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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Last weekend I was on a video call with a Mauritian medical colleague settled in the USA, as we do from time to time to discuss things other than medicine.<\/p>\n

After we had exchanged some personal news, he began the rest of the conversation by saying that nowadays it is only humourists who can speak the truth to power.<\/p>\n

In reply, I told him that there must be some\u2026 truth in what he had just said, pointing out that in the English playwright Shakespeare\u2019s plays, quite often there was a character called a court jester who would fulfill that role \u2013 of speaking truth to the king.<\/p>\n

In Indian palaces in the olden days there was Birbal, a more refined version who was equally fearless in revealing truths though questions and puzzles addressed to the emperor or to his subjects in the latter\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n

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