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  • Education For Social Transformation
    Education is so far the best agent of social transformation. Greeks and Romans who were pioneers in the field of education understood it as formation of the whole person. For the Greeks education meant the deve
  • The future of the royal brand
    Real monarchs were famous for getting their way. They would dispatch armies on a whim, shout “off with their heads” in a fit of pique, and demand dainty dishes like four and twenty blackbirds baked
  • Battle of the Bags
    Just a few days ago, I noticed a brown paper shopping bag from one of our shopping expeditions in Dimapur. What first caught my eye were the words printed in bold capitals near the bottom of the bag: PLASTICS A
  • Comments on Response of NPF Phek Division on Job Policy
    The response of the NPF Phek Division to the PDCCs statement on Job Reservation Policy, which appeared in local dailies on 1st and 2nd April 2011(Nagaland Post & Morung Express), has clearly exposed the ign
  • Saving civilians: murky geopolitics
    From initially seeking to protect civilians to now aiming for a swift, total victory in Libya, the mission creep that has characterised the western powers' military attack raises troubling questions about their
  • HIV and AIDS; Not a Sin
    We all know that when HIV started to spread in the 1980s, it spread mainly among certain groups of people who include men who have sexual relation with men, commercial sex workers and people who inject drugs. T
  • In the name of the Mahatma
    It is indeed sad that we should ban a book on the life of a man who embodied openness, who invited generations to follow after him to read and interpret his life as that was his message, a man who through his a
  • Earth Day Space
    Help Our EarthEarth! Earth! Earth! We say,But What! What! What! We do?Shouldn’t we do something for our earth?Aren’t we the ones this home we dwell in?So let us be together,And help it,That it will
  • Korea after reunification: challenges and opportunities
    Last year’s deadly rise in tensions in the Korean peninsula put off any prospects of reunification. Young-II Kim, a North Korean defector and executive director of PSCORE, an organisation furthering the u
  • World Health Day 2011-Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
    World Health day is celebrated on 7th April every year to mark the founding of WHO. The Organization selects a key health issue and encourages people from all ages and all backgrounds to hold events that highli
  • DAN is outdated
    In the changed scenario of the ruling party politics the NPF lead DAN government is no longer represented by elected members of former political allies- the BJP and NCP, so continued usage of the nomenclature D
  • The lure of democracy
    While we are yet to find out which political party will benefit from the impressive voter turnout — an estimated 75 per cent — in the first phase of Assembly election in Assam, one can be confident
  • Guardian Angels Knocked Down From Heaven
    Institution is established and sustained by moral conscience of community. It deduces that institution reflects the quality of polity, society and economy. In short, the delivery mirrors people's ethics and val
  • The Collapse Of Globalization
    The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and
  • Mixed news from Census 2011
    Sometimes, the good news is inextricably tied up with the bad. Provisional data from Census 2011 indicate that India's population might stabilise soon with the slowing down of the growth rate. From 21.54 per ce
  • Welcoming Guests “Aier’s Enclave”
    Aier’s Enclave, the building strategically positioned next to IMC, Dimapur, is not an ordinary guest house by any standard of measurement. Extraordinary things happen there. It is run by Temjenkala Aier a
  • With Japan on our minds
    When I were to look at myself, I usually come out from a point where I think, “I deal with my own problems first”. This is just probably myself looking at situations, circumstances that come across
  • Libya’s challenge: democracy under the gun
    The military intervention in Libya now threatens the Arab democracy risings. This makes diplomacy and demilitarisation essential, says Mark TaylorThe struggles in the Arab world aim to establish one simple prin
  • Presentations and papers from the South Asia Conference on "Outstanding Organic Agriculture Techniques" organised by the Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI) at Bangalore (2009)
    A comprehensive set of presentations and papers from the "South Asia Conference on Outstanding Organic Agriculture Techniques" held at Bangalore, Karnataka on 10 and 11 September 2009, and organised b
  • Don't ban Great Soul
    Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily's announcement that the central government would ban the book Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India had no justification in fact, law, or common sense. The thr
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