It’s a small showpiece dagger I hold in my hand, a present from the Mayor of Batangas in the Philippines, when I’d visited the country many years ago. He was a young mayor and I heard quite a gangster and w
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It’s a small showpiece dagger I hold in my hand, a present from the Mayor of Batangas in the Philippines, when I’d visited the country many years ago. He was a young mayor and I heard quite a gangster and w
My wife, a medical doctor, is quite strict about the sweets I am allowed to have, and when she does give me permission, laughs as I take it, sit on my favourite rocking chair, and relish the delicacy!“Why are
Watching movies centred around old kingdoms, kings and courts, one is intrigued by the role played by courtiers who surround the king, or the ladies in waiting, bowing and curtsying a queen!But, their role was
IANS Startup funding at stratospheric levels is following the Bigger Fool Theory, experts say. The rarified echelons of Higher Finance follow the Cardinal Principle of Advanced Investment Management. &
Laws like sedition and abetment to suicide are used conveniently by the police to harass the public. And because cunning people know such laws can be used to land you in jail, they threaten you with them. “I
D C Pathak IANS The long speech of President Xi Jinping at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the CPC's centenary celebration on July 1 and the address of US President Joe Biden to the-
Pelezoto Pius Kikhi Dimapur With reference to the order on testing of healthcare workers who have not been vaccinated, every 15 days as and when they report for duty, in local dailies dated July 14, 2
D.C. Pathak IANS The long speech of President Xi Jinping at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the CPC's centenary celebration on July 1 and the address of US President Joe Biden to the join
What part of the car causes the most accidents?Ans: The nut that holds the wheel!Opened the newspaper this morning and found a whole supplement devoted to cars so I said, well if you can't beat them, join them
A wise old bird sat on an oak-The more he saw, the less he spoke,The less he spoke, the more he heard,Lord make me like that wise old bird.-AnonFor two weeks I’d stopped carrying my phone. My friends thought
Even as I hear the Supreme Court calling sedition, a ‘colonial’ law, I also hear that a hundred farmers have been slapped with the same ‘colonial’ law for protesting!I agree, nobody likes his car stoppe
This happened on Valentines Day, a few months ago: I had just finished my jog and was sitting on a bench in the park, when a young girl, who had also been jogging came and sat next to me. “Happy Valentines Da
There’s a big difference between looking out of your window and peeping out, and generally the difference lies in the attitude of the person at the window: Does he or she want to be seen? If she doesn’t wan
Many of us have done something in the past which always makes us feel guilty, and which is also used by others to remind us of that guilt:There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was g-
William A. Masters and Anna Herforth The Conversation The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans and other commodities, but even before the pandemic about 3 billion people could not
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Inter Press Service June 2021 marked the launch of UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration. This effort aims at reversing the damage that us humans have caused and are still causing to Nature
A moneyed friend of mine had just come back from a holiday he’d spent at Mahabalipuram, the temple town a few kilometres from Chennai. Since I’d been there a few times, I’d told him about the carvings, th
Alison Kentish Inter Press Service Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended every sphere of life, the world was lagging on a goal to end hunger by 2030. According to the United Nations, more than 820 million pe
Thalif Deen Inter Press Service South Sudan’s independence from the rest of Sudan was the result of a January 2011 referendum held under the terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that
