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  • Better dead than Red?
    As an ex-Communist, any critique I make of the Left runs the risk of being dismissed as the rant of a renegade. However, today the number of ex-Communists in the world probably exceeds that of the remaining fai
  • Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
    You couldn’t fall farther or faster than Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He was not only the head of the International Monetary Fund. Until last weekend, he was almost certainly within a year of being elected pre
  • The bank-SHG model of microfinance in India
    As of 2010, the total number of SHGs directly linked to banks stood at 69.53 lakh, with a savings amount of Rs 6,199 crore and loan outstanding of Rs 28,038 crore, according to the recently released ‘Stat
  • Russia: who will be the next Prez?
    Neither Vladimir Putin nor Dmitry Medvedev has ruled out running in the presidential election of 2012, and neither has stated clearly he will contest. With 10 months to go before the next presidential election
  • Redefining security: human rights and economic justice
    Three weeks ago, US President Obama touted the killing of Osama bin Laden as a victory in the global war on terror and a symbol that “justice has been done.”  Thousands celebrated publicly acro
  • The Genesis of Naga History
    In the year 2006 I was serving as a teacher in a reputed government high school under Mokokchung district. During this time I observed that some of the students in class 10 of this school were very interested a
  • What women can learn from Cindy Crawford
    Pity the poor supermodel! In an interview with Parade magazine, Cindy Crawford says "I do feel like an outsider now. I just saw the CoverGirl commercial with Taylor Swift and I thought, 'Wow, it is so hard
  • The Industrial and Agricultural Roots of Degenerative Disease
    “But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first,” (Matthew 19:30.) Those words of Jesus hold a lot of hope for Nagaland. The very lack of development to be found here is actually
  • Can America Learn From Others?
    In the March 3 issue of the Time magazine Fareed Zakaria analyzed America 's status in the world. To his own rhetorical question – ‘is America #1?' he answered: “ Yes, the U.S. remains the wor
  • SECRETS OF OUR NATION
    Every good deed and perfect gifts is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17Every individual likes to think that they are the best a
  • Privatising war
    The United Arab Emirates has exposed huge loopholes in international criminal law by announcing a $529 million contract with the Reflex Responses company for an 800-strong force of foreign mercenaries, which co
  • Why Do People Play Sports
    In today’s fast changing world we can’t deny sports as the ‘Universal Language’, because nothing contributes like sports can do to humanity. Some people may not easily agree to my opinio
  • Youths and politics
    Through this column, I would like to enlighten my fellow Naga youths -the context of politics in our day today life. I’ am not an educationist or a writer, but as an aspirant political leader, I felt it a
  • Crime not shame: challenging the ideology of rape
    When American feminist Susan Brownmiller published ‘Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape’ in 1975, thousands of women all around the world who’d been victims of war-time rape were suffering p
  • Death Of Osama Laden And Changing World
    The declaration of death (2nd May, 2011) of Osama bin Laden is mired with many a mysteries, It is also full of blatant violations of International law. It does have a profound impact on the future of global pol
  • Rapture didn't happen May 21, but many believe world will end one day
    Saturday came and went with no reports of the Rapture happening -- as was predicted by one Christian group.But from the Christian militia Hutaree to a preacher with a TV show out of Rochester Hills, the belief
  • Rapid deforestation & lucrative timber trade
    The recent escalation in the price of timber at Kohima and Dimapur to at all time high of Rs 500/ (five hundred) only pre cefty of class A timber has not generated any public protest or demand for justification
  • Mending the Food Security Act
    Two years have passed since the Central government announced that a draft National Food Security Act (NFSA) would be posted on the Food Ministry's website “very soon.” After prolonged deliberations,
  • Making sanitation as popular as cricket
    700 million Indians have cell phones, but 638 million still don’t have access to proper sanitation. At this year’s South Asian Conference on Sanitation, social solutions to the problem were discusse
  • Politicians fear the ex-factor
    Political wives are not as docile as they used to be. In the old days, no sooner had a male politician been caught with his trousers down than there came the routine announcement that his wife was standing by h
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