Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Seeing the name in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how the two Hill...
The face of self-pity was universally understood.
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the way up to their elbows, to keep the tropical sun off their skins. They looked br...
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.
A society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.
There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.
Long before Christopher Columbus, the celebrated Chinese navigator Zheng He travelled through the south and westward maritime routes in the Indian Ocean and established relations with more than thirty...
An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time
Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we...
We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-...
A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau
In order to live without creating any serious problems for the group's harmony, people avoid expressing their ideas clearly, even the point of avoiding giving a simple yes or no answer. If a person re...
In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.
Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.
When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.
