Clean e-roll for clean election
The Clean Election Prayer Rally initiated by the Ao Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship in collaboration with the District Administration and District Election Officer, Mokokchung on Tuesday was the right action and…
Behind the smokescreen
Like truth hidden behind a smokescreen of lies, politicians usually hide their ulterior motives shrouded behind their political grandstanding. We cannot totally blame them for that because it is part…
Widespread, wide ramifications
When we say corruption, we generally refer to dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery. While this generic definition of corruption is correct, we have to…
Understand the Budget
This being a pre-election year, there were wide expectations that the Union Budget would announce populist measures. And, as expected, not many people in Nagaland will have the interest to…
Paradox of Voting
The paradox of voting, also called Downs’ paradox, is that for a rational, self-interested voter, the costs of voting will normally exceed the expected benefits. The act of voting involves…
Rational Ignorance
It is literally impossible for anybody to know everything about everything even if he is a genius. As such, each person must individually decide what he thinks is worth knowing…
Election 2023, Delimitation 2026
Delimitation is the act of redrawing boundaries of Lok Sabha and state Assembly seats to represent changes in population. The main objective of delimitation is to provide equal representation to…
Problem of Plenty
With problems of plenty, you tend to lose touch with ground realities. The Bharatiya Janata Party in Nagaland seems to be facing the problem of plenty of late. The Nagaland…
There are laws
The Representation of the People Act, 1951, which lays down the framework for the conduct of elections to Parliament and state legislatures, specifies the grounds for the disqualification of elected…