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  • For The Mizo Concord

    Opportunities must be created for the most deprived to have their say in issues affecting them.The game: 'Building Mizo Society'. At first, at the creation of Mizoram, a large number of closely related ethnic linguistic groups came to form the Mizo sta
    Dated: 2nd Nov 07 10:54 AM Read More
  • NORTH EAST SECURITY

    Recent debates in the media on the law and order problem in North East, as also the validity of Armed Forces Special Power Act, had raised interest among the general public as well as human right activists. From the points raised, there appears to be lack
    Dated: 10th Sep 07 4:31 PM Read More
  • THE ORIGIN OF THE CHAPCHAR KUT

               In the halcyon days of Mizo History, around 1450-1700 A.D. (no-one could tell the exact time), a Kawlni Chief ruled over the most famous and most populous village called Suaipui. Geograph
    Dated: 20th Mar 07 1:22 PM Read More
  • HERITAGE OF MIZO TRADITIONAL MUSIC (An overview)

    R.L. ThanmawiaEvery Society has its own traditional music and in every society, folk music is as old as the age of that society. Some Indian cultures have very long musical histories; but Mizo culture does not have such history. Yet the origin of Mizo Mus
    Dated: 20th Mar 07 1:18 PM Read More
  • UNVEILING THE MYSTIQUE

    Rachana Bhattacharya(Courtesy Discover India)          In Mizoram, tranquility does not come packaged, but unfolds quietly. It is a place that you must feel and experience, not just read about.   
    Dated: 20th Mar 07 1:13 PM Read More
  • PEACE & HARMONY WITH NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES!

    The first provision to “protect the environment” was made in the Forty-Second Amendment to the Indian Constitution. Passed in 1977, this Amendment responded to the Stockholm Declaration adopted by the International Conference on Human Environment in 197
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 1:03 PM Read More
  • SERVICE TO GOD THROUGH MANKIND

                When I was reading in primary school, before commencement of the class, we used to sing a prayer song daily - “O Lord, we thank you for giving us food and all that we need. Help us to ser
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 12:55 PM Read More
  • Building Community Assets

                What is “community spirit” in terms of  money to a village project? Mizoram, where the people still live by their traditional code called “Tlawmngaihna”, is an ideal place to find
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 12:52 PM Read More
  • Music - A Channel of Peace

    Mizoram's well-loved song-writer and composer Vankhama, in the title to one of his songs, had long christened his native land as 'Rimawi Ram', the land of music. Yes, it was not so long ago that the hills of Mizoram were serenaded at all hours with the so
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 12:48 PM Read More
  • I REMEMBER

                I remember the story about a Punjabi who went to England. He incessantly talked about the land where he came from - the flowing milk of Punjab, the vast wheat fields of Punjab, the beauty
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 12:44 PM Read More
  • THE CIJW SCHOOL IN MIZORAM

    Mizoram is perhaps the only place on earth that has seen the worst of insurgency and the best that peace has to offer. For twenty long years, the Mizo land and people were dragged through unrest and violence when the Mizo National Front rose in rebellion
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 12:41 PM Read More
  • Peace_

                Peace _what would it mean in today's context? Especially in the light of the two decades of peace in Mizoram? A literal dictionary meaning of the term makes us realise that peace has been
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 12:39 PM Read More
  • What Price, Twenty Years of Peace in Mizoram (1986-2006): A Kuki Perspective

                In the year 1964 the Kuki National Assembly and Manipur Mizo Integration Council passed a resolution to achieve a single administrative unit for the ethnic group. The resolution was signed
    Dated: 8th Sep 06 12:35 PM Read More
  • Of Peace and Development in Mizoram

      A truism that has often been used to explain the lack of development in a region affected by armed conflicts of one kind or another is: peace and development are indivisible and where there is no peace, there can be no development. The reasoni
    Dated: 6th Sep 06 3:48 PM Read More