Ellen Knickmeyer and Yong Jun Chang
The Associated Press
The headlines on the newsstands in Seoul blared fresh warnings of a possible nuclear test by North Korea.
Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office
Something I love doing if I go for a drive, is to instruct my driver to drive slowly, while I look down every street, into every shop, sometimes homes that have their doors open. I gaze at people going about th
A year ago, on that morning of July 5th in a hospital in Mumbai, a voice spoke, “You’re free Father Stan!”“Free? How can I be free, I’ve been languishing in prison for over eight months! Hey!”“Wha
“I hope I’m not going to put you and your family to any inconvenience,” I tell my friend as I enter his house.“No problems,” for any of us, “We have a guestroom waiting for you!”I shudder when I h
Arunima Malik and Mengyu Li
The Conversation
The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, our n
Tungshang Ningreichon
In an unusual memorial of a woman who died a year earlier, her parents and lone brother chose to grieve in grace by speaking about her death, in a solemn commemoration on 3rd June at Do
The joyous shouts from the private swimming pool outside, the thought of a scrumptious breakfast soon, the sight of my two beloved daughters and their husbands, and hot coffee brought to my little cottage by my
“Dad,” said my daughter one day, “Isn’t it Central Park that you’ve always loved?” I was quiet, because though I loved the park and all the fall colours I was sure it offered, I still knew that it w
Yesterday was Father’s Day, which made me remember a story I told prisoners in a jail about another father. It so happened that a team invited me to visit a prison in Mumbai. What I saw that day in that priso
It was as the forty plus politician, the beginnings of grey stubble on his cheek, looking down and despondent, walked away from the hospital, where his mother, suffering from post covid complications lay, that
This morning's paper had me dumbfounded; most students who had passed their exams had scored over ninety percent. I called home immediately: “Lock my cupboard and hide the keys!”“Why?” asked the wife,
The twins, and their mother, my daughter are down from New York and my otherwise quiet house is full of childlike laughter. But suddenly there is a still, and I get up worriedly from my writing to find the caus
Richard Jacobsen
The Associated Press
Internet Explorer is finally headed out to pasture.
As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers lov
He was resting at the well. I knew he’d sent his followers away, to get a much needed respite away from his busy schedule of teaching and preaching and healing. But as his head touched the side of the brick w
Sevotso Seyie
Kohima Town
Truth is better to swallow but it always awake one’s conscience to accept the reality. It also enlightens one to take a corrective course of action in life. Therefore, it is
Many of us love watching beauty pageants: And I wondered for a moment what would happen if God was the judge, mind you, the sole evaluator, referee and critic for the Miss World contest next year!"Ladies and ge
This was a TV ad a few years ago: A little girl stares out of the window of an old car, looking lost and lonely, stares forlornly at her father and asks, “Why doesn’t anybody look at me dad?”Dear father i
“This new doctor at the hospital is good, really good,” said Aunt Susan as she hobbled over to my mother and gave her a hug.“You took your time visiting him didn’t you?” complained my mother.“Ah wel
Peter Rutsa
Kohima
In the best interest of the state and its people, with or without government sanction, Nagas of Nagaland state and other recognised non-Naga indigenous communities like Garo, Kachari, Kuk
David Bauder
The Associated Press
As a knot of journalists stood across from a mortuary witnessing a funeral for a child killed in the Uvalde school massacre, some people passing by didn’t disguise th