Infocus

  • Discarding Necessities..!
    Many years ago, while still a bachelor I was invited to the home of a friend who'd just got married."But you're just married!" I said, knowing the evening would be more of drinking and loud talk, "You need to s
  • Peegate, and Now in Trains..!
    With three distasteful incidents of fellow countrymen peeing on their fellow passengers while flying, I should have been a little more prepared before I ventured on my air travel. The wife was the first to wave
  • Winner or Whiner..!
    Had been to Goa for a businessmens convention, where Id been invited as a speaker. The flight was good, but the plane was delayed by over an hour and I reached the hotel that I was being put up by the hosts, qu
  • How do bees think?
    Jon Sullivan/Wikimedia Commons Eliza Middleton, University of Sydney At the beginning of my research career around 15 years ago, any suggestion that a bee, or any invertebrate, had a mind of its own o
  • Why can music evoke memories? This is the scientific explanation
    Kelly Jakubowski  The Conversation Imagine you are walking in a crowded place on your way to work. You pass a busker playing a song you haven't heard in years. Suddenly, instead of paying attention
  • Danger of giving a nation to false deities
    Rev Dr Phuveyi Dozo Naga United Village  We are reminded by the biblical history that God repeatedly warned the Jews against their allegiance in false gods and deities. He told the Jews to be faithful
  • Ode to my principal, late Sir Aaron Elis
    AV Chophi (Amento V Chophi) An Alumnai (1982-1992), Love Dale Higher Secondary School My daytime reverie got rocked when the shattering news of your departure rang my ears... My sir, my principal, my men
  • Morning Has Broken..!
    The faraway glint of an approaching dawn, softening of black darkness, the first bold enthusiastic shaft of light lighting up a room, herald a new day. And of course, the first caw from an early rising crow, fo
  • Not Just a Curved Mustache..!
    Some four years ago, barber shops were full! Everybody, I heard with even a whiff of a mustache was trying to shape it downwards like Wing Commander Abhinandans whiskers! Even mummys eyebrow pencil disappeared
  • The Reservation Trap..!
    Even as I see our prime minister striving hard to place India as a country to be reckoned with, what will cause impediments in his vision, is not a jealous China, nor a rising population, nor any domestic uphea
  • The Start-up Paradox Inventing New Wineskins
    Dr Brainerd PrinceI have always found myself happy and thriving in the first stage of a start-up. There is a certain adrenaline rush, with all the buzz – late nights of never-ending work, exciting conversatio
  • Civil War at Home..!
    Quite often I see family run businesses where the father on paper has passed the mantle onto his son or daughter, but keeps hovering over the company possessively, not wanting to relinquish his authority! This
  • Busy Making a Billion..!
    Spent an evening at the club, with a gentleman who knew one of Indias billionaires when he was coming up, I knew him when he was struggling, he said, And I helped him a bit!You must be great friends now! I said
  • Can young Nagaland do it?
    Moarenla Jamir Modern College When control over money, muscle and tribal groups is the sole determinant of success in a political set up, we cannot expect anything better. Can young Nagaland rise up to this
  • It’s Not the Taj..!
    As I hear about names of cities being changed left, right and centre I see members of the heritage committee, This building and this and this and this! exclaim members of the heritage committee as they walk dow
  • Standing Tall On Mount Road..!
    Im in Chennai to speak at a function and as I drive down Mount Road, I know its got another name now, but Mount Road it will always remain to me, and as I drove down that long, very busy road that ends at the S
  • Khukuto Wotsa: Part-time barber; Full-time passion to serve God
    Inakavi Kasho Pughoboto Khukuto Wotsa, a 23-year-old from Mishilimi village, runs a barber shop in Pughoboto town and has a passion to serve God since his childhood. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbyg
  • Rethinking the question of leadership in Naga Society
    Prof Zuchamo Yanthan New Delhi Nagaland state enters into the 59 years of its election history which was first conducted in February 1964. It was the 16th state of the Indian union which got its statehood m
  • Solution to Naga political issue imperative
    ET Ezung In a couple of days or so Nagaland will hold a general election to 14th Legislative Assembly. This must be so as it is mandated by Election Rules for the tenure of present Assembly expires on March
  • Money, development and corruption
    Chumpongse Anar  OTC Yangli The introduction of money to the traditional economic transaction has affected and shattered the identity of our community. Our traditional economy was value-centered. Marke
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