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Zambian prez dies in London hospital LUSAKA, OctOber 29 (AP): Zambian President Michael Sata, a longtime opposition leader who was finally elected president in 2011, died after an illness, the Zambian government said Wednesday. The Cabinet met to discuss a political transition, which would include elections within 90 days in the southern African nation. Sata died shortly after 11 p.m. on Tuesday at London’s King Edward VII hospital, where he was being treated, Cabinet secretary Roland Msiska said in a statement. Sata’s wife, Christine Kaseba-Sata, and his son, Mulenga Sata, were at the 77-year-old president’s side when he died, Msiska said. Mulenga Sata is the mayor of the Zambian capital, Lusaka. “I urge all of you to remain calm, united and peaceful during this very difficult period,” Msiska said in an appeal to Zambians. The Zambian Cabinet discussed plans for a political handover, a Zambian official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

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Kideulungle Jeme’s journey through the political, with or without representation What`s the biggest hurdle to the future of our children? mm, way things are looking right now, i`m gonna say our government!

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Kideulungle Jeme (38), or simply Adeule, is far more prepared than her party men for a political party meeting at a village in the Zeme Naga areas of Dima Hasao district in Assam—she organized vehicles, journalists and surrounding village folk to attend the party meeting. In her trademark monochrome kurta, she took notes and lobbied as much behind the scene as on it— after the meeting she organized food and kindly directed the inebriated home. Adeule is the Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Haflong and has an unpretentious way of dealing with the all-male politics that surround her—humble, unfazed, deft, diplomatic. It is rare to see women actively par-

ticipate in politics, and be accepted by the Naga society in doing so. With the low participation of women in electoral politics, except mostly in a peripheral ‘women’s unit’ manner, the voices of women from the grassroots remain negligible. Born to a Heraka family in Herailo village in the current Dima Hasao district of Assam, Adeule has not found a sudden vocation in politics—she was actively involved since she was in class 10, or even before. She never thought of waiting for formal political representation for women to jump in. “After studying lower primary at the village, I went to stay and study with my brother in Haflong. Though school was quite simple for me, economic theory proved to be too hard during graduate studies and I quit,” she says of her formal education. In class 8, dissatisfied by the Hindi language classes at the government school in Haflong, she started Hindi tuitions at the Saraswati Vidya Mandir school in Mpuilo village close to Haflong town. Sensing her talent, the principal of the school sent her for Rashtra Sevika Samiti (RSS—a parallel women’s organization to the Rashtriya

Kideulungle Jeme (Morung Photo)

BJP Nagaland for probe into PDS scheme

DIMAPUr, OctOber 29 (MexN): The Nagaland state unit of the BJP today lamented that people in the grassroots in Nagaland state are “being deprived of their rights and privileges at the cost of the poor people’s Below Poverty Line (BPL) scheme.” A press note from the media cell of the Nagaland BJP recalled that the AntyodayaAnna Yojana Scheme was launched by former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee under the NDA-1 regime in 2000, and is aimed at providing food-base items to “destitutes or individuals under a particular social group.” It informed that they are provided with a ration card (Antyodaya card) to enable them to avail a food-grain quota at subsidized price. Each household is entitled for 35 kilogram wheat or rice or combination of both every month. The food-grain is supplied at Rs 2 per kilogram for wheat and Rs 3 per

kilogram for rice. A Fair Price Shop (FPS) – designated local ration shop, dispenses these items. However, the BJP rued that “some individuals/ groups with vested interests are amassing wealth from this scheme whereas our innocent public remain mute spectators.” Whereas, it added that in other states, this schemes are being “genuinely implemented, which is benefiting the old(60 year-old and above) , disabled ,destitute men and woman, widows , pregnant and lactating mothers and the under privileged group of people in general with no regular support and means of subsistence.” “The monthly quota of Public Distribution System items namely, rice and wheat received for Nagaland under AAY, BPL and APL schemes as disclosed by Food Corporation of India (FCI) Regional Office, Dimapur and the allegation of pilferage to open market pointed to deep un-

derlying nexus between the Central and State machineries, contractor-suppliers and middlemen,” concluded the BJP. It stated that “people making profits in terms of crores of rupees every month out of the poor men’s morsel was a serious allegation,” and that the “crime is tantamount to basic human rights violation and the constitutional right to livelihood.” The BJP Nagaland has demanded for a “thorough probe” into the issue and further urged for “making public in all local print media, the monthly procurement and district-wise distribution of these items for the past five financial years up to date.” It further demanded “disclosure of the names of the contractorsuppliers for the same period.” Urging the Nagaland state government to “come out clean,” the BJP cautioned that it would be compelled to “use all resources within its power to demand for a CBI investigation.”

Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu national volunteers’ group) training to Guwahati, alongside 60 other ‘tribal’ Hindu girls from all over the North East. For a few years hence, she attended five such trainings, learning how to use knives and sticks for defense, karate, yoga, patriotic songs, communication skills, leadership and, among other things, how to be a ‘good Indian woman.’ With new found confidence, she wanted to continue her alliance with the RSS when her father stepped in. “He and I knew that my education had to go on, and religion was in the way—too many rituals and gennas discouraged continuous schooling. I also observed that as a whole, and as a woman, there was more independence in Christianity,” she reminisces. “Zeme people do not give importance to education of women—even if educated, they are married away. Due to poverty, parents have to cater to day-to-day needs, and girls have to inevitably bear the weight,” explains Adeule. As a coalesced result, 70% of the community neglects education, she says, though her parents were an exception. 4 brothers and 5 sisters in her family were all educated. In 1998, Adeule converted. “I did

Unidentified body found Morung Express news Dimapur | October 29

An unidentified body of a non-local male, aged about 30 years, was found on Wednesday morning at National Highway 29, Pherima. Police suspect that the victim was murdered on Tuesday and his body was thrown below the highway. According to the Police, the body bore bruises and had an ‘Assamese gamcha’ or hand-towel tied on the neck. The body has been transferred to the morgue in Dimapur Civil Hospital for identification.

