Shahnaz Husain Flowers are nature’s gift to man and provide a unique level of botanical energy. They not only delight the senses with their beautiful colours and fragrances, but actually have powerful properties, which help to bring about the ideal…

Bharat Bhushan For a while a Naga settlement seemed within the grasp of the Narendra Modi government. Had New Delhi and the Nagas seized the moment, the oldest insurgency in India would have come to a peaceful end with both…

Dr S.C. Jamir  As any other people on the globe Nagas too yearn for a better tomorrow. But it has to be fashioned by the Nagas themselves based on realities of the prevailing situation in the world. No useful purpose would…

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is part of a cynicalexercise to consolidate the Hindu vote Ratan Bhattacharjee It is by now very clear that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 which still needs the approval of the Upper House of Parliament has…

Yambem Laba In his earlier avatar as a journalist N Biren Singh was Editor of a vernacular daily. During this time, he was arrested by the State on a charge of sedition. The only saving grace was that he was…

D N Bezboruah There seems to be some confusion even among some educated people about what kind of teaching-learning process can be called education and what cannot. After all, education is a teaching-learning process, but there are so many other…

Aniruddha Babar, Ph. D, Tetso College, Dimapur Yesterday, late at night I was flipping through the pages of a piece of revolutionary writing. It was a play that revolves around just one word – THE VAGINA. A piece of writing…

My life is disabled by my environment Diethono Nakhro So, when was the last time you had to turn back without getting your work done because you couldn’t get into an office building? Or decline an invitation to an event…

M.K. Narayanan Ten years ago on this day, Pakistan carried out one of the most heinous of terror attacks perpetrated anywhere in the world. The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, named after the date in 2008 when the attack took place,…

It was Mumbai’s longest and darkest night Vinod Saighal The tragedy that struck Mumbai on that fateful day in the last week of November 2008, quite hazy in the minds of many Indians living far away, is still fresh in…