Infocus

  • Has Europe forgotten the gas chambers?
    As we've seen with France's burqa ban that went into effect this week, global religious tolerance – especially in Europe – is under threat. Growing Islamophobia threatens to undermine hard-fought fr
  • The Aching Grace of Suffering
    Pain, sickness, accidents, death, and natural calamities are a part of daily life and they raise questions that cause people a great deal of personal anguish. The existence of suffering is an undeniable reality
  • Why Personalize Politics?
    While penning down few thoughts on this subject matter I am inclined to cite a famous quotation:People with extraordinary minds, talk about ideas.People with average minds, talk about events.People with simple
  • Welfare cheque prevents Aborigines from fighting for their rights
    A NSW tribal leader convening an Aboriginal summit in Canberra says it will raise funds to challenge Australia’s legitimacy in the International Court of Justice.“This is Australia’s greatest
  • Regime change under UNSC cover
    It is now obvious that Nato's purported mission, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, to protect civilians in Libya is expanding into a flagrantly illegal attempt at regime change. With fierce
  • A ‘difficult' state
    A police operation in the jungles of Timapuram (Chhattisgarh) lasts for six days affecting three villages and leaving an estimated 300 burnt homes, and killings and rape in its wake. A whole week after it ends,
  • Road map for a two-state solution
    The international community must offer the Israelis and Palestinians a set of principles to reach a compromise. India can and should take the lead in promoting such an approach.  The one country which shou
  • Earth Day Space
    Do not hunt animals, birds and all creatures to save our environment! Drawing by Jevito, Class 6,Great Commission Kids Academy, Dimapur _______________________________Creation and DestructionGod created ou
  • Cross cultural marriages: Beware or Bedazzled?
    A few days back I visited a local tribal church in Nagaland –which was packed to full house to listen to a popular speaker of international repute. He started off his Sunday morning message warning the ch
  • Web’s identity crisis: Tool of freedom or repression?
    From Twitter to WikiLeaks, we must balance openness and safety The same Internet that has empowered freedom-starved people across the Middle East to unseat despots is the same one that enabled Julian Assange, w
  • The State's Money Trees
    For the world's ruling classes, primed for the G20 summit last week, the seemingly colorless niceties of monetary policy became the topmost theme of debate. And while the villains of the political class charact
  • Do those against corruption know about Irom Sharmila?
    It was fashionable to be patriotic during the Kargil war and now it is fashionable to be fighters against corruption, thanks to Anna Hazare.Within days of the fast of the veteran Gandhian’s understandable
  • Empowering Rural Women
    A Regional Women Leaders' Convention is being held on 24-25 March 2011, in Mau, UP, as part of the Empowering Rural Women (ERW) programme, which has been operating in 253 Gram Panchayats (village councils) of 1
  • Bogus cricket diplomacy
    Obsessed with Pakistan, Manmohan Singh failed to promote India's larger interests in the neighbourhood during the Cricket World Cup tournament. India’s neighbours like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, B
  • Earth Day Space
    PRAYER for the World!Lord, help us to keep the worldAs green and as beautiful as you created it!By Tsunolam, Class 9A, Pilgrim School, Dimapur
  • It's a civilian coup d'état
    The inclusion of ‘civil society' representatives in the drafting committee of the Lok Pal Bill raises several discomfiting questions. Where are we headed as a nation?Since RTI campaigner Arvind Kejriwal w
  • My brain made me buy it
    Can’t get out of the shopping mall until your wallets get thin or instinctively found yourself dashing into a shop at the glance of a hanging T-Shirt? Ever felt your memory decoded and you simply responde
  • WORLD EARTH DAY
    Earth Day SpaceInitiated by Resource Centre_______________________________________ Glass Painting Manphe, Class 10,Little Star Higher Sec. School, Dimapur.   _______________________________________
  • Dream Makes You A Leader!
    We have read and heard the greatest man of the 18th Century, Abraham Lincoln, US President of the 18th Century. Who persisted in his political career to fulfilled one of his most important dreams that the Almig
  • The future of Asian cities
    After two decades of rapid urbanisation, many Asian cities have become economically productive and prosperous. But have they become desirable places to live in? A report on the “State of Asian Cities 2010
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