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  • The Road To Nowhere – Nagaland, Manipur Board?
    Achan RamsanIt has been a marriage of inconvenience – a marriage consumed cutting across state borders and barriers of inter-tribe relations that skeptics would blurt out the all too familiar one liner: I tol
  • “In our Old Age”
    Vishü Rita KrochaKenny Rogers sang it to the tunes of the lovers reviving once more the promise of a true love that lasts a lifetime. Its lyrics sink deep to every heart that loves well. Nothing really stops t
  • General Information
    The Joint Forum of Nagaland GB Federation and the Nagaland Dubasi Association is a neutral body. These two organizations are the custodian of Naga Customary Laws, traditions, culture and usages in the polity of
  • The Church vis-à-vis the Government
    It is quite natural that there be a storm of sharp ideological tension when we happen to set something new in addition or modification to the prevailing system.My attention is drawn to make clarification and ju
  • Telecom Department suffers from “Superiority Complex” virus!!
    Kedi HaraluCentral departments in Nagaland usually depute officers who often look down on the tribals, with the attitude of Junglees and backward. As a Naga we play host to all Central Departments officers for
  • Nagas should be true to ourselves
    Rev L Suohie MhasiIn the 50s during the Naga struggle for sovereignty we Nagas found ourselves being not true to ourselves. The cry for sovereignty has become more a slogan than a real aspiration.It is a matter
  • Stop Hypocrisy of Unification – Look Beyond
    Ceasefire talks between GoI and NSCN factions seem to be taking a permanent shape and the quest for an amicable solution seems to light up the horizon of Nagaland. As per inputs the banner of unification is bei
  • Protection of Civilian Persons and Populations in Time of Conflict/War
    (An Extract from Basic rules of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols) by Rev. Dr. L. Tsanso, General Secretary, IRCSNThe primary human error of breaches in protecting and implementing civilian
  • Faction Feud – Wake Up Call for NSCN Factions
    David SeraThe public in Nagaland has woken up as relates the diary of events in the State which has already sent tremors in both factions of NSCN.  There has been strong resentment among the local civilian
  • In response to Press Secretary NPF Central Office
    It will be appropriate to take this opportunity and clarify on the statement made by the Press Secretary NPF Central Office dated June 1 wherein referring to a news item Rio Ministry in trouble, which the honor
  • ‘Fake Naga Vigil’
    The letter written by one David P Ward of the so-called Naga Vigil Human Rights Group (UK) in The Morung Express on 1 June 2007 caught my attention. The letter is rather silly and amply demonstrates the sorry n
  • Self–Determination: The Naga Context
    A Paper Presentation at the 22nd Conference of Naga Students Federation, Punanamei, 8th – 12th May 2007 Ahu SakhrieISelf-Determination simply means the desire of a people to have a particular system of S
  • Why is Hokheto Sumi digging up old bones?
    Reply to the President NPCC on his accusation of NagalandMP (Lok Sabha)Human nature is never satisfied, for there is bound to be a speck on the others eyes. It is also human nature to point out faults of only t
  • Post Modernism, Anti-Culturalism and Contemporary Culture
    X.P. MaoIn this paper, I propose to argue that contemporary culture is really anti culture; it is against all norms and standards of culture by any stretch of the imagination. Further, I wish to maintain that p
  • Plight of Christian Workers
    Whether we like it or not, today many Christian workers are paid an unthinkably low salary – so low that a skilled labourer earns much more. They can hardly have ordinary meals with that salary, leaving nothi
  • Pragmatic approach to school education
    A careful look at the education system, particularly at the school level, makes one wonder how much of what is being taught in schools is worth learning. I am sure many would agree with me that some of the subj
  • Youth unemployment in the Naga context – what is the way out?
    Dr. V. Mepfhii-oToday the problem of unemployment has become a deadly disease that threatens to disrupt our society, our state. Many of our Naga youths have become a disgruntled lot. If the youths of today beco
  • What ails Naga Youth?
    Kevi Z. SavinoWe are convinced beyond the shadow of doubt that education (any education) will make a person employable. Yet every year, hundreds of Naga youth with fancy degrees join the educated unemployed bra
  • ‘Since time immemorial, we are Zeliangruang’
    Rejoinder to the letters of Romeo Gangmei and Kuki Inpi President NagalandG.G. KammeiRomeo Gangmei, Social Worker, Dimapur, in his letter on indigenous issue, published in the Morung Express, May 3 mentioned my
  • ‘They are Funny’
    One Yato of the home affairs of Burmese-occupied Nagalim and one Pikuto of the ceasefire supervisory board (any intelligent Naga must be finding the nomenclature insulting, for the word ceasefire has no any rel
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