Infocus

  • On ENPO demand for separate Statehood
    We are faced with serious obstacle as we strive towards our aim to achieve Independent, and with the demand of “Frontier Nagaland State” by ENPO, now our forefathers aim to achieve Naga Independence
  • No One Is Smiling In Manipur!!!
    Welcome to SMILE-LESS state – MANIPUR. No one is smiling here. If you smile in this part of India, you could be suspected as abnormal being. ‘But’, you may say: ‘I use to see Chief Minis
  • 9 ways to be positive and happy
    •    Carry a positive Trigger- OK, we all tend to freak out the second something is not going according to plan, or according to the way we expect it to work out. Its in these situation spe
  • Wise man on the hill
    There was hardly a vacant seat in the Protestant church by the Ping River in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai for the funeral. American veterans of the Indochina war mixed with Thai and foreign residents, m
  • Creative economy and development
    If information technology has enabled emerging economies such as India to change the commercial equations with the developed world, another speciality is being recognised for its potential: the ‘creative
  • What civil society?
    The spring Navratra currently being underway, devout Hindus throughout North India are flocking to goddess shrines in a bid to secure Mahadevi’s grace. This ostentatious show of devotion is at variance wi
  • The culture of buying votes with freebies
    Tamil Nadu shows how freebies given in exchange of votes debilitates the will of the people, says NeelakantanIt is the silly season of election time once again in India. Election times have tended to lean towar
  • New call in Israel for two-state solution
    A group of prominent Israelis, including heads of the Army and security services, hope to revive the peace initiative by announcing details of possible treaties with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.The Isra
  • Military Might in the New Age
    The role of military defence has been gradually shifted away from its primary role of providing security to enhancing commercial interest. With industrial growth and advancement of science and technology, the d
  • Life Inspiring
    Easterine Kire has done it again with ‘Mari’ (published by Harper Collins India). The book has been doing the rounds gaining both National and International recognition. Born and brought up in Kohim
  • Assessing the fight against AIDS, 30 years later
    It was 1981 when the world first witnessed the emergence of a strange disease, which was later christened as AIDS in a report published by the Centers for Disease Control in the US. Since then sustained efforts
  • We need roads, not guns
    There is a traditional, gloating song of Paghman, some 30 km from the Afghan capital, which dates from the British invasions of the 19th century: “Oh foreigner, do not attack Kabul, attacking Kabul is our
  • ‘Politicians are interested in only power & money’
    Noted social activist Anna Hazare’s indefinite hunger strike against corruption drew huge support from all walks of life and forced the ruling disposition to bow down before people’s power and accep
  • The deception at the heart of ‘Rising India'
    Food prices become intolerable for the poor. Protests against corruption paralyse Parliament. Then a series of American diplomatic cables released by the WikiLeaks exposes a brazenly mendacious and venal ruling
  • Space and rehabilitation for so called National Workers
    At this point of time in history, a large section of the so called National Workers has become the concern of the society at large. When we use the generic term National Workers we do not mean all of them. The
  • We, the corrupt, must root out corruption
    Amid the widespread euphoria over anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare’s victory over the government of India, we may fail to realise a few crucial things that can eradicate corruption in our country.Hazare br
  • Room For Rethinking If Any
    Writing on some matter is a tendency of lateral thinking to propound something for reasoning together as different people who live differently think differently. In the midst of a given complexity of life, the
  • Crackdown in China
    It has taken the arrest of Ai Weiwei, one of China’s best-known contemporary artists and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, for the world to take notice that Beijing is in the midst of the lar
  • After The Great Quake, Living With Earth’s Uncertainty
    In my layman’s cosmology, the anthropic principle says this: our existence implies that the universe must take the shape it does or we wouldn’t be here to perceive it. A universe with even minutely
  • Inching closer towards moral breakdown
    Beyond the sensational news headlines of America's ‘humanitarian’ interventions and democracy-spreading escapades lies a grim reality; one of a brutal military occupation, systematic torture practic
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