This year's 1971 as observed on Facebook, social media's most representative platform was fascinating, to say the least. I know it sounds cliché but it's the sheer variety of interpretations in 1971 that was puzzling. Just about everyone, almost all belonging to ...

For some time now, I have been tormented by the thought of why humans wish to know anything at all. Why is knowledge intrinsically important? The only reason of which I can think is freedom. The point of gaining knowledge is to obtain freedom. That quest is underline ...

I first heard that Osman Hadi, the political firebrand who emerged like a comet out of the sky during those heart-stopping days of last year's Uprising, had been shot from my wife, around 30-40 minutes after it happened last Friday (Dec. 12). It was around 3pm. I'd been ...