Minor girl drowns at chathe Morung Express news Dimapur | October 29

A minor girl of about 16 years drowned at the Chathe River near the Patkai Bridge on Wednesday afternoon. The victim was an employee of Amenity Centre, a restaurant near the Patkai Bridge. Police informed that the victim had been employed at the restaurant for only five days and was known as Alika/Bolika. However, Police stated that the exact identity of the girl could not be ascertained. The body of the deceased is being kept in the Dimapur Civil Hospital morgue for identification. In this regard, the Women Cell of the Dimapur Police have appealed to the family members to identify and claim the body within three days.

not know much about Christianity but the path soon became clear for more education and I met many new types of people, but I noticed a lack of respect for each other, and problems cropping from over confidence and over independence as well.” After class 10, though young, she was invited to take part in the activities of the Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) party owing to the lack of educated women among the Zeme Nagas in Assam. “We used to go from village to village explaining the ASDC’s concept and ethics, as well as issues of development and corruption. I used to write meeting resolutions, keep records etc.,” says Adeule of her first step in political activity. The ASDC ruled the then NC Hills from 1996 to 2001. Adeule sought to do a job as a teacher after this initial political stint. Disappointment disguised as opportunity awaited her. Despite numerous bribes, she could not secure a job. On the side, she taught at a private school in Laisong from 1998 to 2000. “But I wanted to work for my people more rigorously, so I decided not to try for jobs but focus on politics instead.” (Part-I of a two-part series)

NSF demands safety of people traveling through Karbi Anglong DIMAPUr, OctOber 29 (MexN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has demanded that necessary measures be taken to ensure the safety of people plying through Karbi Anglong district of Assam during the course of the ongoing 1000 hour bandh in the area. A press note from the NSF expressed serious concern over the bandh called by the Joint Action Committee for Autonomous State (JACAS) Karbi Anglong, which it stated has been adversely affecting normal life in Nagaland State. The NSF noted that “Nagas have nothing to say over the demand for Autonomous or separate state by the Karbi people.” However, it lamented that “imposing 1000-hour bandh on National Highways, thereby cutting off the

route which is the only lifeline for the people of Nagaland is a matter of great concern.” “Why should Naga people suffer over the demand of the Karbi people? Nagas have nothing to do with their demand,” the NSF questioned. It further called upon the Assam government to make sure that “nothing should happen to any of the Naga travelers and also ensure safe passage for the vehicles carrying essential commodities entering to Nagaland.” It further urged the Union Home Ministry to take necessary measures for the safety of those people plying through Karbi Anglong district of Assam, “else there will be repercussion if anything happens to the people who have nothing to do with the Karbi peoples’ demand.”

centre makes effort to end border dispute Black Money: 627

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NeW DeLHI, OctOber 29 (AGeNcIeS): The Government of India today made a reconciliatory effort to end the decades-old boundary dispute between the states of Assam and Nagaland and asked both the sides to provide their own suggestions within two weeks. The Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang held a meeting with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday, October 29 and apprised Modi on the prevailing situation in Nagaland state. The Indian PM was also made aware of the steps being taken by the Nagaland state government for the state’s overall development. Zeliang’s Assam counterpart, Tarun Gogoi also held a meeting with the PM on the same day. Gogoi briefed Modi on the prevailing security situation in Assam state and steps being taken to end the insurgency problem there. Later, a high-level meeting, chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, was attended by the Nagaland CM and his

• Rajnath Singh urges more ‘people to people contact’ in AssamNagaland border • Chief Secretaries of both states directed to submit suggestions within 2 weeks Assam counterpart. Efforts were made during the meeting to facilitate an acceptable final solution to the border dispute between the two states. At the meeting, the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh urged the Chief Ministers of Assam and Nagaland states to maintain people-to-people contact along the inter-state border to strengthen peace and harmony. The Union Home Minister further urged both the Chief Ministers to find an amicable solution to the vexed border row. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and his Nagaland counterpart TR Zeliang agreed to maintain peace and harmony in the border areas, a CMO press release informed. On the boundary dis-

pute, both the Chief Ministers agreed to abide by the directive of the Supreme Court. The meeting was attended by senior officials of the Home and Political Department of both the States, it added. As per the decision taken during the meeting, the Chief Secretaries of the two states will submit suggestions to the Home Ministry within two weeks, which is expected to pave the way for solving the long lasting issue. “The Home Minister is taking a sincere reconciliatory effort to find a solution to be acceptable to both Assam and Nagaland,” a Home Ministry official was quoted as saying. Tensions have been on a high in the area bordering the two states over recent months.

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NeW DeLHI, OctOber 29 (AP): India’s government handed over 600 Indian names with foreign bank accounts to the Supreme Court on Wednesday after public outrage over rampant tax evasion. The court, which ordered the government to release the list, has given the names to an investigative team that the government set up in June to find the illegal funds that tax dodgers have parked overseas. The court set a deadline of March 31 next year for the team to complete its probe and begin legal action against tax evaders. Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi said 627 people are named on the list. They all had accounts with a Geneva branch of HSBC, information that was disclosed in 2011 by an employee of the bank and passed to India but not acted on by the previous government. They are likely a tiny fraction of Indians with foreign bank accounts. The Central Bureau of Investigation said in 2012 that $500 billion was held by Indians in tax ha-

vens overseas. Funds are stashed in tax havens such as Liechtenstein, British Virgin Islands, Switzerland, Mauritius, Jersey and the Isle of Man. India has a flourishing “black money” economy that functions parallel to the legal economy. Undeclared income is used to fund election campaigns and buy land or real estate in order to avoid paying property taxes. On Monday, the government had disclosed names of seven people who it said had illegal accounts abroad. That led to widespread outrage, prompting the court to step in and order the government to reveal all the names that it had. The government told the court that it was committed to disclosing the names of people holding money abroad illegally. In an affidavit, the government said that since every account held by an Indian in a foreign country may not be illegal, it would investigate the accounts before disclosing the names of account holders. Details on Page 8

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Govt agencies commit to Child Rights Wokha, october 29 (MexN): An awareness campaign on Child Rights on the theme “Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the cycle of Violence” was organized by the Nagaland Social Welfare Board (NSSWB) and State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) on October 28 at Bloomfield Academy School and Gilgal High School, Wokha. Around 350 children attended the programme. Addressing them, Wobenthung J Patton, Superintendent, Observation Home, Wokha shared about the Universal Rights of a child which are also enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Constitution of India. He made a special mention of Right to Education, Right to life, Right to freedom of expres-

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Gilgal High School, Wokha students attend the awareness campaign on Child Rights held on October 28.

sion, Right against exploitation of child labour and sexual exploitation. He stressed that every adult should take responsibility to ensure that every child are entitled to these rights . He shared that a child has a right to grow in a family surrounded by love, care, and understanding and further stated there are various

schemes under the Department of Social welfare that protects the children and also provide special care and assistance. Gracy Ayee, State Coordinator, SRCW spoke on the theme and focused on different forms of violence occurring almost every day at home, in the streets, public transport, school,

the neighbourhood and in the community. She mentioned about sexual abuse, domestic violence, eve teasing, harassment, bullying etc and urged the girls to stand and fight for their rights and not to remain silent if any such untoward events happen to them. She encouraged the boys to respect the girls

and protect them. In addition, the students participated in the Signature Campaign “I Pledge to Stand for my Rights” which has been carried out in various schools. Ruovinuo Kiewhuo, Programme coordinator of the Nagaland Adolescent Girls Club, chaired the programme.

