By Ben Ngangom Whether due to the common efforts from educationists, academicians, and civil society- groups or just by the constitution amenders, it was a giant step to put a 60 years old dysfunctional Directive Principle of State Policy into the group of Fundamental Rights. The year 2002 marked a reformation when the 86th Constitutional Amendment was passed by… Read more →
By Mithun Dey In this contemporary world, women need to gain the same amount of power that men have. Now, it is time to forget that men are the only holders of power. In India, women are still facing different obstacles in male-dominated cultures. The things are related to women’s status and their future. However, I believe that Indian women… Read more →
FRINGE RELIGION: CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh July 9 2012 In closing my series of articles on major religions (Christianity generated 9, Hinduism 31 and Islam 122 comments on line), in which I have not given any of my opinions, but simply have explained the tenets (religious doctrines that are proclaimed as true without proof) of each religion,… Read more →
JUDAISM Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh Feb 17 2012 Judaism, the religion of the Jews is one of the oldest religions of the world and also the smallest. It was born about 4,000 years ago and has only 12 million followers. The language of the Jews – Hebrew, contains no word for “Judaism”. Only in the 1880s Judaism became widely used… Read more →
by Ananya S Guha North East India its people rightly feel is always in the news for the ‘wrong’ reasons. Portrayed as a region beset with ills and violence armchair academics only discuss issues of ethnicity. I have hardly come across analyses which go to the bare causes, its history and multiplicity of creative voices. Surely one Ratan Thiyam is not… Read more →