Activists – Give them a break..

29Jun07

Everyone knows ’social change’ is a good thing worth working for right? Everyone knows they can make a difference in their conditions with a little effort on their part, and you don’t need someone to give alms of change. But do they, really?
Let me give you an example.
We all learnt the human needs pyramid [...]

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Good Tolerance, Bad Tolerance

21Jun07

Salman Rushdie, the well-known author of the controversial book ‘The Satanic Verses’ has recently been knighted, which has again sparked some controversy with both the Iranian and Pakistani governments issuing statements condemning his knighthood.
Disturbing religious sentiments, as the Danish cartoonists found out, is tricky business. Simply because for most people, whole of their spiritual existence [...]

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