Infocus

  • Towards Realizing Our True Dignity
    The alarming increase of anti-social activities in our state is indeed a wakeup call for each and every citizen of Nagaland. The menace of rape followed by murder, blame-game, passing the buck, extortion, back
  • God centredness is the right thing
    God is the wise, so he will always lead us to the right thing. He is the Almighty, so what he helps cannot be a failure. He is perfect, so whatever he leads us to do will never be a mistake. He is loving kind,
  • Rock Music and Christianity: Harmony or Dissonance?
    And this week it all started with…..James Ovung: Youths of Christians, rock music in churches, what to we perceive, why it so appealing to many young people of this age? If we look out, we will find that
  • The Element of Doubt About Jairam Ramesh
    Is Jairam Ramesh a smooth, cunning and crafty fox? That's what he claimed to be at a journalism school convocation in Chennai on May 3, 2011. Invoking philosopher Isaiah Berlin's spin on an ancient parable call
  • Politics matters for eradicating hunger
    While the rest of the world has spent the last few years worrying about double-dip recessions and upheavals in the Middle East, the borderless nation of the hungry has continued to suffer in silence. It was rec
  • ‘Land Grabs’ in Agriculture
    The trend of international land grabbing - when governments and private firms invest in or purchase large tracts of land in other countries for the purpose of agricultural production and export - can have serio
  • Challenges Faced by Indian Church
    The Christians along with other minority communities are facing serious challenges in last one and half decade. The challenges have become more severe with the raise of fascist forces in India. Most of these ch
  • Private Vehicles & Taxis Vis-a-Vis Commuter & Traffic Congestion
    As a daily commuter in Kohima, it is sad to learn that private vehicles running on hire/fare have come under the scanner of All Nagaland Taxi Association, ANTA. There are certain time and places in Kohima where
  • My Tryst with Northeast India The Leadership Question
    We, the people in the margin of Indian sub continent, ie, Kashmir, Northeast region of India comprising the seven sister states particularly tribal and tribes of other states like Chattisgarh and  Jharkhan
  • Ntangki Forest: An ecological issue and concern of the Nagas
    The Govt of Nagaland initiated a people consultative meeting dated 20th June 2009 Kohima  represented by Council of Ministers, Naga Hoho, ENPO, NSF, NMA, and Naga tribal Hohos;  a resolution passed on
  • Reject the govt draft of the National Food Security Bill
    A Statement from the Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign forwarded by the Asian Human Rights CommissionThe Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign, with over forty representatives met in B
  • IF GOD COULD SPEAK
    I do not recognize who I am'I've been in darkness for so long,That I am blind,I am afraid.I wish that I could talk to God,To ask Him what I need to do?But deaf am I,From long nights of screaming.Such pain I now
  • Development, justice and the Constitution
    Three judgments by the Supreme Court, in July, demonstrate the significance of social action. They draw important connections between courts, social sciences and social movements; connections that are often for
  • Why are we the only target?
    Of late, the NSF has been agitating about their so-called “backdoor appointments” in the power department and there have been various opinions about it. Though we are being made the fierce target, w
  • ON BACKDOOR APPOINTMENT...What Needs to be Done?
    The agitation against backdoor appointments in the power Department initiated by the NSF is definitely noteworthy. While appreciating its efforts I've been left to wonder whether it is only the Power Deptt that
  • Quota syndrome-a serious issue
    STs/SCs/OBCs have the privilege of reservations in Central government jobs, admissions to educational institutions etc. However, that privilege of reservation is applicable only when those candidates attain the
  • Letter from a Norwegian in Vienna
    People comfort each other outside Oslo City Hall as they participate in a "rose march" in memory of the victims of Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre on Monday, July 25. Anders Behring Breivik
  • For Amy
    In this poignant and sensitive piece, comedian Russell Brand talks about the tragic loss of his friend, singer Amy Winehouse. In an impassioned conclusion, Brand surmises that "We need to review the way so
  • Grave Injustice
    As per the government orders published in the local dailies on 19th and 20th July, the Nagaland government has reappointed and regularized the services of over 1500 bogus teachers who had been under suspension
  • NAGAS LET US NOT BE IN OBLIVION
    We were split into groups arising from both known and unknown reasons. And even after so long years of decades we still remain split. As a matter of fact, so long has the process of reconciliation been. Reconci
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