Dad, said my daughter one day, Isnt it Central Park that youve 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 was a bit of a more
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Yesterday was Fathers 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 prison w
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, something you
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 hed 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 wall
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 doesnt anybody look at me dad?Dear father is concern
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 didnt you? complained my mother.Ah well! After he gave m-
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 dont 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?I dont know! whispere
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 Ive 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 Id like to ask, W
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.Theyre having a block party, he said peering
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-
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
