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Cults of personality
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 01/04/2012
» Hero worshipping is a part of every culture. From great warlords to visionary leaders, religious prophets and yes, pop idols, their names and deeds are written in history, perpetuating cults of personality, though invariably with heavy revisions and colourful additions. Mankind rarely lets truth get in the way of a good story.
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Liberty and justice for who?
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 08/04/2012
» So when it is a societal norm for one man to crawl to serve another, how can there be freedom and justice in such a society?
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Il Duce, come-home-now
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 15/04/2012
» Aung San Suu Kyi was imprisoned for 15 of the past 21 years in her own home. Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned several times on many different occasions in South Africa and India. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison.
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Reconciled to the obvious
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 29/04/2012
» There have been three gestures that political analysts call "symbolic moves toward reconciliation". But no, really, they are not.
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Greed is good
Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 18/10/2012
» Giveaway. Getaway. Got away. All is well in Thailand. The rich get richer. The poor get tips. The middle class click "like".
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The importance of being Abhisit
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 06/01/2013
» Take a second. Think about it. It's a bizarre world we live in. Stand back and look at today from the perspective of 15 years ago.
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Chalerm's right, it's a cultural thing
Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 14/02/2013
» Few people know how Thailand works and how to work Thailand like deputy prime minister Chalerm Yubamrung does.
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Thailand 2020: Impaired vision?
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 28/07/2013
» Let the child learn to walk before expecting him to run. Otherwise, he'll trip and fall, suffer a booboo and cry like a baby. But it seems the Thailand 2020 scheme is expecting the child to go straight from crawling to running in the Olympics.
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We need more than a superficial makeover
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 29/09/2013
» Throwing subsidies around isn't going to turn stupidity into intelligence. Building fancy toys like high-speed trains isn't going to turn superficiality into sensibility. Giving lip service to democracy while practising feudalism isn't exactly democratic development, either.
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Them Ol'middle class Bangkokian blues
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 15/12/2013
» There's a saying from even before Thaksin Shinawatra became prominent in politics: ''Provincial people voted them in, Bangkok people kicked them out.'' The saying refers to the succession of stomach-churning governments during the 1990s democracy experiment. Regime after regime, the provinces voted in the corrupt and incompetent, while Bangkokians pressured each to step down. But for the past seven years, upcountry provincial folks have said, ''no, you're not going to kick this one out''.
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