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  • The fish in your tank that could be the answer to heart disease
    A small tropical fish that normally lives in the River Ganges and is commonly found in pet fish tanks could trigger a revolution in the treatment of heart disease and the end of heart-transplant surgery. 
  • When Microcredit Won’t Do
    If you asked poverty experts to name the single most significant new concept in the field in the last few decades, chances are they would say microcredit.  Microcredit is the lending of very small amounts
  • Wikileaks: Journalism or Espionage?
    In setting up WikiLeaks, Julian Assange wanted to bring to light secret agreements between countries. That he succeeded is clear from the number of companies and governments who have tried to shut him downOn 21
  • Opening a Saramati Chapter
    The opportunity to visit the Saramati range in Kiphire district was opened to me by the Nagaland Beekeeping & Honey Mission (NBHM), Kohima. Nestled in this range are 30 villages and NBHM focuses its interes
  • Date With a Revolution
    ON Friday, the “day of rage,” I was in the streets with the protesters. Friends and I participated in a peaceful demonstration that started at the Amr Ibn al-As Mosque in Old Cairo near the Church o
  • Israel: the next war
    In March 1973 the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir visited US president Richard Nixon in Washington. He told her that the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was prepared to negotiate a full treaty, and Meir assure
  • Brief Background Paper on Naga Political History
    As you journey to some of the North Eastern States of India during this maiden visit from different states and cities of the Indian sub-continent, you must have seen with your own eyes and felt with your own he
  • Naga Women’s contribution not recognised adequately in past census
    As per 2001 Census report, there are 260 ‘Gender Critical’ districts in the country on the basis of poor sex ratio, poor female literacy, and poor work participation of females. Nagaland too has 3 d
  • Is Mubarak's time up after 30 years in power?
    An Egyptian mother hugs her child as she watches some thousands of Egyptian protesters gather at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt with the ruling National Democratic party building burned at top right behind the r
  • Egypt shakes West Asia
    Defying a curfew and violent repression, the people of Egypt are refusing to back down until President Hosni Mubarak — the dictator who has ruled for 30 years — goes. They regard the concession he h
  • Rejoinder on publication of articles
    Three articles which appeared in The Morung Express on January 26, 2011 on this page, viz. ‘Reporting on a struggle means becoming part of it’, ‘Sensible media’ and ‘Media dubs mos
  • The National Security State, Secrecy, and The Miss America Pageant
    There is no end of bloody mischief done in direct violation of constitutional principles, which mischief has been perpetrated in the name of “national security” and its magic wand—the cult of
  • An Open Letter from Korean Civil Society
    Most of all, Korean civil society has had an interest constantly on the Pohang Steel Company (POSCO)'s project launched in Orissa. We, Non-governmental Organizations(NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, had visited
  • The political impasse of autonomous district councils in Manipur
    The hill, valley divide in Manipur owing to development disparity has already reached a point of territorial disintegration of the state and the United Naga Council has often voiced for severing political ties
  • A Wall of Faith and History
    BLISS was it in that dawn to be alive," sang William Wordsworth of the French Revolution of 1789, which, insofar as laws, customs and politics were concerned, promised to wipe the slate clean and offer the
  • Why ENPO demands Frontier Nagaland
    This article offers a pen-picture of the Eastern Nagas necessitating their movement for grant of separate state. The attempt made herein, may perhaps, answer various questions, confusions doubts, in this connec
  • Social costs of jobless recovery
    The world's economy may be recovering from what was the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, but all is not well on the employment front. The most critical factor that ensures a sustained recovery is the cr
  • Why you should quit Facebook now
    In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks in Palo Alto, Calif., about the social network site's new privacy settings. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP/File)In November 2009, I quit Facebook. I
  • Dictatorship for Dummies, Tunisia edition
    The world cheered as it watched Tunisians, who had long suffered under the stultifying weight of dictatorship, rid themselves of their tormentor. When protestors amassed in the Tunisian capital, something incre
  • Himalayan Glaciers and Water Diplomacy
    World got the shocking revelations on Himalayan glaciers before Copenhagen climate summit of 2007, and as we headed toward Cancun Conference during the end of 2010, concerns did spread across many nations. Clim
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