Norris and Inglehart in their 2004 book Sacred and Secular proposed that secularism prevails more in affluent societies because these societies experience existential security and hence take security for granted, and as such they do not need to resort to religion or spirituality to comfort them at times of insecurities.... [Read More]

One of the central covert themes of neo-liberalism is to keep the money at the hand of the rich few and keep the rest poor. An unhealthy symptom of any society is when money is revolving and remaining in the hand of the rich. Read how eloquently it is pointed... [Read More]

“O people, I have been appointed over you, though I am not the best among you. If I do well, then help me; and if I act wrongly, then correct me. Truthfulness is trust, and lying is treachery. The weak among you is deemed strong by me, until I return... [Read More]

I have talked about the acquisition of language from a Chomskian perspective in a previous post. Here I want to discuss few Quranic verses that shed light on this subject. [Read More]

Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics in the mid-twentieths century. His views on the nature of language and its acquisition brought a paradigm shift to linguistics akin to the shift Copernican brought at his time on the nature and position of earth, sun and other planets. [Read More]