Larry LaganBurma’s military rulers have put the country’s political reform process on hold amid divisions and uncertainty on how to move forward on ‘national reconciliation’ as the junta calls its progr
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Fr. T.C. Joseph SdbToday’s generation has to constantly combat the false list of criteria set by the campaigners of consumerism that make strong ones weak and weak ones weaker. We live in an era that is appar
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U A ShimrayIn Nagas society, leisure is entertained in the form of activities like hunting, fishing, Morung and gossip platform. Among these, gossip platform is considered important place where people debate an
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Hugh GriffithsSmall arms and light weapons known as SALW kill more than 300,000 people per year leading retired UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to brand them “weapons of mass destruction in slow motion.”SAL
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Somnath MukherjiThe release of a summary of findings by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in early February has created flutter around the world – it is as if the findings somehow actualise
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Sonali Kolhatkar Women’s liberation is a concept that has become widely touted though rarely applied. Men have promised us liberation to justify war, capitalist exploitation, and other forms of degradat
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Siddharth SrivastavaIt is one year since US President George W Bush visited India. To mark the occasion, a high-powered US business group is in India to take forward what will be a major milestone of Bush’s t
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Marwaan Macan-MarkarAt 17 she was in Geneva, not as a tourist but as an invitee speaker at the annual sessions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. In 2005, aged 24, she had a celebrated hour-long
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Joan M. DawsonDefining Women:This time last year, police charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Iran and beat hundreds of women and men. They did so again this year. Police have also marre
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Mhaphüvi NaleoWhat is meant by liberation? It simply means ‘being free’- having a right or privilege. From the Biblical perspective, it is deliverance or redemption from any barriers that hinder one’s re
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Rev. Dr. Wati AierToday, more than ever, the contradiction between violence and division on the one hand and the Good News of reconciliation and love on the other is pronounced in official ecclesiastical statem
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Najum MustaqStung by a spree of suicide attacks, Pakistan’s military junta this week had to take in an unannounced guest bearing ill tidings. The United States wants General Musharraf to do more to crush al-Q
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Najum MustaqNepal’s mainstream politicians understand both how to fight an autocratic king and how to negotiate with insurgents. But they sure do not know how to deal with agitations for rights by historicall
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Surendra MohanFor outside observers, the picture currently emerging from Nepal seems rather depressing: the continuing ill-health of 85-year-old Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala; the reluctance of the Nepal
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Devinder SharmaFarmers in United States, Europe and for that matter in other rich and industrialised countries are quitting agriculture. That makes me wonder. Why? After all, they get huge subsidies. They have
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Chris Carlson Fidel Castro is a hard core revolutionary, and what he said recently about the hanging of Saddam Hussein was pretty indicative of that. At eighty years old, gravely ill, and possibly on his
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Mneesha Gellman and Josh DankoffChher Cheng is the only female to sit as a Commune Councilor in her Cambodian village. Elected in 2002, Cheng ran in the first wave of local elections heralded by decentralizatio
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Vijayan MJWhat is bigger, a dam or the Prime Minister’s integrity? You can’t help asking this question when you find the nation’s most prestigious institutions lying to its people, proving right the Marxi
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Nitin SethiThe power sector gathered in an opulently polished banquet hall of a hotel in Delhi on December 16. The Arunachal government had invited them to ponder how to push for hydroelectric power generation.
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Ashish KothariOver a hundred years back, advancing British troops found themselves facing a determined warrior tribe in the highlands of Nagaland. The Angami men of Khonoma, famed for their prowess and strategi
