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  • Arianna Huffington: profile of the multimillion-dollar blogger
    Arianna Huffington will be president and editor-in-chief of the new Huffington Post Media Group. (Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP) Less than six years after co-founding her eponymous news website, Arianna Huf
  • The Story of the Three Trees
    In 2001, I was in Delhi pursuing my post-graduate studies in the discipline of political science under Delhi University. During this time I used to reside in a rented flat near Batra Cinema hall in Mukherjee Na
  • God so Father so also God since Father
    Father’s day has begun on 19th June 1910 at Washington by the named Sonora Smart Dodd. Later every 3rd Sunday of June celebrated as Father’s Day throughout the world. Everything has their own begi
  • “Dimapur Crying: People Prayed to stop rain”
    Water is vital to life. No animal or plant life can exist without it. The land will not yield without supply of adequate water. Yet the same water causes havoc and becomes a terror in the form of floods when th
  • The discreet charm of civil society
    The 1990s saw marketing whiz kids at the largest English daily in the world steal a term then in vogue among sexually discriminated minorities: PLUs — or People Like Us. Media content would henceforth be
  • Outsourcing democracy promotion
    Turkey joined a unique club of leaders this week, one that a weary America has long nurtured. It decided to become the kind of regional power – one with a strong economy and an advancing democracy –
  • The Schemes of Networking Companies
    As a matter of fact that in the North Eastern Region particularly in Manipur and Nagaland States one of the major investments made by the public are made into the various schemes of Net- Working Companies, whic
  • Fathers Day
    To Daddy!   I always thought I got my gift from you- the gift with which I learnt to treasure a Pen; How you inspired me to write my first letter! The memory, with which seasons have passed; and I’ve
  • You can run but you can't hide
    In the middle of India’s anti-corruption agitation fuelled by ‘civil society’, one is reminded of the theory of information-blitzing and opinion-building that underwrites the practice. Much of
  • V-VIP’s, Police, Vehicles, & Rules
    Of late we see a spate of activity in Kohima town where police personnel have started hauling up vehicles with illegal number plates. An editorial the other day commented that the Police are indeed not as tooth
  • Reconciliation and disintegration in the Nagas
    The Naga National Groups do not seem to have realized how the Naga common layman looks at them. They may justify themselves of their actions but the common men view them very disgusted at the ease with which a
  • The scandal of France: Power & shame
    The arrest in New York of the head of the International Monetary Fund and leading French politician on charges of sexual misconduct is a confusing and revelatory moment in France's public life. Whatever the leg
  • Cellphones—The World’s Eyes & Ears on Protests
    For some of the protesters facing Bahrain’s heavily armed security forces in and around Pearl Square in Manama, the most powerful weapon against shotguns and tear gas has been the tiny camera inside their
  • Letter to a Daughter of God
    As you go out into an unknown placeA place where demons dwellsI pray for God to be your guide.It is an important moment of your lifeAn opportunity for you to excel in the government of GodRemember all eyes are
  • Theatre Trip to Beijing
    As a 2nd year student of National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, I had the opportunity to attend the "Asian Theatre School Meet" from 17th to 22nd May, 2011, at Beijing, China. The festival, precis
  • The New Religion of Global Warming
    A preacher is standing on a rooftop during a flood, the water up around his knees. A boat comes by, and an emergency worker yells, "Hey preacher, get in." "No, thank you," the preacher says.
  • Talking Peace or Peace Talks?
    The Government of India knows very well the Nagas want to govern themselves on the basis of their right to self determination. They have stood firm on this right since India decisively incorporated then separat
  • Media social networks are no match for Google News
    Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, was in town a few weeks back, making an interesting point about the social networking site's picture uploader. Facebook didn't, she said, have the most
  • Integration Question
    Close to the heels of Communist Party of India taking a parochial stand in stopping Nagaland chief minister, Neiphiu Rio and other NPF legislators from entering Manipur, AB Bardhan, CPI general secretary dissec
  • The Arab revolutions & al-Qaida
    The Arab revolutions of 2011 have exposed the weakness and indeed meaninglessness of the idea of al-Qaida in the eyes of many Arabs and Muslims. The effect of Osama bin Laden’s death on 2 May is to reinfo
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