The bold labeling of a sovereign, democratic nation as a "global evil" marks, I believe, a new low in what must be recognized as nothing less than Indophobia.
"Fellow New Yorkers, I hope you all get that this is wrong, stupid and evil," Mark Harris, a columnist for Entertainment Weekly, wrote on Twitter, a comment that was copied on a Tumblr page headed "Save Sue Simmons".
I had always reckoned Mark Twain to be among the leading literary screwup artists when it came to money, and was therefore startled by the recent publication of a book by Andrew Leckey claiming the opposite to be true: The Lack of Money Is the Root of All Evil: Mark Twain's Timeless Wisdom on Money, Wealth, and Investing (Prentice Hall Press, $22).
COMING UP IN CHAPTER 17: James Stack, MI6 International Spy... oval cigarettes in pink paper with silver filter... tiny bells to ward off evil... Mark eats jungle food.
It celebrates the triumph of good over evil, and marks the victory of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana.
"The History" weaves together every dark rumor about Richard's brief life (he died at thirty-two) into a brilliant narrative, which paints a portrait of a bold, gifted, and ineradicably evil man whose evil was marked in his very body: "Little of stature, ill fetured of limmes, croke backed, his left shoulder much higher then his right, hard fauoured of visage".
The bracelet, known as a bendel, is said to protect one from the evil eye and marks the wearer as a devotee of cabala, a mystical branch of Judaism -- or more likely, simply as an acolyte of hip.
The Holi festival is a celebration of good over evil, and is marked by people jovially running through the streets in India covered in colors -- from brightly colored water or powder thrown by onlookers, friends and family.
The mark of "evil" demands permanent banishment or death, and we call perpetrators "evil" to relieve the guilt we might feel in applying such sanctions.
It is a mark of evil when profit and greed infect the practice of medicine.
