It isn’t just our bodies that age, but our psyches. The author recently realised she had lost her ambitions, and was surprised to find she didn’t mind.
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“Awards more fitting, I promise you, than the outrageous annual payments they gift themselves (do I smell a Muskrat or is that $56bn in ill-gotten gains?), or the made-much-of awards that are handed out like party favours amongst the One Per Cent. These poor little rich prats might have cornered the world’s resources, but have they got what they truly deserve? NO, but I’m not that bitch Karma, sadly, so I can’t deliver just desserts.
Yet, ask yourself, what do you give someone who has EVERYTHING? Here are six prizes so perfect for avaricious fat cats and ruthless despots that they’ve never even considered them…”
Image of Kanchenjunga, world’s third highest peak, by Stephen Handley in 2024
Shreya writes a monthly column for several widely circulated international newspapers, in this penultimate one for 2024, written just after Trump’s re-election and her own trip to the Himalayas, she puts forward a plan to protect our mental health, save the planet and survive Trump. To read it in full, please click here
About elections — Indian, British and American — the climate crisis, and embracing change, this article has appeared in more than one widely circulated newspaper (as with all of Shreya’s monthly columns), and has been received with much praise, please click here to read it in full
Shreya Sen-Handley 