Editorial

  • Family Planning? Not in Nagaland!
    Aheli Moitra    The National Health Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-16 has some fascinating news for us.   Women have a high literacy rate of 81% in Nagaland State, with a healthy sex rati
  • Ghost Stories
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   There was a joke from the 90s though it didn’t attract headline attention. Where do you live? I live in Nagaland. Where do you live in Nagaland? Huh? Where do you liv
  • Defying the Domination
    The denial of human dignity experienced by Nagas is the direct result of oppression and subjugation perpetuated over many decades by the structures of political domination and remnants of their colonial past. N
  • The need for action
    Moa Jamir   A detailed analysis of Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) of India Report on Nagaland is an extremely frustrating undertaking. The frustration arises not only due to the amount of anomalies h
  • 100 years hence, where are we?
    Witoubou Newmai   Next year, the Naga Club will complete 100 years. Naga labourers/porters who were part of the Labour Corps during World War I, recognizing the significance of nations, formed the Naga
  • Powering public life
    Aheli Moitra    In a far corner of Dimapur, a family was worried about its bills. Piling debts had kept them from paying their house rent on time. There was also the worry of electricity bills that
  • The Need for a Finance Minister
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   The finance portfolio finds comfortably nestled in the hands of the Chief Minister since the ouster of K. Therie, the then Finance Minister. Since his ouster, the Nagaland
  • A New Consciousness
    The present generations of Nagas are earnestly searching for change, but are unclear of its direction, and, more importantly remain unsure of the means for actually transforming their aspiration into reality. T
  • Ban ‘the ban on backdoor appointments’
    Moa Jamir   “It has come to the notice of the Governor that some cases of direct recruitment has (sic) been made without publicly inviting the application for the posts… The undersigned is,
  • Dialogue, diplomacy, consultation a must
    Witoubou Newmai   Lack of space for a diplomatic or dialogue intervention has been the main reason for the myriad problems dogging the State of Manipur for this long. The unwillingness to genuinely diag
  • When the arts fail the people
    Aheli Moitra    In January 2014, the ‘Jaya He, GVK New Museum’ opened at Terminal 2 of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. The project aims to be a museum of &lsqu
  • The Right to Question
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   The silence in the previous Nagaland Legislative Assembly sessions that had almost ‘nothing’ to discuss’ with sincerity and seriousness is a symptom of th
  • Defiant Nonviolence
    There is a tendency to confuse and even distort nonviolence with pacifism. The words nonviolence and pacifism do not share a common meaning and are often confused and used interchangeably. In fact, the term def
  • A Bad Marriage
    Moa Jamir In a common lexicon definition, gratuitous have two connotations – firstly denoting something done without any good reason or justification; and secondly something given or done free of charg
  • Seeds of Solidarity
    Aheli Moitra    A farmer from Sümi Village in Phek district has an ancestral tale to tell. Her mother once narrated to her the story of millet and paddy seeds—male and female ‘sibl
  • Unity in Purpose
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   At a recent consultative body meeting of Nagaland tribe Hohos convened by JCC and NTAC, the “apex Hohos unanimously resolves in principle for forming a Nagas of Nagal
  • Statecraft & Governance
    Was Nagaland State created to manage the differences between the Naga nationalists and the Unionists? Mahmood Mamdani, Ugandan scholar and political commentator, in his book Define and Rule pinpoints that
  • Ensuring quality Healthcare & Education
    Moa Jamir Albeit the cacophony of elections in five states, two States  Assembly, last week, passed two bills having dramatic implication for the welfare of its citizens.  ‘The Arunachal Prad
  • A placid voting pattern
     Witoubou Newmai   Issues related to human rights violation, corruption, Manipur territorial integrity, Naga aspiration, Inner Line Permit (ILP), Kuki aspiration and unemployment have been dogging
  • #BeBoldForChange
    Aheli Moitra    In her short story, ‘The Last Song’ (2006), Prof. Temsula Ao leaves us with feelings of distant, inexplicable, sadness. Apenyo sings through her brutal rape in an old ch
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