Editorial

  • Need for genuine public conversation
    Witoubou Newmai The larger distressing part of our society is this - What is considered as the public conversation on common welfare of the people does not have any preponderance of genuineness. Our society
  • The Clique of Corrupt Gentlemen
    Aheli Moitra You may have noticed it in the pictures. Even before they stress the ‘P’ before ‘olitics,’ they begin to don a Nehru jacket. Since 2014, of course, its name has been tail
  • Going Beyond ‘Imaging’
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   A Reality Check on the faith of The Church   Imaging can be said to be a process of producing an exact image of something. This process of image production takes a
  • How did we fare?
    Imlisanen Jamir It’s over now. All the hullabaloo about the challenge our political ‘representatives’ care the most is done with; and fast approaches another test that is of more substance.
  • Old is new again
    Will Rio’s homecoming usher in change? The result to the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly election as projected might have narrowed down to the wire producing a fractured mandate. On expected line, r
  • Towards a new civil society
    Witoubou Newmai The relational gap between the collectivity of the public and the people at the helm has prevailed in the State for a long time now. Such state of affairs is generated due to a complete absen
  • Cogs & a leaky cauldron
    Aheli Moitra A woman with a sling bag across her shoulder, pan across her teeth, stood beside the voters’ queue. Seeing the presence of election observers, she approached them and said, “Please w
  • Doing the right thing
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   The dust may seem to have settled down from the election fervour but there are many unsettled particles that may disrupt the socio-political fabric of the society in the da
  • Scream inside the voting booth today
    Imlisanen Jamir It’s Election Day finally!   A month long ordeal of uncertainty, hilarious campaign rhetoric, public cynicism; and most tragic of all violence in certain parts of the state, cul
  • The one with ‘Shouting Rights’
    The sowing season -literally and metaphorically – is here in Nagaland. While the former is muted, the latter is being played out in a grand scale, culminating on February 27. The harvest, however, will be
  • Policy Matters
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir Will the campaign bugle go beyond the hurtful rhetorics? The various election campaign manifestos revolving around the promise to bring change, to give a new vision and hope fo
  • VAW: mum’s the word
    Aheli Moitra   When it comes to public policies on Violence Against Women in Nagaland, mum’s the word.   At a recent program titled ‘The Big Picture—Policy Matters’ held
  • Political games in Nagaland
    Do candidates of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly elections have the competence required to transform Nagaland?, The Morung Express asked its readers last week. Reflecting mostly on the present state
  • Democratic Deliberation Key to Clean Election
    Witoubou Newmai Election times are the most appropriate times to retrospect on the width of the gap between constituencies and their representatives/legislators. This is also the best time for the people of
  • Is there no (wo)man here?
    Aheli Moitra When elections to the Urban Local Bodies were to take place in February 2017, it presented us with the first opportunity in Nagaland to observe how women campaign for political positions on a la
  • Vote and Let Vote Give ‘truth’ a chance
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir Even before a single vote is cast someone is already elected uncontested out of the 195 candidates for the upcoming Nagaland Assembly election while stray incidents of violence have al
  • Open up Nagaland’s radio waves
    Imlisanen Jamir In 2014, The Morung Express published a little story commemorating The World Radio Day, with the hope that this often ignored medium in the internet age, fulfils its potential to help a state
  • A Hobson’s choice
    What’s happening in Nagaland! What will be polls plank of the prominent parties! Will the concept of anti-incumbency factor ever apply in the state! A reporter from a national daily wondered observing the
  • District creation issue: Sagacity needed from all sides
    Witoubou Newmai   In less than two weeks’ time, the Naga team led by the United Naga Council (UNC) will engage in another round of tripartite talks with the State Government of Manipur and the Gov
  • Online propaganda on Nagaland
    Aheli Moitra Around August 2017, a series of videos about Nagaland were released on video-sharing site, YouTube. Loaded with a bunch of false information, each video was released by a different, but seemingl
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