Personal Time: The Vindicating Interview!

“So why is it that after all your human rights experience you are heading into the corporate arena?” she asked with an ostensible certainty in her eyes that said “hah, I’ve got you now, see how you would get out of this one.” “Well,” I confidently exclaimed while I hurriedly searched for the right words, ”yes it is true that I have had ample experience in the human rights field, with my background...

Democracy…don’t get it twisted!!

Discussions of ‘democracy’ in our times would lead to several understandings. One tendency (what I would call the evolutionary approach) would be to vilify the past and subconsciously historicise our understanding of democracy as though we have come to enjoy democracy with the passing of time, for as we become more civilized and more intelligent as a species we veer to be more democratically inclined...