Nov 042013
A FEW DAYS ago, many of us herded to the cemeteries to commemorate and pray for our departed loved ones. Being in front of a tombstone makes one think that, indeed, death is an unavoidable event. This makes me recall a cliché, that actually, it is not only death that is unavoidable; but there are actually two inescapable things in this world — first is death, and the other one is taxes. And no less than Benjamin Franklin himself said, in one of his familiar quotes, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”