SH and WSH to organize Ahuna in Dimapur

Women folk gather at the Dhansiri River in Dimapur to pray and make ritual offerings to the Sun God during the auspicious day of Chhath Pooja on October 29. Chhath is one of the biggest festivals of Bihar and is joyously celebrated in other states. The festival involves worshiping and thanking the Hindu God of Sun over a period of four days during which most DIMaPUr, october devotees keep fast. (Morung Photo)

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29 (MexN): Sumi Hoho and Western Sumi Hoho will be organizing Ahuna, a post-harvest festival of the Sumi community, at DDSC Stadium on November 14 with Chief Minister, T.R. Zeliang and Minister for Industries and Commerce, Kaito Aye as the chief guest and guest of honour respectively. Briefing media persons in Dimapur on Wednesday about the festival, Organizing Committee of Ahuna Festival said one of the spe-

cial attractions of the event would be the exhibition of the traditional practice of ‘aghuza-phe.’ There would also be various traditional items such as ‘imunopi suzho suzho,’ war dance, folk songs to be presented by different villages. The event will also witness traditional couple show competition by various areas. There will be two sessions – formal session and cultural extravaganza. The organizers are expecting around 25, 000 to 30, 000 Members of the Organizing Committee of Ahuna Festival address media persons in Dimapeople. pur. (Morung Photo)

Kiphire schools protest assault on teacher NSSWB is ‘Best performing State

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Students participate in the silent protest rally organized by the Kiphire District Private Schools’ Society in protest against assault of a teacher. (Morung Photo)

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Kiphire | October 29

Students of all the ten private schools in Kiphire today took part in the silent protest rally against assault on teacher. The rally organized by the Kiphire District Private Schools’ Society (KDPSS) started from Traffic Point, protesting the incident that happened in Saramati High School on October 10 where a parent of Class IX assault the head teacher and tried to fire pistol on the teacher inside the class room in presence of the student. The Kiphire District Private Schools Society submitted a memorandum to the United Sangtam Students Conference

(USSC) requesting to settle the matter in a manner that would enable the teaching community work in a peaceful atmosphere to extend their best service to the student community. The United Sangtam Students Conference (USSC) President Pithrongse said that the conference has served a notice to the GPRN/NSCN to terminate Maj Shikato from National service with regard to Saramati High school issue. “However, so far there has been no response to that so the conference has conveyed a general meeting on 31 October as to what course of action will be taken,” he stated. The president also stated that the act of Maj Shika-

to who is a high ranking officer in the Naga political group is un acceptable in civilized society and this act should be condemn. USSC, General Secretary, Achumba while speaking during the rally said that as per the letter received by the USSC from the KDPSS on October 10, the USSC took up the issue and has served a notification to the GPRN/ NSCN to government to terminate Maj Shikato within 15 days, which expires on October 25. However, so far there has not been any response and added the conference will not leave the matter unsolved. KDPSS, president, Sebastian and KDPSS vice president Thomas Mathew also spoke during the rally.

kohIMa, october 29 (MexN): The Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB) was awarded the 1st rank for Best performing State Chanelising Agency (SCA) in the country by the National Minorities Development Finance Cooperation (NMDFC),Ministry of Minority Affairs, GOI, at its annual conference of State Chanelising Agencies (SCAs) held on October 8, New Delhi. The State Board which was honoured for its performance during the year 2009-2014. The Kerala State BC Dev Cooperation & JK Women Dev Cooperation were the other two winners ranked as 2nd and 3rd respectively. Dr.Najma Heptulla, the Union Minister for Minority Affairs who also inaugurated the annual conference gave away cash awards to the 3 best performing SCAs. Applauding the efficiency of the SCAs who were awarded, the Minister hoped that this will motivate other SCAs in the different States. P. Daisy Mezhur, Secretary, NSSWB, in her statement said that this is a proud moment for the State Board and would like to

dedicate this award to the women SHGs and Women Entrepreneurs for being sincere in their loan recovery. She further stated that if we cannot be faithful in small things one can never be faithful in bigger responsibilities. This rare achievement is the outcome of being faithful in small things. We look forward to greater success in the near future to carve a niche for women at all levels .We are confident that if given a chance women SHGs can become 1st Generation of successful women entrepreneurs and can contribute to our State economy immensely. Earlier, D.S.Bisht, Managing Director, NMDFC welcomed the participants and gave a brief account of achievements of the past 20 years and challenges of today before NMDFC. The conference was attended by the Officials of the concerned department of the State Governments, State Chanelising Agencies of NMDFC, Ministry of Minority Affairs, similar Social Sector Apex Corporations under different Ministries, Auditors, Bankers and other agencies associated with NMDFC.

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Yimchalu Village Gate and waiting shed inaugurated

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MokokchUNg, october 29 (MexN): A small farm village located about 15 kms to the north of Mokokchung town under Asetkong Range, Yimchalu Village today inaugurated its Village Gate and a waiting shed. The ceremonial cutting of ribbons of both of which were done by local MLA Dr. Imtiwapang Aier as the chief guest, in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel IAS. The pastor of Sungratsu Baptist Church, Rev. T.Mapu Walling, pronounced dedicatory prayer of the newly inaugurated village gate. Speaking at inaugural, the MLA congratulated the Yimchalu villagers for working hard to build the village gate and the waiting shed despite fund constraints. He said that erecting a village gate is not a new phenomenon in Naga parlance but that it was customary for every village to have its own village gate as it signifies “identity, culture and traditional values.” Describing the village gate as beautiful, he also added that apart from the aesthetic value, it also contributes to preserving the traditional values and lifting the spirit of the people. Dr.Imtiwapang Aier also sug-

MLA from 23 Impur A/C, Dr. Imtiwapang Aier and Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel IAS, along with Yimchalu Village Council members after the inauguration of Yimchalu Village Gate and Esa Menjen waiting shed on October 29. Yimchalu is a farm village located about 15 kilometers from Mokokchug Town.

