Infocus

  • Just a Gate..!
    Many years ago in the Land of Andhor, there lived a mighty king who loved to do pleasing things for his subjects the people of Andhor! One day while holding court there came to him many wise men from his kingdo
  • The integrity of a Christian college
    Kethoser (Aniu) Kevichusa I want to begin by asking two questions. The first question is: What is a university or a college?  According to the great nineteenth-century thinker, John Henry Newman,
  • A Blood Red Rose..!
    It was with a weak hello she answered the phone. “Rosy!” I asked, “May I write about you?”“What’s there to write about me Bob?” she asked, a smile in same feeble voice.“Plenty!” I said, and my
  • Your Silver Lining..!
    This happened many years ago!          The skies were dark and a heavy cloud hung over us as we drove on roads that echoed the darkness above. We were two writers in the car, my friend,
  • You Cannot Escape Competition..!
    Many believe that competition is bad, that life is meant to be peaceful and calm, sitting on a mountain, or playing golf! Gary Player for years was a great competitor in national and international golf tou
  • Eight Dollar Days..!
    It wasn't too long ago that scowls and frowns greeted me when I entered a store abroad: Salesman at counter, shop owner and all the customers lifting their heads none too discretely, knew I'd come in just to br
  • When You Are Questioned..!
    “I have many questions,” she said as she sat in my car. It was raining heavily, and I had offered to drop her home. “Bob,” she said, “I read what you write, but I can’t subscribe to all your beliefs
  • Think and Grow Rich..!
    “Today our youth are so focused!” said a father of one of the youth to me proudly. “Focused on what?” I asked.“On what they want to do in life! How much money they want to make, and where they wa
  • A practical playbook on self-management for young professionals
    IANS A new workplace demands that you take charge of your anchors. It challenges you to pay attention to the aspects that drive your behaviour, attitudes, perceptions, and emotions. At the same time, recogni
  • Ridiculous Percentages..!
    The wife told me we had to visit the neighbors this morning. She said we should take a box of sweets along with us. “Whatever for?” I asked, “are they moving out?”“Their daughter passed her SSC. It is
  • Be a Naga food soldier 
    Rovi Chasie Kohima Town  ‘You are what you eat’, has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. If you want to be a Naga, eat Naga food. It is all very well to wear Naga clothes and ornaments
  • No Need for Men..!
    A few years ago, a scientist, Paul de Sousa of Edinburgh University announced at the BA Science Festival in Dublin that his team had succeeded in creating 'virgin embryos', or parthenotes, by stimulating a huma
  • Covid-19 vaccine efficacy & its impact on the world opening again
    Neichü Mayer Israel Dr Rina Irene Fermont, MD, MSc, an internationally known figure in the field of Pharmacovigilance, is a Physician and Immuno hematologist with an additional masters’ degree in
  • The God Particle..!
    Many years ago, I sat in an apartment in New York listening to an interesting argument between an elderly man and a doctor, who had been a childhood friend of mine. They were talking about religion and the topi
  • 'Vax' is Oxford English Dictionary's 2021 word of the year
    IANS 'Vax' has been chosen as the word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the media reported. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, words related to vaccines spiked in frequency i
  • The Modi Jacket..!
    There’s only one person who looks good in the Modi jacket, and that’s the Prime Minister himself! Today, every tailor, throughout the country is rolling out thousands of yards of cloth stitching these new s
  • 'Broken Windows': Why Crime Happens
    Satyaraj Hazarika, IPS DIG (Central Range), Assam Introduction: A review of shooting incidents in Chicago city in 2016 led researchers to just a handful of neighbourhoods where fifty percent of all shooting
  • Yuk! It's A Worm..!
    This morning I laughed as I read a comic strip where two ugly sea creatures at the bottom of the sea, awful squiggly, wriggly tentacles spread all over sea bed, bodies ugly, revolting, beady eyes peering from a
  • My Visiting Card..!
    “We’re getting a visiting card made for you sir!” said someone on my staff, and I shuddered.  It’s become fashionable today to hand out business cards or so it seems to me, as cards, nineteen to th
  • Many Red Sea Partings..!
    'Twas while walking in heaven a few years from today, I chanced to see two Israelites, trudging a little slowly, like they’d been forty years in the wilderness, so I asked the angel playing her harp at the si
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