Infocus

  • Book Review of T Keditsu’s ‘Ukepenuopfü: An Angami Folktale Reimagined’
    Review by Kevileno Sakhrie  “Each year, Ukepenuopfü weeps, her tears bathing the skies, rushing down the mountain and flooding the plains. Each year, her beloved soaks in these tears and reme
  • The complex question of Taiwanese independence
    Ben Saul, University of Sydney “Strategic ambiguity” – the policy that has underpinned the West’s defence of Taiwan for half a century or more – rests on another ambiguity: Taiw
  • All bodies are good bodies: A reminder
    Müzitalü Lohe, B.A. 5th Semester, Department of English, Modern College, Kohima Body Shaming has become a common thing which affects the lives of many young people today. Receiving unfavourable r
  • Noise and the Waterfall..!
    We are a noisy people.I remember going down to another city for a wedding, and staying with a friend, who had given me the best room in the house. A room with a sit out on the terrace with even a little waterfa
  • Forgive And Be Healthy..!
    Let me tell you my dear readers that it is easy to write about certain issues, but quite often it is difficult to practice what you preach, and one area for me was forgiveness. One day a friend of mine, heard m
  • Sunrise, Sunset..!
    As my daughter left back to her home in New York last month, my eyes were moist, was this the little girl I carried? I wondered, and my mind went back a few years: All you fathers having daughters know tha
  • Crypto scam revenue slips 65% amid economic downturn
    As the global downturn continues, the crypto scam revenue for 2022 also dropped 65 per cent at $1.6 billion this year, lower than where it was through the end of July in 2021 IANS As the global downturn c
  • If Hitler Had a Coach..!
    No, not a coach to have taught Hitler to paint better, though I do believe if hed had one to show him how to paint houses better, he would have been the richest house painter in Austria, and the world would hav
  • Give the future a chance by accepting our differences within essential unity
    Reconciliation has a practical role to play because it gives us a mindset by which we can accept our differences and move beyond our harmful belief that anyone who is not with us is the “other” W
  • Let's Go Fly A Kite..!
    It was a week after the funeral. She had buried her hard working accountant husband, who had painstakingly worked from morn till sundown, risen from clerk to bank manager, sent two children to college and jobs
  • A world in crisis needs both trade and aid
    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rebeca Grynspan and Pamela Coke-Hamilton Inter Press Service We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quar
  • Infrastructure Development Threatens Amazon with Further Deforestation
    Mario Osava Inter Press Service The mandatory initial permit granted by Brazil’s environmental authority for the repaving of the BR-319 highway, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, intensified the alar
  • Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial decades after its publication
    Author Salman Rushdie pictured in London in 2017. Grant Pollard/AP Myriam Renaud, Union Institute & University Author Salman Rushdie is in the hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed by
  • The Pillion’s Head..!
    This morning as I looked out of my window, I saw a scooterist skidding. No pleasant sight as the bike rattled like a helpless animal and the rider fell heavily to the ground. Luckily, he was wearing a helmet, b
  • Missed Call..!
    Trust us for coining words that haves no parallel. Give me a missed call! I told my American friend as I left him at his hotel.A what?A missed call! I explained.Whats a missed call, he asked still looking perpl
  • We’re on the Cusp of the Most Catastrophic Food Crisis in 50 Years: Where Is the Global Response?
    Alexander Müller, Adam Prakash and Elena Lazutkaite Inter Press Service A growing mountain of data and analysis points to an unprecedented global crisis in the making, due to the convergence of “
  • Do spiders sleep? Study suggests they may snooze like humans
    Maddie Burakoff The Associated Press It’s a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at nigh
  • Hopes in Dreams
    Nito Z We ask not of a country but of homeland, Of refuge when we were a naked band. The land we cared for and calls home, The land we roamed and lend our lives for. We've embraced change but never
  • “You can’t park inside the compound!”
    Priya stopped backing her car into the vacant space, next to her building and looked at the angry old man who was standing behind, blocking her way, Who are you? she asked.I am the secretary of this society and
  • Just Beyond the Door..!
    Where are we going grandpa? asked the little fellow as he was all dressed up and ready to go. To the airport! said the grandfather, to welcome your father back.Dad! shouted the little fellow as his father came
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