Editorial

  • Forgetting how to read
    Imlisanen JamirThe story is always told the same way. Julius Caesars soldiers set fire to the harbor at Alexandria in 48 B.C.E. and the flames spread inland to the great library, taking with them the accumulate
  • When love without justice becomes sentimentality
    In a chapter titled - The Spirit and the Forms of Love - Daniel Day Williams, a theologian, professor and author has cautioned that love without regard for the terms of justice is sentimentality. Few societies
  • Sunday Markets & Sabbath Breaking
    Dr Asangba Tzudir The question of Sabbath observance is not new among Naga Christians. Historical records indicate that as early as 1873, newly converted Christians who refrained from working on the Sabbat
  • Not Mere Seizures and Slogans: Nagaland's Drug Challenge
    The latest Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) report, identifying Nagaland among India's frontline states in an evolving narcotics trade, should dispel any lingering notion that the State is merely a transit point.
  • Debate on Rice Beer & Christian Witness
    Dr Asangba Tzudir From the 1886 Assam Mission Jubilee Conference to the NLTP ActThe papers and discussions from the Jubilee Conference of the Assam Mission of the American Baptist Missionary Union, held at
  • The price of someone else’s weather
    Imlisanen JamirSometime in the weeks ahead, a road in Nagalands hill districts will be washed out. This is not a prediction requiring any particular insight. It happens most monsoon seasons, and it will happen
  • Why won’t the Church speak?
    Nagaland calls itself a Christian state. Crosses crown its hills and the largest church council in the state alone counts over 1700 churches with more than 700,000 members. Yet few pressing crises are tearing a
  • Census 2027 and Nagaland: A Shared Responsibility for Our Future
    Dr Asangba TzudirCensus 2027 is not a routine government exercise but a defining moment for every citizen of Nagaland to contribute responsibly towards shaping the future of the State. Looking from the broader
  • Bridging immunisation gaps in Nagaland
    By Moa JamirThe launching of National Immunisation Day (NID) on June 28, during which Nagaland aims to administer oral polio vaccine to more than 1.43 lakh children below five years, is more than an annual publ
  • A veiled oil deal
    Imkong WallingAssam playing à la USA, or Russia, in the sub-national geopolitics of Indias far north-eastern region has more or less become a tradition. The asymmetric powerplay gets evidenced when the most in
  • The Man Who Would Not Sit Down
    Imlisanen JamirAt Estadio Akron in Guadalajara, a man stands through ninety minutes of football without once taking his seat. While the crowd around him sings, dances and tracks the run of play, he keeps his ri
  • Faith vs. Reality: Justice deficit in Naga churches
    Nagaland is a land shaped profoundly by the Christian faith. Churches fill every village. Crosses crown the hills. Sunday mornings bring communities together in a way few other forces can. And yet, for all this
  • The Need to Self-Regulate Learning
    Dr Asangba TzudirArtificial Intelligence has ushered in an era of transformation in the landscape of education. Students today have access to an unprecedented wealth of knowledge and information right in their
  • Where is NSL?
    Moa JamirTo say football is passionately followed in Nagaland would be an understatement.As the FIFA World Cup 2026 unfolds on the other side of the globe, excitement across the State is palpable. From kitchen
  • Alcoholism Among Police Personnel
    Dr Asangba TzudirWhile it is not a new discover, the recent disclosure by a senior police officer that nearly one-fourth of Nagaland Police personnel may be struggling with alcohol or drug addiction is both ala
  • When institutions become venues
    Imlisanen JamirThere is a photograph now circulating of the South Lawn of the White House fitted with a 92-foot steel octagon, floodlit and roaring, while the President of the United States sat ringside. It was
  • Journalism in Nagaland: Accountability Bypassed
    A democracy is only as healthy as the information that flows through it. In Nagaland, that flow is neither fully blocked nor fully free, it moves in fits and starts, channelled by tribal loyalties, financial de
  • The Priceless Has a Price Tag?
    Dr Asangba TzudirA recent social media trend and which have been widely circulated states that the Supreme Court now recognizes their unpaid household work and which has been valued at Rs. 30,000 per month. The
  • Clarity and consultation matter
    By Moa JamirTwo recent government announcements have drawn attention not only for their substance, or lack of it, but also for the manner in which they were communicated. One concerns the proposed ban on tobacc
  • The illusion of proscription
    Imkong WallingYou will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. - Thomas Sowell The quote rings true when propped up agains
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