Tomorrow might be too late
As indigenous communities, Nagas inherently have strong affiliation with nature. Or say, we used to have. The pace at which our natural heritage is depleting is a very serious problem…
Community participation in sports
Much has been written and spoken about the ongoing Dr. T. Ao Trophy XXII Inter District Football Championship 2022. The ups and the downs, the highs and the lows –…
Safety first
The most important thing for any human being is to be safe. Nothing is more tragic or greater a loss than death. Grieving the death of a loved one is…
Fuel mafia rule the roost
The Yimyu Ward Council (YWC) Mokokchung has on Thursday, April 21, written to the Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung on the subject of suspected oil meter tampering at the NRL fuel…
Let’s buckle up and move on
It’s a pity that the highest level of Nagaland’s football is being played in the kind of playground that we have here in Mokokchung. So much has been said about…
They don’t protest against the good
The Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Politics written in the year 350 BC states: ‘very state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a…
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…
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…