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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
