Give thy thoughts no tongue, or any unproportion’d thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. Shakespeare. Words communicate a message; convey a meaning, feelings and thoughts. It has been said that if the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Words have the power [...]
“The audience watched in awe the circus where harlequins faint and cry, and jokers await their cues as thieves in the dark. Mesmerized the cobra danced in the ashes, eyes glistening blankly, tongue darting like a ventriloquist’s puppet with no thought of its own. They clapped and danced merrily, pierrots of the centre stage. Secretly [...]
Pity the nation that raises not its voice, save when it walks in a funeral; boasts not except amongst its ruins and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler and whose art is the art [...]
George Orwell’s novel “1984″ described a world where ‘war is peace’, ‘freedom is slavery’ and ‘big brother is watching you’. These Orwellian words truly depict our totalitarian world of today.
When confronted with the dismal record of occupations and interventions, the common gung-ho American refrain nowadays is that history is for losers and that history never [...]
The rich have become richer, the poor have become poorer and the vessel of state is driven between anarchy and despotism. (Percy Shelley)
In medieval folklore, vampires, the fiends of the underworld, were fabled creatures of the night. They rose from the graves and roamed the earth feeding on the lifeblood of innocent victims.
Today we are afflicted with modern [...]
“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one, if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled…. That isn’t preventive war; that is war….. It seems to me that when, [...]
At the Vatican, May 14, 1999, Pope John Paul II bowed as a sign of respect toward a copy of the Holy Quran presented to him as a gift. When the Quran was officially presented to him, he kissed the same. This gesture, magnanimous and understanding as it was, earned him the respect and admiration [...]
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” - Jonathan Swift.
No religion is immune to the dangers of ideological absolutism. By the time the Roman Empire ended the Church was a heavy political player in its own right. It claimed that kings and emperors ruled by its [...]
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grownup we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability ….. To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L’Engle.
Someone asked a sage what part of the paper he read first. ‘The sports page’ was the answer. On [...]
