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Muivah on the Naga Issue – An Unpublished Interview: I

Muivah and Swu
Subir Ghosh: The birth of Naga nationalism is seen by many as the submision of a memorandum to the Simon Commission in 1929. Do you agree that the formation of the Naga Club was the first concrete step towards Naga nationalism? Continue reading

Where news itself is a casualty

Whose media?
These are, we are told, exciting times for those in the media. Not an unsubstantiated, flippant contention one would say if one is abreast of all the investments that have been pouring in, the plethora of newspapers and magazines that are being launched every other day, or for that matter the television channels that are going on air till you stop losing count on your fingers. And if you are aware of all the technological breakthroughs that is driving communications today, you would stand firmly convinced that it is indeed so. The media is in flux, and excitingly so. But then it is also time for us to take stock of things by going beyond the exciting headlines that have been tingling our fertile imagination. We need to look at the trees, and miss the forest, for once. For the sake of convenience and space constraints, this write-up will look only at the news media and desist from pedantic number-crunching. Continue reading
 

Rape of sensitivity

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Rape of Iraq
Man, if you are stressed out, you can easily go and rape and practically get away with it these days. No, not by hoodwinking the law, or by finding ways to cirumvent the system. In fact, the law will be on your side and be pretty sympathetic too. A US soldier who raped a Nigerian woman in Italy has been given a lighter sentence because the court deemed his tour of duty in Iraq had made him less sensitive to the suffering of others. James Michael Brown beat and handcuffed the woman, a Nigerian resident in the town of Vicenza. He raped her vaginally and anally and left her to wander the streets naked in search of help. [Link]
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