“Blooming Cactus”: Star signs, chapters of thanksgiving and prophecy from a gifted pen
It is
raining in Port Elizabeth as I write this. The room is cold and has a
pond life of its own. If I am not...
Rethink Cities to Help Asia Make the Most of Urbanization
Cities have always played a central role in economic development by
bringing workers and entrepreneurs together, spurring innovation, and sharing
resources including infrastructure more efficiently. This...
Evils of black magic
In today’s dynamic
world, everyone is occupied in their own matters whether it’s their family life
or career. Basically, we all are in a consistent race...
The science of winter: Bessie Head, feminist daughter of the earth, writer and philosopher
With her
lotus feet. Milk, and rain clouds gathering is a vision in her indelible
psyche. She is barefoot sowed to the shoreline in Port Elizabeth....
Killing Qassim Soleimani: Rule of law or rule of the jungle?
International law may not be a major
consideration in debates about the US killing of Iranian military commander
Qassim Soleimani, yet the legality of the assassination...
The Baghdad Air Strike: Pre-emptive self-defence or Assassination?
In the
early hours of January 3, missiles
launched by a USAF
MQ9 Reaper slammed into a convoy exiting the Baghdad International Airport,
killing Iranian Major General Qassem...
Why I wrote The Scholarship Girl
For a long
time I thought my writing was primitive. In the sense that I was not gaining the
recognition that I wanted (which every writer...
The odyssey of the American Civil War
The importance of a strong central government
Peace, community, nation-building beginning at a grassroots level
(freeing the enslaved) are all necessary for a strong government. Problems...
I benefitted from migration, let others do so too
I come from a family of migrants. In the early 1900s, the British
colonial authorities brought both of my great-grandfathers from Utter Pradesh
in India to...
Geopolitics and e-Diplomacy of Estonia
Around 1,500 BC, a group of nine asteroids crashed on the island of Saaremaa in Western Estonia,
incinerating all kind of life-form within a radius...