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  • 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
  • Their only moments of passion..!
    They were holding hands at the next table.I have nothing against holding hands, I've held my own fair share and more during the springtime of my youth, but these two at the next table seemed to have hands meant
  • Cheerleader Shouts versus Stillness..!
    “Laughter can conceal a heavy heart; when the laughter ends, the grief remains.” Proverbs 14:13.This actually happened after a session with a group of company executives, where I’d spent almost a day trai
  • The India that I know
    Rukewezo Wetsah & Kevitho Kera Dimapur ‘Freedom is my birthright and I shall have it’ - Bal Gangadhar Tilak I grew up reading and getting inspirations from the great freedom fighters of I
  • Your Chair and You..!
    As a writer and journalist, I often had to visit men and women in different leadership positions at their offices. As soon as I was ushered into their offices, the chair on which they sat told me where I stood.
  • The Peepul Leaf and I..!
    It seemed like a dance of death as the peepul leaf floated down to me, “You poor leaf,” I cried, “Let me get some glue, you know the quick fix type and paste you back to the branch you fell from!”“No!
  • The animal in us!
    Rev Fr GL Khing Human beings and animals have much in common, yet the little differences make the two very different from each other. Some people love human beings, some love animals and birds while some
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