gested to the Yimchalu farmers to produce organic vegetables along with the other cash crops the villagers are cultivating at the moment as there is much health benefit by consuming organic food, adding that there is good market and demand for organic food. Challenging the farmers to produce organic vegetables, he encouraged them to look at Mokokchung’s market and beyond so as to make Yimchalu the ‘bowl of organic vegetables’ in the region. He also declared that he has personally and successfully initiated for a project under a central scheme fi-

nanced by the Ministry of Road Transports, Government of India for blacktopping the village road. He said work would start as soon as the formalities are completed. He also expressed gratitude to the Land Resources Department, Government of Nagaland on behalf of the people for supporting the villagers in constructing the waiting shed, named Esa Menjen. The Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, who also spoke at the function, appreciated the villagers for their effort in constructing the symbolic village gate. He explained that development basically comes from

the people and not from the government alone. He also said that selfsufficiency in farming is also a development and that he would extend assistance in possible manners as the DRDA Chairman. He also underscored the need for judicious use of funds and sustainable development. District Project Officer, LRD, Mokokchung also speaking at the function said the department has constructed the waiting shed as part of its Entry Point Activity scheme under the Integrated Watershed Development Programme (IWDP). He also said that the department has from this year introduced commercial cultivation of cardamom in the village. The IWDP in Yimchalu began in 2013, he said, and urged the villagers to cooperate with the department so that they would benefit in the remaining period of the 5-year project. EAC of Kobulong, Thongtiba Sangtam and Chairman of Sungratsu Village Council also spoke at the function. Yimchalu is a farm village covering an area of about 13 square kilometres which was established with the blessings of the parent village of Sungratsu and was recognized by the government in 2007.

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3 Racial attacks on NE people 'Discover Northeast' aims to take NE beyond the region stems ‘hegemonic’ behaviour

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DIMaPUr, october 29 (MexN): A recent Bimonthly Talk organised by the Naga Scholars Association (NSA) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi deliberated on the cultural and sociological perception of North East (NE) people at the national capital, where the main speaker, Dr. Saroj Giri of Department of political science, Delhi University presented his topic, “Pork with bamboo shoot please! Consuming North East in Delhi”. A press note from the Secretary (Executive) of NSA, Sulila Anar stated that, Dr. Giri spoke on the need to critically examine how people from the region of NE are being “consumed” by India’s mainstream at different “subterranean” levels, but how they are socially and culturally excluded at the

same time. He opined that, while the middle class city dwellers find the splendid sense of fashion, music and food culture of the people from the NE as “absolutely noteworthy” of being “impressionable” in the cosmopolitan culture, he had “problem” with mere “exoticising” of the NE people and their culture. To paint a “cosmopolitan outlook” in the city establishment, the people of North Eastern region are employed at the high end economic enterprises, argued Dr. Giri, but they are regarded just as another variants of productive forces in India’s newfound “market-oriented” economy. In this regard, he insisted that the recent escalation of racism against the people of the NE should not be simply seen as an

Northeast Briefs NSCN (IM) cadre nabbed in Manipur KolKata, october 29 (PtI): A consignment of arms and ammunition was seized and an NSCN (IM) cadre was apprehended by army in Manipur's Senapati district, army sources said here today. Based on specific intelligence about movement of an active NSCN (IM) cadre with a consignment of arms and ammunition, troops of Red Shield Division launched an operation on Monday in Tumnoupokpi village, the officials said. A hardcore NSCN (IM) cadre who was moving in a vehicle carrying 4 rifles, magazines and other ammunition was apprehended and was later on handed over to the local police station.

Arunachal Tea growers urged to follow Tea Board regulation ItaNaGar, october 29 (PtI): The Director of Arunachal Pradesh Trade and Commerce Tokong Pertin today urged tea growers of the state to follow the Tea Board of India's regulation on pesticide application in Tea cultivation through Plant Protection Code (PPC) with effect from January 1 next year. "The Board will allow very few chemicals to be applied in Tea cultivation for controlling pests and diseases as approved by the Central Insecticidal Board (CIB) with fixed maximum residue limit in Tea against each chemical," Pertin said in a release here. This is a serious issue to be addressed by the tea growers of the state as tea manufacturing agencies would surely deny purchasing of green leaves having chemical residue beyond MRL or containing banned chemicals, Pertin said. Pertin urged the tea growers of the state to follow the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices developed and designed by Tocklai Tea Research Institute (TTRI), TRA, Jorhat, Assam for the benefit of both the big agency houses and small tea growers.

24,000 bottles of banned cough syrup seized in Meghalaya SHIlloNG, october 29 (PtI): Customs department sleuths today seized 24,000 bottles of banned Phensedyl cough syrup worth over Rs 37 lakh from a Tripura-bound truck at the Shillong Bypass near here, officials said. Acting on a tip off, the sleuths waited for the truck that took off from Changsari railway head in Guwahati last evening supposedly carrying FCI rice to Agartala, they said. "The truck carrying 257 bags of rice, also had 81 cartons of the banned cough syrup hidden inside the rice bags. After passing the Bypass toll gate at Diengpasoh village, it was stopped at about 3 AM and then seized," a senior customs official said. He said the consignments were bound to Tripura where it was supposed to be delivered to its handlers in Bangladesh. According to the officials, the seized drug is worth over Rs 37 lakh in the market. The driver of the truck was arrested and booked under relevant sections of the NDPS Act.

Tripura HC asks why FIR was not registered in rural scheme scam aIzawl, october 29 (Ie): The Tripura High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the state government and called for an explanation on why an FIR was not registered when the then Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury asked one to be registered in May after a Rs 17 crore rural scheme scam was discovered by an internal audit. The opposition Congress had this Monday filed a PIL asking for a CBI probe into the Bishalgarh RD Block financial scam. The petition was admitted Wednesday, and the HC issued notices to the state government. Congress spokesperson Dr Ashok Sinha had attached in his petition a note by then Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury directing that an FIR be registered against erring officials on May 19. The FIR was never registered, and Chowdhury was shifted from Finance to Health a few days later. The next date of hearing has been fixed for November 24.

attack to the innocent and modest faces, but it should be studied within the larger frames of India’s “hegemonic policy” and how people of North Eastern region have been projected as the prospective other for India’s gain. As a point of departure from the conventional “discourse” and categorising of the minorities by the dominant groups, the speaker provoked that the minority “nationalities” such as the Nagas from North East region “to study and define the Indians through their own categories and understanding”. Into that quest, Dr. Giri maintained, such a counter “discourse” can produce alternative ideas for the intellectual Indians to understand themselves which otherwise they have assumed as the “superior host” of the country.

