Rongspon MerenStudents or youth, they say, are the foundation and future of any nation. And so should this be applicable for or Naga Nation as well. However, despite massive doles of assistance and a high teach

Sothing W.A ShimrayIn an apparent denial of justice to the poor in a country where ‘equality before the law’ is the fundamental rights of the people, the executive of Ukhrul District in a clear violation of

RazoulieAs we all know our student bodies have always been in the forefront in highlighting the problems of our student community in Nagaland. In fact we are quite proud of their efforts to represent the Naga S

Keff K O mother, where are thou? Your children are wailing, your children are famished, your children are quarrelling, your children are dying of strange illnesses, your children aren’t alright…Our gar

A Chang OlivoNagaland News has been dominated by news of the Integration of all the Nagas. Recently, Nagas had a historic Integration Rally in Kohima. If we look at our Naga culture and life, we differ ver

Rosemary DzuvichuThe Angami Women Organization was started twenty five years back to foster better understanding and unity among women of the Angami tribe from the northern, southern, western and chakhro areas.

K Filip SumiWill the Nagas ever learn the art of forgiveness? In today’s scenario almost all of us are revengeful. We are satisfied with being revengeful and do so to quench this evil thirst. If one says that

Dolly Kikon In Northeast India, the term ‘operation’ invokes a disturbing history of military exercises related to counter insurgency. Decades of security operations in the region have left behind a so

SenkatoshiThe people were barbaric; there were no good means of communication; and the place too was far away, but they carried on their ‘mission’ regardless.They were the American Baptist Missionaries who

Arkotong LongkumerThe Edinburgh festival every year attracts millions of people from all over the world. Performers—art connoisseurs, writers, poets, musicians, actors, acrobats, comedians, the riff raff and

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

James Longkumer“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”It’s been a decade since the film The Shawshank Redemption was first released. Made in 1994 by first-time write

Neichü Dz. AngamiSome facts about chewing Talab, Dilbagh, Rajah Mix, Rajni Ganda, Paan, Khaini……All Paan Masalas mentioned above are commonly known as ‘GUTKHA’, which is cheap, brightly packaged and sl

Abraham LothaA small cranky wooden bridge in Merapani separates Assam from Nagaland.  On the Assam side of the bridge, the roads are paved, there is electricity night and day, there are phone connections (

Arkotong LongkumerFor a long time I resisted Mobile Phones. For me, there was no lure, nor was there any excitement of owning one. I objected to the way Mobile Phones become such a nuisance in life. Every time

Abrahama LothaLast week there were news reports in some of the local papers about the use of the new State logo by the Nagaland government. The mithun has replaced the Ashokan pillar in the new logo, and the wo

Vayu NibedonWe are living in a dog eat world. This is the age of the GOBBLERS. Where competing with the Joneses has become a priority. Where success seems to be measured by what one owns. We are inadvertently g

Dr Kakheto ZhimomiAbraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr.—Names from our history books….. names from the fabric of our lives, name that hold in high esteem, because these peop

Nagi enterprise, situated in half Nagarjan, Dimapur, depicts the inborn talents among Nagas in the field of Sculpture and Woodwork. This enterprise was started by K.Nagi. At present the project has six workers

R T ChangIn the uncoded social norms of our State, corruption and scams has become the rule of the day and is becoming the fertile ground for political corruption. In the past decades there were many scams and