I have been single for a reasonable length of time now. Being single has its pros and cons. I am not going to go into the details of each of those but one big con is not having someone in your life to share the little things, afterall it is the little things that matter.
Covid-19 has restricted a lot of things, dating being one of those as well.
Its hard to go out and have a meal, a drink, have a laugh and enjoy those little things.
I ventured into the world of online dating a couple of years…
Armchair Activism: Can it make a difference in the 21st century?
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov(1856–1918) does not ring a bell for most people who are not familiar with Russian Marxist thinkers.
His contemporary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov AKA Vladimir Lenin is known to most of us.
The leader of the Bolsheviks and the leader of Soviet Russia( later the Soviet Union) from 1917–1924, Lenin was the principal architect behind Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Trotskys and the Bogdanovs are not remembered in the same light as Lenin is.
Plekhanov one can argue is even forgotten.
Maybe the reason Plekhanov was…
sat·ire
noun
- the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
An Indian and a Pakistani met in Toronto. The world around them was in lockdown. It was a cold December day and both were a little exhausted with what was going on.
Pakistani : I heard there are protests going on in India, farmers are out on the streets?
Indian: Yes, the usual you know, they don’t understand what Modiji is trying to do, sometimes I wonder what drives these people…
An Opinion
India: Can Democracy Survive its strongest test yet?
Over the past few months the world has watched while farmers in India are out on the streets protesting. The current government has tried to push through some farm bills without much pre-consultation with the farmers and it has not gone down well.
The matter of the farm bills is another topic and calls for its own article but here what I would like to highlight is an issue in India which has been prevalent whenever we have had leaders of any political party who have a cult like status…
Let me start by giving a little background. I call Canada home and for as long as I have followed football I have been an ardent supporter of the Arsenal football club. It started in the George Graham era when it was the red and white of Arsenal which appealed to me as a kid and then once Arsene Wenger took over, it was the football.
Since 2006 Arsenal has never really competed for the title in the true sense of the word, the 2006 champions league final was as close as we would get to a major trophy. …
Sherine Abraham
Agnostic, Arsenal, Left wing, views are my own.
