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Aheli MoitraOn June 23, 2003, exactly a decade ago, Showkat Ahmed Paul from Lawaypora in Kashmir disappeared while on his way to college. At 22 years of age, Showkat was picked up from Srinagar in a white Sumo
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Aheli MoitraMyths are constructed with oft repeated imagery. This imagery is often fixed depending on who propagates it, creating myths that come to define who we are. Home Minister of Nagaland, G. Kaito A
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Aheli MoitraBright eyed dark skinned trim mustachioed 32-year-old Sukumar, driving a “van” in the estuaries of Bengal steers from tourist talk with a bunch of tourists his age and settles on his idea of jus
Aheli Moitra It is rare to hear of Chhattisgarh, or the people who inhabit it. A catastrophe a year brings it back to our psyche, its jungles more remote than here, its people more alienated. They are so p-
Aheli MoitraThere are lines everywhere. The thick line between rich and poor, the fine line between truth and fiction, the sticky line between order and anarchy, the primitive line between man and woman, the ti
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Aheli MoitraA recent piece written for The Asian Age attempts to warm the Look East Policy (LEP) egg but lands up poaching it. It puts together data produced by the likes of South Asia Terrorism Portal, touts f
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Aheli MoitraEarlier this month, the Government in New Delhi approved a Rs. 11,000 crore-project for the modernization of central paramilitary forces. The latter include the CRPF, BSF, ITBP, CISF, SSB, NSG and t
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Aheli MoitraA strange, seemingly innocuous, thought was presented at the 25th general conference of the Naga Students’ Federation. The chief secretary of Nagaland State, speaking at the closing event, pointed
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Aheli MoitraThe land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement bill in India is now closer to becoming an act than it ever was. The bill struggled its way through six years of deliberations around the single
Aheli MoitraDimapur | April 23When Rachunliu G. Kamei attended the World Congress of Herpetology (study of amphibians and reptiles) in Canada in August last year, she was termed a rarity. And rare it is, even f-
Aheli MoitraTwo time zones mark the discourse on oil, and thus rights, in Nagaland. The first is 1994, and the second 2003. Just before May 1994, when the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) off
‘Oil is not wealth, it has dirtied our environment and the government’Aheli MoitraWokha | April 11 As oil continues to seep out of the ground, the people of Changpang in Wokha remain sensitive to the i-
Aheli MoitraA Naga man, on his return from Khamti (Burma), held his hand out to demonstrate the ring on his finger. Though without elegant craftsmanship, it had gold and jade from the banks of the River Chindwi
Vibrant colors and log drums mark Aoleang in Mon Aheli MoitraMon | April 5 An old man in glasses, shorts and traditional finery could not control his enthusiasm—he insisted on beating the log drum a-
Aheli MoitraIn 2003, the action of an individual to assert his rights brought a powerful judgment from the Bombay High Court. Dhawal Chotai, born with cerebral palsy, was denied three extra hours to write his C
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Aheli MoitraIf you ask the elders of Yangkhullen (Ze-Mnui) village, they will suggest their settlement to be 2000 years of yore. This narration of history will be countered by archaeologists. Rock weathering su
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Aheli MoitraThe thick line between giving rights and denying them cannot be Article 371 (a). “If any development has to happen in this state, the article will have to be revoked,” retorted a state gove
Aheli MoitraDimapur | March 17Nagaland’s water trouble is not just locally severe, it is widespread. For people closest to the capital to farthest, access to water remains wishful. The Department of Public He-
Aheli MoitraWater is precious; we must always save water.The child next door, in class 2 now, reads this out too loud every morning. Yet, every day, he forgets to turn the tap off. His mother replicates the beh
