A Challenge to Change
No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. (Viktor…
Tag: human development
Saving a Starfish
Here is a beautiful Hawaiian Proverb – A man goes out on the beach and sees that it…
American Psycho?
In his book, The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl examines the incidence and diagnosis of schizophrenia in the United…
I’ve heard there are troubles…
It’d be nice to think life is always easy. Nice but unrealistic. However, that doesn’t mean you have…
Half the Sky
In the Introduction to their book, Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn, recount the story…
All Change…
On the 6th of December, 1992 racial riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Ayodhya,…
Two Races of Men
We worry about our differences when we should really concentrate on the ways we are similar. We…
If You Saw A Child About to Fall in a Well…
Mencius a fourth-century BCE Chinese thinker and disciple of Confucius, taught that human beings have within them everything…
The Moral Molecule
In an experiment to examine the effects of the hormone oxytocin on social interaction, neuroeconomist Paul Zak made…
Love is a Dynamo – Part III
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. The…