Editorial

  • Scrapping the Hornbill Rock Contest
    Imlisanen Jamir The latest move to scrap the competition aspect of the Hornbill Music Festival has been a long time coming. As reasoned by the newly renamed Task Force for Music and Arts (TaFMA), this move s
  • Lesson from NRC 
    The much-awaited final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list, released 34 years after Assam Accord,  apparently has not meet the expectation of many stakeholders clamouring for the process while leaving
  • Locating the binding chord
    Witoubou Newmai Political chicanery thrives in a discourse when the people engaging in the discourse failed to connect themselves with the core purpose or the core reason of the discourse. In simple words, c
  • Towards civilised conversation  
    Dissent is the safety valve of democracy. If dissent is not allowed, then the pressure cooker may burst," Justice DY Chandrachud, part of a three-judge Supreme Court bench, reportedly averred last year highligh
  • The Need for a Healing Leadership
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   The current Indian political situation that has developed in the wake of what happened in Jammu and Kashmir has set the alarm bells ringing in the Naga inhabited areas, yet in an u
  • ‘Watery’ performance 
    Sustainable Safe Drinking Water Supply and Environmental Hygiene for all is the vision statement of the Nagalands Public Health Engineering Department (PHED). Bifurcated from the erstwhile Public Works Departme
  • The Amazon fires show our misplaced priorities
    Imlisanen Jamir   If you really want to see how humans value nature in this age, just Google "Amazon Fire" and you'll see the Amazon Fire Tablet more than the Amazon rainforest fire.  This
  • Placebo effect and Naga Society
    Witoubou Newmai   Placebos injected to the Naga mind all these years seem to have strong effects that the society is not able to experience a needed state of epiphany yet; even at this point of time
  • Time for concrete actions 
    For a state whose populace follow sports diligently and a government, which never misses an opportunity to highlight any achievement on the field, Nagalands concrete actions on sports and related activities are
  • Reflections from The Morung Debate
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   The ongoing Morung Debate is being held with the larger objective of creating a public debate platform for young people mostly college going students in the age group of 18-25 year
  • ‘No first use’ policy is essential
    Imlisanen Jamir   India's Defense Minister hinted on Friday that New Delhi might change its "no-first-use" policy on nuclear weapons, amid heightened tensions with its nuclear neighbour Pakistan.
  • Of Rainbow & Sunshine 
    Will the Nagas experience a new dawn?   On his customary pre-Independence Day message, Nagaland Governor RN Ravi said the State is at the cusp of history with a new dawn of peace and prosperity becko
  • An increasingly centralised state
    Witoubou Newmai   There have been much derision, and in the same time, apprehensions in many parts of India after the scrapping of Article 370 and Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir by the BJP led Nati
  • On Indigenous Languages Going Extinct
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   Today, several of the worlds nearly 7,000 languages face a grave risk of going extinct. A lead study author Tatsuya Anamo at the University of Cambridge in England said that, Ainu,
  • A record breaking Parliament
    Imlisanen Jamir While public attention is mostly focused on the change in the special status of Jammu and Kashmir; the 17th Lok Sabha has been record breaking in its transaction of legislative business.
  • Transparency sans action
    Leaving aside the obvious politically complex trajectories and state of affairs  and looking from the prism of governance, Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir share a  common trait presently. The two are
  • Toni Morrison’s legacy
    Witoubou Newmai   In a time when the world swings Right at a high pace and the state is taken over from within(Marxist thinker Aijaz Ahmad in quotation), the likes of Toni Morrison will become more a
  • Breaking barriers? 
    Circa 2019, arguably largest democracy in the world, India gave a massive mandate to a party, whose election manifesto, in all fairness, reiterated its position since the time of the Jan Sangh to the abrogation
  • Abrogation of Article 370
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   A Momentary Victory out of a Legal Fallacy?   The writing on the wall was already nailed when abrogation of Article 370 was included as an election manifesto of promis
  • In one clean sweep
    Imlisanen Jamir   They shut down an entire state, put political representatives under arrest, increased militarization, and forced people to remain indoors and shut up. Then they checked in to a slee
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