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  • Complacency in Education: Nagaland's Silent Challenge
    Nini SekhoseIn a rapidly evolving educational landscape, the role of private schools has never been more pivotal. These institutions, while sometimes misunderstood or undervalued, are bastions of quality educat
  • The Right Touch..!
    Two ‘touching’ scenes comes to my mind: One is a national leader going round the world intent on touching everyone he meets internationally by hugging them, and another, again a national leader but in the o
  • Arresting Journalists..!
    Many, many decades ago, while riding my motorbike as a teenager, I crashed into a car and was badly injured. At least the blood all over made others feel I was terribly hurt and the ones in the car, who were ac
  • Narcissus and the Echo: On Revisiting the Travesty of AI
    Samya Verma“…mankind, a giant loneliness strolling through an even greater loneliness.” – Negar EmraniCalls the wise man out, into the void, and his own voice echoes back. A sharp shadow, louder far and
  • Don’t Shoot the Messenger..!
    In the good old days when kings sat in their castles and sent their men into battle, quite often, guards from his fort watchtowers would shout, “Lone horseman riding to the fort!” And soon, they would ident
  • Man In The Arena..!
    His name was Kumar and he was my best friend in school. A little fellow, compared to me, who was lean and lanky, he was short and squat.Kumar was a fighter, he could knock out any guy in class, and most kept aw
  • No, Never Alone..!
    Many years ago God gave my wife and me a wonderful anniversary gift. Our younger daughter had been selected for the Miss University contest. She was only sixteen, the youngest among a group of eighteen, ninetee
  • Interviewing a World Champion..!
    My phone rang as I drove home one night many years ago. It was from a newspaper I wrote for, “Would you like to interview Evander Holyfield, the boxer?”“Ofcourse,” I said and images came to me of a badl
  • Protecting the Strong..!
    This morning I received a video from Orissa of a church group who were stopped from worshipping by a police patrol. I watched as the church service was stopped and the priest dragged to the police station. He w
  • When I’m Wrong..!
    It is accurately said that it is easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles your feathers. But it seems that feather rufflers will always be around. We're told that 19th Century German statesman Prince Otto von Bi
  • Long Wait to the Moon..!
    The Man in the Moon looked at his wife as she stopped gazing at Earth and stared at him, “What?” he asked, because women whether they were from Earth or Moon, or even from Venus, always had a question on th
  • Bearded Travelers..!
    Was flying from Mumbai to Istanbul, a month ago, and as usual was checked and my baggage double checked at the airport, “I guess it's because of my beard!” I told the security officer as he nearly tried to
  • Doctors call for reducing air pollution to tackle dementia risk
    IANS Even as a recent study showed the evidence linking air pollution to increased risks of dementia, doctors here on Thursday called for strict actions to make the air cleaner. Dementia is an umbrella te
  • You Will Never Grow Old..!
    You will never grow old,While there's love in your heart.Time may silver your golden hair,As you dream in an old rocking-chair,You will never grow old.Don't be fretful, or regretful,That you will grow old much
  • Learning and Earning..!
    Most of today’s billionaires earned while they learned!And maybe that’s one reason there aren’t too many in India, since many of those billionaires abroad learned a lot from the jobs they worked at even a
  • Vaccine equality is as vital for livestock as for people
    Enrique Hernández Pando Inter Press Service  El Castellar – For 33-year-old mother-of-seven and poultry farmer Helena Kindole in Chanya village in Tanzania, one of the main barriers to gro
  • THE SCARLET ROSE
    (Dedicated to Mama Rose Maureen Wylie on her birthday) A Anato Swu Satakha town, Zunheboto Fragrance that evokes memories precious Fills the air purified by His breath gracious. Sourced to the Rose blo
  • Apart from India's northwestern region, all others witnessed deficient rainfall
    Sanjeev Sharma IANS  In August, the monsoon has fallen significantly short of the long-term average, registering a deficit of 30%, Motilal Oswal Financial Services said in a report. The southern region
  • Perseverance and Chandrayaan 3..!
    In a day or two, we will all watch Chandrayaan 3 land on the moon. Why we will all be tense is because of the crash landing that happened the last time. But what we should all be proud of is that after that we
  • Treason In the Neighbourhood...!
    There was the sound of a police jeep and policemen entering my neighbour’s compound, “What’s happening?” I shouted to my neighbour.“Treason!” he shouted back as he opened the door and let the police
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