Artist and Empire: British Legacy in Singapore
Mr Low Sze Wee, Director, Curatorial, Collections & Education, National Gallery Singapore, shared with Rattana Lao (Modern Diplomacy) on the origin, expectation and reception...
Culture as a binding factor in our society- interview with Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen
W e need culture to know where we came from, says her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany...
When bad mothers happen
N obody talks about the abuse or the familiar hands that we suffered it from now that we're (my siblings and I) are...
I speak of freedom
T he divine meeting of the class system in South Africa, the failure of our curriculum, the failure for the 2016 matriculants, the...
‘Call it a difficult night’: Book Review
M ishka Hoosen is young. She is also intelligent. She is brave and she is brilliant. She is also very clever, funny and...
Must We Confine Our Research to a Paradigm? Integrating Long-Standing Methodological Paradigms
Long-standing tensions between quantitative and qualitative research are far common issues in the social sciences research. The debate centres on the perception of the...
The riposte of Thomas Paine to Edmund Burke: “Rights of a Man”
This prominent masterpiece written by Thomas Paine played a pivotal role in the history of human being that embraced all aspects of rights of...
Gandhi and potential
Today as I write this the voice of Mahatma Gandhi is inside my head grooming me I think in ways that are imagined and...
A coming of age story
Illusions like self-esteem, self-worth, the Sigmund Freud’s ego, superego, ID, and our body image. Those images are not real. Nothing really of substance. They...
Is Shame Universally Associated with Poverty? An In-Depth Analysis on the Last Empirical Insight
Poverty alleviation has implied an important goal for developing countries and policy-makers in the last century. Recently, organisations such as the United Nations or...