The impact of Britain's most famous playwright, poet and actor upon the English language remains enduring, and as the country prepares to mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth on…
British former prime minister Boris Johnson’s prospective return to Downing Street reads like a Shakespearean arc of redemption after a fall — but critics see elements of farce. Johnson, 58,…
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” — Hamlet, William Shakespeare ONE of the two central pillars of democratic constitutionalism, namely, the peaceful transfer of power through a…
Politics makes strange bed fellows. This is adapted from a line in the play, ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare :( Misery acquaints a man with strange bed fellows). This phrase…
If you party for four days, strict abstinence for the remaining three days will probably not get you off the hook. In substance, you have a lockdown or you don’t…
One thing humans need for survival is ‘hope’. Even when one knows that life is no pleasure cruise; that each day you’ll be welcoming new challenges; and that you have…
WILLIAM Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear is not to be watched on an empty stomach. It is a gut-wrenching story of betrayal, inhuman blinding, unnatural patricide, and grey-haired hubris that ends…
Lord Denning M. L., a Twentieth Century British judge and jurist, in his famous book "The Family Story" remarked: "Every judge on his appointment discards all politics and all prejudice.…
When I wrote ‘An elegy to music’ (Oct 21, 2018) last week, little did I realise that soon I would be writing an ode to music too. But before the…
When I wrote ‘An elegy to music’ (Oct 21, 2018) last week, little did I realise that soon I would be writing an ode to music too. But before the…
