Nirupama SarmaYet another World AIDS Day has come and gone. And with it, de rigueur, the reports on the numbers infected, the televised debates on whats being done (or not), the images of Bollywood biggies urgi
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Dr. K. HoshiEconomic development is the mantra in present Naga society. What the laymen perceive as economic development are the physical infrastructure developments visible to the naked eyes. Today, this conce
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Chan Akya A mid-life crisis usually comes about when an individual realizes that he/she has been chasing the wrong goal, rather than when the person realizes that their goals are unattainable. Much the sam
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Badri RainaIndias majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk. The findings of the Prime Ministers High Level Committee (set up on 9th March, 2005
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Chan Akya If only economist Milton Friedman were still alive, he would weep at the recent turn of events encompassing Asian politics in recent weeks. No, I am not talking here about North Koreas nuclear we
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Sudha Ramachandran With the US Congress approving legislation that allows civilian nuclear trade with India, a new era in Indias nuclear relationship with the world has begun. While there is much jubilatio
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Mhonbemo PattonThrough this column, I would like to plight to All Christian communities in Nagaland and to express few words of my personal views i.e. when we consider about the Christian communities in Nagalan
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Sudha Ramachandran With a successful missile-interception test last week, India has taken a significant step toward joining an elite club of countries that possess an incipient missile defense capability.
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Tim SullivanIts an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker. But villagers take off their shoes whe
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Prashant BhushanThe amendments proposed to the Right to Information Act are a substantial roll back of the Act. The persistent manner in which the government is pushing them despite mounting public criticism, i
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Kent EwingAs World AIDS Day passed last week in China, something remarkable happened: Beijing took notice, allowing an acclaimed US-made documentary on the disease to be aired on state television. An abridged v
Abraham LothaIf there is a showroom that exhibits the variety and richness of Naga cultural heritage, it is the Hornbill Festival held at Kisama every December for the past six years. This is my first at the Ho-
Parwini Zora & Daniel Woreck A recent report by the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents the systematic human rights abuses carried out by the Indian security forces in the state of Jammu and Ka
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David FullbrookPrecise data about the AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes it are scant in the secretive military-run country, which until recently banned all local reporting on HIV and A
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Dilip DSouzaThe mob came from three different directions. Each group was preoccupied with its own murder. Bhayyalals wife and daughter had their skulls smashed in, and his boys were beaten to death with sticks.
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Alex Au Is Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong moving to soften the island states time-tested capitalist credentials with state welfare policies for the poor? Growing economic inequality has put Lee to the
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Dipankar BhattacharyaIs the Indian State a protector or an alienator? I think it is both and much more. Of the one billion people in our country, there are certainly a few millions who feel perfectly protected
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Prashant BhushanAt a time when the dominant class in India is obsessed with power and when India appears to be at the threshold of becoming an economic and military superpower, it is interesting that Tehelka ha
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Praful BidwaiIndia, which has long prided itself as a shining example of democracy and religious-cultural pluralism, is being forced to contend with an unpleasant truth: the foundations of its claim to religiou
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Ram PuniyaniThere may be various parameters to judge the prevalence of democratic spirit in a country. One of them may be how well the minorities are doing, how safe they feel, how aligned they feel, how much a
