Editorial

  • The Man Who Would Not Sit Down
    Imlisanen JamirAt Estadio Akron in Guadalajara, a man stands through ninety minutes of football without once taking his seat. While the crowd around him sings, dances and tracks the run of play, he keeps his ri
  • Faith vs. Reality: Justice deficit in Naga churches
    Nagaland is a land shaped profoundly by the Christian faith. Churches fill every village. Crosses crown the hills. Sunday mornings bring communities together in a way few other forces can. And yet, for all this
  • The Need to Self-Regulate Learning
    Dr Asangba TzudirArtificial Intelligence has ushered in an era of transformation in the landscape of education. Students today have access to an unprecedented wealth of knowledge and information right in their
  • Where is NSL?
    Moa JamirTo say football is passionately followed in Nagaland would be an understatement.As the FIFA World Cup 2026 unfolds on the other side of the globe, excitement across the State is palpable. From kitchen
  • Alcoholism Among Police Personnel
    Dr Asangba TzudirWhile it is not a new discover, the recent disclosure by a senior police officer that nearly one-fourth of Nagaland Police personnel may be struggling with alcohol or drug addiction is both ala
  • When institutions become venues
    Imlisanen JamirThere is a photograph now circulating of the South Lawn of the White House fitted with a 92-foot steel octagon, floodlit and roaring, while the President of the United States sat ringside. It was
  • Journalism in Nagaland: Accountability Bypassed
    A democracy is only as healthy as the information that flows through it. In Nagaland, that flow is neither fully blocked nor fully free, it moves in fits and starts, channelled by tribal loyalties, financial de
  • The Priceless Has a Price Tag?
    Dr Asangba TzudirA recent social media trend and which have been widely circulated states that the Supreme Court now recognizes their unpaid household work and which has been valued at Rs. 30,000 per month. The
  • Clarity and consultation matter
    By Moa JamirTwo recent government announcements have drawn attention not only for their substance, or lack of it, but also for the manner in which they were communicated. One concerns the proposed ban on tobacc
  • The illusion of proscription
    Imkong WallingYou will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. - Thomas Sowell The quote rings true when propped up agains
  • The house that called itself a home
    Imlisanen JamirLast month, a 14-year-old girl was rescued from a house in Dimapur. She had gone there, her family believed, for her education. She stayed, instead, for her abuse. The case has since produced mem
  • Beyond the breaking news
    In a democracy as contested as Nagalands, the press is not merely a convenience, it is a constitutional necessity. Yet as digital media reshapes the information landscape, Nagalands journalists find themselves
  • Consumer Responsibility
    A Shared Duty in Ensuring Reliable Power SupplyDr Asangba TzudirThe recent announcement by the Department of Power, Electrical Division Dimapur, regarding a disconnection drive against consumers with pending el
  • Takeaway from NFHS-6
    Moa Jamir The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) offers Nagaland an opportunity to reflect on a public health story increasingly defined by progress rather than persistent deficits. The findings
  • You are what you eat
    Dr Asangba TzudirEvery year, World Food Safety Day (June 7) reminds us of a simple but a profound truth that food safety is everyones responsibility. This years World Food Safety Day celebrated on the theme, Fr
  • Four Bins and No System
    Imlisanen JamirThe Nagaland Home Department has directed every household in every village in the state to segregate waste into four colour-coded streams, wet, dry, sanitary, and household hazardous, as mandated
  • Child sexual abuse in the shadow of silence
    In Naga society, the concept of community is sacred. Villages have long been bound by the logic of collective identity, the clan, the church congregation, the extended family. It is within this very fabric of c
  • Protecting Vulnerable Children in Nagaland
    Dr Asangba TzudirThe recent incident of sexual abuse on a minor has once again exposed a painful reality that society can no longer afford to ignore.  While rape or sexual exploitation of any child is a ho
  • Nagaland's plastic ban tryst: Reissued, Reiterated, Relegated
    Moa JamirAs another World Environment Day approaches on June 5, environmental consciousness appears to be making its annual return. Government departments, district administrations, institutions and various sta
  • Imagining democracy
    Imkong WallingImagine a plot of land. It has a definite area with a definite set of people; the larger the living area, the greater the wriggle room for the inhabitants. Now, imagine the area of space with
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