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  • To be Just, the Energy Transition Must Include & Empower Women
    Lucia Cortina Inter Press Service Access to clean energy improves women’s lives in a myriad of ways. It supports access to education and quality healthcare, opens new economic opportunities, and reduc
  • Gender Blind Spots in the Water Sector
    Lina Taing and Grace Oluwasanya Inter Press Service UN Women estimates 150 million women and girls are emerging from poverty by 2030, thanks largely to comprehensive education, labor, and social protection
  • Ode to a Naga Woman
    N Arhe She saunters down the dusty walkway. Donning a woven fabric—set into a garment: Adorning the forgotten pathway, Her shoes reveal years of weathering her torment.   Her home is abl
  • Prohibition debate hard questions
    Dr Sedevi Angami As the Prohibition debate reaches a crucial consultation stage, it might be useful to ask some questions regarding our experience of the subject.  1. Will removing the NLTP solve the
  • Is the NLTP Act, 1989 a poor man scourge?
    Pakinrichapbo, Advocate Samziuram Village, Peren  Among the current issues taking Nagaland Government and the people into serious consultations, debate and discussion at all platforms is the Nagaland L
  • Give Voice to the Voiceless..!
    Yesterday I was asked to speak at the Nirmala Niketan College in Mumbai about, “Giving a Voice to the Voiceless’. It seemed as I began to speak, I heard a whisper, “What If, you Bob should not be the spea
  • There’s A Purpose in Delays..!
    This happened a couple of weeks ago; a car coming down the opposite lane at breakneck speed climbed up the divider and before my astonished eyes turned a couple of times before coming to a standstill upside dow
  • The Poor, the Rich and the COVID Pandemic in India
    ZK Pahrü Pou Mission Colony, Pfutsero Initially, Covid-19 is known as the sickness of the rich as they travel to different places and get infected. Gradually, the poor became the most affected group of
  • Dare to Be A Billionaire..!
    “Amazing!” I exclaimed at what I was reading on a website, “Two-thirds of the world's 946 billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination, and not good genes.” I read on
  • Rewriting History..!
    Each successive government rewrites history, the way an author revises his books. “Look at this,” says a minister in my imagination, thumbing through a book of history, “it says the English built the rail
  • 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
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