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  • ‘Time for Nagas to Retrospect’
    J Churchhill TangkhulAlmost all societies have undergone some kind of suppression or oppression. However, while they have overcome their problems, we Nagas after scores and decades remain stagnant. Why? Our suf
  • Rediscovering the Worth of Narrative
    Sashi JamirA Shift: Modern to PostmodernThis world is changing rapidly and more so in the socio-cultural conditions. There is a definite shift in one’s perspective and attitude towards life. In the intellectu
  • ITFT Chandigarh et al
    Nagas are by nature self-sufficient and self-dependent to a great extent, because of which we largely lack the sense of the need to come out of our safety cocoon to face the competitive world outside. With rega
  • New President for Naga Hoho
    At the outset, it would be in order to pay homage to Late Mr Horangse Sangtam, a son of the soil, a good leader and a great human being, who worked tirelessly for his fellow Nagas, although his election and ten
  • True Love waits
    NBCC Youth OfficeThe idea of TLW stemmed from a frank and candid discussion on boys and sex by a group of junior high school girls in a Baptist Church in the USA. The youth minister, Richard Ross, listened inte
  • Trio sans actions
    This is in continuation to one Senior Officer, Deputy Registrar (Academic) Nagaland University whose opinion was shared requesting the Hon’ble Minister (Road & Bridges) in your daily dated 23/01/06 the ur
  • Leadership Challenge
    “Of all our human resources the most precious is the desire to improve” – AnonVictor J TA whole new millennium has dawned upon us, and the challenges of effective leadership have never been greater. For,
  • Creation of Parliamentary Secretaries vis-à-vis Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
    Creation of Parliamentary Secretaries by the State Governments has invited Public Interest Litigation elsewhere challenging legalities of such appointments. The Supreme Court while considering the issue as of p
  • Indo-Naga ceasefire: Merit and Demerits
    For more than 50 years, India, with all her military prowess could in no way subdue the Nagas. In 1997, a cease-fire agreement was signed between the two entities. Even after more than 8 years of cease-fire and
  • Let us be integral
    Rev. L. Souhie MhasiAs a people and as followers of Christ, our people should be integral instead of being fractional. Being a Christian, I do not regard any man as my enemy and I have no enemy in the world exc
  • On the verge of the unknown of 2006, The Nagas stand
    There lies before us (Nagas) the New Year of 2006 and by the grace of God; we have set our feet on it to go forth to possess it. We have not passed this way before. As the Israelites stood looking across into t
  • Colonial Paradigms and Naga Christianity
    Abraham LothaAt the First Naga Missionary Conference at Dimapur last year, Rev. Dr Phuveyi Dozo presented a paper on the need for a paradigm shift in mission. One of the methods of gospel communication, he sugg
  • Cast off the works of darkness
    As human nature, we have common sense to believe and accept that the educated and advance people will lead the nation in a good manner so as to promote and lift up our nation to a greater height like other civi
  • Shame! They call it Peoples Movement!
    Tungshang Ningreichon“You can fool some people sometime but you can’t fool all the people all the time” (Bob Marley).This aptly goes out for perpetrators who think that they will get away with anything an
  • Naga Organic Shop on run
    Romeo Gangmei“My health condition has been improving due to the intake of organic vegetables.” exclaimed one of the customers of the ‘Naga Organic Shop’. She further said we make blunder for the consump
  • ‘Protect & Preserve Sunday Holy Day’
    Nagaland is a Christian state. The people, they do, have a firm belief in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ; as well as His Second Coming. He is indeed coming but none can tell or predict “WHEN” He
  • Yellow page in Naga context
    Imti LongkumerWhen we talk about yellow page it may be a new name for our people and to my expectation only 10 percent of Naga people know what yellow page is! However, in other states and cities in India it is
  • The Freedom of Conscience
    Rev Kelhizulo LasuhHence, it is very important to think of freedom of conscience. As long as we give freedom to the conscience, we do right. But when we suppress conscience we suppress ourselves. Therefore, we
  • At worst Authoritarian
     I Meren Longkumer On Closure of Markets & Shops on SundaysClosure of shops on Sundays on the orders of the Chairman, Dimapur Municipal Councilor may have been made to observe Sabbath and on the p
  • Naga society: a study on paradoxes
    Ao Yemen ChangIf at all one wants to learn about a society full of paradoxes and one wishes to make research on paradox and paradoxical thinking and action then one need not go far or travel anywhere but should