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UNDERNEATH THE BAZA

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                It was the winter of 2003 in the outskirt of Kohima, the capital district of Nagaland. A few months earlier, I had read about the first Indian woman astronaut who died in her spacecraft while returning to Earth from a trip to the space. Her story kept reverberating in my head for months. One night, dressed with almost everything a real astronaut wears, I found myself strapped to a comfortable seat facing towards the sky. It looked like the cockpit of a real space craft with all the buttons and screens just as I saw on a magazine. But I had not a clue what was happening. The whole thing was shaking and it sounded like I was going to be launched up in the horizon. It was exciting but I thought, “Where is that unusual sound of kitchen utensils coming from?” It didn’t seem to be just the sounds of sirens and the countdown. It was so loud and it only seemed to get louder, until I finally got woken up to my father banging the utensils in the kitchen next to my room, wh
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THE EARLY MORUNG SYSTEM IN NAGALAND

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Nagaland is a wonderful place with a glorious history that remains intact even as generations go on with ever changing trends and fads among the Nagas. The Morung(bachelors’ dormitory) system is one that occupies a very important part of the history.  It is a vital institution that taught each villager the important virtues of life and the way of living. This system was common to all the Naga tribes even if other social and political practices or certain details of the practices weren’t very identical. The larger portion of the existence of the Morung culture remains on the other side of the watershed when the Britishers had still not introduced the religion of Christianity among the Nagas. This, however, doesn’t imply that all the good qualities the Morung as an institution offered to the young Naga lads were abandoned too. It only means that in order to give more importance to church(or God- which is what a Christian is required to do), the institutional hierarchy in the villages
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6 Reasons Why Seeking Government Jobs is a Stereotype in Nagaland

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H ave you ever wondered why parents and most other people in Nagaland urge their sons, daughters, brothers and sisters to dream of, work for, and aspire only for one thing- GOVERNMENT JOBS? Well, if you are born and brought up in Nagaland, that wouldn’t be a new thing. ‘Coz that’s part of “normal” now. More often than not, by the time you are about to finish your studies and till a few weeks after it, you get a feeling that you can achieve almost anything in this world, and in most cases, seeking a government job is not in the list. Then you start to meet people- elders, relatives- and your parents start to be more open about what they want you to do, and in no time you find yourself aspiring for government jobs and feeling the same exact thing as the mainstream idea.                 But it’s time we all try and analyse what may have triggered this hereditary chain of aspiration among us Nagas, particularly our parents and elders. Maybe they are not to be fully blamed after all.
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Judiciary- The Supreme Court of India and its important Judgements

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Judiciary is that pillar of a democratic country that is empowered to check the wrongs in the functioning of anything in the state. It safeguards the rights of an individual, group or institutions; acts as checks and balance of the democratic set up in the country, and is undeniably a prerequisite for democracy to exist in any place.                 In  India, there is a single and unified judicial system which performs its duty at three levels i.e. National level(Supreme Court), State level(High Courts) and district level(Subordinate courts).                 The Supreme Court, the highest and the final court of appeal in India, was established on 26 th Jan, 1950 with H.J. Kania as the first Chief Justice of India and 7 other judges, and had initially commenced its sitting within a part of the Parliament House itself. Later on in 1958, it was moved to the present day location i.e. Tilak Marg, New Delhi.                 Now, it has 31 judges (one Chief Justice and 30 other j
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Beware of the The Blue Whale Challange

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We all have lately been hearing about a “game” that has taken the lives of several teenagers across the globe. The Blue Whale Challenge is a 50 day game that provides a series of challenges- one challenge each day- with the last one being taking one’s own life in order to “win”  the game. While most of us have rubbished the game as we read the articles about it thinking how one game can make a person take his/her precious life so easily, it has successfully manipulated more than 160 teenagers to kill themselves. This indicates the strong manipulative power of the groomer who cleverly infuses the plan into the children’s minds.                 The game comes by different names in different places at different times. But the most common one is the “Blue Whale” Challenge which derives from the natural fact that blue whales voluntarily beach themselves inshore in order to end their lives, or in other word, suicide- a phenomenon that is more or less a mystery.                 It targe
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History of Nagaland: The Timeline

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The Nagas have a very long and wonderful history filled with centuries of bravery and pride. We have our own set of principles and our own ways of life. Nothing in this world could’ve suited us more appropriately than what we had with us. We understood and followed our own tradition- a tradition that taught a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman; a tradition that taught discipline, courage, respect and honor, broadmindedness and honesty. The cultural and traditional customs of the Nagas is a wonderful subject (which we will be dealing with in my forthcoming articles).                 However, the political part of the history, when it set in, became a watershed in the history of the Nagas. Nagaland as a state does not have an exhaustive history and can be summed up within a few decades. But within this few period of time, numerous historical events have taken place which are still important today and still play vital roles in shaping the political affairs of the state. Here, w
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