Editorial

  • The missing spirit of competition 
    Y Merina Chishi   The State Level National Talent Search Examination popularly known as NTSE was recently held across the country including Nagaland. The examination is meant to identify talented stude
  • The Problem of Quick Fix
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   The condition of roads in Nagaland presents a classic case of how the state addresses the myriad of issues and problems. The condition of roads whether it’s good or bad does no
  • Surviving online shopping
    Imlisanen Jamir   If you can’t beat them, join them. That’s the weathered adage on how to meet a challenge against a seemingly insurmountable foe. That’s sort of what is going on for sma
  • Surviving online shopping
    Imlisanen Jamir   If you can’t beat them, join them. That’s the weathered adage on how to meet a challenge against a seemingly insurmountable foe. That’s sort of what is going on for sma
  • Widows of conflict 
    Y Merina Chishi   Widowhood often changes the economic and social role of women. It can affect their access for survival and alter the structure of the family. Some women are even deprived of family
  • Revisiting Naga Club
    Witoubou Newmai   Re-reading the sentiments and spirits of the Naga Club of 1918 loudly into the ‘present’ has become extremely necessary today.  Since all the ‘commentaries’ left f
  • Survival or Living?
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir In the current Naga political spectrum, the coming 31st October has been playing as a devil in disguise creating a lot of apprehension more so triggered and heightened by the very recent s
  • Floods have become a norm
    Imlisanen Jamir   There is only so much we can do about natural calamities, but when disasters like flooding become the norm, the status quo must go. Every year, we're back in the same boat; whe
  • Beyond echo chamber 
    Last week, this column has pointed out how the powerful observation in the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, a historical first published in 1859 feels acutely familiar and verifiable in
  • Lack of cogent discourse
    Witoubou Newmai   ‘Unrest within the realm of speculation’ is what best describes the unfolding situation in Manipur today. The assertions of some important groups in the past one week in th
  • The disconnected generation 
    Y Merina Chishi   In recent months, there has been considerable public debate over the Naga political issue. Many writers have raised issues from the past and concerns for the future of the Naga people
  • Social Ordering
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir One of the greatest challenges which our society is facing today is the maintenance of social order. It is a kind of order which is in contrast to social chaos or disorder, and refers to a
  • Indigenous Peoples
    Indigenous struggles insist they are ‘indigenous peoples’ with equal rights. They have resiliently rejected the State’s intent to reduce them to statistical categories such as: population, ethnic minority
  • Talks, fear, confusion
    Imkong Walling “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season
  • Jingoistic sentiments
    Witoubou Newmai   The Kukis, the Nagas and the Meiteis, even though each one seems to be displaying their machismo, continue to employ the language of insecurity with regard to the issues of their
  • Vision 2020 Nagaland
    By Y Merina Chishi   A decade ago, the government of Nagaland announced a visionary document called "Vision 2020 Nagaland." The document contained developmental thrusts for the coming decades and envis
  • Re-learning in the Information Age
     Dr. Asangba Tzudir    Social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Youtube etc. serves as a channel to get access to ‘knowledge’ and ‘information’ like healthcare and beauty tips; exercis
  • We good China?
    Imlisanen Jamir   “It’s not worth living in a world where China controls my art,” says one character in last week’s episode of satirical animated comedy show South Park.  Following
  • Healthy, but some risky symptoms 
    Nagaland’s report card in India’s first Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) can be deemed very ‘healthy.’  By all accounts, the State’s health and family welfare department should be c
  • Outcome lies on the process
    Witoubou Newmai   Someone once made a perceptive remark during a public meeting; it goes something like this: when the process is clean there will be a good outcome, or the process has to be clean if
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