The best physical spaces in human civilization are reserved for the elite and the dead. I’m not discounting the fact that our rural areas, and villages enshrined within them, aren’t absolutely gorge
Wednesday, 10th December, 2025
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A few years ago one of the representative deputed from Delhi to help set up an institute in Nagaland commented that there is no system here in Nagaland and that no amount of effort is going to work unless off c
The thought of seeing the top leaders from the different Naga political groups coming together in some form or the other and resolving to speak with one voice to the Government of India, has always been the hop
As part of the seminar on the topic ‘Atrocities against women’ held recently at Kohima, the Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) has issued a 25-point recommendation pointing out the need to t
Four decades and two years ago, to the week, a small town in upstate New York became the site of a music festival that was to change the lives of many people in the English-speaking world and beyond. On August
Following the embarrassing London riots where young people ran amok destroying public property and looting, the British Prime Minister Davis Cameron has spoken out against the culture of negligence and irrespon
If you bother to look closely at how Western society or computer programming thinks and functions, the innate similarities between their philosophies will dawn quicker on you than a sunrise fiesta. The quicknes
As we all know, for the Naga people in particular, the Church is the main foundation which gives sustenance and support to everything else around it—whether it is the common people, our tribal bodies, civ
Up until the morning of August 16, 2011, everything seemed to be in balance i.e. the public perception with regard to the respective positions of the Congress led UPA government and Team Anna Hazare on the cont
As expected with the monsoon season, our roads and highways have been badly affected with landslides reported from across the State. One can very well imagine the condition of our roads in other parts of the St
On May 26, 2011 Serbian police entered a house in Lazarevo, situated in the north of the country and arrested an old man. The old man was General Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb militia that was
“Long years ago we made a pledge with destiny and now the time has come when we shall redeem our pledge, not in full measure but substantially… when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and f
Well, what about it? As far as I’m concerned freedom doesn’t exist as an independent. If we’re talking soaps, shampoos and combs we get free on a purchase—costs there are not exactly
August 6, 1945 is the day when the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima and three days later, a second bomb devastated Nagasaki. “Let all the souls here rest in peace, as we will ne
How does one construct the memories of yesterday which is the past; how does one engage with today that is the present; and how does one prepare to face the mysteries of tomorrow? Perhaps the underpinning predi
Human conviction reasons that change is continuous and that humankind is capable of understanding; an understanding rooted in context and conscience. Both these convictions are located within an inclusive histo
I had just begun college when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) imploded due to the weight of its bureaucratic contradictions in December 1991. Immediately, a barrage of celebratory narratives, man
The office of the Naga Hoho (apex Naga Parliament) in a rare letter written to the Prime Minister of India has brought to the attention of the latter on the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 (AFSPA). Th
Having been a homeless wanderer for nearly a decade, or perhaps the entire span of my life, a question most often asked to one such as me is where are you from? There starts the dilemma of a homeless wanderer,
The so called friendship week or friendship day has become an annual event and young people in particular use this occasion to make new friends, renew old ties and to have a good time. The General Assembly of t