GUwaHatI, october 29 (MexN): The five day cultural extravaganza, “Discover Northeast” was inaugurated by the Director of North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC), Dimapur, Lipokmar Tzudir and Director of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Shankar Prasad Kakoti Bora at 11 am at Shilpgram on Wednesday, October 29. A press note form NEZCC stated that, today events included the Crafts exhibition for public where artisans from different parts of the region and the country participated showcasing the cultural diversity of India. A parallel food festival alongside the event also attracted huge food enthusiast relishing on the mouth watering traditional delicacy of the region. In addition to that the Book Mela and Children's Park facilities are also available for the public. The

sam appears to have been targeted by fundamentalist organisations like AlQaeda of late. Gogoi also appraised Modi about the recent arrest of some operatives having links with terror group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh from Assam. Gogoi requested Modi to impress upon Nagaland to enable a congenial and

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Sankar Prasad Kakati Bora, Regional Director of ICCR and Lipokmar Tzudir, Director of North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) inaugurating the five day cultural extravaganza -- Discover Northeast -- organised by NEZCC at Shilpgram in Guwahati on Wednesday, October 29.

evening crowd was mes- Samrat Vikram Talukdar mime artiste Mainul merized by “spectacular” followed by an “exquisite” Hoque and his troupe, the display of magic by Jadu performance by renowned press note added.

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According to the NEZCC, “Discover North East” has been conceptualized highlighted the enchanting and colourful culture of the North East Region which deserves higher appreciation and respect than the current situation. “NEZCC is of the opinion that the atrocities faced by North East communities in other parts of the country is primarily out of ignorance about the region…a concerted effort is deemed appropriate and need of the hour to showcase the best of the North East way of life, which needs to be realized first within the region… then taken forward to the rest of the country to garner respect and appreciation”, the NEZCC note maintained. The five day events will display arrays of vibrant and rich cultural diversity of the North East and showcase talents different artiste from all over the region and India.

AIUDF chief denies nexus with Jihadi outfits GUwaHatI, october 29 (IaNS): All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badaruddin Ajmal Wednesday denied any nexus of the party with Bangladesh-based Jihadi outfits and termed the allegations a conspiracy to damage the party and his image. Ajmal, who returned here from Mumbai, said that he would lead a nine-member party delegation to New Delhi Thursday to meet Prime Minister Narendra

Modi on the issue. He said the delegation will also meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee. "We are going to challenge the news channel which had telecast the news yesterday (Tuesday) quoting a 'report', in the court of law. I am questioning the authenticity of the report as there is no signature by any authority on the report which was being shown in the television news," Ajmal said

while producing a copy of the report based on which the news report was prepared. He contended that the content of the news report is very sensitive as it relates to national security. "I am going to New Delhi tomorrow to meet the prime minister, the home minister and the president of India. I am going to tell them to take action against me if there is any proof against me. I am ready to face any consequences if there

is proof against me," he said. "The AIUDF is a democratic party which believes in secular ideologies. We have been against terrorism and we have never supported any terrorist activities," he said."It's a conspiracy to damage the image of the AIUDF as well as my personal image. The AIUDF had been formed in 2005 and within this short period of ten years, we have 18 MLAs (legislators) and three Lok Sabha MPs. It is a conspiracy hatched by those

‘Fake currency from Bangladesh funding terror outfits’ GUwaHatI, october 29 (tNN): Assam Police are under pressure to check the flow of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) as National Investigation Agency (NIA) suspects that FICN are being pumped through Assam from Bangladesh to fund the activities of outfits like the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Indian Mujahideen (IM) in the country. The NIA, which is probing the Burdwan blast case, suspects that many Ulfa(I) and NDFB(S) cadres, besides miscreants, are involved in FICN smuggling to Assam and then to other parts of the country. "A clear pattern has emerged

regarding the route of FICN once it reaches India through Assam from Bangladesh. A huge chunk of it goes to some places in Uttar Pradesh having links with terror outfits. Some FICN were tracked to southern states, particularly to locations from where terror modules are operating. This is a continuing process," said an NIA official. Despite the developments over the last few weeks leading to tightening of security, attempts are on to push FICN from across the international border. Assam Police are struggling to check the menace as the denomi-

nations are of very high quality. On Monday, police arrested one person along with FICN with face value of Rs 14,000 from the Bharalu area. Before it, another person was nabbed with fake currency from the city's Beltola area. "As per official records, FICN worth Rs 95, 09,205 were seized from across Assam whereas FICN with face value of Rs 10, 25,000 was seized from several areas in neighbouring Meghalaya in the last three years," said a senior Assam Police official. In Assam, cases of counterfeit currency are showing a rising trend since 2011.

‘US to encourage businessmen to invest in North East’ aGartala, october 29 (IaNS): The US government and its diplomatic missions in India will encourage American businessmen to invest in India's resource-rich northeast region, a top US diplomat said here Wednesday. "The US government did not invest directly in various infrastructure and industrial sectors in other countries. The US government and its missions in India can play a consultative role to persuade the US businessmen and investors to do business in northeast region of India," US Consul General in Kolkata Helen LaFave told reporters. She said: "US missions and the government are keen to disseminate information, inputs and necessary details among the investors and businessmen so that the possible investors could be encouraged." The envoy said the US government and its missions in India can help the northeastern states in various ways to curb cross-border drugs and narcotics menace and human trafficking. "The judiciary, lawmakers, politicians, security forces, NGOs and other stake holders must work

together to deal with the drugs, narcotics menace and human trafficking." The consul general after visiting Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Sikkim and Mizoram came to Leftruled Tripura Monday on a three-day visit. The visit is aimed at knowing better the resource-rich northeastern region that borders China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal. During the tour, the US diplomat was meeting ministers, influential personalities, bureaucrats, leaders of trade and business sectors. Stressing on connectivity, LaFave said: "Northeast region of India must have good connectivity with the neighbouring countries and other southeast Asian nations to boost trade and business besides to improve people to people contacts." She said one of the main aims of the US government was to increase the ties between America and northeast India through outreach visits like this one to share ideas on issues of mutual interest. "India and the US are cooperating each other in diverse areas. One of the areas of interest in particular is how

Assam CM, PM discuss ways to check fundamentalist threat GUwaHatI, october 29 (IaNS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and discussed a gamut of important issues concerning the state like militancy and the threat from fundamentalist groups. He pointed out to the prime minister that As-

