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‘Love, whose month is ever May’

Mayday has long been celebrated as the real beginning of spring. Hope is rekindled by nature’s rebirth, kicking ...

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‘Love, whose month is ever May’

The call to prayer

There it stands throughout the world, a visible landmark of any Islamic city. Tall, stately, beautiful, it looks ...

Where has the magic gone?

There is hardly a human on this planet who has not been impacted, in one way or another by the genius of Walt Disney. He ...

Long live the king

Now that the Hollywood award season is over and the gold has been handed to the victors, has the feasting dust settled ...

Another great Kate

Whether you spell it with a K or a C, history is replete with many Kates, both in real queens to Hollywood royalty. The ...

For the love of man

The world is dressed up in rosy red and pretty pink, awaiting the arrival of Valentine’s Day. We all know the story ...

Oranges and lemons

Here comes the jailer once again and the whole world took notice. Son of Rabbi Benzion Mileikowsky of Warsaw, Poland, ...

Waiting for Superman

At such a crisis as this in our lives, we demand a firm ground to stand on, but we demand from whom? Do we govern the ...

Headed for Egypt

There is a hurry and a flurry — a hustle and a bustle — a mysterious force driving people around the world to ...

Whatever happened to global warming?

For the past few decades it was the talk of the town — the principal talk of every town around the globe. Now ...