“If in my lifetime I was only to write one book, this would be the one.” - Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, a small town in Transylvania. His Orthodox Jewish family was highly observant of Jewish tradition. He takes the readers to a place in time where no one would ever want to journey to. His famous memoir Night is a story of struggle - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual which not only relates the history of the Holocaust, but it reveals the depth of the human soul and explores
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin