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  • Clean Election: A call for me
    Kotso Medo Dimapur Time has come as the election commission announced the date of our Armageddon. All the middlemen or should I say muscleman are on the prowl to look out for their victims. In a state where
  • The 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly: The way I see it
    Akhumse A Sangtam Livingstone Foundation International College  Once again it is time for us to exercise our precious votes (one of the greatest tool in democracy), to elect/choose leaders who would be
  • Election for Change 
    Pakinrichapbo Samziuram village, Peren In Nagaland electoral politics context, political parties and candidates has always participated in the general elections on the promises of bringing changes and devel
  • The drunken ‘Nagaland’- alcohol, dirty politics and dawn of a new world
    Akummoa Nokdir Class 11 ARTS, Tetso College Nagaland is a so-called ‘Christian’ state wherein by law buying and selling of liquor and also its storage as well as consumption has been banned. Nag
  • The wrath of God
    Dr LM Murry The cry of clean, fair and free election in Nagaland is nothing new. Since the beginning of the Second Assembly Election, we hear from every establishment, telling people to maintain the model co
  • A Review of Easterine Kire’s Spirit Nights
    Kevileno Sakhrie Kohima  As I write this piece on Easterine Kire’s latest novel Spirit Nights (2022), I am well aware that it has already garnered much attention from many readers who have writte
  • Guard against misuse of ‘double-engine govt’
    The reality of a ‘Hindu-Rastra’ in the guise of electoral politics and development agenda should not be taken for granted Along Longkumer I am sure many of you are familiar with the term
  • ‘27th February, 2023’
    C Talimoa  From loincloth to wardrobe and machete to pen/technology, Nagas have come a long way. Breaking the barriers of separation based on clans and tribes, Nagas have successfully adapted the change
  • Nagaland Elections
    Prof GT Thong Lower Agri Colony, Kohima The NBCC and other church organisations, as well as numerous civil societies have long been crying hoarse for Clean Elections in Nagaland. But there is already too mu
  • One Year Later: The Impact of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict on Africa
    Bitsat Yohannes-Kassahun Inter Press Service In today’s interconnected world, shots fired in one corner of the globe create ripple effects in other, seemingly far, places. One year since the Russian i
  • The incredible story of how East African culture shaped the music of a state in India
    Sayan Dey The Conversation The term Siddi refers to Afro-Indians – Africans who mixed with Indians through marriage and relationships. Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and arrived in India during the
  • New Approach to War Atrocities Is Needed: War Crimes Investigators
    Ed Holt Inter Press Service As plans are announced to set up an international centre in The Hague to prosecute war crimes committed in Ukraine, groups involved in documenting them say there must be a fundam
  • That for me is change
    Zenzen Terhuja Dimapur Our today's struggle lies or truths be told or as excruciating, lack’s greatly an enhancing ‘Conscience’. The word itself is scarcely understood. Something which
  • Politics a sacrificial post?
    Kivika T Chishi Dimapur  But the Elders said "Politics are only for those people with money." Truth distorted!!!  Money over values is what amplifies this action.  We say: Let
  • Forethought on substances abuse
    Ashing Muivah  Unity Village The biggest threat of this present generation and that is to come have an insurmountable challenge, if neglected now would be catastrophic. Studies have shown that the prev
  • Only one person is required to change Nagaland
    Jonas Yanthan  The ensuing Nagaland State Assembly election 2023 is the 5th Election in this 21st century, the first being held in 2003. Two decades of political life in the new century, we have not wit
  • It is not nature alone: humans too for unity and not for uniformity
    Dr Indukuri John Mohan Razu I was for a moment taken aback and intrigued as I saw a short write up in a column The Speaking Tree in “The Times of India” dated June 9th, 2021, with a caption Natur
  • Serious fallout of dirty hands in election
    Huzo Meru In the past, surgeons used to do surgery without using hand gloves. In most cases, the operations were successful, but mortality rate was always high. Doctors were baffled for a long time. When
  • A layman's view (neutral)
    AV Chophi (Amento V Chophi) Chilisa, Mishikito Village So they say, politics is, but a 'Number Game' and the recent denying of tickets to 15 sitting MLAs (which is a huge number in a 60 seats A/C),
  • On choosing the right candidate
    Huzo Meru Clean Election Movement is gaining prominence and momentum by the day. Many candidates both past and present too are happy for the substantial reduction of election expenditure in constituencies wh
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