Infocus

  • 'India ranks 67th globally in data skills'
    IANS Despite high skills proficiency in Machine Learning (ML) and Maths, India trailed in data skills as it ranked 67th overall globally, a report said on Wednesday. Coursera's latest Global Skills re
  • Laying Yourself Open..!
    They say that in true love you lay yourself open.Truly that is a fact. I had got onto a helicopter at Manhattan, which would fly high above the skyscrapers and show us a different view of the New York skyline,
  • Little People..!
    I opened the papers to glamorous pictures of a famous couple and headlines about their wedding at Jodhpur and their stay at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay. But what made me sit up was an item in a tabloid about
  • New Taxes and Tax Savings..!
    With the state of the economy plummeting, and money needed to handle the running of the country, rumour has it that everything under the sun would be taxed, but I didn’t know how serious it was till I went fo
  • The WC ..!
    A couple of my serious minded friends have been saying, “Bob you’ve been writing too much banter lately, what about a serious article?”“Like what?” I ask“Something churchy?”“Okay friends I’ll
  • NAOMI OSAKA’S BRAVERY: Can be a teachable moment about Mental Health
    Ifeanyi Nsofor Inter Press Service Recently, Naomi Osaka, the number 2 ranked women’s tennis player in the world, said she would not participate in the press conference at the French Open (Rolland-Gar
  • Trust and Our Country..!
    Politics in our country has reached such a low, that people just won’t trust politicians. I got a frantic message from a poor friend in Orissa saying that all around him people were dying for lack of oxygen,
  • What Gives You Wings?
    I heard a funny story: A small plane with an instructor and student on board hit the runway and bounced repeatedly until it came to a stop. The instructor turned to the student and said, “That was a terrible
  • Slow Down and Live..!
    For the last few years I’ve been hearing of one of our political readers who hardly rests and is always is in a hurry. I do understand that as that was once how I lived. In fact, for years on end, my time spe
  • The Real Monster..!
    The Whatsapp message that came to me was from a phone number of an Indian in America, it said, ‘Terror has no religion’. However it was not making a statement, it was mocking a particular religious communit
  • She Sat Smiling..!
    The rain fell in gentle drops onto the waiting leaves that seemed to be smiling as they raised their branches heavenward and received their watery blessing. The birds sang happily, and lazily flew from tree to
  • They Are Our Children..!
    ‘Twas two years ago, three friends and I drove to Goa, and stopped at a well-known restaurant for lunch. It was an open-air eatery and as we sat we could see car loads of families coming with hungry passenger
  • Cyclone Cruelty and the CA..!
    Cruel, heartless and merciless was evil wind that blew in last week, piloted with ferocity by Cyclone Tauktae herself! Scorn writ all over her face, she mowed down all in her path; trees, lampposts, hutments an
  • Being UnIndian..!
    With patriotism being questioned, sedition being defined and slogans being the criteria for motherland loyalty, we may have a confused people in the country: My daughter, who stands at attention when the nation
  • A Joy Within..!
    She was short, squat and dowdy, and as I ran to join the group of tourists at the heritage building I wondered what this women was doing as a guide. The lady looked up over the heads of the others and instead o
  • Justice Magnified..!
    As I see the blame game going between the owners of the barge which saw nearly sixty die last week on the Bombay High Seas, and the late captain, we hear people saying we should be lenient with someone or other
  • Being Careful or Careless..!
    “You know Bob,” my wife told me the other day, “It’s time we changed our furniture!”“Why?” I asked, “Our furniture is fine!”“It’s old!”I looked at my furniture. It was certainly old, but
  • Punctured Lifeboats..!
    Filled with horror I read about the twenty-seven ONGC employees who died and fifty-three missing, when their barge sank during Cyclone Tauktae’s tryst with the west coast of India. The barge, as you know, is
  • My Bank Balance and I.!
    It’s generally after an event, a wedding or some other occasion like a lavish holiday when I realize I’m nearly broke and my driver comes back from the bank with my passbook. I open it with fear and trembli
  • Broken Branch..!
    The cyclone has just passed and as I looked down, I saw the broken branch, “Oh that’s so sad!” I shouted, “It must have happened with winds over 120 kms an hour!”“The winds were terrible!” agreed
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