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  • Why China will not allow democracy in Myanmar
    Claude ArpiIn Burma, the situation seems to be settling down. Is it for the good of the people? That is another question.  Anyhow, the brutal generals and Aung Saan Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
  • Discussion on indigeneous people
    I welcome and do appreciate Dr. Hesheto Y. Chishi and Naga People’s Movement for Human Right (NPMHR) who has discussed on my article “Nagas are not indigenous people”, which appeared in Nagaland dailies o
  • CM Corpus Fund & PMRY
    Fund or farce? Aid or easy money? Who is  benefiting ?From amongst the many issues boggling the minds of young people, the gross mishandling of funds earmarked for the educated unemployed, such as CM Corpu
  • RAW: An Instrument of Indian Imperialism
    Isha KhanIndia’s intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (R.A.W.), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of the country’s domestic and foreign policies, particularly th
  • Indigenous Peoples Score Historic Political Victory
    Haider RizviAfter 22 years of long and cumbersome negotiations, leaders of the world’s 270 million indigenous people have won a powerful symbolic victory in their fight for recognition of the right to self-de
  • Big dams in Southasia: The dangers of inevitability
    Kanak Mani DixitThe fight against large dams and the reservoirs they impound is a phenomenon that sparks wherever and whenever the people of Southasia feel empowered enough to resist. And so, the “temples of
  • UN Human Rights Council: The right to food
    Rene WadlowWhile specialists have always recognized that hunger is a complex issue and that underdevelopment cannot be measured by the number of hungry, the poster image of the underfed child has always served
  • Naga talk: Centre cannot hold… The Week
    The above title write up by Anandan S in one of the most widely circulated magazine, The Week issue of August 12, 2007 page 68 was inhuman and mischievous. The words quoted by (retd.) Major General Deepankar Ba
  • Fuel price policy explodes in Myanmar
    Larry JaganPublic protests have broken out across Myanmar’s old capital Yangon after the military government unexpectedly removed fuel-price subsidies, resulting in a 500% spike in rationed fuel prices. The s
  • Hard talk on democratic election
    Medowe KapfoDemocracy is a popular form of Government. It is a form of Government in which absolute power is in the hands of common men. Gradually the other forms of Government-monarchy, aristocracy, theocracy,
  • Nagas’ search for Justpeace
    Syo Peh KwoMembers of human species, as individuals and as groups, contend over things that are scarce and therefore valuable and desirable, including territory, political power, opportunities etc. They also co
  • In conflict zone, a battle to secure futures
    Ratna Bharali TalukdarA powerful blast on a black Saturday morning of June 23, 2007 robbed them of their youngest brother Safiq and their father Rofiq Ahemd - owner of a road side tea stall at Machkhowa, a comm
  • Obedient Jonahs needed
    On 11 August we were talking to one renowned Reverend from Scotland. He came to the office of the Naga Support Group (UK) to request us to say the Lord’s Prayer in our native languages, thereby giving his mos
  • Are we right in politicizing Forgiveness?
    Al NgullieI desire to share these thoughts from a humane perspective with our leaders Isak Chishi Swu, Th. Muivah, SS Khaplang, Kitovi Zhimomi, Adinno Phizo and others.One cannot help but feel sorry for Dr. Rev
  • TIMELY PEACEMAKING
    Rev. Daniel L. ButtryIn any peace process time will be an important issue.  The Past includes the history of the conflict with all the causes, hurts, crimes and injustices that call out to be redressed. &n
  • Disentangling the Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute
    Dolly Kikon | Sanjay BarboraSingibil and Athkhel weekly haats (marts) are among several intercommunity markets along the Assam-Nagaland foothills which are significant signposts of a long historical, political
  • Double Standards: Punishing The Culprits Of Violence
    Ram PuniyaniIndian society has been plagued by two major types of violence. One is that related to the sectarian one, the one which began with Jablapur riots of 1961, which intensified greatly during the decade
  • India and China on parade
    Jagannath P Panda The recent upsurge in military exchanges and cooperation between China and India has focused on two contentious issues: counter-terrorism and joint military exercises. The decision to con
  • Classic battle in Left Bastion: Church vs State
    KA Shaji Kerala’s influential Catholics warn the Left government of violent struggle if their powers to run professional colleges come under reviewThe spectre of the Vimochana Samaram (liberation struggl
  • A Protest against Pro-Test: Reflections of a Dreamer
     Kethoser Kevichusa“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one” - John LennonToday, July 25, 2007, is the day when President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam demits office as the 11th president of Ind
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