Imlisanen Jamir
The streets have become one of the most important urban spaces that define the ethos of a community, a melting pot for the bustle of urban existence, like the one in ramshackle Dimapur. A lar
Tuesday, 18th November, 2025
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The maiden budget of the newly-formed People’s Democratic Alliance, at least on paper certainly makes for interesting reading. The budget itself was business as usual, but the Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio a
Witoubou Newmai The United Naga Council (UNC) and the State Government of Manipur will hold talks on the district creation issue on March 23, Friday, after a long hiatus. The last round of talk was held on N
Aheli Moitra Building solidarity can be like weaving a basket. You need to have the right parts of the plant for the purpose, they need to be sliced into the kind of strips required for the kind of basket to
Asangba Tzudir Exploring the Christian idea of ‘Resurrection,’ if Christ is to resurrect a thief, then what will be the ‘form’ and ‘content’ of the resurrected person. In
Imlisanen Jamir There is an often unnoticed image of Nagaland, viewed from the outside, which is devoid of the traditional ethnic clichés. And this view presents the state and itspeople with an opport
In 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made electoral history. Fielding 428 candidates to the 16th Lok Sabha election, the Party earned a humongous mandate by securing 282 seats riding on the so-called &lsqu
Witoubou Newmai We need to rethink our understanding of various discourses prevalent in our society. Perhaps, our discourses are guided by non sequiturs. We need to reason together why things are getting vee
The United Nations’ Human Development Indicators (HDI) has health, education and standard of living as the dimensions for human development. Other complex dimensions such as inequalities, poverty, human s
Dr Asangba Tzüdir With the installing of the PDA government, as a move towards anti VIP culture and austerity drives, it has banned the use of designation/name plates on vehicles, though for
Imlisanen Jamir ‘Cross at Your Own Risk’ is written in large bold red letters, yet too many commuters fly past the alarming signage as they cross the slumped Nagarjan Bridge over the Dhans
Barely before the dust settled from the ‘public swearing-in’ of the Neiphiu Rio led People's Democratic Alliance (PDA) government on March 9, its first cabinet meeting has already played its car
Witoubou Newmai The larger distressing part of our society is this - What is considered as the public conversation on common welfare of the people does not have any preponderance of genuineness. Our society
Aheli Moitra You may have noticed it in the pictures. Even before they stress the ‘P’ before ‘olitics,’ they begin to don a Nehru jacket. Since 2014, of course, its name has been tail
Dr Asangba Tzüdir A Reality Check on the faith of The Church Imaging can be said to be a process of producing an exact image of something. This process of image production takes a
Imlisanen Jamir It’s over now. All the hullabaloo about the challenge our political ‘representatives’ care the most is done with; and fast approaches another test that is of more substance.
Will Rio’s homecoming usher in change? The result to the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly election as projected might have narrowed down to the wire producing a fractured mandate. On expected line, r
Witoubou Newmai The relational gap between the collectivity of the public and the people at the helm has prevailed in the State for a long time now. Such state of affairs is generated due to a complete absen
Aheli Moitra A woman with a sling bag across her shoulder, pan across her teeth, stood beside the voters’ queue. Seeing the presence of election observers, she approached them and said, “Please w
Dr Asangba Tzüdir The dust may seem to have settled down from the election fervour but there are many unsettled particles that may disrupt the socio-political fabric of the society in the da
