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King and Gandhi’s India

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr, one of the greatest nonviolent leaders of the 20th century, was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, US.…

Looking for heroes

WHERE have all the heroes gone? Who are the role models young people should emulate? This subject came up for discussion over the dinner table the other evening, and we…

Our rights wronged

DEAD men do not write autobiographies. Someone in time will breathe life into their past. The first 12 Roman caesars — starting with Julius Caesar — had the historian Suetonius.…

Right, wrong & left

LAST Sunday, the state election in Thuringia for the first time propelled an extreme right-wing party to pole position anywhere in Germany since the end of the Nazi era 90…

Shaping the nation

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” — Winston Churchill WORDS have a remarkable power to shape the course of nations. From…

The rule of law

LIFE in developed countries pivots around the rule of law. Every citizen is subjected to the same laws, and no one is above the law. However, despite full consensus on…