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Author: Datuk Beatrice Nirmala

De-dollarisation dilemma

The global economic system must avoid being dominated by a single currency. – Santosh Kalwar writer, author and poet If anything else, 2024 is going to be a very interesting year. It comes after four years of roller coaster rides with pandemics, lockdowns, vaccinations, Build Back Better slogans by elites

Truth can be stranger than fiction

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. – Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist and author Saw an episode of Black Mirror yesterday. It’s some dystopian era in the future. Common people are recruited to become

Choices, choices but not really

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. — Herbert Hoover, 31st US President OUR grocery stores seem to have an abundance of all types of foods, skincare, and cosmetics, from seemingly hundreds of different brands. Lucky us? Well, it

The GMO plot

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth, or we are not going to have a human future at all. –Vandana Shiva, 2003 ‘Environmental Hero’ by TIME Magazine and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 1993 Part 2

The GMO plot

You do not measure the fruit of your action.You have to measure your obligation for action.You have to find out what is the right thing to do.That is your duty. It’s not about winning or losing but doing what is right. – Lord Krishna to Arjuna, in The Bhagavad Gita

Cancer – the most lucrative trade

When cancer happens, you don’t put life on hold. You live now. – Fabi Powell, whose late husband Josh was diagnosed with a rare cancer and died one month after they married. In 2015, Detroit oncologist Dr. Farid Fata was found guilty of lying to patients that they had cancer

The power of suggestion

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. – Bill Bernbach, American advertising creative director There was once a magician I watched on TV who said that he will mesmerise everyone to produces exactly the same thing he was thinking about. He wrote

Books, books, books

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short-story writer ALL I ever wanted to do when I was a little girl was to read storybooks. I did not need much – just

Leadership

Finding leadership requires vigilance, hard work, an abhorrence of complacency and self-satisfaction –and a willingness to make changes when changes are needed, no matter how painful they may be. – Katharine Graham, first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she took over as CEO of The Washington Post

When a column comes to life

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. – Stephen King, author November