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| How
should little children die? |
| A sequence
of events that impairs our claim to civilization |
| In Dickens’s
A Tale of Two Cities, there is a striking
episode set in Paris before the French Revolution.
A great lord was driving his carriage recklessly
down a narrow crowded street. A little girl was
crushed under the wheels. The lord tosse... |
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| Doctored
evidence |
| Sir —
The hullabaloo over Mother Teresa’s beatification
has got a fresh impetus with Monica Besra, ... |
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| Old and weary |
| Sir —
The Delhi high court’s order that schoolchildren
be involved in providing emotional support... |
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No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so completely pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit in cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver steams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. — IZAAC WALTON
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