Infocus

  • Two-state solution hits roadblock
    Popular support in Israel for a land-for-peace deal collapsed years ago, but now the Palestinians are losing faith in a two-state future. For, they believe that no Israeli politician would ever have political c
  • 2011: Prospects For Humanity?
    During the 1950s I grew up in a family who rooted for the success of African Americans in their just struggle for civil rights and full legal equality. Then in 1962 it was the terror of my own personal imminent
  • The fight for Power & Supremacy
    The political leaders who are fighting for our cause will be morally responsible for our safety and welfare in particular. After decades of factional wars, our nation is now progressing to a new level of maturi
  • Relentless plunder
    The news of a Mumbai-based mining company extracting at least 10 times more bauxite ore than it is allowed to from a village in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra and causing the State a revenue loss of crores of rupees
  • A Medicine to chew upon
    There was a time years ago when VVIPs and VIPs would go to Vellore, or New Delhi or Guwahati or Dibrugarh and even Mumbai for treatment of some ailment or the other because medical facilities in our State were
  • Sudan referendum: after decades of war and millions killed, a new nation is born
    Hope at last: Women drive in a pro-independence parade in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, this week. Most of the four million registered voters are expected to choose separation. Photograph: Spencer Platt/
  • The complex way forward
    A crisis triggered by conflicting political interests can be solved only through political intervention. This realisation has so far inhibited any knee-jerk reaction to the option suggested by the Justice B.N.
  • Silence as Sedition
    A true measure of being democratic is not the cycles of elections – it is the dignity given to disagreement, to dissent. Why must we dignify dissent? There are the arguments that we hear everyday: so that
  • REJOINDER FROM DISTRICT STATISTICAL OFFICER
    The office of the District Statistical Officer, Dimapur, is constraint to react to the baseless allegations leveled against an official of the District Registrar of Births and Death under the DSO Dimapur establ
  • The depth of a dry land
    I am allergic to checkgates as I have come across much harassment meted out to me while traveling from Dimapur to my home town in Ukhrul during my college days. Though we didn’t carry any arms or prohibit
  • Assam inches towards peace
    Hopes of an end to the 30-year-long armed insurgency in India's northeastern state of Assam have brightened with leaders of the secessionist United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) expressing willingness to ent
  • Man with golden voice: A great story, but does it help cause of homeless?
    Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice, now sporting a new haircut and clean clothes, shows reporters where he has been living on the north side of Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday. (Doral Chenoweth III/
  • Colonial Encounter and the Cultural Processes of Nagas
    This article is an attempt to see the cultural processes of the Nagas as a result of their encounter with the colonial rule and Christian missionaries since the early half of the 19th century. The cultural proc
  • Battle for Assam: To be or not to be
    Towards the end of 2000 Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) realized the need of a national level alliance like many other smaller regional peers from the Sindhu (Indus) to the Sindhu (oceans). But the honeymoon on the ba
  • Thoughts on Politics, Love and Life
    Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gestures as she offers yellow robes to Buddhist monks in front of the National League for Democracy party's headquarters in Rangoon, Dec. 8, 2010. Burma’
  • An open Letter on Denial of Birth certificate on Religious ground
    ToThe President of India, The Prime Minister of India, The National Commission for Minorities, Governor of Nagaland, Chief Minister of Nagaland, Department of Economics and Statistics, The Hindu, The Hindustan
  • Floods can help Australia rise toward adaptation to climate change
    Australians have long talked of their continent as “a land of droughts and flooding rains,” a geographic fact that also accounts for their high resiliency during a weather crisis. But record rainfal
  • A true story of being robbed
    And I handed over my Nokia E 71 Smartphone to the four hooded guys. January the first, 2011 – I began this New Year by being robbed. I had been sitting on my couch and reading the whole day and even as I
  • WikiLeaks & Indian secrets
    Ratan Tata recently said that foreign countries could soon begin to see India as a ‘banana republic’. Well, there is one domain where the Government is not really far from this definition: It is the
  • “FRONTIER NAGALAND STATE”
    The Former Nagaland Finance Minister Mr. K. Therie has described the demand of the ENPO for a ‘FRONTIER NAGALAND STATE’ as “heart breaking”. How true it is; the separations of Husband an
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