Straight from the Heart

  • The Life of a Fugitive
    The oxford dictionary describes a fugitive as “a person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding”. As one reads this article, one will find that this article is more tilted towards a person who is in
  • On the Mid-Day Meal Scheme
    It is said that the Mid-Day Meal scheme in schools has a long history in India. Sources say that it was way back in 1925 that a Mid Day Meal Program was introduced for disadvantageous children in Madras Municip
  • Don’t Shoot the Messenger
    In the olden times when there was no internet, no telephone, no television, no radio, no telegram etc, the only means through which two nations at war with one another could communicate was the message delivere
  • A Look at Consumerism in Naga Society
    The Compact Oxford Dictionary which I have describes ‘Consumerism’ as “the preoccupation of society with buying goods”. If that is the definition of Consumerism, I have absolutely no hesitation in sayin
  • The Great Divide
    In almost every human society and era of human history, one or the other factor has always caused division amongst the people. During the time when Gandhi went to South Africa as a young lawyer, the phenomenon
  • The Corrosion of Naga Society
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Irish novelist, play-writer and poet and he wrote some of the most celebrated novels, plays and poems of the 18th century. But apart from his novels, plays and poems, Goldsmi
  • Leaders or Dealers
    The English words ‘Leaders’ and ‘Dealers’ have the same six alphabets but it is the positions of the alphabets ‘L’ and ‘D’ that make the difference. In other words, we can turn one of these word
  • The Simmering Workforce
    It is said that “Work is Pride”. But it is quite apparent that this phrase does not hold much sense and meaning for most Nagas today. Many Nagas today fail to find pride in their work. They don’t find pri
  • The Inescapable Destiny of Man
    Khrietuonyü Noudi   When God created man and woman and placed them in the Garden of Eden, everything was perfect, complete and beautiful. There was nothing found wanting by the first man and wom
  • The Inescapable Destiny of Man
    When God created man and woman and placed them in the Garden of Eden, everything was perfect, complete and beautiful. There was nothing found wanting by the first man and woman because God Himself had made ever
  • The Flip Side of Boredom
    Napoleon Bonaparte remained a headache and heartache for all of Europe for over a decade. He was finally defeated in the famous Battle of Waterloo in 1815. If Napoleon had been victorious in this battle, the po
  • The Healing Power of Moral Responsibility
    One day in the early summer of 2009 when I was about to park my car by the roadside at Keziekie, a black santro car parked a little ahead suddenly started coming towards my car in the reverse gear. I could not
  • Another Betrayal on the Horizon
    As the New Year 2017 dawned, the Nagas were greeted with very disturbing news that was enough to give any person with true Naga blood in him sleepless nights. With the New Year came the news of the Indian and M
  • The Very Heart of the Matter
    When God created man and woman and placed them in the garden, God’s intention was to let them complement each other and not to contradict each other. Yes, both of them were similar and the same in the sense t
  • The Phenomenon of Migration
    Migration is a world-wide phenomenon. Animals and birds migrate in search of food, habitat and in accordance with season. Men migrate in search of food, shelter, work and better life. At times, men are forced t
  • The Nagas’ Ironic Idea of Food
    In the olden times when the Nagas had not yet come into any sort of contact with the outside world, our society was basically an agrarian society. We cultivated and tilled our own lands. Besides rice which was
  • Touching the Hornet Nest Again
    Khrietuonyü Noudi  Manipur CM Okram Ibobi Singh, the Manipur BJP unit and some other frontal Manipur organizations seem to have reacted sharply to the visit of the Nagaland CM Mr. T.R. Zeliang to Senapati
  • The Spirit of a Fighter
    Usually I prefer to coin the titles of my articles myself from my own imagination and I don’t like borrowing or taking article titles from other sources. But the title of this article is not coined by me. The
  • A Case of Too Many Hands Spoiling the Curry
    I am a person who loves proverbs and wise sayings and over the years I have been touched and even inspired by many proverbs and this includes both biblical as well as secular proverbs. As such, whenever I ponde
  • The Sketch on the Wall
    Some weeks back I had gone up to the BOC junction for some personal works and it was during this time that I first came across the marvelous portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Che Guevara and others
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