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  • A universal fight
    This is an important moment in world history! Tunisia may have sparked the first flame but the whole world is now or soon will be on fire! And if some dismissively or ignorantly keep on calling what is happenin
  • Statement from the Theological Roundtable on Disability
    We the 32 theologically trained persons with disabilities, ordained ministers  with disabilities, representatives of the organisations which are ministering the persons with disabilities, disability advoca
  • Guru of the Revolution
    When the history of the Egyptian Revolution gets written, a large place must be reserved in it for Pierre Sioufi, the bearded, twinkly-eyed, chain-smoking, larger-than-life guru of liberation who threw open his
  • Three years after independence
    “Dawn rolling over, the clouds bring the rain, it’s time to start over, time to join hands.” These were the first lines of Kosovo’s 2010 campaign to reach out to the world. The lyrics gi
  • In hope, not expectation
    TOOTHLESS and turbaned, the porters who loiter at Wagah, on the Indian side of the only border crossing by road with Pakistan, are a frustrated lot. Aside from the odd diplomat or journalist, few need a bag car
  • So how much red meat CAN we eat?
    Experts can't agree on how much red meat we should be eating. The confusion about how much red meat is safe to eat intensified last night as Britons were warned they should cut down to reduce the risk of cancer
  • ‘Yoga’ – Another Serious Acid Test For Naga Christians?
    I have come across the word ‘Yoga’ for many years but it didn’t register or make any impression on me until  21st Feb. 2011 when I glance through an article, ‘Yoga for healthy livin
  • Is the revolution being co-opted?
    Were this an ad, the catchphrase would be "the sound of a new generation". A group of seven young January 25 revolutionaries, including Wael "Google Gandhi" Ghonim, met two members of the Su
  • Monitoring & evaluation of the state machinery for governance
    A DIPR Feature Temjenkaba, News AssistantMonitoring and evaluation (M&E) are critical activities to ensure good governance. They are necessary for the achievement of evidence-based policymaking, budget deci
  • Manmohan Singh nears his nemesis
    In the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Eleven, it is no longer possible for mortal high and mighty folks to hide behind Constitutionalism for protection from public ire for their crimes. The fires that swept
  • Should Good Christians Stay Away From Politics?
    Some Christians would tell you, “Politics is bad. God doesn’t want you to be in it.” No doubt these are good people with the best of intentions. They don’t want you to become corrupt lik
  • Twitter topples Tunisia?
    When President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on Jan. 14, Tunisians declared victory and social-networking site Twitter went berserk with traffic. Soon after, Tunisia--where Internet penetration is roughl
  • Who Sent The 14Th August 1947 Naga Telegram?
    On 26 June 1947 the Governor of Assam Sir Akbar Hydari came to Kohima with his Advisor, and after three days of hard discussion made a 9-Point Agreement with the NNC. After some time, it was rumored the Governm
  • The ICC doesn’t own cricket
    The International Cricket Council (ICC), in attempting to regulate the media's coverage of the World Cup, has over-reached itself. While cricket's governing body has cause to protect what it perceives as its in
  • Imran Khan Is A Non- Starter
    Imran Khan the Chief of Pakistan Insaf Party (PTI) could have flashed, like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, as a glowing star on the political horizon of Pakistan. But all these years in the politics, he has remained a no
  • Intellectual created playbook used in a revolution
    Halfway around the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo, an aging American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered brick row house in a working-class neighbourhood in Boston, U.S. His name is Gene Sharp. Stoop-s
  • Will Egypt repeat in India?
    Egypt and India are two growing economies of incomparable sizes but with analogous legacies. Historical timelines of both the nations are dotted with millennia of civilizations, centuries of alien dominion, tra
  • ‘Where is India’s Tahrir Square?’
    Where is India’s Egypt, India’s Tahrir Square? This question is being asked in India, both publicly by leaders and activists and also quietly in personal conversations. Eminent social activist Swami
  • A new protocol
    The Internet is running out of addresses in the numerical format. The last blocks of addresses under the IPv4 or Internet Protocol version 4 system have now been allocated to different regional registries aroun
  • How revolt sparked to life in Tunisia
    If Tunisia seemed an unlikely place for a revolution, the dusty provincial town of Sidi Bouzid might have seemed the unlikeliest epicenter of a quake that would rock the Arab world.It lies in Tunisia's interior
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