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With a peace accord imminent, is a Naga national govt still possible?
June 16, 2018 No Comment 123 Views

Naga Republic News & Analysis The ‘Naga accord’ is nearly final. This is what a newspaper (The Indian Express) reported about two months back. Delhi and the Naga armed groups are said to have finalised the substantive portions of the peace accord which is likely to be signed before the monsoon session of Parliament, the news report
Government of India trying to ‘manage and control’ rather than genuinely resolve Naga issue
June 10, 2018 No Comment 972 Views

Naga Republic News In what will be seen as a strong condemnation of the manner in which the two decade long Indo-Naga peace process has been handled by the Government of India, a key finding based on interaction with cross section of the Naga public has exposed what many people had all along suspected—Delhi’s attempt to prolong negotiations
For Opposition, ‘Modi vs Mukherjee’ may sound better than ‘Modi vs nobody’
June 9, 2018 No Comment 25 Views

By Srinivasa Prasad | Source: Firstpost The hair-pulling over Pranab Mukherjee's visit to the RSS sanctum sanctorum has proved once again that Congress is a ‘bandwagon’ party. Bereft of any perceptible ideology and driven by the whims of a dynasty, Congressmen have proved time and again that the only thing that keeps their
Jolt to peace talks as Naga groups ‘suspends’ negotiation with Delhi
June 5, 2018 No Comment 70 Views

Naga Republic News The Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) Working Committee (WC) has decided to suspend all negotiations unless the Government of India “comes clean on the question of haphazard actions of its agencies.” This comes following a raid conducted on June 2 at the residence of the committee’s Co-Convener and

With a peace accord imminent, is a Naga national govt still possible?
June 16, 2018 No Comment 123 Views

Naga Republic News & Analysis The ‘Naga accord’ is nearly final. This is what a newspaper (The Indian Express) reported about two months back. Delhi and the Naga armed groups are said to have finalised the substantive portions of the peace accord which is likely to be signed before the monsoon session of Parliament, the news report
Government of India trying to ‘manage and control’ rather than genuinely resolve Naga issue
June 10, 2018 No Comment 972 Views

Naga Republic News In what will be seen as a strong condemnation of the manner in which the two decade long Indo-Naga peace process has been handled by the Government of India, a key finding based on interaction with cross section of the Naga public has exposed what many people had all along suspected—Delhi’s attempt to prolong negotiations
For Opposition, ‘Modi vs Mukherjee’ may sound better than ‘Modi vs nobody’
June 9, 2018 No Comment 25 Views

By Srinivasa Prasad | Source: Firstpost The hair-pulling over Pranab Mukherjee's visit to the RSS sanctum sanctorum has proved once again that Congress is a ‘bandwagon’ party. Bereft of any perceptible ideology and driven by the whims of a dynasty, Congressmen have proved time and again that the only thing that keeps their
Jolt to peace talks as Naga groups ‘suspends’ negotiation with Delhi
June 5, 2018 No Comment 70 Views

Naga Republic News The Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) Working Committee (WC) has decided to suspend all negotiations unless the Government of India “comes clean on the question of haphazard actions of its agencies.” This comes following a raid conducted on June 2 at the residence of the committee’s Co-Convener and

Nagaland and Development: A re-look at the Gandhian model

In an interview a few years ago, Chairman of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani made a mention about how the values taught by Mahatma Gandhi are timeless and expressing the view that the youth of India “who will embrace technology and Gandhi's values will give the country a development model that
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Genealogies of Nagaland’s ‘Tribal Democracy’

By Jelle J P Wouters | Economic & Political Weekly Compared to the bulky literature on caste and democracy, we still know little about the form and functioning of democratic politics amongst tribes. This is a serious lacuna, one which, at the level of sociology, impedes the