Editorial

  • Solidarity & Reconciliation
    Aheli Moitra The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), at a meeting with Dimapur-based working professionals on March 9, was alert and listening. What could the professionals bring to the Naga Reconciliation
  • Solidarity & Reconciliation
    Aheli Moitra   The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), at a meeting with Dimapur-based working professionals on March 9, was alert and listening. What could the professionals bring to the Naga Recon
  • The Other Side of Development Expenditure
    1,25,255 Employees on Nagaland Govt Payroll   As per the Schedule Indicating the ‘Total Expenditure on Salaries and Allowances’ of the Explanatory Memorandum to the Budget’ (2019-20) a tota
  • Selling empowerment
    Imlisanen Jamir   Behold! The advertising industry, once bent on selling us sex is now selling us its disgust with sexism.  With strong empowering messages, if we take a look at our Instagr
  • Promises, Broken & Kept
    1 year of PDA Government in retrospect   “Well begun is half-done,” noted Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio in the compendium of ‘One year of People’s Democratic Alliance Government in
  • Securing Naga’s societal value
    Witoubou Newmai     We admit that we have been submerged in the discourse on the Naga political issue ad nauseam over several decades now. The discourses mostly, however, circle around 'settlem
  • Understanding, empathy, action
    Aheli Moitra   Living in the most privileged of Naga areas – in Nagaland State that is—most people can easily get news and information published in a newspaper. With five English dailies and at l
  • The Conditional Naga Political Solution
    Dr. Asangba Tzüdir   'Final Agreement Could be Signed Tomorrow'   At a time when the pursuit of a ‘Naga Political Solution’ seems to have gained momentum, the Naga Hoho, NMA and N
  • No end to the formalin fish saga
    Imlisanen Jamir   There seems to be no end to the formalin laced fish saga. It just keeps on taking twists and turns, meandering along and arriving at no conclusion. Last summer and fall, there wa
  • Fake News and FIR
    Dr. Asangba Tzüdir   Under Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, an FIR relating to the commission of a cognizable offence is recorded and based on which the investigation is commenced. The
  • 'A people friendly budget'
    The passing of budget in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly on February 26 failed to evoke widespread discussion among the general masses, apart from the customary expression of derision over the burgeoning budg
  • Managing a ‘complex divorce’
    Witoubou Newmai What have India and Pakistan become following what Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre famously christened, their most “complex divorce in history”? The aftermath of the complexi
  • Managing a ‘complex divorce’
    Witoubou Newmai   What have India and Pakistan become following what Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre famously christened, their most “complex divorce in history”? The aftermath of the comple
  • Temple of Psephocracy 
    Aheli Moitra Chief Minister of Nagaland State, Neiphiu Rio, has crowned the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) as a “Temple of Democracy” for the State. He was addressing the last sitting of the
  •  Naga Political Solution 
    Feelings, Trust and Reconciliation  Dr. Asangba Tzudir The Global Naga mass rally was recently held at Delhi to demand immediate “political solution that is honourable and acceptable.” Th
  • Schools without administrators
    Imlisanen Jamir It was recently alarmingly revealed that out of a total of 246 Government High Schools (GHS) in Nagaland, 38 are currently running without a headmaster/headmistress (HMs) while 32 are without
  • A great villainy 
    Education is a great leveller, one is often cajoled. Given the state of affairs in Nagaland, it won’t be an outlandish assertion to affirm otherwise. Two latest revelations make one lost confidence in the
  • The Scheduled Tribe issue 
    Witoubou Newmai The other lurking spectre in Northeast  When plumes of smoke and dust from the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill conundrum are still settling in the Northeast India region, another spectre
  • String for the garland
    Aheli Moitra Last weekend, the Heritage Publishing House in Dimapur released two new books, one by its oldest author and one by its youngest author. On Saturday, February 16, it launched Prof. Temsula Ao&rsq
  • The Untidiness of Modernity
    Dr. Asangba Tzüdir ‘Nagaising’ a Dangerous Modern Are Nagas here at home becoming modern? If certain facets like ‘lifestyle’ are to set the parameter, then, one may say yes. A
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