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
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“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
“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?”
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-
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.
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
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,
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
