Imminence of President’s Rule?
It will not be wrong to say that the latest political developments in Nagaland state are stranger than fiction. The Bharatiya Janata Party is tight lipped when it comes to…
The game must go on
Peter Drury is right. Messi will be sainted. And why not? Luis Lionel Andres Messi, to the millions of his fans around the world, is the greatest of all time…
Progress is not always progress
As Friedrich Nietzsche said, silence is worse because all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. By remaining silent, we are guaranteeing our own slow death. If we look around…
Hope for the future
Nagaland Minister of Rural Development has publicly stated that he supports the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organization (ENPO) in their demand for a separate Frontier Nagaland state personally and morally. In…
UCC: The Sword of Damocles?
It is indeed interesting to learn that our legislators talk about the contentious Uniform Civil Code in the public sphere. Two senior legislators have within this week itself spoken out…
Ghost villages
Rural-urban migration is the movement of people from the countryside to the city, or from the villages to the towns in our context. Rural to urban migration causes growth of…
Economics of cricket
With a total net worth of $2.25 billion, the governing body of cricket in India, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is arguably one of the strongest…
Empty forest syndrome
An “empty forest” refers to an ecosystem that is void of large mammals. Empty forests are characterized by an otherwise excellent habitat, and often have large, fully grown trees, although…
Community leadership
We tend to expect someone else to improve the livelihood or living condition of the community we live in but seldom do we take it upon ourselves to do the…
Football is getting even bigger
The ongoing FIFA Men’s World Cup has seen some interesting turns of events, records made or broken, as well as a number of upsets. As the quarterfinals stages are about…