Infocus

  • An Eye for an Eye?
    Lynda BrayerBut if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. Exodus 21:23-25The lex t
  • What does Israel want?
    Ilan PappeImagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third World War scenarios in which they can move huge armies around, employ the most sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy
  • Remembering our TrueLove Heritage
    David ShoshaniWe are human beings. Each and every one of us has unique life-circumstances which have brought us up to this point in time. We do not live in a vacuum and there is always a give-and-take feedback
  • Europe & America as Underwriters of the International Order
    Noam ChomskySince time is very tight I won’t take my 20 minutes so we can have time to talk, which is more interesting. The idea that Europe – later the United States – is the guarantor of world order is
  • Bulls on Parade: Reflections of the World Cup
    Arkotong LongkumerThe Football World Cup happens every four years. During the month or so of it being displayed on giant TV screens, pubs in Britain crawl with pilgrims filling the stools as they watch, oblivio
  • Naga sovereignty in pubic inhabited areas
    Through your esteem local daily, I the concerned citizen of Phek Village would like to make an appeal to the authorities of the Naga National Movement to kindly look into the grievances of the general public an
  • Role of students’ bodies in the Naga situation today
    Zakie KhateNaga story is a tale of a people yearning for self – determination, free from subjugation, dominance and control. It is a story of honour and integrity. It is also a story of restoring justice. It
  • The Myth of the New India
    Pankaj MishraIndia is a roaring capitalist success story.” So says the latest issue of Foreign Affairs; and last week many leading business executives and politicians in India celebrated as Lakshmi Mittal, th
  • Peak Oil and The Political
    Mathew Maavak Crude oil has breached the $70 psychological barrier again. This time, however, it will not be a one-day seduction by the stormy Katrina. The causative culprits are aplenty. Terrorist ha
  • Parecon and Journalism
    Michael AlbertThe idea of journalism is not overly complex. Societies involve huge ranges of activity and possibility. Each day events occur and processes unfold. The quality of our lives depends in two senses
  • Pilgrims of TrueLove
    David ShoshaniIt is a plebeian tendency to predominately associate the dealing of relationships in general and TrueLove in particular with teenagers who have nothing else to do but to dream and fantasize about
  • 10 things I Question about India
    Claude ArpiMany years ago a friend of mine wrote a book, The Wonder that IS India. Both of us have lived more for than 30 years in the Land of the Bharatiyas and share a love for this nation. When he showed me
  • Bamboo: A prospective avenue for NER revenue
    Khagendra N. Bora  India has the potential to be the largest bamboo growing country in the world. After sugarcane, bamboo is the best solar energy conservator in the nature and has a vastly lower need of w
  • Professor’s long-distance conversations with ULFA leader highlight India’s fractures
    Tim SullivanEvery week or so the phone rings in the professor’s home, a tidy ground-floor apartment set behind a wooden gate and a flower-filled garden, and a voice echoes from a guerrilla hideout far to the
  • “Let us answer ‘Present’ at the rebirth of the world”
    Rene WadlowLeopold Sedar Senghor, the first President of independent Senegal, answered “Present” on three occasions when the rebirth of the world was necessary and possible.  The first was in the early
  • What have you to say on factional killings? – A thought for Naga NGOs
    Kedoungulo MeroIn the wake of the recent brutal murder of Khoney Chang various mass-based Naga NGOs have condemned the act in strongest term possible. Regardless of tribes and organizations all have expressed d
  • The Da Vinci Code
    Many have written on the novel of Dan Brown “The Da Vinci Code” and expressed their different views. But most of the writers criticized the author of the book/movie and condemned the novel. Some of the writ
  • The Real Threat?
    Subhash GatadeLal Krishna Advani, ex President of BJP would not have imagined in his wildest dreams that Sangh Parivar’s own people, would get caught in making illegal bombs just when he with his entourage wa
  • Education system at Zunheboto
    The most burning issue in the present society is that of proper education. This of course is very much lacking at Zunheboto. Due to the extreme malpractices that has reached its zenith at Zunheboto mainly in th
  • Branding Ethnicity
    Vareso NingshenSmall efforts have been made to sell our Ethnic arts and culture; printing indigenous Tee shirts, calendars, cards mugs, etc. though they are very occasional .It’s only when the Student union o