People-Life-Etc

  • ‘Tell Me’ about ‘Native Rising’
    ArenbaIn Nagaland, music bands are like ‘a dime a dozen’, with the band names getting weirder and weirder. Moreover, the bands always seem to disband just when it looks like there’s a good thing going and
  • The Invisible Worker
    Sani K.I am a ‘worker’ but Ironically, I have no rights and liberties like other ‘workers’. In my home I am the first to get up and the last to go to bed. I bear no grudges because I have no time to do
  • A CNN-IBN Special Investigation into India’ s Hidden Wars in northeast India
    Full interview transcript of Seilen Haokip, Spokesperson, Kuki National Organisation There are competing histories. The Nagas have a different historical outlook on the Kuki issue, the Kukis have a differe
  • The Vision of T. Sakhrie for a Naga Nation
    Memorandum of the Case of  The Naga People for Self-Determination  and an appeal to H.M.G. and the Government of IndiaPursuant to a resolution passed by the Naga National Council at Kohima on the 19th
  • Brief story of Tsonglaknyi festival of Tikhirs
    The main Tikhir festival is “Tsonglaknyi” celebrated from 9th-12th October every year. The word ‘Tsong’ means ‘Shield’ and ‘Lak’ means ‘Sanctify’. So Tsonglaknyi means Festival of Sanctifyin
  • The bridge expedition to Benreu tourist village
    KEYICAULANG MERURESEARCH COORDINATORTHE BRIDGE, PERENThe Bridge, a youth forum based at Peren organized an adventurous expedition cum exposure trip to DUILAKI (Poilwa) and Benreu Tourist Village on the 23rd Sep
  • Quality education worth fighting for
    Tuisem A. Shishak“A good educational system may be the flower of economic development; it is also the seed” (Jerome B. Wiesner).“Education is the key that unlocks the door to modernization” (Frederick H
  • The Woodcutter’s Wisdom
    Sentilong Ozukum I Love Stories. I love reading them, and better still, I love writing them. Stories help us understand biblical truths in a fresh way. Sometimes they help us see ourselves more objectively
  • ..tiny bits from one ordinary life
    Jungtina JamirA simple faith, a quiet faithNot complicated, something you feeland that’s the risk you take when you pick a simple faith.....“On a quiet station I wish to say goodbye to my loved ones and see
  • Remembering Lt.Vikhozo Yhoshu and Kekuojalie Sachu
    Wednesday, March the 20th, 1986, will always remain as one of the blackest days in the history of the Naga Students Federation. It may have been twenty years ago, but the events on that day are still very clear
  • A Brief Life Sketch of Rev. Merhupfu Kent, former President, Naga National Council (NNC)
    The Reverend Merhupfu Kent, son of Mr. Gwanhon Kent was born on April 5th, 1913 at Tsemenyu of Rengma land. He studied at the Kohima Bible School in 1942-44 following which he served as the Evangelist to the Re
  • Nagaland and Sovereignty
    Sanjay K. PandeyTalking to the media, the NSCN (I-M) leader, T. Muivah, asserted “The question whether Nagaland’s sovereignty is negotiable or not doesn’t arise. The destiny of Nagas should be left to Nag
  • Let my people think
    Sentilong Ozukum.“A man who does not cultivate the habits of thinking misses the greatest pleasure of life”.  Thomas Alva Edison    “Few people think two or three times a year. I have
  • A Trip to Phaibung Khullen Village
    Nehemiah RongTaking a rickety ride from NH-39 (Tadubi Town) to Phaibung Khullen, one comes across the vast natural vegetation, sees blue hills, the serpentine like streams, and the view of bordering Poumai Naga
  • Diary of a drinker
    Jungtina Jamir *hic hic hic* My brain feels empty, woozy and drippy, like it’s going to ooze its way through my head, out of my left ear (when I tilt it that way), onto the floor. Must be the booze I had
  • Ethnic Minorities Starved, Denied Medical Care
    Marwaan Macan-MarkarTo be a health worker along Burma’s eastern borders, home to the Karen and Karenni ethnic communities, is to court death, injury or imprisonment, say doctors working in the area. Even midw
  • The World of Superstition
    Dr. Thamsing D. LamkangOne evening between 4 pm on 10 June ‘06, I encountered a local youth beating a non-local man while he was pleading with folded hands near old NST. The story goes like this; a non-local
  • Who is ‘MAD’ anyways?
    K. ElaProdigals’ Home“Oh, that MAD girl? What can we do? We have sent her back to her village once, she came back again. We’ll send her back again and if she comes back, let her be on the streets!” was
  • An Unofficial Prospectus
    Ayangla Longkumer(Dear readers make sure that it is not read by the Class of 2006, PCC).Although I like all the pastel colours pink is not my favorite colour, although I like tear jerk movies crying is not my h
  • Sobriety: The goal of an addict
      N. Longshio Yanthan‘Relapse’ is a word most dreaded by a recovering addict and those around him. It is not easy for a recovering addict once he/she leaves a controlled environment and plunge into the
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