Infocus

  • Are You An Idiot?
    “Mother!” cried the little girl, “I don’t want to go to college anymore! The lecturer called me an idiot!” The mother left her cooking and walked over to where her daughter sat, “And are you one?”
  • Is Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter falling apart?
    Tom Krisher and Matt O'Brien The Associated Press Elon Musk on Monday threatened to walk away from his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, the latest sign that his plan to overhaul the social media platform
  • High time for govt to be serious of education sector in Nagaland
    Boti Alex Kiho  High School Kohima  People like me whose parents spend more than 70 percent of their income in education would understand the importance of improving Govt education system. 
  • If the World was a Ship..!
    In a play I’ve just written, I have waiters in a restaurant singing, “If the world was a café! Yes, what a beautiful world it would be,'" sing the waiters in barbershop quartet style, but today I’d like
  • Block Party..!
    This was many years ago, while visiting my parents in America: ‘What are our neighbours doing?’ I asked my father, as I peered out of my parents’ apartment in New York.‘They’re having a block party,
  • Technologies of the Self: Learning from Michel Foucault
    Dr Brainerd Prince Introduction When we think of technology, more often than not, we think of something out there – a kind of machine which helps us to do tasks more efficiently. Take for instan
  • Human hands can Restore
    Lima  LEMSACHENLOK Society Hear the Ecosystem, seeking its tranquillity; Deeds of men, a risk for mankind. Progress springing an anxious neighbour; Roaring furious of distressed Nature. Oh! The h
  • Heaven with Bach and Shakespeare..!
    Tears of ecstasy rolled down my cheeks as I listened to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and as the choir thundered in German, ‘Deine Zauber binden wieder, Was die Mode streng geteilt.I sang along, ‘Alle Mensc
  • Providing Fishing Nets..!
    "...Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Provide him with a net and you feed him for a lifetime…"  Adapted Chinese proverb.Last week, I was invited for a function where adman Piyush Pandey relea
  • Inventing the Future: Is Social Media really Social?
    Akshat Sogani There are about one billion active Instagram users, two billion WhatsApp users and three billion Facebook users. These figures are astronomical for a 7 billion world population! So,why is there
  • We Need a Sense of Humour..!
    Give me a sense of humor, Lord;Give me the grace to see a joke,To get some humor out of life,And pass it on to other folk.Ah! Tis easier writing tragedy than crafting comedy! It’s so easy for a writer to brin
  • A Fire Dog and Your Purpose..!
    “I'm useless! I don't think I'm cut out for anything!”I nearly choked on my food as I heard this from the lady standing at my side. It was lunch break at a seminar on ‘Purpose and Work’ I was addressing
  • Friendly Fire and the Congress..!
    In Lexington, Virginia, lie the mortal remains of a legend, General Stonewall Jackson. General Jackson earned his nickname at the First Battle of Manassas. This was during the American Civil War, the Confederat
  • Fooled by the Golden Glow..!
    The other day an employee of mine showed me his phone worth a huge amount. “But that’s a costly phone!” I said. “With my credit card sir!” he said.And today, that’s what I see; with no money in
  • Review suggests Israeli fire killed reporter, no final word
    Joseph Krauss The Associated Press Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Almost two weeks after the death of the veteran Palestinian-American reporter for Al Jazeera, a reconstruction by The Associated Press len
  • Foodflation: Making Life Tougher
    Prof Mithilesh Kumar Sinha Department of Economics, NU, Lumami Life is being made tougher by rising prices and inflation for the common manNow-a-days, a new economic phenomenon, after inflation and agflatio
  • Giving and Receiving Help..!
    The other day I decided to do something a bit wicked, not too naughty to make you stop reading farther, but just a wee bit wicked. I’d often found people leaning across and telling me, when there was about to
  • What’s the 4-nation Quad, where did it come from?
    Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller The Associated Press Leaders of the U.S., Japan, Australia and India gathered in Tokyo on Tuesday for a summit of the “Quad.” What is the group, where did it come f
  • Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers
    Deepa Bharath, Holly Meyer and David Crary The Associated Press A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denominat
  • A Spittin’ Image..!
    The doctor said to a new father, "You have a cute baby.""I bet you say that to all the new parents," smiled the proud daddy."No," he replied, "just to those whose babies really are good-looking.""So what do you
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