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conducive environment along the Assam-Nagaland border so that people from both the states can benefit from mutual trust and harmony.Besides, Gogoi asked the Prime Minister for adequate funds to complete the updating of the National Register of Citizens in Assam within the stipulated time. Gogoi sought the prime minister's

intervention in the matter of payment of crude oil royalty on pre-discounted price in the light of the verdict by the Gujarat High Court on a petition filed by the government of Gujarat, and the interim order passed by the Supreme Court that crude oil royalty to Gujarat be paid on prediscounted crude price beginning from Feb 1, 2014.

northeast India integrates with South East Asia through the (India's) 'Look East Policy'." "The Indo-Pacific Economic Cooperation encouraged integration between South Asia and South East Asia in economic, commercial and security sectors, and northeast India is at the right position to obtain benefit of this cooperation," she said. LaFave said during a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama last month in Washington it was reaffirmed that the two countries would work together.

who are scared of the increasing popularity of the AIUDF," he said. Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who is in New Delhi, has said that the state government does not have any report about any such links. "I admit that there have been Jihadi activities in Assam. However, the state government does not have any evidence regarding the nexus between the AIUDF and the Jihadi forces as of now," he said.

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Public Rally Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation VENUE: Old MLA Hostel Junction, Kohima Date: 31st October. 2014. Time: 10 AM

“ If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”

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One thousand hours bandh by JACAS

he Frequency of imposing Chaka bandh, Economic bandh, 100 hrs bandh and now 1000 hrs bandh has become a bandh beyond all limits. Moreover, on whatever excuses these bandhs are called, they are always directed to strangulating the economy of Nagaland. What fiendish pleasure is derived from these bandhs is perhaps no different from the countless harassments meted out against innocent Nagas who are required to pass through Assam being in the same country. This time the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland made fervent plea to both the Government of Assam and the Central Government of India to stop the illegal bandh which is likely to adversely affect Nagaland and Manipur. But the usual Lackadaisical attitude of Assam and the failure of the Central Government to take any effective measure is likely to cause serious consequences. The Karbis also must understand that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and that they should not forget that the Nagas will never give up their traditional boundary which extends up to Kopili River. These bandhs only reminds us the memory of the prophetic statements of our forefathers to leave the Nagas alone for the blackman cannot be trusted- “one will hate us for our beef and the other will hate us for our pork”. If 60 years is not long enough to change our concept, the fault certainly does not lie with the Nagas alone. The government must act urgently to put a stop to this senseless bandh before the situation deteriorates. T L Angami

Intentional Boarder Encroachment

he boarder issue intentionally created by the Assam Govt. at Ralan Jandalashong area at the behest of irrational background of Adivasis there at RalanJandalashong who were the Lotha Naga tenants can never be compromised, not only for want of defending the land ownership by the land owners but protecting the rights of Nagaland Boundary the priority. The brief background for eviction of those Adivasis from the land of RalanJandalashong was that those Adivasis who were being kept as pani kheti labourers by the land owners some decades ago with a conditions that they will cultivate and make fifty fifty share cropping every year with the land owners and therefore it is solely at the will of the land owners to keep them longer or let them go off from the land as per our Naga Customs if they are not honest. In such a situation and citing an example out of many forceful act of land encroachment it is seen that Assam government has intentionally been established one Government Middle School and an Anganwadi Centre in the midst of Jandalashong village vicinity in the private land of

Late, Amomo’s Lotha former Tatar (NSCN I.M) was very insensible character in nature when we reflects it into the area of Social Justice and also naming Chetiagaon of those area can never be accepted. Therefore, not only the case of Adivasi but any tenant who were not loyal with the land owners (be with Assamese or Nagas the land owner might be) such kind of tenants are compelled to be evicted or sent off from the land with no any controversy. And in course of such proceedings how it tends the Assam Government to make trouble to Nagaland Government for the sake of such adivasis and provide shelter to those immigrants .There has been no any disturbances from Assam Government side when all these pani kheti were developed some decades ago as those lands falls well within the Nagaland boundary. Take it as yours what was historically, topographically and ancestrally yours, but say not, when it is not. Peaceful co-existence can never be attended among regionally, nationally or globally if you are not able to stick with only what is belongs to you. N R Lotha Concerned Citizen

License to kill!

n Diwali evening while many Nagas were celebrating the festival with pomp and crackers along with the ‘others’, a family in a far away village was mourning because their young daughter, who was living in Kohima looking after her younger siblings by doing odd jobs, lost her life to someone’s drunk driving. Two more young people were critically injured in the same incident. A day earlier a ‘bus’ had killed a man and seriously injured two others. This happened within a span of two days! And even as I write this article, a man riding a scooter, I was told, was killed thanks to rash driving. During the festive season, to ease the traffic, there are road diversions and the traffic personnel relentlessly work to ease the flow of vehicular and human movements. However, this is what our elders say ‘its like pouring water on yam leaf’; a meaningless, frustrating exercise and not worth the effort. We have not taken the imperatives into consideration. Easing the traffic is not the solution here. Men, women, and children are losing their lives in road accidents not because of traffic snarls but because of other fundamental reasons. Firstly, how is it that in Nagaland one can procure driving license without undergoing driving tests? Ridiculous as it is, nowhere is it written that every single Naga should have a driving license just because they can steer, pull the brake, and change the gears. Have we ever considered as to why vehicular traffic in Kohima or even Dimapur is excruciatingly erratic and tiresome?

This here is what happens when it is ensured that a ‘future driver’ attains his class properly and takes the test and is graded ‘P’ or ‘F’. When a ‘future driver’ is thorough with his lessons the traffic controller need not teach any extras on the roads, because the ‘driver’ is tested and found good. If he/ she still errs, there is always the option of revoking or impounding the license, or be penalized. There is nothing like a formally trained pupil who will do the job to the ‘T’, though there are exceptions always. Secondly, of all the nuisance and crimes associated with traffic, drunk -driving is the most detestable and irrational issue of concern for the public. Surprisingly, in a ‘dry state’ where people get drunk from morning till evening without any restrain, other than from ‘parents and wives’, there are no traffic regulations to check drunk drivers! We read about it in the papers, we hear about our friends, family, and neighbors whose lives are cut short because of negligent driving under the influence of alcohol. Either they are their own victims or they cause ineffable misery and sadness to some other family. It is understandable if it is done in pursuit of self-destruction but the problem arises when another person’s life is being jeopardized. Can this menace be ever checked? I mean ‘drunk drivers’. This is not an issue about total prohibition or otherwise, it is merely to control unwanted accidents. The third, fourth, fifth and the rest of the other problems will de-escalate once the above two issues are rectified and enforced stringently - be it rash driving, parking, arbi-

