Infocus

  • Festivity with Firecrackers: Stop It!
    Dr. WalunirFestive season is round the corner and some people, especially in Dimapur, have started to announce the advent of the season with firecrackers. Some people seem to have no civic and environmental sen
  • Missing Gentlemen of India..!
    As I heard about the very rude and crass speech by a member of Parliament, hurling abuses on another member because of his different faith I realised what’s missing are gentlemen! And so, at this time when we
  • Down from the Blessed Mountain..!
    Robert ClementsThe car ahead moved forward, I followed and there was a screech of brakes as a vehicle from the right narrowly missed hitting me. I looked at the signal, it was still red. I had followed the car
  • Do a Self Appraisal..!
    Robert ClementsMost of us go through life, thinking we are God’s gift to mankind or is it woman kind? We strut around, swagger and feel we are indispensable to home or company. “What would my family ever do
  • Learning to Respond not React..!
    This happened years ago when my dog Jeff was alive: A moth, one of those huge ones with big eyes, flew from somewhere and sat on my wife’s side of our bed, a little away from me.She screamed out of fear and w
  • Why Should Tears Be Shed?
    And as the Hamas terrorize Israel and Israel retaliates with unparalleled fury, one knows that those laughing their way to the bank are the weapon manufacturers. To keep a war going, a country has to spend heav
  • Insuring Your Assets..!
    Holly Madison, the former girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, insured an attractive part of her body for 1 million dollars. She said that she insured her famous assets with Lloyd's of London to protect t
  • Sweetened Tongues..!
    "Oh Bob!" she said as she held my arm, "where've you been?""Bbbut, bbbut," I stammered, "I just missed coming here once!""I missed you," she said and just as I was getting ready to fall into her arms I saw her
  • The Problem Could Be You..!
    A friend of mine called me desperately, “You’ve got to help me, Bob!” he pleaded, “My wife has started becoming very cold to me. I suspect she is having an affair with her boss. He’s a very moneyed ma
  • Who would dare to do contract work in border areas?
    PL Leo KonyakKohimaIt is pitiable fact to note that during the recent NIT Notification for Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yajana (PMGSY) Road projects tender in Nagaland State, 80% of the Border Area Road projects w
  • Facing the Unfamiliar..!
    Facing the unfamiliar is not something we love, especially being children of routine, but it could turn out fun, as mine did, a few years ago, when there was no lunch laid out for me that day:It’s a habit of
  • Turning A Leaf From The Chola Cookbook: The Story Of The Tapela Idli
    Madhulika Naidu Varma ChozhaSeveral years ago, on an arduous journey to Gangotri, my hunger pangs were satisfied by warm, fluffy idlis served with tomato-ginger chutney. The hot and steaming plate in the chilly
  • Gestures of the Heart..!
    Even a small gesture impacts us, doesn't it?African-American poet Countee Cullen spent the summer when he was eight in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after he arrived he noticed a little white boy staring at him.
  • The human cost of a green energy transition without safeguards
    Olivier Ndoole BahemukeInter Press ServiceThe world is moving away from fossil fuels towards so-called “green” energies as a solution to the climate crisis, which has increased the demand for strategic mine
  • The Mahatma’s Cleanliness Drive...!
    “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but change ourselves,” …… Mahatma Gandhi.And as the nation went on a cleaning spree yesterday, with most everyone taking a broom and sweeping
  • A Joker and His Jokes..!
    There’s not a day going by when we are not bombarded with jokes through Facebook, WhatsApp or other social media outlets. Billions of such gags, funny yarns and wise cracks travel cyber space tirelessly round
  • The Mouse in Your House..!
    Spent some time this morning listening to a podcast, “Shut Up!”Now that’s not a nice way to start a day, but quite often that’s what we need to do, to have a successful day and lead a good life, simply,
  • Citizen journalism and social responsibility
    Sentinaro LongkumerEditor, Heritage Publishing House, DimapurIn this era of new media, anyone can be a citizen journalist but the question of social responsibility lies in stack. Citizen Journalism, also known
  • Waste Management & Energy Reconversion
    Kit K ChishiModel village, ChümoukedimaMicro Mini metros like Dimapur and Kohima town should have waste disposal plants, period! As our cities and town grows, there is a need to incubate waste products to a sa
  • My 2030 Vision for a sustainable, equitable and green Nagaland
    Otsungbong JamirMokokchung I am thirteen years old and when I heard about an essay competition being organized where young children like were invited to write on the topic “My 2030 vision for a sustainab
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