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It is tough to understand where all the hate in our world comes from. Why would teenagers, full of life and potential, blow themselves up to kill those they disagree with? Why would educators, scientists, engineers, doctors and nurses override their education, experience and wisdom and turn into assassins of their own kind, including elderly, women and children - even their own parents? How do their handlers manage to fill them with such twisted convictions about those of other races, religions or even points of view?Psychiatrists and social scientists have wondered about the hidden capacity of humans to commit barbaric atrocities. They study war crimes and ethnic cleansing to discover the ills in our nature that allow demons to infiltrate our hearts and minds, exploit our weaknesses, and...
April 29, 2019
Why do we hate?
April 29, 2019
Spain’s difficult election outcome
April 28, 2019
What happens to Saudis who vanish in Turkey?
April 28, 2019
Lanka still lurching
April 28, 2019
Uber – Careem: A dream story!
April 28, 2019
Copy the Egyptian experience to solve our housing crisis
April 27, 2019
Palestinians buffeted from all sides
April 25, 2019
From a terror state to a state of terror
April 25, 2019
Trudeau bruised but leading with determination
THE world’s largest democracy India, with a population of 1.3 billion people, is voting in these few weeks to elect a new government. A general election in India is always a milestone, due to the sheer number of people voting, around 900 million. The electoral expenditure is estimated at US$ 4 billion. India is also a functioning democracy where the verdict of the ballot-box rules. Hence it is an important landmark, in a world where strongmen in many countries perpetuate their own rule by fiddling with the constitutions of their countries.The Indian elections are daunting in sheer numbers, as well. Over 8,200 candidates from about 450 political parties, compete for 543 seats in Parliament. There are around 927,000 polling stations across the country, with about 20,000 in forests and...
April 25, 2019
India’s general election: A country at the crossroads
