Launcelot Gobbo told his elderly father in a poignant moment in William Shakespeare's play Merchant of Venice, "Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long." But the tragedy of life is often t
Protesters walk in a Women's Day demonstration in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, March 6. Hundreds of people marched through the capital's downtown demanding more rights for women. (AP Photo) Women are the main u
Efforts to tackle gender-based violence against women in India have concentrated on empowering women to assert themselves and prevent violence. Men have been insulated from the process of transformation, says H
WASHINGTON — For President Obama, who told Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi last week that it was time to quit, the bloodshed and terror in Libya have posed a dilemma that sooner or later confronts every modern Am
We live in history all the time, of course, but most of us have never seen history like this.It already feels like many months since a young Tunisian graduate who couldn't get a job, or scrape a living, or even
If we are to believe that ‘for every action there is equal and opposite reaction’, then ENPO’s demand for a separate state in Nagaland and United Naga Council demand for an ‘alternative
Egypt’s Day of Rage unfolded yesterday afternoon, the news of gathering crowds and images of protesters heading for Tahrir square shared over Twitter by activists and people in general in a fascinating, b
I am not a patriot. It was my answer to a prominent political personality of his questions. He asked me the Indian soldiers are killing innocent people in Indo Bangla Border, Bangladesh is failing to deal with
You're Muammar Gaddafi, and you're sitting in your Bab al-Azizia bunker sipping green tea and surveying the odds of staying in power. Let's see. You control some neighborhoods in Tripoli; some cities in the far
Forty years ago, a book entitled The Greening of America caused a sensation. On the cover were these words: "There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate wit
Fury at Washington ran deep as Islamic Pakistan refused to give up owing to public pressure, the plea for release of Raymond Davis, an American on a special secret mission from the CIA who shot dead two Pakista
Echoing back the (positive) meaning of those John Milton’s words, ‘Its better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven’, were just out from your eyes as when you saw that something is not so w
The enemies which confronts us are not the evil forces alone but we become our own enemy when we pay our tithes and offerings to the world, rather than to God. In the beginning God warned Adam and Eve not
There’s a sombre scene early in Ken Loach’s new drama, ‘Route Irish’. It’s the funeral of Frankie, an ex-soldier who died while working as a private contractor in Iraq. His sharp-s
‘Sovereignty’ is a word for which thousands of Nagas have given their lives willingly free. It is a word for which many a Naga have their lifeless bones scattered in far away places unknown, uncared
March 1 is the time of year when newspapers declare their shareholding, so attention turns briefly to the issue of media ownership. On March 1 Delhi newspapers printed the Form IV with mandatory disclosure on o
In May 2001, twenty-four representatives of communities and groups affected by mining - from Asia-Pacific, Africa, India, South and North America - met in London to assess the impacts of mining on the lives of
Mithun the pride of Nagaland is a highly traditional prize unique animal, it is found in a few North Eastern states and at present there are four defined strains in India namely Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur and
Forces aligned with Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi have launched new assaults to regain control of several towns captured in a popular uprising over the past two weeks. Meanwhile, two U.S. warships have mov
The history of fencing parallels the evolution of civilisation, back from the days of ancient Egypt and Rome, to the barbaric Dark Ages, to the fast and elegant Renaissance, up to the modern, increasingly popul