Editorial

  • Jingoistic sentiments
    Witoubou Newmai   The Kukis, the Nagas and the Meiteis, even though each one seems to be displaying their machismo, continue to employ the language of insecurity with regard to the issues of their an
  • Vision 2020 Nagaland
    By Y Merina Chishi   A decade ago, the government of Nagaland announced a visionary document called "Vision 2020 Nagaland." The document contained developmental thrusts for the coming decades and envis
  • Re-learning in the Information Age
     Dr. Asangba Tzudir    Social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Youtube etc. serves as a channel to get access to knowledge and information like healthcare and beauty tips; exercise and physio
  • We good China?
    Imlisanen Jamir   Its not worth living in a world where China controls my art, says one character in last weeks episode of satirical animated comedy show South Park.  Following the episode,
  • Healthy, but some risky symptoms 
    Nagalands report card in Indias first Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) can be deemed very healthy.  By all accounts, the States health and family welfare department should be commended for it
  • Outcome lies on the process
    Witoubou Newmai   Someone once made a perceptive remark during a public meeting; it goes something like this: when the process is clean there will be a good outcome, or the process has to be clean if
  • Nagaland Wildlife Conservation 
    Y Merina Chishi   Wildlife Week is celebrated annually from October 2 to 8. Started in 1952, the primary objective of the event is to create awareness on preserving wildlife in India. In Nagaland, the
  • The Naga Caravan: Going Beyond Illusions
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   The present Naga condition that finds hopelessly and helplessly caught in the interplay of conceptual problems shrouded in the various issues can be aptly explained through an al
  • Breaking down the cosmopolitan
    Imlisanen Jamir   The Durga Puja and Dussehra festivities underway in Dimapur couldnt paint a more ironic picture of the peculiar situation which this ramshackle border town exists in, and the strugg
  • Journalists: Notching it up professionally 
    Witoubou Newmai   When many things are fast gathering into abominable storms in the region (the so-called North East), one consolation that nudges us to attention is about the growth of the media in
  • Providing safe environment for learning
    Y Merina Chishi   Nagaland State Commissioner for Protection of Child Rights, Awan Konyak recently pointed out that school is a means to prepare the young for the future. However, she regreted, that th
  • 150 Years of Gandhi – A Tribute
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   …My life is my message.                  Gandhi, undoubtedly, one among the greats and well-known personal
  • Roadworks and floods
    Imlisanen Jamir     A lot of areas beside the National Highway 29, particularly around the 4th and 5th Mile areas of Dimapur, have a flooding problem.  One of the causes for it is eve
  • Chinese Trade-off
    By its own admission, the rise of China over the past 7 decades has been meteoric. China has showed the world how it made an economic miracle through the central government's bold and resolute economic reform a
  • De-glamorise govt sector  
    Youth employed in private sectors are boon to the state, Nagaland Minister for Rural Development, Metsubo Jamir declared on September 25, addressing an anniversary event of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushaly
  • A bad day for two ‘friends’ 
    Tuesday was a bad day for two unconventional world leaders across the Atlantic sharing a special relationship.  On September 24, in a scathing attack on Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the United Kingdo
  • The Need to Review BEFR of 1873
    Dr. Asangba Tzudir   The publication of the final list of NRC excluded 19,06,657 people in Assam leaving their fate uncertain while giving them a new identity from being a citizen to stateless. Those
  • ‘Generation Z’ gives us hope 
    Last Fridays massive climate strike undertaken by school children across the world shows us that this Generation Z of young people is not as lost as some people older than them seem to constantly presume.
  • Supporting local artists 
    Within the span of two weeks, Dreamz Unlimited Nagaland, in a detour from their regular fares of sarcastic commentary on  contemporary social issues, released two music videos - Loss Khabo, and Low Budget
  • Maintain the core spirit of dialogue
    Witoubou Newmai   Maintain the spirit of dialogue Witoubou Newmai   In each phase of the Naga peace process, new problems are raised. The potent capacity of the powers that be, that a
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