Churchill’s ‘wisdom’
From time immemorial, human ingenuity has endeavoured to develop effective methods for dispensation of justice. After much thought and process, humans adopted the scheme of dispensing justice through judges. In…
Friends or foes? A transatlantic rift
The alacrity with which American President Donald Trump is trying to secure peace in war-ravaged Ukraine despite Europe’s reservations indicates that Washington is indifferent to the sensitivities of the continent.…
Dialogue is the answer– what’s the issue?
While checking into a major international chain of Hotels in Cairo, a couple of years back, I was intrigued more by fascination than surprise by the “ Pin” all the…
Modern facsimiles
MUSTAFA Kemal Atatürk was born in Turkey, in 1881. Since then, facsimiles have been spawned many times: Soekarno in Indonesia, Lt-Col Rawlings in Ghana, Col Nasser in Egypt, Field Marshal…
Talent dilemma—to be, or not to be…
What a talent. Spectacular, superb. These are some exclamations that we normally hear when we see some extraordinary potential or performer. The search for talent is a top priority in…
A Rubik’s Cube
IF you can recall the Rubik’s Cube, you are a child of the 1980s. Its inventor Ernő Rubik (a Hungarian professor of architecture) perfected his brainchild in 1979, intending it…
Is India’s judiciary up for the fight?
OBSERVERS around the world were not necessarily being malicious — with the exception of Winston Churchill — in thinking that India might not last as a democracy for too long…
Sound leadership
PAKISTAN suffers not only from a famine of funds: it is starved of sound leadership. Those who aspire to lead it should follow Winston Churchill’s advice: “Study history.” Former US…
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…
Adieu, 2022
FEW will shed tears at the extinction of 2022. It has been a strange, unhappy year for almost everyone. Perhaps the most disappointed is former prime minister Imran Khan. He…
