Infocus

  • Rengmas: Are we really united
    Frankly speaking my straight forward write up may seem a direct confrontation but allow this lay man to speak out his mind which may do good to the Rengmas’s as a whole. This writer is neither an intellectual
  • OUR UNIQUE IDENTITY
    I came across a quote once which says, the walls we built to protect ourselves out of fear becomes the very things that enslaves us. I guess that as Christians we have all come across the verse, ‘fear not’
  • Naga political struggle not based on race or religion
    Thepfulhouvi Solo At the height of the Assam Police notoriety against young NNC, the Naga Youth Volunteers of the Villages asked for an immediate urgent meeting in the jungle near Khar Kolak a famous mount
  • A Poor Father’s story and RTE 2012
    “All my children studied in Govt . School and only from the high school level they went to the private schools because they didn’t have class IX in the Govt schools in my colony . Had it not been for Govt s
  • Response to GK Pillai’s grand findings of china’s Covert Hands In North East India
    Kaka D. Iralu GK Pillai findings highlighted in Nagaland Post, dated Feb.15, 2012, under the caption “China given evidence of its aid to NE insurgents,” gives one the impression that China has finally
  • Are you in the rat race??
    It fails me to understand why we compete in an unwinnable race? I would rather run in a race which has a history of producing winners.We all want to improve our standard of living- that’s normal. But the worl
  • The Naga identity and socio-economic condition
    A few years back, on orientation day at my college, a Punjabi girl came up to me and asked me where I was from. I told her I was from Nagaland. She seemed delighted at that knowledge and then said, “Oh! How l
  • I will not kill anymore
    If at all the Government of India (GOI) is sincere in solving the Naga issue, than it would first initiate for the unity of the Nagas and not be satisfied in separating Nagas by artificial state boundaries. GOI
  • Gangrape is a national humiliation
    The Rengma Youth Organisation, Dimapur-Karbi Anglong (RYODK) finds it most intolerable that a Naga woman was most brutally raped by 5 ‘Mians’ (illegal Bangladeshi immigrants) and this most humiliating and d
  • Athibung scenario, an inhumane depiction
    A concerned peace team (Nagaland Peace Centre,  Peren- sub Centre) visited Athibung a day after the fresh clash erupted between the K & K.K factions resulting the death of 3 cadres and creating public
  • On the trail of the first ever mission walk in Nagaland
    Dr. Tsuktimeren AoFlashback to 1872: It was a cold December morning, on the 16th 1872 to be precise when Dr Clark, an American missionary along with Godhula and Süpongmeren escorted by sixty warriors from
  • Producing distress— Democracy in Manipur
    Aheli MoitraWhile formulating the practice of democracy in India, the state building machine short wired on the complexity of communities it claimed to be in its circuit. Manipur is a case in point, wherein the
  • Nagaland Pilgrimage Tourism: Promoting Heritage or Misconstruing History?
    Dr. WalunirIt is interesting to learn that the Government of Nagaland is “contemplating to develop pilgrimage tourism basing on historical importance in Nagaland”. (Media Report). Identification and develop
  • The most irritating thing in Kohima and Nagaland today
    Kaka D. IraluThere have been, and still are many irritating things in Nagaland. For example, we were oppressed and suppressed by the Indian army and all its heinous laws for all our lives. But as if this was no
  • The Prisoners' Dilemma
    Megha RajagopalanWhile Myanmar's reforms this year may appear speedy to outside observers, for its imprisoned activists, the changes are long overdueFor four and a half years, the only two human beings Ko Ko Gy
  • What if an international trade route is build across Nagaland?
    Kaka D. IraluFor many centuries in recorded history, Nagaland remained an unknown country until the British stumbled into our Shangri-La in 1832. Prior to the entry of the British, our existence as a fierce nat
  • Powers of the Government
    Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:
  • Manipur’s missing doctors & absconding teachers
    Aheli Moitra As the 10th Manipur Assembly Election came and went, a ghost lurked around—while future leaders/losers obsessed about securing assembly seats, people of their constituencies looked on with h
  • WANTS vs NEEDS
    Liba Hopeson, BTCSometimes, I go to market because my friends who want to purchase things called me, but I bought more things than them. But sometimes, I called my friends to go with me to market because I want
  • Looking East
    Aheli MoitraNot so bizarre, but the Government of India (with the Government of Manipur now added to the equation) continues to live in fear of the Nagas. GoI spent nearly 60 years fighting the question of Naga
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