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  • Respect People’s Non-violent Struggles and Repeal AFSPA
     Ravi Hemadri  The Other MediaSpeakers at a panel discussion “Non-violent struggles against Militarization” urged Government to respond humanely to the non- violent struggles against the Armed For
  • The choice and implications of living under truth or falsehood
    Kaka D. IraluTruth and falsehood are not relative religious or philosophical theories. Truth and falsehood on the contrary, are absolute entities with one opposing the other. In social or legal applications, on
  • Why International Day for Preservation of Ozone layer?
    The earth’s atmosphere is conventionally divided into layers based on the average vertical variation of temperature.  Stratosphere is approximately 10 to 50 Km from the earth surface. It is characterized
  • Manipur practices ONE-DAY democracy
    WitoubouDemocracy’s edges---there are detrimental effects from the flawed side of it as much as there are good things in its flip side. The negative side of democracy’s edges cut down the people to sizes an
  • Friend of the Nagas
    Laxmi Murthy“Yeh kya hai, huh? Computer, huh? HUH?” says the jawan disbelievingly, unwilling to let us through yet another checkpoint at the border of Manipur and Nagaland. Having driven from Imphal on the
  • Tipaimukh Dam: The Forgotten Challenges
    David BuhrilThe proposed Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydro Electric Project wades deeper into controversy than before as the State actor, particularly the Government of Manipur, doggedly flexes militarisation approa
  • Sexuality, politics and HIV
    Padma GovindanThe complex of funding, widespread attention, and advocacy around HIV has enabled queer individuals to talk openly about their sexual desires and created space for more political subversion and cr
  • The mystery of Mother Teresa
    Navin Chawla To love one’s neighbour was to love God — this was the key, not the size of her mission or the power others perceived in her. Mother explained it thus to her biographer: “We are called u
  • The Mao Naga Myth of the origin of Tiger, spirit and Humankind
    According to the Mao-Naga myth, Tiger, spirit and human kind (man) are three brothers came into existence through the miraculous union between the already existing first woman and the clouds of the sky. Man wan
  • Street children & AIDS: a hidden time bomb
    Charumathi SuprajaNo one knows how many street children are at risk of contracting, or have died of, HIV/AIDS. They are not even listed as a vulnerable group, like commercial sex workers and homosexuals. Yet th
  • Realpolitik revealed in Myanmar
    Brian McCartanUnited States Senator Jim Webb’s trip to military ruled Myanmar highlights again the difficulties of dealing with the ruling generals and brings into focus the debate over the usefulness of sanc
  • Drought management for rural livelihood security
    M.S. Swaminathan Agriculture is not just a food producing machine but the backbone of the livelihood of 60 per cent of Indians. The extensive drought spotlights a situation of mass rural deprivation and a
  • Suu Kyi's detention splits East and West
    Larry Jagan Source: AsiaTimes International responses to Tuesday's sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, to an extended period of house arrest have split on Asian and Western
  • Justice and the world
    Amartya Sen There is a strong case for focussing questions of justice on what actually happens and actual lives rather than merely looking for ideal institutions and arrangements.If the reliance on public
  • Season of Travesties: Freedom & Democracy
    Noam ChomskyJune 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructiveTh
  • Cold War against Indigenous People
    Kristina AielloThe recent conflict in the Peruvian Amazon is only the most violent symptom of an ongoing cold war being waged by President Alan García and his ruling Aprista party against indigenous groups. Be
  • Media violence: Fact and fiction
    Shohini GhoshUrban India witnesses intermittent public outbursts around the impact of TV violence on children. This construction of children as copycats and passive victims of media violence displaces any compl
  • The Issue of Gay Sex and Gay Marriage: a Christian Perspective
    NAGALAND BAPTIST CHURCH COUNCILThroughout history, the Christian Church has faced the issue of Homosexuality and made her stand clear on the issue. The 2000 year history of Christian tradition has consistently
  • Monsoon management in era of climate change
    M. S. Swaminathan Mastering the art and science of monsoon management holds the key to adaptation to adverse changes in temperature and precipitation caused by climate change, leading to the more frequent
  • Khonoma: The Island of Hope
    Bikram GrewalGlouthera fragrantisima, a climber locally known as Khwono, is from where the name Khonoma comes from. The quaint village of Khonoma, settled by the Angami tribe 400 years ago sits approximately 20
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