The Roots of Rights
On December 10th, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Nowadays,…
Category: acts of courage
Going Your Own Way
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction…
I am Spartacus…
In their book, Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn tell the story of an Indian neighbourhood –…
Justice
What is justice? It’s a hard concept to pin down and even harder to put into effect. But…
Not Splitting Hairs
It’s not splitting hairs to say that actions speak louder than words. Or that talk is cheap, Or…
A Challenge to Change
No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. (Viktor…
I’ve heard there are troubles…
It’d be nice to think life is always easy. Nice but unrealistic. However, that doesn’t mean you have…
The Meaning of Life?
We run around in our lives pursuing happiness. We worry about finding meaning. We fret in case we…
All Change…
On the 6th of December, 1992 racial riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Ayodhya,…
If You Saw A Child About to Fall in a Well…
Mencius a fourth-century BCE Chinese thinker and disciple of Confucius, taught that human beings have within them everything…