Editorial

  • Modernization
    Let’s examine whether the theory of modernization has failed based on the increasing number of conflict based around ethnicity. The modernization theory promoted the principle that with greater political and
  • Lessons from Kosovo
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorAt a time when Nagas are pondering the future road map—where to go, what to do, how to do it and when—perhaps we need to look at other people’s inspiring stories about peac
  • Quality of Democracy
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorThe Speaker of the Lok Sabha Meira Kumar adjourned the House of the people on Wednesday, two days ahead of schedule. Except for the Finance Bills, no other legislation could be c
  • Losing hearts and minds
    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
  • The Violence of Peace
    The State’s strategy to exercise territorial and political control over indigenous peoples is not limited to military campaigns. The Naga experience has from time to time been punctuated by agreements. The in
  • Dialogue across Civilizations
    Dialogue across civilizations is no longer a political option; it is an essential and historical imperative in the current realities. In today’s world, a peoples’ that can learn how to deal with cultural pl
  • Assault on Peaceful Co-existence
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorWe need to speak out against the culture of violence and intolerance that has come to grip us. Reports of physical violence and assault meted out to innocent civilians from time
  • Culture of Corruption and Extortion
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorNagas have become so used to corruption and extortion from within that for most of us this has become a way of life. All of us are aware of the fact that Nagaland State does not
  • Naga “reforms” and the East Asian “miracle”
    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
  • The Naga Heart
    The Naga heart is the pulse, the heart beat and the life blood of the people’s existence. It is the thread that runs through the Naga peoples’ future, past and present. It is the unifying factor and the cri
  • Transcending the Past
    For close to 190 years at a stretch starting with the British colonial project and followed by their present political subjugation both within and without, the Nagas have not been able to freely express and exe
  • Problem Solving Family
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorMany well meaning Naga people from all walks of life have been making routine reference to how our society, politics, government etc ought to reform and become better so that we
  • Land and Development
    Mindset Change & Strong Law RequiredAlong LongkumerConsulting EditorA lot has been stated on the land holding system practiced amongst the Nagas and how this is a boon as well as a bane to us. While in the
  • A land of “selfish” rights
    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
  • New Realities
    Imagine for a moment that States, the United Nations and the international community were to recognize and implement self-determination as a moral political position by giving it primacy over State territorial
  • Beyond Negotiations
    In a multi-lateral world where bi-lateral negotiations have been unable to resolve conflicts based on sovereignty and self-determination, the process of relying on the peoples’ will as a means to unlock deadl
  • Cost Cutting Discipline
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorWith the formation of a new government and also a new Chief Secretary in place, some welcome policy measures have been taken with a view to streamline the functioning of the gove
  • Transparency & Open Govt
    Along LongkumerConsulting EditorIn a recent news report, which has come as a pleasant surprise, the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been reported to have lower assets than most of his cabinet colleagues.
  • Nagaland’s oil recapped
    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
  • Media & Information
    The power of information has impacted human affairs throughout history, thereby placing the holder of vital information in a position to make critical and decisive interventions that can affect many people’s
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