Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Category: Column

Volunteerism in Covid-19 era

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one

Stopping ‘katak’ and ‘monyet’

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose. – Winston Churchill,

Story of a big, black rat

Fate is not an eagle; it creeps like a rat. – Elizabeth Bowen, Irish-British novelist and short story writer What is the best bait to

Te whetu Orongo

Elective dictatorship

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. – Winston Churchill, wartime British prime minister The theory of utilitarianism

Every day is Mother’s Day

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist       

Petty politicking takes precedence

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.  – George Burns, American comedian, actor,

Mentor or tormentor?

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept

Constitutional hernia

If the machinery of government is of such nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break