FEATURED COLUMN: EMBRACE HEART
When Patriotism Becomes the Virtue of the Vicious
November brings its yearly associations of death whose reverberance urges many families to visit cemeteries where their dearest are laid to rest and somehow...
Are We Petals on a Wet, Black Bough?
I have just sown a few bulbs of freesias. Rain clouds are hovering. Soon a drizzle will ‘baptize’ them. Sowing a few bulbs and...
Feeling a Foreigner in Your Own Country
Did you ever look at the roots of a plant?
Roots. Often intertwined. Always tentacular, gnarled, musty. Buried deep down, the way they grip and...
Convergence of the Twain
When I was little, the word ‘coincidence’ used to make me both smile and frown. Smile because I loved to pronounce the first four...
Loaf Divine & Work of Human Hands
A soft, holey core cocooned in a crusty shell. Its rugged, rustic looks perfectly mirror the sinewy muscles and dexterous, grassroots hands that knead...
When Wise Eyes and Fresh Eyes Meet
Business trends increasingly show that companies with a high gender and ethnicity mix perform better. It is a perfectly logical observation since such organisations...
Companies No Longer Talk Soft on Soft Skills
Soft skills are critical in the workplace outshining the basic requirement of specialized knowledge.
This insight has been official for quite some time. And anyone giving...
Overcoming Teenage Angst –Can Iceland Teach Us A Thing Or Two?
Iceland is hitting the headlines for several right reasons.
Its dramatic, evocative, surreal landscapes are a photographer’s dream and increasingly ripe for discovery as trailing...
The Home Stamp on Education
When the visionary, perennially relevant Maria Montessori equated play with a child’s work, she was neither thinking of a senseless and unsupervised activity, nor...
Birgu – Citta’ Vittoriosa
Beautifully restored buildings mingle with dilapidated ruins. Both are occasionally interrupted by a contemporary building whose glass and concrete rise in sharp contrast to...
