Small and a hilly land-locked country it may be, Nagalim is blessed with rich natural and mineral resources. It is a fertile land. Apart from perpetual flow of rivers and streams, we have another source of water supply from regular rainfall. There is no dearth of water and no...
Tamenglong people during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Within the last one month or so, denizens of Tamenglong headquarters have seen Community Transmission (CT) of Covid-19. People were so scared of the CT that they had abstained from venturing out to bazaar even for essential commodities. Orders of Containment Zones were...
Naga Peoples Movement for Human RightsKohima, the 4th of December 2020, Nagaland.
In the history of humankind, it is recorded that peoples struggle across the globe has so far been solved only through recognition of the rights and aspiration of the people to their nationhood and by nobly recognising their...
The land is at the heart of indigenous peoples’ lifeworld, which sustains their culture, custom, religion, livelihood, knowledge system. Indigenous peoples see land as a living entity nourishing their well-being and lifeworld. Forest produces and crops drawn from the lands are reciprocated with rituals by paying obeisance and food....
THE SANGAI EXPRESS newspaper on 30.10.2023 published a clarification by K Bhogendrajit, General Secretary of the STDCM (Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur) on an article written by Ngaranmi Shimray also published in the same paper on 10.10.2023 raising a few points requiring clarification. These are clarified below:Must read...
Ino Ninghor Raikham, Kilonser from Teinem village under Wung Tangkhul Region, GPRN passed away on October 30, 2024 in Guwahati after an illness, according to the news reports.
When I first got to know him, Oja Ninghor was in the Ministry of Environment, government of India. His office located at...
INTRODUCTION
Unlike the then premier of Assam, Gopinath Bordoloi, who “was known to be very kind and sympathetic to the hill people, had been respected by the hill tribe”, Shri N. Biren Singh reminds of Shri Kuladhar Chaliha of Assam who once gained his notoriety amongst the hill tribals for...
The Chumpha̱ Phanit, a post harvest agricultural festival among the Tāngkhuls, acknowledges women’s role in the traditional Naga economy. This festival is one of the most significant festivals of the Tāngkhul community, especially for married women, as it marks a change of hands and exchange of responsibility from mothers-in-law...
In securing global or planetary health, human beings have been the center of attention. In the early 1990s, Zakob Zinsstag, a veterinary epidemiologist raised the par and described One Health as a more evolved concept of public health that encompasses the health of animals and environmental concerns as well...
Introduction
It is estimated that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, however the number of species in not indicated. It is predicted that Indo-Burma biodiversity hot spot region is a home of more than 3,000 species of plants. Frank Kingdon Ward, who embossed our flora and fauna...