Public Space

  • Conduct of govt ‘officers’
    Don’t government servants have a duty and responsibility to the public AND the government, whom they are serving, to lead a decent and respectable life? What a person does in his or her private life is his af
  • Sungro Range appreciates DAN government
    The VDB Pangti Village on behalf of Sungro Range public under Wokha District expressed their deep appreciation and gratitude to Neiphiu Rio Hon’ble Chief Minister, Imtilemba Sangtam, Minister Transport and Nk
  • BTS Tuensang administration clarifies
    This is a clarification to ‘A big play by school administration’ which appeared in some local dailies.Firstly, the tuition teachers are not bestowed any special rights or autonomous power to detain or promo
  • Voluntary Peer Educators and Mobile Population
    Weary, dust-covered, aged beyond his years, Ranjit Singh, 47, has been on the highways for the last 28 years, traveled over five lakh km. A regular sight on the highways, Ranjit has become a regular sight on th
  • Understanding ‘Yaruingam’ (People’s Rule)
    U A ShimrayI first read Bhattachryya Birendra Kumar’s novel Yaruingam (People’s Rule) when I was doing my MA (Final) in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in 1997. At that time I read it as just another nor
  • Unscrupulous MPs
    What is not possible elsewhere are possible in India. The most unthinkable and the most condemnable happen, or are allowed to happen. Unlike any other, the phenomena are much more evident in the political lands
  • A response to ‘Horn(y) & Horror Bill 2005’
    Calling North East India’s biggest tourism event as “Horn(y) and Horror Bill 2005” by Susan Waten Naga in her Sugar Coating column in Nagaland Post is a sort of sensational media hype technique to draw th
  • A journey to Nagalim for Christ
    Ashon ChamroyThe prime objective of National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) is ‘Nagalim For Christ’, and the mandate of Naga population is with the NSCN. However, there might be some issues in Indo-Nag
  • Culture Shock at Hornbill 2005
    Kezha WhisoMy memories of the Hornbill Festival 3 or 4 years ago spin around the Kohima Local Ground - hundreds milling around the stalls turning up dust more than anything else. And if Hornbill (Festival of Fe
  • Conduct of govt ‘officers’
    Don’t government servants have a duty and responsibility to the public AND the government, whom they are serving, to lead a decent and respectable life? What a person does in his or her private life is his af
  • It happened to me...
    There are times in life when one needs to speak up and to share one’s experiences so that the process of learning and healing can begin. I believe that this is one of those times.I am a young mother of 2 litt
  • An appeal to NPSC
    The final countdown has began and there is hardly a couple of days left to bid Adieu to the year 2005, since the last working day for the offices under the Government of Nagaland is 21st December; it has become
  • Who is this Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem?
    Allen Imsong“Who is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!” his disciples asked one another in fear and amazement when Jesus calmed the storm at Galilee. “Are you the Christ?” the high priest aske
  • ANSTA memorandum to Secretary, School Education-a genuine clarion call
    Education Department is the real source and the spring of all knowledge. Thus, it ought to be unique, an exemplary and be the guiding star to all other various departments in every functionary systems, perhaps
  • Lungwa Village: Lost in Transition
    Al NgullieLungwa Village which is situated about 42 kilometers east of Mon town towards Burma is, in all literality a definitive example of transitional reality, culturally, economically and otherwise. This sle
  • Quality education in elementary school
    The communization of elementary education is based on the principal of no work no pay. However in the real situation it is discouraging to note that most of the teachers attend to their duty only to please thei
  • SAPO write to Manipur/Nagaland Chief Ministers
    Sir, We respectfully state, as the authorities of the state government of Manipur are also aware, that one Vilhoukho Phira son of Lt. Dozelhou Phira of Kigwema Village in the Southern Angami Area of Kohima dist
  • Manipur and Manipuri
    U A ShimrayOfficially, the whole Indian population is divided into four category as- “General,” “Scheduled Castes (SC),” “Scheduled Tribes (ST)” and “Other Backward Classes (OBC).” Within this c
  • Nagas were never Indians
    We Nagas were never Indians and never will be. However, in spite of all the political conflict, bloodshed and loss of property all these years, we must not forget the good that India has done for us.India, as t
  • Open letter to GM (NST)
    We trust our lives in one man when we opt to travel in a vehicle driven by another. The situation is not different for the passengers of NST Bus plying between Kohima and Kiphire; more than 10 hours journey thr