January 25, 1987: Doordarshan begins screening Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan every Sunday at 9.30am.
July 30, 1987: Rajiv Gandhi is assaulted in Colombo by a Sri Lankan sailor in a Guard of Honour ceremony,
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From October 2007 to April 2008, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) conducted a five-country assessment, from a gender perspective, of the impact of selected transport projects on the spread of HIV. The assessmen
It is not surprising at all to learn that Nagaland’s urban population continue to witness an upward spiral. This was also the case when the last census report in 2001 was released. According to the latest
The 20th century was unprecedented in the sense that it saw the worst forms of violence, in which more people have been killed by a combination of technology and politics, than in any other century of human exi
The issue of corruption in India and the concern to address it, this really came to the public domain when in the late 1980s the then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi made the frank admission that out of e
The best physical spaces in human civilization are reserved for the elite and the dead. I’m not discounting the fact that our rural areas, and villages enshrined within them, aren’t absolutely gorge
A few years ago one of the representative deputed from Delhi to help set up an institute in Nagaland commented that there is no system here in Nagaland and that no amount of effort is going to work unless off c
The thought of seeing the top leaders from the different Naga political groups coming together in some form or the other and resolving to speak with one voice to the Government of India, has always been the hop
As part of the seminar on the topic ‘Atrocities against women’ held recently at Kohima, the Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) has issued a 25-point recommendation pointing out the need to t
Four decades and two years ago, to the week, a small town in upstate New York became the site of a music festival that was to change the lives of many people in the English-speaking world and beyond. On August
Following the embarrassing London riots where young people ran amok destroying public property and looting, the British Prime Minister Davis Cameron has spoken out against the culture of negligence and irrespon
If you bother to look closely at how Western society or computer programming thinks and functions, the innate similarities between their philosophies will dawn quicker on you than a sunrise fiesta. The quicknes
As we all know, for the Naga people in particular, the Church is the main foundation which gives sustenance and support to everything else around it—whether it is the common people, our tribal bodies, civ
Up until the morning of August 16, 2011, everything seemed to be in balance i.e. the public perception with regard to the respective positions of the Congress led UPA government and Team Anna Hazare on the cont
As expected with the monsoon season, our roads and highways have been badly affected with landslides reported from across the State. One can very well imagine the condition of our roads in other parts of the St
On May 26, 2011 Serbian police entered a house in Lazarevo, situated in the north of the country and arrested an old man. The old man was General Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb militia that was
“Long years ago we made a pledge with destiny and now the time has come when we shall redeem our pledge, not in full measure but substantially… when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and f
Well, what about it? As far as I’m concerned freedom doesn’t exist as an independent. If we’re talking soaps, shampoos and combs we get free on a purchase—costs there are not exactly
August 6, 1945 is the day when the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima and three days later, a second bomb devastated Nagasaki. “Let all the souls here rest in peace, as we will ne
How does one construct the memories of yesterday which is the past; how does one engage with today that is the present; and how does one prepare to face the mysteries of tomorrow? Perhaps the underpinning predi
