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  • The Truth about Red Meat
    Does eating red meat increase the risk of dying from heart disease or cancer? It’s a question that keeps coming up, fueled by research and high-profile campaigns by advocacy groups on both sides of the de
  • Women Redefining Democracy
    The women who attended the first international conference of the Nobel Women's Initiative: Women Redefining Peace in the Middle East and Beyond agreed that “the root causes of armed violence are inequalit
  • May 21, 2011: Beginning of the end of the world?
    Herold Camping, President of the Family Radio Christian Network who wrote a self-published book in 1992 proclaimed that the END TIME would come on September 4, 1994 but when it (Rapture) failed to occur on the
  • The meaning of peace in the 21st century
    An essential lesson of the age is that governments acquire their legitimacy through votes of people and respect for human rights, and that this is the best guarantee of security. Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human-rig
  • Need for a coherent policy
    True to form, the Government of India has been caught on the back foot over the pricing of petroleum products. Earlier this year, it formally delinked petrol from the administered pricing mechanism while retain
  • Powerful Prescriptions
    Recently, while visiting the United States, I experienced an incredible providence.  Through a series of remarkable events, I found myself talking on the telephone with the daughter of one of the first wes
  • In NE coal towns, many miners are children
    Perhaps thousands of underage workers as young as 8, lured by the wages, leave school to work in coal mines under perilous conditions. The country officially upholds mining safety standards and forbids child la
  • His Holiness Shri Jayendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Swamiji
    A Profile-Jagdamba Mall His Holiness Shri Jayendra Saraswati is the 69th Acharya of Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. He was initiated into Sayasashram on March 22, 1954 at the age of 19. F
  • Where’s the British monarchy headed?
    It is often said that the Americans and the French “love” the British royal family because they don't have to “suffer” it or pay for its extravagant lifestyle. “Ask us we have to b
  • Big Brother rules
    Whatever the intention behind them, the new rules framed last month under the Information Technology Act, 2000 are likely to have a chilling effect on the development of the Internet as a medium of communicatio
  • Rethink growth with forest capital
    Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discuss
  • An Evening with Methaneilie
    It was in the late summer of 1991. News began to circulate in our neighborhood that Methaneilie was going to give a two-night musical concert at the Kohima Village Council hall. (I think during those years this
  • Was it a replay of the old rabbit and turtle in race?
    Barely 50 year old child in Naga Politics entered to into race with the eighty year old strong man of Naga Politics- When SC Jamir comes to the foray, it would be a straight question for the Nagas. Wither Jamir
  • Indo-Naga political solution by 2011
    The Government of India has hinted that a solution acceptable to both sides maybe round the corner by the end of 2011. An honourable solution is expected according to NSCN (IM). The problem and the irony I see
  • Bribes: A small but radical idea
    To ask a people burdened with systemic bribery to accept bribe-giving as legal is to demand they accept corruption and the existing structures of power and inequity it flows from. Let's get this right. The Chie
  • Soon: India’s first REDD project
    INDIA’S first pilot project to be recognised under the UN’s mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) could be in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya.A watershed proje
  • Bengal politics: Mamata Banerjee juggernaut sinks Marxist Armada
    The west Bengal assembly elections results went on expected line. The impregnable Marxist fortress for decades, at long last, crumbled after 34 years. A single woman behind the downfall of the Marxist in Bengal
  • Changing the face of chess
    Model grandmaster plans his next move to change the face of chessEven its staunchest defenders would struggle to describe chess as sexy, but the growing stature of Magnus Carlsen could change all that. Not only
  • Conflict Transformation: Best Options to our Crises
    “We are living today in tomorrow’s world with yesterday’s ideas.”  Milovan Djalas. Bitterly trying to get disputes resolved in our favor through shortcut methods and brute force, wi
  • Repeal AFSPA, Free Sharmila
    A Call for Nationwide Protest Dear friends,Perhaps you are aware that the hunger fast of Irom Sharmila Chanu has crossed 10 years, with a demand for repeal of AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. She h
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