Pharriages and more as we decide to make the world a peaceful place this New Year. Actually, what we need is simply some World Quiet. We are willing to give up our hope for World Peace in exchange for some quiet. Stop the loudness, the hyperbole, the marketing, the constant spin. Let the world […]
Imagine a young college graduate who has volunteered as a teacher in an extremely poor school in urban Mumbai. She is trying to inspire precocious 10-year olds with stories of leaders from their country’s great history. She decides to teach lessons on Gandhi – the non-violent Mahatma. The children had just come out of […]
Albert Camus once remarked: “The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but consequences and rules of action drawn from it.” A previous issue of The Essayist presented […]
Let them eat Yuan instead (Qu’ils mangent de la Yuan) BBC, Reuters and other news agencies reported on June 11 that 400,000 Yuan stored in a wooden drawer in a woman’s house in Guangdong, China were eaten by termites. The report also claimed that the termites found the Yuan very tasty. Now this is […]