The word emancipation demands an overcoming. Overcoming every obstacle, and hindrance, in the way of human flourishing. One major impediment that stultifies this flourishing, and…
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As the teacher in her commanding voice doled out pieces of historical chronology, we drowsed in our chairs with an overdose of information. It was…
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The British were in the habit of codifying and classifying everything they came across. Their bureaucracy did the same when it came to the vernacular…
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Theatres have a mechanism of putting the spotlight on a particular person or persons. The intended purpose of this technical act is to concentrate the…
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‘It is usual to talk of a new government ‘taking power’ after an election. It is more accurate to say that it ‘takes office’. For…
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Only the dead have seen the end of war. –George Santayana As Russian forces pound Ukraine into submission, one remembers this oft-quoted aphorism, from one…
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Condoleezza Rice, the then US Secretary of State, speaking in Cairo, once said, “For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the…
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In 1847, two organizations merged: The League of the Just and the Communist Correspondence Committee – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were asked to draft…
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Eric Arthur Blair, famously known by his pen name – George Orwell; lived in a quintessential age of politics – the dawn of Communism, the…
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