Susan Waten NagaI was caught in traffic for 3 hrs (last year it took 4 hrs from Kisama to the local ground) on my way to Kisama from Kohima. I reached just on time to witness the spectacular performance of the
Saturday, 17th January, 2026
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Tim JohnstonWhen Long Jack Phillipus, at the age of 12, walked out of Australia’s vast Gibson Desert in 1934 and saw white people for the first time, he found that he had no rights. Over the decades, he has s
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Dr. Hesheto Y. ChishiHundreds of Thousand of tears shed, tens of thousands prayer prayed, thousands of speeches spoken, hundreds of reconciliation meetings held, hundred of articles published, tens of peace for
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Bertil LintnerWith the opposition subdued and the authorities vigorously hunting down the organizers of the September demonstrations - and the international community held at bay with promises of more ineffectu
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Y. Merina Chishi Nagaland has a comparatively high literacy rate than many other Indian states. But this has in no way broadened our minds. The young generation is so caught up in a web of comfort and mate
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Rev L.Suohie MhasiNagas are of the same blood and each Naga Tribe can be identified as Nagas through the affinity of cultures. But our peoples were primitive and were placed under different administrative units
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Gene StoltzfusAs I began to write this piece on First Nations people in the Americas my attention was drawn to current events surrounding the Armenian people in an article by Rupert Cornwell.A Congressional com
Abraham LothaThe tourist season in Nagaland is from November to March. But tourists, especially foreign (even if not permitted to visit all of Nagaland) are happy at the prospect of getting a birds eye view of-
Distinction between NGOs and GONGOsNeichü Dz AngamiThe word NGO, non governmental organization, when translated in Chinese means ‘going against the government’, said Mae, our fabulous translator, while hel
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Tezenlo ThongLately, an increasing number of Nagas seems to be awakening to the fact that our cultural practices and values need to be reclaimed and revived not only for ourselves but also for posterity. This i
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Longkumba AoIn the wake of the recent protest that marred the recruitment rally for ABSI to 14 NAP (IR) Battalion, as an aspirant to the post of ABSI I would like to pen down certain anomalies and favoritism wi
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Sanjoy HazarikaIndia’s evolving political approach to events in Myanmar (Burma) is moving fairly rapidly: it now appears in conformity with a large section of international opinion, advocating internal dialog
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Patricia MukhimIndia is surrounded by military dictatorships. Recent developments in Pakistan reveal the chaotic nature of despotic rule. On the eastern flank, Myanmar’s rule of terror where democratic protes
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Dr Manmohan SinghIt is indeed a matter of great honour and happiness for us that the 4th International Conference on Federalism is being held in India. As one of the newer members of the Forum of Federations, w
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Patricia MukhimAt least three states of the North East are headed for the Assembly polls in early 2008. While elections in themselves have become meaningless or been made redundant by the very inefficacy of the
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Bertil LintnerFor Htet Tay Za, a 19-year-old member of Myanmar’s elite who attends an exclusive and expensive international school in Singapore, life is often a party. A picture recently obtained by the Chian
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S VarahWhat is in a name anyway? Is it a crime that students learn about the Naga even though the term ‘Naga’ may have differing or variable interpretations? Hindi text books for classes I-VIII (Nagaland ed
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Firdous Syed“Freedom struggles” all over the world are facing a typical predicament today, a Catch-22 situation put forth by the fact that a monolithic modern state which understands the language of violenc
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Bertil LintnerAre the United Nations and its agencies becoming part of the problem rather than the solution in Myanmar? That is what many Myanmar people are asking themselves as UN Special envoy Ibrahim Gambari
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Charu SoniAS YOU READ this, some 25,000 men and women from across India’s Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are making their way up the Grand Trunk Road, walking over 340km from Gwalior to the capital, co
