian is to tell the story of the past.
He cannot lose sight of acts and facts, bitter as they may seem at present. History is a science to be written scientifically, to be studied scientifically.
Re-writing history fades into (...)
“Never Again,”. It was a solemn promise made three-quarters of a century ago to humanity.
In the aftermath of WWII and the atomic bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United Nations was established by a group of nations on 24 October 1945 to keep (...)
As much as we hate to mention it again, coronavirus has impacted every aspect of our lives.
To stop this Niagara, this overflow of losses, emotional and financial, seems impossible. The decline of businesses and the rise of unemployment are (...)
Solitude may cause false impressions, fantasies or optical illusions. Were those tens of thousands of rioters appearing on TV a documentary, rehashing the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?
It took a while to realise that this was happening right now — (...)
Is this the universe we have known or are we suffering from a double delusion? Daunted and dismayed we seem to be floating in some outer space entity, weary, tired and helpless.
Tormented by the loss of so many lives, we walk around like ghosts, (...)
Now the days of Ramadan have dwindled down, over one billion Muslims have celebrated the breaking of the fast under dire circumstances.
Throughout the dark days and nights of these evil times, Muslims continued to pray, alone, isolated, unable to (...)
How would you like to jump into the backseat of your car, stretch your legs and doze off through the long drive home? It sounds dreamy — especially that there will be no one in the car to distract you.
You would be riding a driverless vehicle, the (...)
A global cry was heard loud and clear, give us back our air, our sky, our oceans.
This has indeed been “the winter of our discontent”. Locked up, locked down, isolated and quarantined, the world has had enough.
With so many references to the (...)
The grievance and torment of holidaymakers who had dreamed of a perfect holiday were tossed up in a tempest of tragic proportions.
Luxury liners like the Grand Princess, Diamond Princes, California Cruise Ship, MS Amsterdam held their passengers (...)
Your visitor is seated comfortably and you rush to make a hot cup of tea. Tea is the second most popular drink after water. Tea is perfect.
You start on your elaborate serving ritual, when you hear a faint voice, with a pinch of regret, “not green (...)
The world is tremblingly alive, gushing and blushing in exquisite shades of scarlet, crimson, vermillion, flaming reds and warmest pink. For we are celebrating Valentine's Day, the feast of love, the noblest of human emotions.
What is it, this thing (...)
If you are familiar with Comic Book characters that took the screen by storm, then surely Batman comes to mind. How can there be a Batman without his nemesis, his arch-enemy, the frightful, super-villain called the Joker.
This master criminal wears (...)
