Plan before planting / The elephant in the room
Plan before planting It is in a way painful to know that the two grand Silver Oak trees near IMDH have been felled by the hospital authority, and yet it…
In the grip of football fever
Football has in a way become a part of human culture, a kind of language that enables us to express ourselves physically, emotionally and intellectually. It urges us to connect…
Expectations versus Reality
Expectations refer to our imagination of things. Expectation is the act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. Reality, on the other hand,…
Preserve or Revive?
Earlier this year on February 21, the Ao Kaketshir Mungdang observed an event to mark World Mother Language Day. As part of the event, AKM declared the results of a…
Mainstreaming Mokokchung
Every once in a while, we ought to flip through the pages of history to remind ourselves of where we come from. Mokokchung, up until the late 1980s, as history…
Belonging is good, Tribalism is not
Human beings are a social species. We are given to living and commuting in familiar groups. Our need for empathy, compassion and communication is in our nature – that is…
Personal responsibility
A poor workman blames his tools. We often see people performing poorly or unsuccessfully but laying blame on external factors rather than taking responsibility for their own failure. A worker…
One person can make change happen
Expecting every citizen of Mokokchung to be united in purpose at all times would be too idealistic and impractical. Agreeing to take a rational stand on all issues cannot be…
Somebody please evaluate MGNREGS
In 2005, India introduced a national anti-poverty program NREGA, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which offers up to 100 days of unskilled manual labor…
This is not healthy
Amid the row and sharp reaction over the statement by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah that all the eight North East States have agreed to make Hindi compulsory up…