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  • World Cup Cricket, Indian Ruling Class and Neglect Of Sports For People
    I am one of the few people around to have had a chance to chat with the renowned batsman C.K. Nayudu , known for his towering sixes. I have grown up as a cricket lover, I have covered cricket from the age of 18
  • The Wall of Separation
    Iniquities and impurities are the vices which hinders us from moving forward in Christ. The spiritual growth of a believer is as important as food is to the body. Our every act conveys the message to the world
  • Speak up, speak out
    As the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan completes over 20 years, a story of the songs and street plays created by the people’s movement to demand accountable governance, confront administrations and inspire
  • Of mercy & ending life
    “We could have dismissed the petition on the short ground that…the right to life guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution does not include the right to die,” observe Justices Markandey Kat
  • Open letter to Government of India
    For months now, activists around the world have been expressing their deep concerns about the impact of India-European Union Free Trade Agreements (FTA). The EU is pushing for harmful provisions to be included
  • When the “Jet Fighter” President comes in Nagaland!
    The visit of Nagaland by any Presidents is history. The people of Nagaland would be happier to welcome such country’s head in their own soil. Such occasion would be Nagas’ “pride and joy.̶
  • Women for All Seasons
    IntroductionOnce again, the world is celebrating the International Women’s Day this year on 09 March. The reasons behind celebrating this day is to extol and to acknowledge the tremendous contributions th
  • Reconciliation rests on being true to God
    Reconciliation among the factions does not rest on any faction but on being true to God. The formula for reaching true forgiveness and reconciliation is obedience to the law of relationship with God which is sy
  • Wilson, Trotsky, Assange
    Bentham and Kant were clear that diplomatic secrecy was bad. So were Wilson and Trotsky. And while Wikileaks may not be the ideal organisation to take diplomatic publicity to a new level, we should embrace its
  • What's with the Ashes?
    Introduction“Be reconciled with God” (2 Corinthians 5: 20) is the clarion call of the Catholic Church all over the world on Ash Wednesday (09 March 2011) that marks the beginning of Lenten Season. A
  • Libya puts China in world stage spotlight
    Launcelot Gobbo told his elderly father in a poignant moment in William Shakespeare's play Merchant of Venice, "Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long." But the tragedy of life is often t
  • Climate Change highlights need for Women to take Greater Role in Forest Management, say experts
    Protesters walk in a Women's Day demonstration in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, March 6. Hundreds of people marched through the capital's downtown demanding more rights for women. (AP Photo) Women are the main u
  • ‘Men also need to be liberated from patriarchy’
    Efforts to tackle gender-based violence against women in India have concentrated on empowering women to assert themselves and prevent violence. Men have been insulated from the process of transformation, says H
  • Obama’s Choice: To Intervene or Not in Libya
    WASHINGTON — For President Obama, who told Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi last week that it was time to quit, the bloodshed and terror in Libya have posed a dilemma that sooner or later confronts every modern Am
  • Lessons in life, love & fear from a revolution
    We live in history all the time, of course, but most of us have never seen history like this.It already feels like many months since a young Tunisian graduate who couldn't get a job, or scrape a living, or even
  • Traffic Jam in Kohima and the inconsiderate’ policy of the state govt
    If we are to believe that ‘for every action there is equal and opposite reaction’, then ENPO’s demand for a separate state in Nagaland and United Naga Council demand for an ‘alternative
  • Social Media and Protests
    Egypt’s Day of Rage unfolded yesterday afternoon, the news of gathering crowds and images of protesters heading for Tahrir square shared over Twitter by activists and people in general in a fascinating, b
  • Patriotism and Hypocrisy
    I am not a patriot. It was my answer to a prominent political personality of his questions. He asked me the Indian soldiers are killing innocent people in Indo Bangla Border, Bangladesh is failing to deal with
  • The lion wants his juice back
    You're Muammar Gaddafi, and you're sitting in your Bab al-Azizia bunker sipping green tea and surveying the odds of staying in power. Let's see. You control some neighborhoods in Tripoli; some cities in the far
  • Protect Assange, don’t abuse him
    Forty years ago, a book entitled The Greening of America caused a sensation. On the cover were these words: "There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate wit
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