Just over two months ago, on December 17 a young man called Mohamed Bouazizi died a horrifying death. He immolated himself. And in setting fire to his own body, he ignited the Middle East.
Country after neighbouring country has erupted since the death of the young vegetable sellar from Tunisia who couldn’t take any more despair [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2011’
Fire and fired on.
Indian naval gazing
For someone who’s been terrified of the sea most of her life, I’ve become wierdly interested in naval stories of late.
Ok so my dad was a Navy Officer a long time ago - for just about long enough to get a couple of handsome snaps of himself in dress whites but not much more as [...]
All men are equal, but some are more equal than others?
When I first started out in journlism in Australia, a senior editor told me: remember the golden rule of news - 1 white life equals 10 brown lives equals 100 black lives. He wasn’t a racist, he was just stating things the way they were. Horrified as I was to hear that equation all those [...]
Egyptians - “carpe diem”
Reading this, I got chills. I would like to be in Tahrir now, spending my days and nights talking to people, listening to the stories and the poems, being a part of a collective dream.
How many of us get such a chance to be present at such a moment - it would be like being [...]
Cutting his baby in half
Tuning into the radio in the car yesterday and hearing about the demonstrations breaking into violence yesterday was like being punched in the stomach.
Raced home to watch live streaming of what’s going on in Tahrir Square - a terrifying spectacle. The thought crosses my mind: what kind of leader would rather see his people die [...]