rovincial education is tautology. Education is intrinsically provincial and decentralization is eking out the best from it. Government ‘ control ‘ is desirable even in private schools and colleges, so that there are uniform standards in terms of admission and recruitment of teachers. So provincial education has to be seen in terms of diffusing ‘ power’. The common school system or neighbourhood schools are cases in point, where the idea is to detach education from hierarchy or elitism. Thus the son or daughter of a bureaucrat may be admitted in the same school as the progeny of people who possess much lower incomes. In that manner education is egalitarian. What is provincial is a matter of question. Does it not already exist in terms of devolution of rank and power, or different schools maintaining allegiance to separate boards for conduct of examinations? The point is that provincial education is not the solution, the solution lies in a more egalitarian system, by which there is more accessibility for the economically weaker sections of the society. This is the first step. The second is to then categorize education into different streams such as, vocational and general. Those having weak cognitive skills can be encouraged

to strengthen practical skills and what is called: ‘ hands on training ‘. Simply targeting the government aided or deficit schools for what is called provincial, is exerting more control over them, in terms of controlling infrastructure, but not quality and accessibility. Today in India, the biggest problem in education is making it accessible, right from school onwards to college and university. That is why distance and flexible education have become so popular, in terms of an equal opportunities. But the base and bedrock, still remains school education, where even if there is accessibility, the issues of drop outs must be addressed. For example we are informed that Meghalaya has one of the highest dropout rates at the primary levels, and North East India has the highest number of untrained primary school teachers. Politicizing education in terms of government control is no solution. The exertion of control and dominance must come in terms of quality, recruiting the best teachers and ensure a minimum decent salary for school teachers. Infrastructure will follow. Equipping schools with say computers, libraries and spacious play fields must follow as corollaries. Private schools must be coerced into thinking that education is

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trary honking, and other annoyances. For instance, parking wildly in strategic areas and causing unimaginable chaos or disorder so that other vehicles have to slither in or out to avoid accidents that could invoke the ire of the ‘Boss’; Honking violently amidst jams, without any reason and just for fun which is not ‘civilized’; speeding in limited spaces which will always create enemies because it will either end up hitting pedestrians, parked cars, or bump into some funny ditches and sewers, or get oneself punched in the face; Jam-jumpers/overtaking or taking u-turns everywhere like they say, ‘as if it is your grandparents’ land’all these and much more can be tamed and averted by means of the above mentioned points - not even fully but to a great extent, because there will always be people who are born ‘upside down’ and who will never take the necessary180 degree turn. It is sadly that time of year again when accidents begin to intensify. Kohima is not known for its good roads - it is tiny with zigzaggy unevenness everywhere, and there are craters which cause jerks and bumps out of proportion. In such dire conditions, drivers, future drivers, and wannabe drivers should take note of the fact that driving under the influence of alcohol is a foolhardy act of seducing death. Once a life is gone one can only rue and regret, since we cannot resurrect the dead. The price to pay for alcohol affected driving should never be life itself. Concurrently, those in charge of ‘distributing’ spurious driving licenses should stop and think twice. Unless a person sits

for driving tests and clears the ‘objectives and requirements of driving’, a license should not be issued. In the meantime, the concerned department can make use of available technologies which are within our reach - what about breath analyzer? (This will be an impetus to immobilize drunk driving), Reflective aluminum road signs? engineering grade prismatic reflective signs? Radar speed gun? CCTVs? The options are many. Simultaneously, other variables like ‘attractive’ footpaths for pedestrians, speed breakers at crucial spots, proper parking spaces etc. should be seriously taken into the context of traffic safety. These on and off road facilities are essential requirements for any place which has roads, cars and human beings. We should not shy away from utilizing them. Big fishes going abroad for ‘study tour’ should know better. No, we do not expect Nagaland to be a perfectly traffic accident free zone like Sweden (it is desirable though), but it is expected that at least a minimum level of what was seen and learned from abroad should be implemented. Or else ‘pretty chicks’, unrestrained flow of amazing alcohol, culture shock, panoramic views including good roads and orderly traffic, and endless of desirable ‘goodies’ will be the only experience. For the rest, let the license to drive ‘beautify the traffic’ and not make it into a license to kill! Toshi Longkumer 13-D, Feroze Shah Road, New Delhi

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a social responsibility, and not only a ‘ business ‘. In that manner the privatization of education will have a meaning, a social responsibility and a commitment towards what is best for the teacher and the taught, in terms of learning and delivering services. There is nothing wrong in making education a ‘ market ‘, so long as it is for a larger cause and good. Many private institutions in the country have the best schools, but in the name of education and a marketing frenzy, education cannot to degenerate into talking shops! So, what in actuality the government must do is to exert control over private schools and make the government run schools, more sustainable in terms of teaching, quality, accessibility and institutional mechanisms. This will also be a part of provincial control. School education is the apex of all education, it is the base and foundation, it is not a static archetype, it must continuously innovate, adapt and change. This is the inherent logic of all education, but it must start at school, for creating innovative spaces for the fledgling adult, or the child. Next comes the investment in education. If the GDP in education cannot increase in the country, or remains stagnant, then education will not be given

a fillip. Also issues such as teacher absenteeism, are crucial factors to measure the quality of education. What then would make up the larger canvas, of provincial education? Is it centralization, but further devolution, maintaining at the same time control or supervision? Is it asking those schools aided by the government to provide more infrastructure? Is education to be viewed only in infrastructural terms, buildings, equipments, etc. What is the larger space that the teacher and the student needs? What about respectable salaries for school teachers, which in turn gives them mental stamina and motivation? How do we ensure creativity of a child flowering in terms of reading books, having proper playgrounds, and learning to use computers in terms of e learning, and more innovative practices? How do we motivate teachers to extend the classroom in terms of innovation, counselling to students, and discovering talents? These call for a more integrated and holistic treatment of education. Recently I went to a local school in Shillong for girls, where there was an exhibition by students, displaying both humanities and science subjects. For example there was a depiction on the life and works of

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Shakespeare. This is a delightful holistic way of looking at education. In whatever seminal manner, schools must be encouraged to take up such objectives. When we talk only about provincial education, we miss holism and the wood for the trees! Unless again there is one concerted policy adopted towards education, with premium on school education by the central and state governments the disorderliness will continue, with multiple boards conducting examinations and entry points to higher and technical education leading to disparate elements and subjectivity. With all the talk about skills and vocational education, more imagination must flow into this area, making a connection between school and college, as a distinct entity and stream of studies. ‘Soft ‘ skills and computer literacy may be integrated with vocational education, such as communication skills and personality development. Further vocational education must be viewed in perspectives of basic education. This will also give opportunities to students in rural areas, thus augmenting the need for a more concerted effort towards provincial education!

