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  • Village Life: A golden tapestry of simplicity and fulfillment
    Zio VenuhModern CollegeOvershadowed by the hustle and bustle of modern life where technology and urbanization have become synonymous with progress, there exists a serene heaven often overlooked—the village. N
  • Tackling Death and the Unknown..!
    Most everyone is scared of the unknown.When we board a plane, we are just a bit terrified, as we know that soon we will not be in control. When we leave our home in the morning, we spy a black cat and wonder wh
  • Beware the political potter
    Monalisa ChangkijaWe are a few days away from entering the second month of the New Year. “Oh, how time flies” would be our normal reaction but time is flying at super speed. Perhaps, it is my “fertile ima
  • Mr Pointed Ears..!
    Yesterday I got a note from a reader, saying, “Bob, I long for the day when I won’t have any more problems!”And I thought of Mr Pointed Ears!Some ten years ago, a new dog, with long pointed ears, entered
  • Win Life’s Battles..!
    Life’s battles don’t always go, to the stronger or faster man,But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can!Many, many years back I learned something I will never forget. I learnt you c
  • Granny not a Nanny..!
    Today’s column is addressed more to youngsters than older folk: It starts with old people living quite comfortably in retirement receiving a letter from a son or daughter settled abroad, inviting them over fo
  • UN Human Rights Council: A Focus on Human Trafficking
    Rene Wadlow     While the Human Rights Council has focused only on a small number of States where human rights are abused — basically the Israel-Palestine conflict, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war,
  • Firm Foundation on Republic Day…
    On this Republic Day, as we salute and celebrate the making of the Constitution of India, I remember the 2001 earthquake, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where many tall buildings fell, some of them face down like a pac
  • Wrong Message..!
    A procession by a majority community into a minority neighbourhood, stone pelting by foolish residents, and the next day bulldozer retaliation by authorities, demolishing shops on the same street with the excus
  • From Sadness to Strength..!
    This happened many years ago.The old lady sat in the room sobbing.The old man, her husband, a retired army major, stared straight ahead.They had just lost their son in a motor- bike accident.I sat holding her h
  • Kohima’s traffic woes and the way forward
    Abu Metha Kohima, Nagaland's historic seat of power, holds a special place for many, worldwide. It’s an iconic place, a bustling city in the mountains filled with heritage and vibrancy. The Battle of Koh
  • An Acceptance of Hypocrisy..!
    On one hand we have Donald Trump, from the White House walking to a church clutching a Bible in his outstretched hand for all to see, then we see the same man accused of the most perverted sexual assaults. And
  • Childhood Friendships Forever...!
    Friendships made in childhood are invaluable, but quite often I come across old acquaintances who’ve done well in life, not interested in meeting childhood friends who life has dealt with less favourably.An u
  • Don’t Judge, Without Knowing..!
    A car was honking behind me, “Let him pass!” I told my driver, and my driver quite reluctantly gave way. I smiled as I remembered a story about a doctor who was called one evening for an urgent surgery for
  • Blinded by Progress..!
    What is it that is blinding our people? A bridge that stretches out into the sea, tunnels, metros and bullet trains that cut short travel time and that speak of a new India, equal to the west. They think they s
  • A Long Walk..!
    It’s a long walk he’s settled himself to do, from Manipur to Mumbai!Six thousand seven hundred and thirteen kilometres!Stretching and arduous, it’s going to be, but tis not the distance covered that will
  • Outside the Church’s Closed Door..!
    The little boy was weeping outside the closed doors of the church. His tears flowed like tsunami waves down his check. A stranger passing by, stopped and enquired, “Why are you crying little boy, that too out
  • Maldives and Laughing at Ourselves.!
    Though the remarks by the Maldives deputy minister in ridiculing our PM as a ‘clown’ and a ‘puppet’ are immature and uncalled for, I do believe the bigger thing to have been done in this situation was f
  • Researchers identify over 200 new genes linked to depression
    IANSMore than 200 genes linked to depression have been newly identified, which may soon lead to treatments for the mental health condition suffered by thousands of people.The research, published in Nature Genet
  • Your Common Courtyard..!
    “…..A common courtyard is swept by none’….” Chinese Proverb“Park your taxi to the side of the road!” I told the taxi driver gently as he got out of his cab to go to the local temple. “Are you th