The deadline of September the Central government has fixed for concluding a peace accord with the Nagas is creating quite a flutter in Nagaland, and it must be added, Nagaland’s neighbours, in particular Manipur. Quite obviously, the BJP government in New Delhi is getting impatient, now that it has...
In August 2014 when the then newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi had named Ravindra Narayan Ravi as the government’s new interlocutor to the Naga talks, a number of groups, most significantly, the NSCN-IM — the government’s main negotiating partner — raised objections. The appointment as interlocutor of a person “well...
It goes without saying that the varied natures of the optics of sections of people are also key attributes to differences on the Naga political issue. This is because circumstances or the different climates of different standpoints determine optics of the people. The differences become more glaring when each...
Founding Editor of ThePrint, Shekhar Gupta's, Cut The Clutter episode 555 attempt to de-clutter Nagaland Crisis: how Muivah’s ambition at 86 runs into ethnicity, geography, demography & history falls short of comprehensive historical fact check.
The episode nonetheless lives up to the intended de-clutter topic i.e., Nagaland Crisis, seemingly...
Centre and NSCN IM should keep the conversation going, show wisdom and sagacity to conclude agreement.
Over a century ago, amid the backdrop of the World War I, a football team comprised mostly of Tangkhuls led by Reichumhao Rungsung under the 66th Unit of the 20th Manipur Labour Corps Company played in a football tournament 9816 km away from home. With the Allied forces witnessing...
Will parents capitalize this opportunity to revisit their parenting skills
On 28th January 1997, Bournemouth FC, a club from the coastal resort town in the south coast of England playing in League One (3rd Division of English Football) was minutes away from liquidation. For the people of Bournemouth; a small town with a population of fewer than 2 lakhs...