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This article contains language you may find offensive. In June 1969, the Greenwich neighbourhood of Manhattan was turned into a battleground between the police and the protesters who were sick and tired of being attacked by the police for their sexual orientation. At the frontline were the ‘queers’ the transsexual…
The transition from ideals to self-interests In 1979, Margret Thatcher was voted the first female Prime Minister of the UK, and she made her grand entry into 10 Downing Street. “Where there is error, may we bring truth,” she said in her speech, paraphrasing the prayer of Saint Francis. The…
The infamous Ku Klux Klan attracted Americans from all walks of life as long as they were white and Christian. Jurists like Hugo Black flirted with the Klan before they were appointed to the Supreme Court in 1937, barely a year before WWII broke out. Yet oddly enough, by 1986, one could…
When history fades from our memories, it suffers the fate of myths. The magnificent monuments around the world are a mark of the victorious who erected structures and inscribed lines on them lest our memory should fail us. When any place suffers an invasion, it is not unusual for invaders…
I woke up to a message from a dear friend who was rightfully disturbed by the death of George Floyd. On 25 May 2020 another black man’s life was senselessly snuffed out by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, who probably thought he was doing his duty. Modern day technology…
Vegans might not lose any sleep over this debate, but dairy consumers ought to spare a thought for the plight of the farmers. From meat to milk, our mass production and mass consumption has led to terrible waste and destruction, but there seems to be no unanimity for change. Europe’s…
How rich is France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault? If one earned €8,000 every single day since the French Revolution (1789), one would end up amassing 1% of his fortune. While society ought to have paused and mulled over that figure, most people chose to fall into the trap of declaring…
Calls for punishing China for ‘exporting’ the ‘Chinese virus’ are growing and the witch hunt is being led by think tanks and lobbies that have never quite liked the idea of China as an economic power player. Naturally, people are happy to jump on the bandwagon simply because the Chinese…
When COVID-19 hit a chronically ill society Wuhan, a Chinese mega-city, seemed like an unlikely backdrop for the horror that has unfolded, but the onslaught of COVID-19 has taught us so much about human nature, society, our medical services, and pride & prejudice. When 34-year-old Dr Li…
‘Je suis Charlie’ is a myth! The bitter truth is there were hardly any Charlies and there are even fewer Milas. When Mila, a 16-year-old adolescent expressed her homosexuality and her views on religion, on social media admittedly not in the most eloquent manner, she was trolled by a random…