Constructed identities, not constructive identities. I have never heard of the latter.What are constructed identities? Not unlike social constructs they are identities given to people groups by others. As time
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Thalia Beaty The Associated Press The first and most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, launched more than a decade ago. Yet for all the relentless buzz, relatively few are well versed in cryptocurrenci
Dr Aniruddha Babar Tetso College, Dimapur “If you have the high spirit of the high mountains, even the greatest powers of the outer world will respect and admire you.” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
Dr Puloto YepthoBIG DILEMMA!!Does fixing your broken bone with a metal implant causes cancer? Will the metal implant rust? Does the metal implant have to be in the body for a lifetime? Is Kobiraj better than an
Two new books in early summer await us. ‘Tracing my Roots’ by Akho Yhokha offers a well-documented and historical version of migration narratives. Every scholar of Naga history should read this book. It is
Laura Ungar The Associated Press Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago. An int
Jill Lawless The Associated Press Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University’s library have been returned, two decades after they disa
Mike Corder The Associated Press A haunting image of red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside, with a rainbow in the background, commemorating children who died at a residential school created to
Christina Larson The Associated Press Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to
Mike Schneider The Associated Press It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chica-
Marcia Dunn The Associated Press Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos. But this lumin
Mariam Georgis The Conversation Disney’s Encanto depicts a multigenerational story about a grandmother and her family endowed with magic gifts, who were forced to flee their village for a safer
Kudos to the Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu who stated emphatically ‘stereotyping of NE must end.’The newspaper story mentions that Mizoram can be an example for the Parliament to emulate in their graceful
Howard Fendrich The Associated Press At first glance, Ash Barty’s retirement from tennis might be hard to fathom. She is still only 25, after all. And she’s been thriving with a racket in her
Lindsey Bahr The Associated Press James Bond didn’t get an Oscar nomination this year, but that doesn’t mean that he won’t be part of the ceremony. It’s the 60th anniversary of the f
Ella Tennant The Conversation A report that scientists have begun tests on a 300-year-old “mermaid mummy” to identify its origins, has stimulated an interest in the existence of mermaids in Japa
The Tombstone in my Garden, pp 119, price Rs 499, Speaking TigerThere are different ways of telling a story. A casual narrating of a random tale that the listener recognises parts of and can relate to.Then ther
Matt O'Brien The Associated Press It can be hard to measure the ways that Russia’s war in Ukraine has disrupted the global supply of parts and raw materials needed to complete a variety of p
Sarah Hellewell The Conversation Most of what we know about how Covid can affect the brain has come from studies of severe infection. In people with severe Covid, inflammatory cells from outside the b
Gill Jamieson The Conversation It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense and shocking denouement that sees a series of brutal assassinations intercut with the central character cal
