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  • Naga History: We Missed Our Flight Thrice
    To be able to take the right path in our journey forward, it is also important to find out where we have gone wrong in the past. So this is what this article is about –examining our missed chances to coll
  • Cheap Medicine For Good Health
    There are many ways of practicing the healing art. In India, Ayurvedic and Naturopathic medicine are highly respected along with conventional western medicine. And right here in Nagaland, every tribe has some k
  • Clarification on the article ‘Cross cultural marriages’
    In response to Abhijeet, pastor, NMBF Church, dated April 16, 2011, I put down in writing what he missed as I was also in that very same sermon. During my student life, sometimes I wonder why some students unde
  • Earth Day open letter to MLAs of Nagaland
    Honorable Member of the House.Greetings to you all on this ‘Earth Day’ as the world celebrates it for the 41st time since Gaylord Nelson, a United States Senator, founded the first Earth Day in Apri
  • Wash Others Feet
    Yesterday was Maundy Thursday. It is also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, and Last Supper. On this day, the Church reflects specially on the scene of Last Supper that Jesus had prior to his arrest th
  • In The Pursuit Of Healthy Happiness
    Since times immemorial, the human race has sought health, happiness and wealth —not necessarily in that order.  Wars have been fought and lives have been lost due to the overwhelming desire of posses
  • A dose of OMG!
    A week ago, I witnessed an incident that left an awful taste in my mouth. I was at a petrol pump near the city tower.  While I was waiting in my car, I saw a man chasing after this younger guy, a non-local
  • Troubleshooter Pranab Mukherjee wants to become prime minister
    Sonia Gandhi’s leadership of the Congress is facing two major problems, one or both of which may be insurmountable. Manmohan Singh has proved a non-asset in securing the Congress moral and political high-
  • Jan Lokpal: an alternative view
    After 42 years of hesitation and uncertainty, an institutional mechanism to deal with the all-pervasive incidence of corruption in India is in sight. What apparently moved the state machinery was the agitation
  • UN needs reality check
    In 2000 when every member of the United Nations agreed to focus on eight areas of universal concern, such as poverty and hunger, healthcare, primary education and status of women, there was enthusiasm that deve
  • Has Europe forgotten the gas chambers?
    As we've seen with France's burqa ban that went into effect this week, global religious tolerance – especially in Europe – is under threat. Growing Islamophobia threatens to undermine hard-fought fr
  • The Aching Grace of Suffering
    Pain, sickness, accidents, death, and natural calamities are a part of daily life and they raise questions that cause people a great deal of personal anguish. The existence of suffering is an undeniable reality
  • Why Personalize Politics?
    While penning down few thoughts on this subject matter I am inclined to cite a famous quotation:People with extraordinary minds, talk about ideas.People with average minds, talk about events.People with simple
  • Welfare cheque prevents Aborigines from fighting for their rights
    A NSW tribal leader convening an Aboriginal summit in Canberra says it will raise funds to challenge Australia’s legitimacy in the International Court of Justice.“This is Australia’s greatest
  • Regime change under UNSC cover
    It is now obvious that Nato's purported mission, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, to protect civilians in Libya is expanding into a flagrantly illegal attempt at regime change. With fierce
  • A ‘difficult' state
    A police operation in the jungles of Timapuram (Chhattisgarh) lasts for six days affecting three villages and leaving an estimated 300 burnt homes, and killings and rape in its wake. A whole week after it ends,
  • Road map for a two-state solution
    The international community must offer the Israelis and Palestinians a set of principles to reach a compromise. India can and should take the lead in promoting such an approach.  The one country which shou
  • Earth Day Space
    Do not hunt animals, birds and all creatures to save our environment! Drawing by Jevito, Class 6,Great Commission Kids Academy, Dimapur _______________________________Creation and DestructionGod created ou
  • Cross cultural marriages: Beware or Bedazzled?
    A few days back I visited a local tribal church in Nagaland –which was packed to full house to listen to a popular speaker of international repute. He started off his Sunday morning message warning the ch
  • Web’s identity crisis: Tool of freedom or repression?
    From Twitter to WikiLeaks, we must balance openness and safety The same Internet that has empowered freedom-starved people across the Middle East to unseat despots is the same one that enabled Julian Assange, w
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