The Pamphlet

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, s...

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 sti...

India has one of the richest histories in the world, and therefore is also one of the very vast ones. Indian history is divided into three periods: Ancient period (25 th century BC- 7 th century AD), Medieval period (7 th C. AD- 1707) and modern period (1707-1947). There had never been a clear cut or a complete break from one period to another, but the transition was taken on account of certain vital changes in the nature of state. For example: changes that led to the medieval period from ancient can be attributed to the coming of the Muslims in India and also the change in the caste system in the post-Gupta period; change that led to the modern period from medieval can be attributed to the death of Aurangzeb and the eventual emergence of the European powers.  In this article, I will try to provide some of the most important events of the Indian history in chronological order, and also with fair explanation on certain events. And since it takes ages to complete the entire ...