Editorial

  • Reconciliation is key to inclusion
    A political solution on its own does not necessarily lead to peace. While it is a critical contributor towards enhancing the possibilities of long-term sustainable peace, it needs to be complemented with other
  • Football in Nagaland - A Collective Failure
    Moa Jamir Football - a game with unmatched global reach - is also ardently followed in Nagaland. Such is the passion for football that the people have fostered lifelong affinities with certain teams and play
  • Let's start a two level reconciliation process
    Witoubou Newmai   For so long Naga society has allowed its situation to be conveniently limited to the interests and viewpoints of ‘others.’ In the process, the ‘Naga vision’ and
  • Do children have rights?
    Aheli Moitra    One dusty afternoon in Dimapur, some of us walked through the bumpy mechanics’ galli that connects Circular Road (now Tajen Ao Road) to Khermahal.   A drama was unfurl
  • Building Roads, Bridging Communities
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   In Nagaland, what is statistically classed as a road is hard to be considered a road in reality. Similarly, a road full of potholes cannot be called a road but more appropriatel
  • Investing in our shared humanity and destiny!
    Today, we are living at a time where the most basic value to respect human dignity and human worth is threatened. Real borders are not the boundaries drawn on maps. The real borders are in human hearts and betw
  • A face-saving exercise
    Moa Jamir   On the heels of hosting the 4th Northeast Connectivity Summit 2017 in Kohima (September 22-23), the Nagaland Government is slated to host a ‘Colloquium on Road Connectivity’ this
  • Is our society ‘imprisoned by illusion’?
    Witoubou Newmai   A society ‘imprisoned by illusion’ limits itself to knee-jerk response to things only whenever it is being pinched, while it continues to find charms in rhetoric. This is b
  • A century of referendums
    Aheli Moitra   The Kurds have done it. So have the Catalans. The Scots did it too.   Starting from the 1950s, the Nagas did it, followed by Guinea, Samoa, Algeria, Rhodesia, Comoros, Djibouti,
  • ‘Why Clean Elections will fail’
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   Looking at the different voices of the people in relation to Clean Election, one gets caught between hope and despair. The need for change from the present ‘Naga condition
  • Politics of Justice: Equality & Equity
    The worldview and praxis of Equality and Equity advocate for the end of hierarchy. Fundamentally, this is the goal of any revolution to topple structures of elitism and classism that cause societal divides. Whi
  • Who's the cleanliest of them all?
    Moa Jamir   Reducing Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to publicity is a tragedy On October 2, 2014, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan , a mission to clean India’
  • Long term policy to address illegal immigration required
    Witoubou Newmai   The growing ineffectiveness in addressing the issue of ‘illegal immigration’ in our region can only be reversed when we are prepared to go beyond the slogans and rhetoric.
  • East is east; West is west
    Aheli Moitra   The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies was founded by a British royal charter on the last day of 1600. An enterprise of London based businesspersons
  • Reconciliation at a ‘Limit Threshold’
    Dr. Asangba Tzüdir   The ‘resurgence’ of Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) as seen through their public statement has once again brought to fore the need for Naga Reconciliation. Besi
  • Many talkers Few listeners
    In the book “When Man Listens” Cecil Herbert Rose tells us, “When men and women listen, God speaks. When God speaks, men and women are changed. When men and women are changed, nations change.&
  • Clear and present danger in Nagaland
    Moa Jamir   Two forces are rapidly converging, posing ‘clear and present danger’ to the state of Nagaland - the issue of migration and the rise of populist narratives.   The two issu
  • The quest for an identity
    Witoubou Newmai   “Oh, how I hated this columnist who thought he knew everything, who knew even when and what he didn’t know, who had learned to turn even his defects and shortcomings into c
  • Practicing nonviolence
    Aheli Moitra   Kazu Haga had an awakening at the age of 17 when he walked, with a Japanese Buddhist order dedicated to peace and justice, from Massachusetts to New Orleans. The walk was part of a longer
  • Can social media offer constructive dialogue?
    Dr Asangba Tzüdir   Internet and social media have come to ‘rule’ our lives and it has become a difficult proposition to think of a life without internet and social media especiall
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