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  • The inner life of the Church
    R C Chiten JamirScripture: Acts 2: 41- 47In these verses, we have a pattern for the whole dispensation of what the church should be like. The design or pattern that was made by Christ is to be found in these ve
  • Nagas exiled in their own Homeland
    Rev Dr V K NuhIt would have been a different story if the 16-points Agreement had not been accepted. It is now proved that both the giver and the receiver have made a grave mistake. After this 16-Points Agreeme
  • Lamentations
    Limalenden LongkumerYes, it is one of India’s many sinister policies to reduce the ethnic indigenous peoples of the North East Region (NER) to an insignificant minority so that secessionist movements in the r
  • Re-thinking our Concept of Church
    Sashi JamirPrelude“Where are our Naga churches?” “Why are our churches so silent to the suffering of the people?” Aren’t we supposed to act justly and show mercy to our neighboring brothers and sister
  • Right to Information Act in Nagaland
    Rosemary DzuvichuAs the epoch making Right to Information Act comes into effect at midnight, on the 12th  October 2005 hopefully, this will herald changes that brings true democracy in the relationship bet
  • Pragmatic approach towards political solution
    It is high time that Naga people realise what is the best for the people and act with all sincerity to evolve a common solution to our Naga political problem.Pragmatism is the need of the hour for the Nagas, if
  • Of Strife and Pacifiers
    Joseph Kuba Giraldus Cambrensis (a 12th century Welsh scholar) advised the King of England to effectively subjugate the Welsh rebellion thus:A people who with a collected force will not openly attack the e
  • Assam Rifles and HIV/AIDS
    It was shocking to hear the jawans of the Assam Rifles dying of AIDS. Yet it is appalling to the extreme when the concerned authorities led by the Director General of Assam Rifles proclaimed to the nation and t
  • Pay it Forward
    James Longkumer“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” was the skeptical response of one of Jesus’ disciples when he was told that the Messiah is from Nazareth. A walk down The Strip in Las Vegas a
  • Essence of Media today
    There’s no way to prepare for future if we don’t know its coming. Thus the modern society can continue to exist only as long as it remains capable to adapt to the historical changes that it has set in motio
  • Concept of being a Naga
    Former member of Manipur Human. Rights Commission Yambem Laba had justified the declaration of 18 June Holiday as Integrity Day of Manipur under the caption, “18 June events not anti Nagas” published in Imp
  • Using Right to Information to fight corruption
    Suresh Kr PramarThe recently enacted Right to Information Bill, which has come into force on October 12, can prove to be a effective weapon to fight corruption in the administration, ensure better governance an
  • Reconciliation in Rwanda
    Neichü Dz Angami(A conversation with Madam Fatuma Ndangiza, Executive Secretary of The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission of Rwanda)Rwanda, the ancient ‘land of a thousand hills’ that lured explo
  • A Call to Christians for a Grave Concern
    This is an urgent call to Christians in Nagaland to join hearts in prayer. We have been warned sufficiently of a possible major earthquake with high intensity in our region. We are seriously concerned about it
  • The Trendsetter
    As residents of Dimapur, all of us here are most proud of our cosmopolitan outlook. We quite agree that whatever happens in Nagaland has in most cases already happened at Dimapur. In that way, we are the trends
  • Why do we need Hindi language?
    The article that was published under Public grievance cell on 15th of Sept 2005 ‘Lack of concern for Hindi in Nagaland’ by Shwenlo Semy Rengma, Hindi instructor of Dimapur; Nagaland seem to have captured ma
  • How many roads must we take?
    Arkotong Longkumer‘How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man’, emanates hauntingly as the palpable light from the TV screen takes form. The image is that of a scruffy looking man, in hi
  • Why blame the Senden or the Ao’s
    MerenMy attention has been drawn to the news item of one Seochem Sangtam, Dy. Kilonser (Khaplang) under the caption, “Aos’ new found friendship” published in some local dailies dated 4th October 2005. I f
  • Are we really on the path to freedom?
    P Himpao LamBreathes there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself had said, this is my own native land’ - this line from the poem ‘Patriotism’ by Sir Walter Scott, had me pondering for quite some
  • An eye-opener
    Kamal ChetriThe recent NPSC bribery scandal should be an eye-opener to one and all, especially the Youth of the State. In the past, everybody knew about this fact, but no one had the guts to say or to expose th