Citizens’ role in protecting freedom


We now recognise that food is as important as freedom, and bread as important as the ballot box.

TENTH December is Human Rights Day. In commemorating it we can rejoice that freedom is on the march globally. The human rights quest is at high tide. The ardour for liberty is spreading. The quest for the inalienable rights of human beings has gained a universal appeal.

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Opinion , Shad Faruqi , columnist

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