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  • The challenge of bridging economic disparity
     N Arhe In the days leading up to the excitement of Christmas giving week, at a busy market in Dimapur, a middle-aged man, with little consideration for anyone else in line, pulled out a costly wallet a
  • The Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1989 (Act No. 4, 1990)- An Act: A revisit to the past amidst lobbying
      Rev Dr Zelhou Keyho General Secretary, NBCC Nagaland has a long history of bringing the NLTP Act to black and white. The movement began in the early 1960s wherein, the church, and the civil societ
  • Japfü Unvisited
    Dr Swaranjit Singh Director SAS Polyclinic, Chandigarh  While I was studying in the Baptist English School, Kohima we planned to scale Mount Japfü with Nitso Shiza and other class mates. Nitso sai
  • Henpecked Husbands..!
    Once in a while, when going with a friend to visit someone I am warned before I reach, “he is a henpecked husband!”“Oh!” I whisper, and go with quite some apprehensions of a wife pecking away at every s
  • Renewable Energy vs Coal: Where Does India Stand?
    Sara Bardhan Inter Press Service Coal—considered to be one of the most polluting fossil fuels and, therefore, one of the biggest contributors to climate change—took centre stage at COP 26. A las
  • Choosing Good Friends..!
    In my book, ‘DARE’ I have a chapter, ‘Dare to Make and Keep Friends’, but thought that today we could talk about choosing friends!As the old adage says, “A Man is known by the company he keeps” and
  • Don’t Smile at the Airhostess..!
    As countries open up and we Asians start flying again, I thought it imperative to write this little piece, which I also recommend you take with a pinch of salt, though there is some truth in it.Most Internation
  • 'It Isn’t Easy Being a Journalist in Kashmir'
    Bisma Bhat Inter Press Service My name is Bisma Bhat and I am a journalist in Srinagar, Kashmir. I currently work as a features writer at Free Press Kashmir, a weekly magazine. I have lived in Srinagar a
  • To the Awakening of Spiritual Eyes: A Review of Easterine Kire’s Journey of the Stone
    Lhütü Keyho NEHU, Shillong One pleasant quality that has become characteristic of Easterine Kire’s writings, a trait that I have come to anticipate whenever I pick a new book of hers, is her
  • India and Nagaland, no place for arts students!
    L Singsit Dimapur The student community welcomed the setting up of Nagaland Staff Selection Board (NSSB) with much happiness. Finally we can now get a proper opportunity to compete for jobs and do away with
  • Instead of Wooing Prashant Kishor..!
    Today, political rallies are all about candidates insulting each other. The days of dignified talk seem to be over, and just when I was beginning to feel sad about the bygone days, I suddenly started realizing
  • Inception to Gaslighting
    Imnajungla Jamir Immanuel College, Dimapur Have you ever been gaslighted? Or are you a gaslighter yourself? Gaslighting is a form of psychological and emotional abuse that could occur among friends, coup
  • Cat’s Milk and Election Promises..!
    Robert ClementsShe greeted me like we were old friends, purring and wrapping herself round my legs, “Hey,” I said, “I don’t know you!” But from her friendly gestures I realized that, that didn’t mat
  • Putty, Paint and Professional Pretense..!
    Robert ClementsIt was a narrow bridge one climbed from once a lazy station, onto the road above.Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai was hardly used previously, except by mill workers of old, going to work or ret
  • Valentine’s Day Special..!
    Here’s something special on Valentine’s Day:We seem to think the best relationships are between like-minded people, but not necessarily at all. Instead of changing your wife or husband to your way of thinki
  • Risk It..!
    A few years ago a friend came to me with a brilliant idea which required him resigning from his job and setting up business. The scheme seemed well thought off and it was some years later we met again and I fou
  • Full Steam Ahead..!
    Many decades ago, on long train journeys, my father would take me to the end of the long platform and show me the mighty steam engine which pulled us. “Do you know how it works Bob?” he asked once. I shook
  • A Head Covering and Sweet Voice..!
    In the gigantic auditorium in Manila, in the Philippines, her voice richer than that of a nightingale filled the hall. We singers stood behind her. We were the choir she sang for, and felt proud, as the audienc
  • The Power of Music
    Mongsen Longkumer  Kohima There is a saying I heard the other day, which said, ‘All art aspires to the condition of music’ which is profoundly true in many ways you wish to derive its meani
  • Lone Slipper on the Railway Track..!
    Robert ClementsHe had decided to end his life, and the place he had chosen was the railway track just before the last station, and just after the level crossing. He had given it careful thought, but decided he
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