Politics

As a child, I remember feeling puzzled when reading about people being referred to as critics. I wondered why anyone would want to criticize something, and more importantly, why others not only allowed the critic to make unpleasant remarks, but actually paid him for doing so. As I grew older, I understood that the critics…

When Shakespeare wrote the lines “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” for Juliet’s soliloquy in Romeo and Juliet, he struck a chord – after all, a name is given for identification and does not necessarily give or describe attributes. However, in today’s day…

One of the interesting developments during the last year was the behaviour of the stock market. Conventional wisdom dictated that with complete global shutdowns affecting production as well as consumption, leading to a collapse in the national GDP, the effect on businesses and consequently on their share prices would be disastrous. However, after an initial…

The origin of most religions can be traced to the need for order and discipline in society through definition of what constitutes acceptable behaviour and what does not. Consequently, those actions that were deemed harmful were called sins, that would be punishable, either in this life, in the afterlife or in the next life, depending…