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  • 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
  • Why should legislators hold offices of profit?
    Dr P C AlexanderThe passing of the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill by the two Houses of Parliament on 16 and 17 May 2006, has served to solve the immediate problem of disqualification
  • Going beyond the obvious Duality
    David ShoshaniOne’s relationship is never like another’s. We each function differently no matter what our choices are. Two people can opt for TrueLove but experience that same choice very diversely in their
  • Good Muslim, Bad Muslim – An African Perspective
    Mahmood MamdaniEver since September 11, there has been a growing media interest in Islam. What is the link, many seem to ask, between Islam and terrorism? The Spectator, a British weekly, carried a lead article
  • What if the Anti-Conversion Bill were not Anti-Constitutional!
    L Nisenyü, KohimaIt is gratifying to read in newspapers and see that our people are well informed and clear about the Indian constitution in relation to the freedom of religion. However, I have this nagging qu
  • Brindaban out, Ajmal down, Hagrama in & the Man of the Match is - Gogoi
    Dr MaongsangbaTarun Gogoi, who is not charismatic but proven to be an adept political strategist, has proved all the prophets of doom and the psephologists wrong. He cut to size the forces that tried to checkma
  • Music and Society
    Renthungo MerryThe imperative for music educationThe arts, especially music, have always played a vital role in the life of individuals as well as social communities throughout history. The Greek philosophers l
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