Like Diana, Princess of Wales, Daphne Caruana Galizia is more alive now than ever before.

In her death, she is much stronger than when she was alive since, in life, she was both despised and appreciated but now, in her death, she stands as a permanent symbol of what it means to dedicate one’s life to search for the truth.

She will be remembered as the valiant woman who stretched the limits of tolerance to its extreme point. I would rather not call her a martyr because the term is religious and religious she definitely was not but I shall call her a heroine because she transcended all that stood in her path to serve truth itself.

Daphne dedicated her life to the truth and its proliferation;it is the former aspect I admired while I hated the method of the latter. Still, the fact that she was killed for showing singular indifference in the eyes of mediocrity and double standards isin itself a justification for allowing her name to be immortalised as a beacon of freedom of speech in an island-nation that has become both schizophrenic and amoral in the most sinister of ways.

May the merciful Lord grant her eternal rest and save us from our iniquity.