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  • A First Hand Experience and Witness to the recent 14 NAP (IR) Recruitment Rally
    Longkumba AoIn the wake of the recent protest that marred the recruitment rally for ABSI to 14 NAP (IR) Battalion, as an aspirant to the post of ABSI I would like to pen down certain anomalies and favoritism wi
  • India Myanmar policy and the Mizoram connection
    Sanjoy HazarikaIndia’s evolving political approach to events in Myanmar (Burma) is moving fairly rapidly: it now appears in conformity with a large section of international opinion, advocating internal dialog
  • Making mockery of Democracy
    Patricia MukhimIndia is surrounded by military dictatorships. Recent developments in Pakistan reveal the chaotic nature of despotic rule. On the eastern flank, Myanmar’s rule of terror where democratic protes
  • ‘We need to be creative about federalism'
    Dr Manmohan SinghIt is indeed a matter of great honour and happiness for us that the 4th International Conference on Federalism is being held in India. As one of the newer members of the Forum of Federations, w
  • Naga Women in Politics
    Patricia MukhimAt least three states of the North East are headed for the Assembly polls in early 2008. While elections in themselves have become meaningless or been made redundant by the very inefficacy of the
  • Myanmar’s generals hit where it hurts
    Bertil LintnerFor Htet Tay Za, a 19-year-old member of Myanmar’s elite who attends an exclusive and expensive international school in Singapore, life is often a party. A picture recently obtained by the Chian
  • Customizing students with present Nagaland
    S VarahWhat is in a name anyway? Is it a crime that students learn about the Naga even though the term ‘Naga’ may have differing or variable interpretations? Hindi text books for classes I-VIII (Nagaland ed
  • Freedom Struggle, Violence and State
    Firdous Syed“Freedom struggles” all over the world are facing a typical predicament today, a Catch-22 situation put forth by the fact that a monolithic modern state which understands the language of violenc
  • UN fiddles while Myanmar burns
    Bertil LintnerAre the United Nations and its agencies becoming part of the problem rather than the solution in Myanmar? That is what many Myanmar people are asking themselves as UN Special envoy Ibrahim Gambari
  • Many feet one step
    Charu SoniAS YOU READ this, some 25,000 men and women from across India’s Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are making their way up the Grand Trunk Road, walking over 340km from Gwalior to the capital, co
  • Why China will not allow democracy in Myanmar
    Claude ArpiIn Burma, the situation seems to be settling down. Is it for the good of the people? That is another question.  Anyhow, the brutal generals and Aung Saan Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
  • Discussion on indigeneous people
    I welcome and do appreciate Dr. Hesheto Y. Chishi and Naga People’s Movement for Human Right (NPMHR) who has discussed on my article “Nagas are not indigenous people”, which appeared in Nagaland dailies o
  • CM Corpus Fund & PMRY
    Fund or farce? Aid or easy money? Who is  benefiting ?From amongst the many issues boggling the minds of young people, the gross mishandling of funds earmarked for the educated unemployed, such as CM Corpu
  • RAW: An Instrument of Indian Imperialism
    Isha KhanIndia’s intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R.A.W.), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of the country’s domestic and foreign policies, particularly th
  • Indigenous Peoples Score Historic Political Victory
    Haider RizviAfter 22 years of long and cumbersome negotiations, leaders of the world’s 270 million indigenous people have won a powerful symbolic victory in their fight for recognition of the right to self-de
  • Big dams in Southasia: The dangers of inevitability
    Kanak Mani DixitThe fight against large dams and the reservoirs they impound is a phenomenon that sparks wherever and whenever the people of Southasia feel empowered enough to resist. And so, the “temples of
  • UN Human Rights Council: The right to food
    Rene WadlowWhile specialists have always recognized that hunger is a complex issue and that underdevelopment cannot be measured by the number of hungry, the poster image of the underfed child has always served
  • Naga talk: Centre cannot hold… The Week
    The above title write up by Anandan S in one of the most widely circulated magazine, The Week issue of August 12, 2007 page 68 was inhuman and mischievous. The words quoted by (retd.) Major General Deepankar Ba
  • Fuel price policy explodes in Myanmar
    Larry JaganPublic protests have broken out across Myanmar’s old capital Yangon after the military government unexpectedly removed fuel-price subsidies, resulting in a 500% spike in rationed fuel prices. The s
  • Hard talk on democratic election
    Medowe KapfoDemocracy is a popular form of Government. It is a form of Government in which absolute power is in the hands of common men. Gradually the other forms of Government-monarchy, aristocracy, theocracy,
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