Editorial

  • Bureaucrats must reflect
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorAll of us are aware that in the area of governance the executive is largely responsible to see to it that it functions accordingly i.e. to get the job done. The legislature and t
  • Terror should not succeed
    Aheli MoitraOn June 23, 2003, exactly a decade ago, Showkat Ahmed Paul from Lawaypora in Kashmir disappeared while on his way to college. At 22 years of age, Showkat was picked up from Srinagar in a white Sumo
  • Ingredients of Reconciliation
    In the journey towards Reconciliation, it is crucial to understand the principles of fear, ignorance, hate, prejudice, power and self-righteousness that drive peoples lives in the real world. For reconciliation
  • A Paradigm Shift
    I have fought against white domination; I have fought against black domination. The ideal of a free society is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if need be, it is an ideal for which I am pr
  • Delhi’s NE Complexity
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorPrime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had recently described the security situation in the northeast as complex since according to him insurgency, extortion and agitations continue to
  • Finding Synergy
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorIf ever we as a people need a unity of purpose, the time is right now for the Nagas. Several things are happening around us and on the surface it would seem illogical to connect
  • Creating borderland myths
    Aheli MoitraMyths are constructed with oft repeated imagery. This imagery is often fixed depending on who propagates it, creating myths that come to define who we are. Home Minister of Nagaland, G. Kaito A
  • Trust
    What is my word, what is human wisdom but a noise that reaches the outer ear?But from the ear to the heart lies a road that only God can travel …Oscar RomeroTrust is one of the most unique virtues that can in
  • Transforming the Old
    Each time it rains, I go to the sidewalkWhere tree roots have broken the concrete and listen to the waters whisperingIt is coming soon – Sara Little-Crow RussellOne of the most critical times of any peoples s
  • Political Retreat
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorLal Krishna Advanis resignation (later retracted) from all posts that he held in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had come as an unexpected development. No doubt Mr Advani had be
  • People’s Foothill Road
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorIn a significant policy decision, the State government has decided that 50% of all revenues from Oil & Natural Gas will be set aside for developing the Iconic Four Lane Footh
  • “Natural” justice and “duplicate” people
    Aheli MoitraBright eyed dark skinned trim mustachioed 32-year-old Sukumar, driving a van in the estuaries of Bengal steers from tourist talk with a bunch of tourists his age and settles on his idea of justice.
  • A Response to Terrorism
    The need for out-of-box solutions suggest that the existing paradigm guiding the War on Terror has been futile. In fact, it has proved to be counter-productive because it thwarts real solutions to terrorism.&nb
  • World View
    One of the most omnipresent and consistent historical forces that profoundly influences the human journey and a peoples collective transformation continues to be their worldview. Indeed, the forces of history a
  • Taxing Ceasefire
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorThe overwhelming verdict of the Naga public, cutting across every section of society, is to do away with the large scale extortion culture prevalent in our midst, especially sinc
  • Connecting People
    Roads, cohesion and integrationAlong LongkumerConsulting EditorThe State government has pushed the case for improving road connectivity across Nagaland during the recent high level meeting to finalize the Annua
  • Naga Pragmatism
    The situation in Naga society has spiraled rapidly, aggressively and destructively into a deepening crisis of complacency and inaction since the turn of the New Year. More than five months on, it has moved at s
  • Where does the Church Stand?
    The Naga Church does not exist in a vacuum as its existence is located within a particular historical and social context. The Naga Churchs reality has been shaped by its encounter with historical forces that ha
  • A point of view
    Christianity has been made the center point of the Nagas current social order which brought with it new styles of clothing, customs and rituals, new forms of etiquette for polite society, new medical approaches
  • Poor Nagaland…Why?
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorThink about it—Nagaland is going to celebrate 50 years of Statehood later this year yet we continue to remain poor. Whatever reasons it may be, but it is unusual that the Plan
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