Tenzing SonamWill Dharamsala’s insistence on following the current form of the Dalai Lama’s Middle Way approach continue to hinder a return to Lhasa? Will China ever relent?The Chinese attacks on the Dalai
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It has been two years since the tsunami washed over the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and destroyed the homes and livelihoods of its residents. Although the government made a lot of promises, and spent a lot of
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Paranjoy Guha ThakurtaDespite persistent poverty and income disparities the fading year marks the point when, 60 years after independence from colonial rule, Indians are investing more abroad than the country i
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Raja M “Die, gobbledygook!” cry a Kolkata-based band of language revolutionaries working to free English from the intimidating, mind-strangling jargon, officialese and legalese confusing our lives. The
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Sudha Ramachandran Even as US President George W Bush signed into law a bill that Congress passed last week allowing Washington to conduct nuclear trade with India, sections in India are wondering whether
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Nirupama SarmaYet another World AIDS Day has come and gone. And with it, de rigueur, the reports on the numbers infected, the televised debates on what’s being done (or not), the images of Bollywood biggies u
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Dr. K. HoshiEconomic development is the ‘mantra’ in present Naga society. What the laymen perceive as economic development are the physical infrastructure developments visible to the naked eyes. Today, this
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Chan Akya A mid-life crisis usually comes about when an individual realizes that he/she has been chasing the wrong goal, rather than when the person realizes that their goals are unattainable. Much the sam
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Badri RainaIndia’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk. The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th
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Chan Akya If only economist Milton Friedman were still alive, he would weep at the recent turn of events encompassing Asian politics in recent weeks. No, I am not talking here about North Korea’s nuclear
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Sudha Ramachandran With the US Congress approving legislation that allows civilian nuclear trade with India, a new era in India’s nuclear relationship with the world has begun. While there is much jubila
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Mhonbemo PattonThrough this column, I would like to plight to All Christian communities in Nagaland and to express few words of my personal views i.e. when we consider about the Christian communities in Nagalan
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Sudha Ramachandran With a successful missile-interception test last week, India has taken a significant step toward joining an elite club of countries that possess an incipient missile defense capability.
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Tim SullivanIt’s an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker. But villagers take off their shoes
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Prashant BhushanThe amendments proposed to the Right to Information Act are a substantial roll back of the Act. The persistent manner in which the government is pushing them despite mounting public criticism, i
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Kent EwingAs World AIDS Day passed last week in China, something remarkable happened: Beijing took notice, allowing an acclaimed US-made documentary on the disease to be aired on state television. An abridged v
Abraham LothaIf there is a showroom that exhibits the variety and richness of Naga cultural heritage, it is the Hornbill Festival held at Kisama every December for the past six years. This is my first at the Ho-
Parwini Zora & Daniel Woreck A recent report by the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents the systematic human rights abuses carried out by the Indian security forces in the state of Jammu and Ka
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David FullbrookPrecise data about the AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes it are scant in the secretive military-run country, which until recently banned all local reporting on HIV and A
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Dilip D’SouzaThe mob came from three different directions. Each group was preoccupied with its own murder. Bhayyalal’s wife and daughter had their skulls smashed in, and his boys were beaten to death with s
