Editorial

  • A face-saving exercise
    Moa Jamir   On the heels of hosting the 4th Northeast Connectivity Summit 2017 in Kohima (September 22-23), the Nagaland Government is slated to host a ‘Colloquium on Road Connectivity’ this
  • Is our society ‘imprisoned by illusion’?
    Witoubou Newmai   A society ‘imprisoned by illusion’ limits itself to knee-jerk response to things only whenever it is being pinched, while it continues to find charms in rhetoric. This is b
  • A century of referendums
    Aheli Moitra   The Kurds have done it. So have the Catalans. The Scots did it too.   Starting from the 1950s, the Nagas did it, followed by Guinea, Samoa, Algeria, Rhodesia, Comoros, Djibouti,
  • ‘Why Clean Elections will fail’
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   Looking at the different voices of the people in relation to Clean Election, one gets caught between hope and despair. The need for change from the present ‘Naga condition
  • Politics of Justice: Equality & Equity
    The worldview and praxis of Equality and Equity advocate for the end of hierarchy. Fundamentally, this is the goal of any revolution to topple structures of elitism and classism that cause societal divides. Whi
  • Who's the cleanliest of them all?
    Moa Jamir   Reducing Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to publicity is a tragedy On October 2, 2014, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan , a mission to clean India’
  • Long term policy to address illegal immigration required
    Witoubou Newmai   The growing ineffectiveness in addressing the issue of ‘illegal immigration’ in our region can only be reversed when we are prepared to go beyond the slogans and rhetoric.
  • East is east; West is west
    Aheli Moitra   The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies was founded by a British royal charter on the last day of 1600. An enterprise of London based businesspersons
  • Reconciliation at a ‘Limit Threshold’
    Dr. Asangba Tzüdir   The ‘resurgence’ of Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) as seen through their public statement has once again brought to fore the need for Naga Reconciliation. Besi
  • Many talkers Few listeners
    In the book “When Man Listens” Cecil Herbert Rose tells us, “When men and women listen, God speaks. When God speaks, men and women are changed. When men and women are changed, nations change.&
  • Clear and present danger in Nagaland
    Moa Jamir   Two forces are rapidly converging, posing ‘clear and present danger’ to the state of Nagaland - the issue of migration and the rise of populist narratives.   The two issu
  • The quest for an identity
    Witoubou Newmai   “Oh, how I hated this columnist who thought he knew everything, who knew even when and what he didn’t know, who had learned to turn even his defects and shortcomings into c
  • Practicing nonviolence
    Aheli Moitra   Kazu Haga had an awakening at the age of 17 when he walked, with a Japanese Buddhist order dedicated to peace and justice, from Massachusetts to New Orleans. The walk was part of a longer
  • Can social media offer constructive dialogue?
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   Internet and social media have come to ‘rule’ our lives and it has become a difficult proposition to think of a life without internet and social media especiall
  • The Flash Point
    On December 14, 1960, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 1514 embracing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. This was based on respect for the p
  • Nagaland: Where’s the fruit of high GSDP?
    Moa Jamir   On September 16, the Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome IAS asked whether Nagaland’s “healthy economic growth” is translating into better quality of life for the
  • Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
    Witoubou Newmai Ambivalent feelings are fast overwhelming the ‘collective Naga’ today because of skewed responses to the challenges the society is facing. This situation of the Nagas is reminisce
  • Nagas should worry about Rohingyas and the economics of displacement
    Aheli Moitra   The western state of Rakhine, in Myanmar, is one of its least developed. Over one-third of the Rohingya people, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, live in Rakhine. The World Bank has estimated
  • Building Trust & Social movements
    Social movements in the Naga context cannot take the people for granted just because the issue is one of public concern. They need to engage in building trust with truth and rise above divisive forces. Only whe
  • NPSC: Revamp or Perish
    Moa Jamir   The Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) is yet again under scrutiny with the charges of alleged practice of “favoritism” and “manipulation” by its members in th
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