'This Is It'

Michael Jackson wanted to give his greatest and best show. One last show which he called: 'This Is It'. In death, he has done just that. His farewell memorial at the Staples Center sports arena, Los Angeles, was his most spectacular show ever, with Michael looming larger...

This is Cruel

This photo which was probably taken at Kasai Occidental, the Democratic Republic of Congo - might seem fun and interesting to some, but it shows how merciless, cruel and indifferent We can be to our fellow creatures.All leading religions are against cruelty to animals. Much...

Light In Darkness

Of all the disabilities, none has the dignity and is so moving like blindness; it exhorts our deepest compassion and feelings. Just do this: close your eyes completely and cover them with some thing, and imagine living every moment, every day, forever - like that. A very...

To Yahoo is to Bing is to.........

About two years ago, Windows Live Search which was MSN evolved in to Live Search; but that didn't have much impact with users: Microsoft was still lagging behind Yahoo as a search engine and very much behind Google. Redmond had to come up with some thing. Desperate for a...

Sarkozy, Hyperactivity and the Burqah

It is hard to like Nikolas Sarkozy. Very hard. Even if he was not the French president and just an ordinary man - for any man, to meet him walking down any street would be intimidating: his arrogance, his demeanor and that swagger, combined, would be hard to like. And yet,...

Obama's Most Important Promises

Of all of President Obama's five hundred plus promises that he made during his campaigning, I find two - the most important and would very much like him to keep: that of reducing suffering and poverty, not only in America, but beyond its borders too; and his pledge to "engage...

The Other Side Of Africa

I am always very surprised and pained at how, up to now, both Senegal and Tanzania are rarely mentioned at how well they have done. And: they have done exceptionally well. And, yet the major world news media very rarely mention this.Both countries had the luck of having Great...

The Women Of Hadhramout

Families in Hadhramout are solidly built and maintained; families are the most important core of Hadhrami life. In all families in Hadhramout, men are the head and spokesmen for families; and are the main bread earners - but it is the girls and women who play the most central...

Save Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria - the second largest fresh water lake in the world - is said to have experienced the greatest mass extinction of vertebrates in modern times. Thirty years ago the Lake boasted over 400 fish species. More than half are now extinct. The Nile Perch, most probably...

What makes a Man happy.....

What is happiness? It means different things to different people; conditions, circumstances and times, all play a big role in making a person happy or not. But generally, it is a state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy or it can...

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