Infocus

  • The Fateful Night
    When Rio in darkness was searching for light,None had foreseen destinies unquestionable might,Wasn’t in contemplation even in nightmares,Lo & Behold! See where nature dares! A pinnacle of Glory,
  • Understanding the importance of a shared history
    The separation of Armenians and Turks in 1915 is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Both communities often choose to ignore their shared history, to the detriment of efforts at reestablishing ties, the most rec
  • The young must get their due from the state
    Adolescence, the transitional period between youth and maturity, can be a thrilling time for girls and boys. It is a time of physical and mental growth when the young learn, create, and dream about creating a b
  • Objects of Seduction
    This 21st century may be considered as the century of controversies, conflicts and betrayal. The movies we watch are often the platform for luring the minds of the viewers to its unhealthy and seductive nature.
  • Recollection of the tragic fire incident
    •-People of Nagaland are shocked when the Residential Office of the head of State Government is reduced to ashes. Expression of sympathy and solidarity poured in from all quarters of Nagaland.  What
  • The need for a balanced development policy
    Development is and always has been a highly contested field. In the quest to find a solution to the issues of global poverty, approaches within development aid range from large scale schemes to smaller scale gr
  • The people’s web: Russia’s citizen bloggers
    Over the course of 2010, the Russian Internet (RuNet) confirmed itself as a semi-free and vibrant political environment, possible to manipulate but impossible to control. Overall Internet penetration in Russia
  • When thanks giving service become an abomination to God
    Long ago before the Jews settled in the land ‘that is flowing with Milk and Honey’, God disapproved the practice of Human Sacrifice as a show of faith in Him. It is probable in those days, whenever
  • Egypt and the post-Islamist middle east
    For years, western political elites and their local allies have charged the Arab peoples with political apathy and lethargy. The argument that Arabs are uninterested in seeking to wrest greater democratic freed
  • APO’s Open Letter on Job Vacancies for Dimapur District
    Addressed to the Chief SecretarySir,It has come to the knowledge of the Angami Public Organisation (APO) that the State Government has formulated a policy in respect of job vacancies wherein it states “va
  • Al Jazeera Forced Off the Air by Mubarak
    AMY GOODMAN: Al Jazeera English, by the way, is now reporting up to two million people in and around Tahrir Square. And, of course, there are protests all over Egypt.Speaking of Al Jazeera English, we turn now
  • Freedom makes you giddy
    Hosni Mubarak’s decision to replace his cabinet and appoint a vice-president (Omar Suleiman, 74, head of army intelligence), something he had refused to do since he became president in 1981, had no effect
  • Drop the Case Against Assange
    It is time for the United States to drop the case against WikiLeaks. Pressing forward with efforts to prosecute an Internet publisher at home while standing up for an open Internet in Egypt and the world at lar
  • Tehran 1979 or Berlin 1989?
    The core issue in Egypt can be boiled down to this: are we witnessing Tehran 1979 or Berlin 1989? Is this a broad uprising against dictatorship whose goal of democratic freedom will be usurped by organized Isla
  • The politics of fearlessness
    An anti-government protester sits inside a burnt out car near Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt. A sense of normalcy began to return to the capital of some 18 million
  • Social democracy: in crisis the world over
    Social democracy is in crisis the world over. From Sweden to Germany, from Britain to the Netherlands and from Australia to Canada and New Zealand - just at the moment that the neo-liberal hegemony falters, soc
  • Civil Society in 1989 and 2011
    At the Munich Security Conference, David Cameron announced the end of multi-culturalism and the need to confront those who oppose British values – democracy, integration and equality of the sexes. Yet the
  • ‘Development' vs Environment
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's observation that enforcement of environmental regulatory standards should not lead to a throwback to the days of the licence-permit raj strikes a jarring note in an era of enligh
  • Dignity, Bread and Liberty; the start of peak food revolutions
    "What has changed the placid Egyptian population into a boiling mass of revolt?" Goes the not-so-subtle sub-text of much corporate media coverage. First the supposed quietism of the Egyptian people is
  • Reflections on Political Violence
    The best political speech I ever heard was delivered by the late Paul Foot, scion of one of England's great radical and socialist families, at the Oxford Union in the late 1960s. The motion before the house was
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