EDITORIAL

By Deepa Majumdar Within the sphere of Time-Space-Causation that hosts human History, there is something perennial about the nature of religion. If church, temple, mosque and other external insignia of the human heart have endured and…

      By K Raveendran   The reported remarks by a key Toyota executive in India about how the company looks at its business in the country in view of the high levies on the passenger car segment typically signifies the lack of…

The Supreme Court has finally wielded the stick and asked the electronic media to behave. The context was the airing of communally sensitive material on a television channel, which said Muslims are trying to infiltrate the civil services…

By Albert Thyrniang “A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.” Henry James In July a Rangbah shnong (village headman) in the suburb of the state capital refused to let a person working in Guwahati to attend…

      By Barun Das Gupta   The defensive or offensive capability of an army is determined not merely by the number of troops it has, the type of weaponry it has and the skill of the men in the army, navy and air force and to handle…

Editor, I congratulate the BJP President Earnest Mawrie for exposing huge corruption the District Councils in Jaintia Hills and Garo Hills. The charges prima facie appear genuine. More so, since there has not been any contradiction from…

By Benjamin Lyngdoh          It is difficult to comprehend as to ‘why’ the issue of opening of ‘places of worship’ has taken centre stage again. Have we not gone through it already and realized that it was best to keep that in…

      By Harihar Swarup   Long before Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there was PM Atal Behari Vajpayee, whose primary identity was that of an outstanding parliamentarian. Elected to Lok Sabha a remarkable 10 times, hurling speech…

  Editor, In a recorded interview on a YouTube channel, Director of the movie ‘Lorni the Flâneur’, Wanphrang K Diengdoh correctly said that there are no secrets in Shillong. This place is too close-knit for comfort at times. Thus, the…

By Shivaji Sarkar It is slobalisation across the globe. The world has applied the brakes on the economy due to an unprecedented civilisational lockdown. India, termed as the engine of global growth, has taken a big hit and it may…