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  • Why does the cabinet require an advisory committee?
    The Answer to the Question raised in this Write-up is Simple: An ADVISORY COMMITTEE is often a little unholy strategy; the Bureaucracy uses to shirk, or avoid deciding itself an uncomfortable Decision. The Effi
  • Bits and Pieces of life
    Engraving bits and pieces of life from the Word of God 1. Dressing: A topsy-turvy world we are now where what we wear has become more important than what we do or how we act. Respect they say depends on the
  • WHO BEWITCHED NAGALAND?
    Thepfulhouvi Solo IFS Retd (RR -68) Principal Secretary, Retd Nagaland today appears a State unable to distinguish the deceptive Facades from the Real and the Sensible from the Insensible. The State appears
  • APPEAL TO RONGMEIS IN NAGALAND
    Naga’s unity is more important than the recognition of Rongmei tribe in Nagaland. Opposition to the recognition of Rongmei tribe was started from Zeliang and now followed by Ao, Sema and Lotha and many mo
  • Clean Election, Church and Opinion Poll
    Talk of Corruption with impunity in Nagaland has been on fashion outliving all other fashions in Nagaland. One is tempted to scale corruption with conscience and wonders if consciences have deserted Nagaland fo
  • When “Be Still” and Grace Meet
    In my stay in Bangalore, I’ve seen Watinaro Longkumer grow. She is one of those who shifts the atmosphere when they start worshipping. I first met her on her first night at NCF’s All Night Prayer, s
  • ‘Common Sense’ is sensible, wise behavior in man
    Intentionally naked and Unashamed, I once wrote an open letter to a Person of: ‘How sensible his Good Sence is’, because he wrote a Write-up I thought lack Common Sense Civility.   Actually
  • Prophetic Imagination in Pastoral Ministry
    Wati Aier   Introductory Remarks In this anniversary year of the Oriental Theological Seminary (OTS), it is doubly a joy and an inspiration, in my personal pilgrimage, to be accorded with this privil
  • NAGAS vis-à-vis ISSUES
    Dr Dietho-O, Kohima INTRODUCTION I am constrained to share my mind with our people again over today’s situation, running like a state of helter-skelter, in which everything makes sense and nothing m
  • Role of Religion in promoting Inter-Tribe Harmony
    Dr. L.M. Murry   The Morung Express had organised something like an opinion poll on the subject “Role of religion in promoting Inter-Tribe Harmony” on 4th Oct.2016 in Kohima. All the three s
  • Can Kohima really become a "Smart City"?
    Yes, but only if the Politicians/Bureaucrats are ready to survive with just their monthly pay without pocketing from the Smart City Fund. The State Capital is lacking behind in many areas when compared with oth
  • SOME OPEN QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA’S STATEMENT OF OCTober 2, 2016
    Whereas, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi stated on Oct. 2, 2016 at the inauguration of the Pravasi Bharatya Kendra in Delhi that: “India had never coveted any territory or (had) never attacked
  • DMC toll tax imbroglio
    The idea of collecting toll taxes and other revenues directly by the Dimapur Municipal Council is the outcome of the anomalies and misappropriations in the past. This experiment seems to have attracted the atte
  • Warning before Judgment
    God is not impotent. He loves every nation, tribes, tongues, ethnic groups and culture. Bible readers have a tendency to think that God is partial in that He chooses a nation and leaves out the rest. He chose t
  • Let Nagas also work
    This is to notify to the various contractors and the public that during the 4 lane project which is scheduled to begin work from 15th Oct onwards that let this time be the first where even Nagas are hired as la
  • REVISITING THE MAHATMA IN PARTS
    This is for all those who have literally grown up with Hind Swaraj, My Experiments with Truth, Early Life. Mahatma Gandhi was a household charm for some families more than anything else. First honesty, then sel
  • The Quaint Little Village: Stories from Khonoma
    Rovi Chasie’s The Quaint Little Village is a delightful little book that offers many valuable lessons.  It contains ten short stories presented through the adventures of the protagonist, a little gir
  • A timely and critically trenchant study of Naga nationalism
    Paul PimomoBook Review of Abraham Lotha, The Hornbill Spirit: Nagas Living Their Nationalism, Heritage Publishing House, Dimapur, Nagaland, India, 2016, pp. 347, Rs.500/US$15.    Abraham Lotha has wri
  • Matrimonial Inflation
    Toshi Longkumer New Delhi   Yes, I am not married. No, I am not against Marriage. In fact, the idea of ‘two become one’ is a mesmerizing phenomenon amidst this hate-filled world. Although I
  • THE EXIT OF THREE GIANTS
    Imlisanen Phom   The recent break away of three giants Tribal bodies of Nagaland the Ao Senden, Sema and Lotha Hoho from Naga Hoho proves that desperate time calls for desperate measures. What these thr
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