Fifty years ago, 17 African countries threw off the brutal and degrading yoke of colonialism. The 50th anniversary of African national liberation is an opportunity

The Clash of Civilizations Revisited

Samuel P. Huntington’s oft-pilloried work, “The Clash of Civilizations”, has long lost its original academic potency. However it has growing leverage at the grass-roots level where the clash has been reinterpreted to justify growing islamophobia...

Story of the original Navajo Code Talker

This Nov. 29, 2009 photo shows Chester Nez talking about his time as a Navajo Code Talker in World War II from his home in ...

Nagas and neighbours

The recent spats that have been going on between Nagaland and its neighbours, whether with Manipur or Assam, are worrying. This is not to say ...

Robbing Hoods: Men in Yellowblack

The choice sentiment, then, was simply to slap him significantly hard that he wouldn’t even recognize his mother for a good while. Rs. 200 for ...

The World’s Biggest Emergency

We can't carry on like this: an emergency of incredible proportions only half funded; vital days used up talking about aid fatigue -- and what ...

Sexual harassment in Egypt: Why men blame women

Egyptian men aren’t wired to instinctively blame victims of sexual harassment – they are taught such falsities. Proposed legislation would help, but what’s really needed is an ideological shift....

A childhood free from tuberculosis (TB)

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major killer of children in poor countries. Over 250,000 children develop TB and every one minute two children die of TB ...

China has money, America has guns

China's rise to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy has released the usual burst of Gibbonian pronouncements on the rise and fall of nations ...

Why Hollywood movies with smoking scenes need an R rating

A report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds Hollywood has cut its depictions of smoking by half from 2005 -- which helps explain why the percent of teens trying cigarettes also went down during the same period....

The end of the free Internet?

Asking online users to pay for content hasn’t worked so far, but iPads and smart phones may change their minds about the free Internet...

The Govt, the People and its Children: Some Concerns

As I write this issue concerning our Govt, our People and our Children in difficult circumstances in need of care and protection, the shocking picture ...

Ground Zero mosque debate swirls in world capitals

The Ground Zero mosque debate is garnering increased attention in the world press, with Muslims coming down on both sides of the proposed center two blocks from the former World Trade Center....

Life without antibiotics

Antibiotics are a bedrock of modern medicine. But in the very near future, we are going to have to learn to live without them once again. ...

Eastern Awakening?

With recent attention shifting to the Sri Lankan north, the east has remained excluded from post-war revivalUnder a full moon, I was on the night ...

Indonesia’s Far East: Security & Politics

A tide of protest in Indonesia’s easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua is a challenge to Jakarta, says Charles Reading: find a new security paradigm, or face increasing radicalism in the country’s poorest region...

Naga Christian at the Cross roads

Naga Christian is today standing in the valley of decision. He is caught in the turmoil of political revolution and national reconstruction. These changes are ...

A thought on Liquor Prohibition

The recent State level consultative meeting on Prohibition initiated by State Govt. without inviting NBCC (the Premier Organisation on whose behest Prohibition came into being) ...

Spiritual Renewal

…verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.John 3:3Rebirth is usually associated with incarnation ...