Infocus

  • China plays Tibet card to the full
    Wu ZhongChina’s strong reaction to French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s weekend meeting with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, is unprecedented. From Beijing’s perspective, there is amp
  • Revival of Animistic Festivals
    Rev.L. Suohie MhasiWe Nagas are proud of our people being around 95% are professed Christians. When our people were in severe affliction, the people prayed to God for their security and protection and God was s
  • Dreaming Nagas’ Dream...
    Nehemiah RongNagas’ inheritance was and is freedom, their land, independence and democratic governance, economic self reliance, quick and just delivery and disposal judicial system based on traditional custom
  • Naga Nationalism’s Internal Enemy – Violence
    Dr. Paul PimomoFor months I’ve been bothered by a nightmare. A series of violent images, connected and disconnected and nauseatingly repetitive, has haunted me but I can’t get rid of it. The names of places
  • Communitisation the only solution?
    Dreams do come true. Yes I thought so to myself on the night of october5 when I read the news about how the urban development department was going to fund the communitisation project. Here is just another criti
  • My Last Conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi
    John PilgerAs the people of Burma rise up again, we have had a rare sighting of Aung San Suu Kyi. There she stood, at the back gate of her lakeside home in Rangoon, where she is under house arrest. She looked v
  • Time to join hands together for peace
    The rich civilization and culture that flourished in the hills of Nagaland is today an invaluable heritage of the state. However of late the traditional Naga music has died down and as guns blaze today echoes c
  • Waves of poltical migration from porous political parties
    Dr. MaongsangbaThe political migration of Party functionaries, of party workers, of political bigwigs, from one party to another has hogged the media attention and taken the entire populace by storm. Look at th
  • The Naga political issue: Theo-Biblical response
    Eyingbeni HumtsoeThe experiences of the Naga populace under the veneer of “nationalism” is known to all and sundry. Brutality, aggression, militarism, division and the likes mark Naga ‘nationalism’ much
  • Myanmar mess: Blame Beijing
    Ralph Peters AS the junta’s misbehavior worsened in Myanmar (as those thugs have re-chris tened Burma) last week, pundits suggested that we should force China to pressure its client to treat the pro-demo
  • Continuing on the untravelled road
    Niketu IraluTuisem Shishak has done a most difficult thing in his “A Confession”. He has done a thankless job guided by a sense of urgency for his own people and the whole Naga family. The Tangkhul Long has
  • Burma: Darkness at midnight
    Rene Wadlow   While the United Nations human rights structures are under critical examination and Burma is being discussed in the UN Security Council, it is useful to review the UN’s efforts to help
  • Take-over of nh-155 by npwd is a mockery and a farce deal
    In this era of Global Village if at all the Government really doubts the workmanship of the present incumbent BRO/GREEF (the internationally acclaimed road building organization) whose workforce champion the co
  • Anatomy of political defection & corruption in Nagaland
    R. C. Chiten Jamir, Former Deputy CMIn India, Nagas are regarded as Christians belonging to a Christian state because Nagas profess to be so. It is obviously a thorough case of misconstrues by the outside world
  • Right Kind of leadership
    With the advent of education in India and the world, many ambitious men and women wish to reach the top as leaders. Such people are found in politics, business, industry, religious organizations, cultural group
  • For the people or against the people
    I read with anguish about the events unfolding from the disputes over ownership of land in and around Jalukie-Zangdi to the ultimate battering of heads of the peaceful rallies. Some Naga people seem to be tryin
  • Politics of defection: A chronic problem in Nagaland
    Dr. MaongsangbaThe menace of defection is a national phenomenon in the Indian political system that appeared conspicuously in the post 1967 General Elections in India. The emergence of migratory legislators in
  • Nagaland: A time for peace or a time for war?
    Kaka D.IraluBecause of the Indo-Naga-Myanmar war, my generation has not experienced peace on earth for the entire duration of their lives. Hence if there is one common cry in the hearts of my generation as well
  • Intrigue and illness in Myanmar’s junta
    Larry JaganThis month's surprise announcement in Myanmar of a planned national referendum on a new constitution in May and multi-party democratic elections by 2010 are all part of Senior General Than Shwe's gam
  • Exotic Nagaland
    M. Konmei PhomLongleng, Nagaland    The phrase ‘Exotic Nagaland’  is a highly clichéd term where some get used to the term and others like me get fed-up with such catch phrases. In beauty pa
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