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  • Glad Tidings Come in Times of Terror
    Jennifer Powell Mcnutt Christianity Today  It might seem like a strange thing to say, but my adult life has been consistently marked by the terrorist attacks of our era. I was out of college and in my
  • Christmas as a Movement: A Critical Reflection
    Thepfulhoukho Kuotsu The unlocking phase of Covid-19 Pandemic is a welcome sigh of relief for many people walking out from the dark tunnel of self-isolation and nightmare. At the end of it, a slim yet promis
  • Becoming Baptists
    Remembering the Church foundation day in Nagaland Dr Asangba Tzudir As Nagaland observes 149th anniversary today since the inception of the first Baptist Church in Nagaland, it is interesting to revisit t
  • ‘Forgive each other and be compassionate’
    Gen (Retd) Viyalie Metha, Kedahge, Federal Government of Nagaland In the name of my personal Saviour Jesus Christ, I, on behalf of my family and the Federal Government of Nagaland, convey our warm greetings
  • We-The-Ring versus Othering: Nagaland A Flashpoint
    Dr John Mohan Razu Binaries are vociferously pitched against each other in such ways that resonates: ‘I versus You’, ‘Minority versus Majority’, ‘We versus They’. Nowadays
  • NSF writes to PM demanding justice for Oting victims, repeal of AFSPA and to expedite Naga political solution
    The Grim Story of AFSPA in Naga Homeland: The very India that prides itself to be the world’s largest democracy has adopted for itself the very repressive, oppressive and inhuman instrument to subjugat
  • The Meaning of Christmas
    Dr LM Murry There is a lot of confusion in the celebration of Christmas. In my last article I have written God’s history of His rescue operation. Allow me some digression here. There is a difference be
  • For whom did Jesus Come?
    Rev Dr Phuveyi Dozo Naga United Village It is another season for the world to celebrate the birth day of the Lord Jesus Christ. May God heal and bless you wherever you are as we welcome the Prince of Peace.
  • The Massacre at Oting!
    Dr Syeda Hameed New Delhi Two weeks ago, AFSPA unleashed its terror in the most beautiful and gentle state in our land. This time it was the innocent miners returning home to Oting from hard labour in the T
  • Benefits of prepaid metering
    Er Y Akito Sema Executive Engineer, Dimapur Electrical Division 1.     Energy Conservation: With the global drive to reduce energy consumption and especially during this power crisis in India
  • "Journey of No Return”
    (14 victims silence note) P Angchai  Counseling Psychologist Mon Nagaland We start our journey of work each day Toil and sweat every season, each day With thirst and hunger, we labour Dawn to du
  • Justice and accountability- the only light
    Joy Makhal Came the men-brave and skill, To find the terrorist and kill. Their tip-off- so credible.... And yet their actions untenable. Fourteen brothers were they, Returning after a hard,tiring day.
  • How can we Hornbill at this hour of inhumanity
    Robin Temsu Sazolie College The mighty British Empire was brought to its knee by the practice of satyagraha and ahimsa; the insistence of truth, through the practice of non-violence. Against which the power
  • Militarization of the state: AFSPA a ‘Licence’ to kill
    Dr John Mohan Razu The State across the globe in recent times is becoming more and more muscular and authoritarian, undemocratic and ruthless as the governments of the day unleash and impose the draconian la
  • Human Rights and the AFSPA
    Radha Binod Koijam, Sr Advocate INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY was observed all over the world on the 10th of the month. In India the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, Justice Arun Mishra
  • Peacekeeping or Peacemaking
    Fr Paul Lelen Haokip The question about peace is a hot topic for discussion - especially during ethnic clashes, military operations, ambuscades, inter-state boundary disputes, arrests, deaths. Some people ma
  • The importance of observance of International Human Rights Day
    Kezhokhoto Savi Kohima Every year December 10 is observed as International Human Rights Day to bring the attention of the peoples of the world that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the common st
  • Who told Paul ‘Jesus Is Christ’?
    Thepfulhouvi Solo, IFS Retd The Old Testament Jewish Patriarchs didn’t know who ‘JESUS’ (Yeshua) is. Moses himself didn’t know the name of the Anointed that would come after him and h
  • The bird that stole Christmas
    Ekyimo Shitiire Hornbill. It has given up its physical form to the hunter and slipped into the ghostly realm to play the Grinch since the last twenty one years. Bitter and resentful at having been driven to
  • Origin of the draconian law called AFSPA
    Shürhozelie Leizietsü The genesis of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) runs as follows: The Naga people rejected the first General Election in India in the year 1952. This was sai
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