By Lynn Ockersz Oliver Twist has made a comeback…. From the West’s ‘satanic mills’, To the Indian Ocean’s wilting isle, Where sweat shops could thrive, Since child labour has got the nod, And the market’s ‘Invisible Hand’, Could seize with a deadly clasp, Every hapless soul that counts, And made to slave until they drop, […]
Azdak’s Judgments: by Laleen Jayamanne Soldier: Your Honour, we meant no harm. Your Honour, what do you wish? Azdak: Nothing, fellow dogs. Or just an occasional boot to lick! […] Fetch me wine, red wine, sweet red wine. ‘In a faraway and long-ago, dark and bloody epoch, in a sunburnt and cursed city, there lived […]