The Educated Idiot

50 years ago, US President Richard Nixon and his mastermind diplomat Henry Kissinger visited China to meet Chairman Mao Zedong and...

For the past one and half years, the world has been grappling with the greatest crisis since the Second World War. Covid-19 recorded its...

On the 27th of April, less than a month ago, my country Singapore dethroned New Zealand to be ranked as the best place to be during the...

Bertrand Russell didn’t understand why people were so unhappy all the time. He grew up in an aristocratic family in Victorian Britain,...

When we think about the concept of environmental sustainability, and the kind of steps that we need to take on an individual level,...

What are myths? The defining quality of myths, as expounded by Richard Barthes’ classic work Mythologies, is the “naturalness” of an idea...

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it...

5 years ago, on 13 November 2015, the French capital Paris was struck by a series of three coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks. The...

In 1798, the British reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus published his magnum opus, An Essay On The Principle of Population, which...

Just about a week ago, on 9th November, some groundbreaking news was made. Two pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer from the US and BioNTech...

So recently, while I was doing my more-often-than-not binging of YouTube videos, I came across and watched Why Do Humans Go To War? by...

You have probably heard it before. Especially to most of us of the educated, bourgeoisie background, it is not uncommon, and even cliche,...

As the adage goes, “Pain is weakness leaving the body.” To many of us, this cliche expression rings true. Try to reminisce the most...

In September of 2018, the Supreme Court of India, in a landmark ruling, lifted Section 377, the Indian law that effectively made any...

Few products defined the early phases of globalisation as much as tea did. From China to India to England, tea is central to the...

As the old adage goes, “In every shadow, there is light.” Indeed, positive and heartwarming things do come together even when the days...