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  • Democracy In 2012
    “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, torment, slavery, brutalization and moral degradation at the other…”Karl Marx may not have referred to the 1% an
  • Need For Rational Alcohol Policy In stead of a Failed Prohibition Policy
    The debate over the merits of alcohol consumption is hotly contested worldwide. There is no doubt that excessive drinking has caused pain and suffering for millions of people. On the other hand, human beings ha
  • PUTIN’S CHARM OFFENSIVE Will he moderate his course?
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by local residents as he visits Magadan, about 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) east of Moscow, Russia's Far East, Saturday on December 17. (AP Photo)
  • Slip-sliding away
    EXPECTATIONS for India’s economic growth rate have been sliding inexorably. In the early spring there was still heady talk about 9-10% being the new natural rate of expansion, a trajectory which if mainta
  • Mission Calling
    1985 CHRISTMASComposed on Dec 14, 1985 in Lalong Village, JalukiThe jubilant Christmas day has dawned.It is the birth day of Jesus Christ. ‘Tis His nineteen eighty fifth birth day.Let us worship the Lord
  • Relevance Of Harmony Under The Prince Of Peace
    The theme of the Bible is Peace-harmony between God-man and man-man. God spoke to the nations through the prophet Isaiah in the 8th century BC. Absence of peace amounts to strife, violence and chaotic condition
  • Nationalism casts a shadow over European democracy
    It is nation states that have emasculated European institutions. What is often branded as the ‘national interest’ is nothing but a justification for the pursuit of internal politicsDay after day the
  • The Indo- Naga-Burma Case Does Not Belong To The Indian Court Or The Naga Court But The UN Court
    As if playing a volley ball game, for the past 14 years, some of our political leaders as well as Indian leaders have been alternately declaring that the Indo Naga political ball is now in the Indian court-only
  • Winter & Christmas: plan or coincidence?
    Every religion is replete with mysteries. There are innumerable anecdotes of mystery in all religions. Religion is often conceived of as contradictory to science. But our deep-delved searching into the purposes
  • ‘What is this freedom that is our passion?’
    The first autobiography I ever read was providentially, or prophetically, or perhaps both, Seven Years Solitary, by a Hungarian woman who had been in the wrong faction during the Communist Party purges of the e
  • Old Havana Declines to Die
    Wandering into a small park shaded by fruit trees in Old Havana, I was surprised to come across a bronze bust of Hans Christian Andersen. Havana is a city of surprises, the biggest of which is the miracle of it
  • Theme: “Youth for Transparency and Good Governance- The Kohima Campaign”
    ToThe Public Information Officer,Directorate of Higher Education,Nagaland, Kohima.SUB: APPLICATION UNDER SECTION 6 OF THE RTI ACT 2005Sir,Kindly furnish me the following information:1.    What wa
  • The northeast has music for every season
    The Northeast is mostly known to the rest of India for its violence, insurgency - or freedom movements as some call them – and regular cries of neglect and marginalisation. However, the lens through which
  • Nagas can live in equality
    Dear Nagas,The recent controversy over giving the 10 post of  EAC to the backward tribes depicts the Nagas motives. One has to be careful in dividing the backward and advance tribes and working for it- as
  • Of social and political science – The epic failure of Naga politician
    One can easily judge a tree by its fruits. The fruit of the Naga Political Tree is alarmingly becoming injurious to the growth of Nagaland, and the very trunk of it is nearing collapse. Is it that the wrong see
  • Secular diplomacy powers Tibetans' global outreach
    Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Lobsang Sangay, center, greets people during the community's annual Dec. 10 commemoration of the 1989 Nobel award given to the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leade
  • Anna's future may be less rosy than his past
    It is possible that the Congress will finally succeed in outflanking Anna Hazare. It isn't only the decision to introduce the Lokpal bill which is likely to take the wind out of the latter's sails, another piec
  • Character Values
    The letters on my nails have nearly grown out, but I can still read them.One is the Chinese character for the first syllable of my son’s name, and the other means perseverance. I had asked a manicurist in
  • ‘Journalism, not truth, is the first casualty of war’
    WAR IS a well-produced reality show. Embedded journalism is the star cast. Yes, there are innocents dying, but why let that interfere with what the boss wants reported? Award-winning documentary filmmaker-journ
  • Indian tribals reject Maoists & Delhi
    Relatives and supporters accompany the body of Kishenji, a senior Maoist rebel leader killed in a gunbattle with security forces in eastern India, during his funeral procession at Peddapally village in Karimnag
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