WHAT AMERICA SHOULD HAVE LEARNT FROM VIETNAM
Having read an article in a Newsweek (issue November 03/2008) by Henry Kissinger titled, ‘What Vietnam Teaches Us’ I noticed that he failed to mention the most obvious. People have and will continue to choose their very own from of socio-political organization according to their culture, religions, or historic social makeup. In the case of South Vietnam versus North Vietnam it was a classical case of getting rid of an overlord, in their case it w…
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Posted on December 14, 2008 at 8:18pm —
CHANGE
The good thing about life and living is that changes can be made but there are conditions for change to take place: When to change, the need for it, mechanisms and implementations to carry them out effectively and efficiently, how to make the necessary alterations when identified, the courage to face the change and most importantly you must understand the need for change and then want to carry it out.
There is a reality to change as it is always taking place and it is part of ‘Mother…
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Posted on December 14, 2008 at 6:45pm —
WORDS SAID, AND UNSAID
The more you say the more is said, but the content is not as rich as what remained unsaid, so accordingly be aware that all that needs to be said that is inevitably left unsaid gets said.
Bernard Rangel 14/12/2008
Posted on December 14, 2008 at 6:11pm — 1 Comment
THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF INDIA
Now that India has finished celebrating its 60 years of independence from British Rule it has undergone an entire social upheaval and happily in a surprisingly peaceful manner, considering how ‘south’ the entire process could have gone. As the sheer multiplicity of nations within a once non-existent nation, the complexity of its different religious heartbeats, languages, modes of existence, customs and the daunting task of implementing a democratic system to a sub-…
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Posted on December 13, 2008 at 5:46pm —
Being an artist I believe the liquidity of art is relative to one's need of it being liquid. If you want to sell fast and get your investment back you must invest a lot for the sake of its liquidity. But the reality of the artist is very different to that of an investor’s. Art in its essence is not one of being liquid but one of being emotional: Emotional in the sense of colour, stimulation, inspiring, and energy first to its creator and then to its owner of an original work of art. So to me…
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Posted on December 11, 2008 at 4:26am —