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  • One-To-One Talk After The Election: Ashong And Money
    Ashong KeiKhung, BTC, PfutseroAshong: Hi money. How are you?Money: I’m fine, thank you, Ashong. What brings you here?Ashong: I just would like to interview with you for a while, can I? Money: Yeah,
  • Clean Election Campaign: Failure Or Success
    Botovi YepthomiAfter reading many articles and a few cartoons about the clean election campaign, I thought I will share my views about it too. As we all know NBCC started the CLEAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN and we have
  • In Myanmar, answers to ethnic conflict elusive
    Todd PitmanAssociated PressKneeling beside a line of freshly dug trenches carved like one long, open wound into a lush hillside, the rebel sergeant peered through dusty binoculars at all his troops had lost.Sca
  • “NAGAS’ MISSED OPPORTUNITY”: A RESPONSE
    Rtd. Gen T.M. KeyhoRtd. Capt Sanguto Chase“Nagas’ Missed Opportunity” by Isak Sumi appeared in various papers of Nagaland on 18th and 21st Oct. 2012. After careful discussions with other concerned veteran
  • When Patriots flirt with Elections
    Kekhrie YhomeNSCN-IM hates Congress. These emotions become more visible when election approaches! Therefore, the surprise! With barely a month to punch the EVM buttons, what went largely unnoticed was the 20th
  • An abomination called AFSPA
    Sanjoy HazarikaAt an institute that is virtually owned, funded and run by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram did the unthinkable the other day. He virtually attacked the Army f
  • Kachin conflict requires new thinking
    Nehginpao KipgenAlmost all ethnic armed groups have now signed cease-fire agreements with the Myanmese government. The Kachin Independence Organization and its armed wing Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA) is t
  • Mixing Politics and Religion: Is Christianity but a Cup of Tea?
    Kekhrie Yhome Naga society is today flooded with Christian and Priestly presence everywhere: be it a new shop ‘prayer’ inauguration, a good sermon, or fasting for an “early and honourable solution.
  • Is Burma transitioning to democracy?
    Thomas CarothersBurma is experiencing a striking and largely unpredicted political opening, marked by the return to political life of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy, the release of many
  • Election or Solution?
     (A personal political analysis)Fifteen years into torturous and tedious lndo-Naga dialogue indication of with the clear NSCN(lM) softening its stance on certain contentious issues, speculations are rife a
  • The journey towards integration of Nagas
    When traced back the Nagas as same and one even before the British rule in India. One could not get historical records; but only the verbal history in the form of folk tales gave clear evidences. After the Brit
  • Philosophical and intellectual guidance to salvage & redirect the decaying Naga struggle
    It is understandable that professional obligation has rendered many intellectual Naga personalities as passive observers to the daily dramas that are being played out in the Indo-Naga political scene.The cream
  • This silly notion of forward and backward tribes and its implications
    Kaka D IraluThe words “forward tribe” or “backward tribe” are derogatory terms especially for those who are defined as backward. These words of classification of tribes did not exist in Naga vocabulary
  • Modern Visioners in Naga society: the clandestine destroyers
    Nagas’ society is becoming a superficial Christian society. Christianity is professed but morality is not practiced. Many Nagas’ are believing in human suppositions to be God’s revelation and many are bei
  • Illegal immigrants issue can be resolved
    TR ANGAMIKohima TownWhile drawing attention on the issue of illegal immigrants in Nagaland, few weeks ago NSF and Govt spelled out the need to check the legal Indians in Nagaland and illegal immigrants residing
  • Positive approach---Are we not lacking it?
    To make our life a meaningful one, we need to mind our thoughts, for our thoughts are the foundation, the inspiration and the motivating power of our deeds. We create our entire world by the way we think. Thoug
  • Unique History and Identity of Nagas
    History tells us that Nagas are a unique race different from that of Indians. It is because of the living conditions, the food habits, the social systems, the religion, the living standard, the manner and behav
  • On conflict and the resultant consequences and solutions
    Meren Pongener The recent communal flare ups in Kohima and Dimapur has once again demonstrated to the world how fragile Naga society is, divided and fractured along tribal line. Yes, we are a tribal race,
  • Deliver us from evil
    Kevi Meru Though what Kivika allegedly did cannot be condoned, I am saddened by the disproportionate treatment he received from the hands of overzealous vigilantes and eventual death resulting from it. &nb
  • The Naga Issue: Sooner Solution The Better For India Too
    Ayo ShaizaMission Compound KohimaWhen British left India, the majority of Hindus & Muslims wanted separate territories; irrespective of where they resided. This led to the formation of East Pakistan now (Ba
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