Infocus

  • The Fake from Charleston..!
    It was at the historic city of Charleston I found the flute. Id wandered into one of the oldest markets in the USA, the City Market, its old brick walls and tiled roof pouted history to all who ventured in. But
  • As Is Where Is Condition..!
    In many an auction you hear the auctioneer offering some particular piece in an as is where is condition! Which means that it is being sold in its current condition, whatever this condition happens to be. But d
  • Passion, It's Free..!
    Today as I'm flying back home from New York, something that stands out vividly in that city is its passion! A passion for enjoying work with subways and roads filled with millionaires and billionaires on their
  • Throw Those Glasses Away..!
    Whats happening? I ask as a man on the street with a loudspeaker shouted, Free! Free! Free!A political party is distributing spectacles free of cost for everybody! says someone in the crowd.But I have my own gl
  • AFSPA review panel: More to it than what's seen
    Nirendra Dev IANS  The Government of India has finally acted and announced the setting up of a special panel to review the enforcement of the Armed Forces Special Powers in Nagaland (AFSPA). Ther
  • Poems on AFSPA
    AFSPA asked Ningreichon 12.12.21 Aren’t you writing anything? How do we write when deprived of all emotions when struck by barbarity of great magnitude Evil, they say provokes you I, a moth
  • Sniff Scents and Smells..!
    As I sit on the porch of the old house, in the historic city of Charleston, where we are holidaying I sip my coffee and sniff the morning air. It is crisp, fresh and highly invigorating. Even though temperature
  • Reflections on Oting*
    Dr Aküm Longchari Listening to the accounts of survivors and the people of Oting, reading the spot report of the Director General of Police and the Home Commissioner of the Government of Nagaland, and a
  • A People’s Message*
    Dr P Ngully On behalf of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, I stand before you all with a Heavy Heart filled with Pain and Sorrow. We share the same grief that overwhelms a father and a mother over the loss
  • Befriending a Bully..!
    Not just you and me but big and small nations burn their national fingers trying to befriend a bully! Over fifty years ago, President Nixon, quite a crafty man, and not just because of his Pinocchio nose, decid
  • What makes Oting Different*
    Professor Visier Sanyü Healing Garden, Medziphema The Naga people all over the world are mourning the death of 14 Naga brothers who were mercilessly gunned down by the Indian army on the 4th and 5th De
  • Miss Universe Throws a Boulder..!
    As Harnaz Sandhu, with self-assurance and assertiveness, strong voice and spirited speech swept the Miss Universe title, she threw a message, not a bouquet of flowers to a waiting, receptive audience, but a bou
  • Radio Begum - the voice of Afghanistan's women
    Hamza Ameer IANS In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and its capital Kabul, which is the hub of global attention with questions being raised on rights to women and education for girls under the Taliban rule,
  • Looking beyond AFSPA
    T Ningreichon In the words of Tapan Bose, a noted defender of human rights and democracy, ‘AFSPA is evil. It is not only against human rights but against humanity.’ A friend, who was working w
  • Not Decorations on a Wall..!
    It was a strange sound I heard from the trees the other day, and there through the branches saw stuck a coloured paper kite, along with taut string stretching and un-stretching and pulling the helpless kite tha
  • Grassroot Reality of the Oting Massacre
    Ellen Konyak Jamir This past weekend, Nagas woke up to a horrifying reality – the death of 15 young men. The name Oting was unknown to many Nagas and the outside world until this past weekend. Sudde
  • India is most pro-vaccine nation
    IANS  India is the most pro-vaccine country in the world with more than 98 per cent of the country's eligible population showing willingness to get inoculated against the deadly Coronavirus, as per
  • Cycling With God..!
    A few years ago my daughter sent me a photo, where she is sitting on a cycle in Central Park, New York. Under the photo, she has written, thank you for teaching me cycling daddy! It was while looking at her pic
  • The Cathedral Builder..!
    Was walking along the aisle of one of the most magnificent cathedrals in the world, looking with wonder at its lofty columns, how they arched into holding the spectacular roof, way, way above my head when I saw
  • NSBB appeals for biodiversity conservation
    DIPR feature Kohima The survival of human beings and animals, both directly as well as indirectly, depends on biodiversity; as their basic needs in the form of food, water, and shelter are met from biodiver
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