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Panel discussion on 'Riding toward change' Oct 31 public rally Our Correspondent Kohima | October 29

In view of the public rally of Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland in Kohima on October 31, a panel discussion took place here this evening with Vincent Belho as moderator and Joel Nillo Kath, Dr. Khekugha, Kezhokhoto Savi (all from ACAUT), Zakie Khate (ASU) and Jabou Sekhose (KCCI) as panelists. During the discussion, ACAUT members made clear its objective which is to create awareness and strengthen the resolve of the Naga people towards "one government, one tax" and to make the people realize that corruption is not acceptable. Elaborating on "one government, one tax", Joel Nillo Kath stressed that ACAUT is not against Naga National Movement.

He stated that ACAUT is for all the factions to unite and come under one umbrella so Naga people can give only one tax to one single entity. Dr. Khekuga Murru said that the state capital Kohima, where all tribes reside, is the right place to commemorate the first anniversary of ACAUT, where it can also ensure that the voice of the movement reach out not only to the people of Kohima, but also to all people of the State. "Offering our support to this movement is not about ASU or any students' Union or organisation but it is about the conviction of oneself towards an initiative which we want to see materialize in our society," said ASU president Zakie Khate. Jabou Sekhose also said that the business community has been bearing the brunt of all kinds of taxation for a very long time and

felt that participating in the public rally will be beneficial for KCCI. Meanwhile, Kezhokhoto felt the need to curb or bring down corruption and opined the need to introduce Lokayukta in Nagaland. He also stressed on the need to wipe out nepotism, favoritism, embezzlement, etc. Earlier, in a press release jointly issued by secretary of the organizing committee Zakie Khate also president of ASU; convener and president of AYO Medo Yhokha and co-convener and KCCI president Jabou Sekhose appealed to all churches, colleges, schools, organizations, student community, business community, professionals, contractor fraternity, tribal hohos/council from all districts in the State to attend the Kohima rally. The rally will start at 10:00 am at Old MLA Hostel Junction.

NAYO asks members to attend rally KOhima, OctOber 29 (mexN): The Northern Angami Youth Organization (NAYO) has informed all its village youth executives to attend the October 31 public rally on unabated taxation and corruption in Kohima. NAYO also requested its members residing at the

capital town to be present (in traditional attires) and show solidarity towards the movement which was launched by ACAUT a year ago in Dimapur. The rally is being initiated by Angami Youth Organization alongside ASU, ACAUT and KCCI. The rally will also

commemorate ACAUT's first anniversary. On the day, leaders of various organizations and intellectuals will speak on the social evils and criminal activities afflicting Nagaland in the form of illegal, unabated taxation, and corruption, according to NAYO.

Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): The Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) has condemned the rape of an elderly woman in Jotsoma and appealed to the authorities to deal with the case stringently. “The rape of an 80-yearold woman at Jotsoma Village by two youths in their twenties is a blot on Naga society which has always claimed that age is revered in our culture,” stated NSCW chairperson, Dr. Temsula Ao in a press release. “This reprehensible act totally negates this claim in our times.” NSCW has demanded that the accused be awarded the maximum punishment according to the law of the land. “There should be no room for ‘forgive and forget’ in such cases of unspeakable violence against women of any age.” The Commission further extended deepest sympathies to the victim and wished her speedy recovery from the trauma. NMA: The Naga Mothers Association (NMA) has also denounced the “despicable act” of rape of an 80-year-old woman allegedly by Küdukhozo (Adu) Nakhro and Vezohu Resuh in connivance with the daughter-inlaw of the victim. The NMA has appealed to the authorities not to grant bail to the three accused and also fast track the case for early disposition and award befitting punishment. “The repeated incidents of rape on minors, mothers, elderly and even physically challenged persons has sent a wave of insecurity and fear to our womenfolk across the State,” NMA stated in a release. “We deeply abhor any kind of violence and rape on

our daughters, sisters and mothers.” It further appealed to all women/mothers to be vigilant and “prayerfully conduct and desist from any immoral activities which can cause grave threat/ danger to themselves.” CWSK: The Chakhesang Women Society Kohima (CWSK) has also condemned “the vile act committed on the elderly mother at Jotsoma on 25th October, 2014.” Stating that the crime is an “utter disgrace to humanity, an unthinkable abomination,” the CWSK has appealed to the law enforcing agencies and the judiciary to award befitting penalty to the perpetrators, so that “such disturbing/appalling vices are completely discouraged and wiped out from our society.” SZWO: Condemning the rape of an 80-year-old at Jotsoma, Sechü Zubza Women Organisation (SZWO) has demanded from the government and law enforcing agencies to award befitting punishment to the culprits as per the law of the land so justice is delivered to the victim. It also appealed to the government not to grant bail to all the three accused, and further urged all right thinking citizens to outrightly condemn the “shameful and dreadful act.” “When even an 80 year old woman is not spared from such heinous crime, it is time the State government and the civil society come out strongly to initiate stricter laws against the rapists so that such crimes are not repeated in the future,” stated SZWO chairperson, Khrieselhounuo Sirie and general secretary Megosono Rhitso in a press release. “This dastardly act of the two rapists reminds us that our women are not safe anymore even at home.”

The motorcycle riders being welcomed at Old MLA Hostel Junction, Kohima on October 29. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent The rally, which was of the organizing commitKohima | October 29

As a precursor to the public rally of Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) in Kohima on October 31, the Nagaland Motorcycle Club today undertook a motorcycle ride from Dimapur to Kohima to show solidarity and support for the rally and the ACAUT movement with the theme 'Riding toward change.'

flagged off from City Tower in Dimapur reached Kohima this afternoon. The organizing committee of the public rally accorded warm welcome to the riders at a brief function held at Old MLA Hostel Junction. Kohima Chamber of Commerce & Industries (KCCI) spokesperson Neingulie Nakhro addressed the function and on behalf

tee appealed to each and every individual to join the public rally on October 31 at Old MLA Hostel Junction, Kohima, stating from 10:00 am. The function was led by Medo Yhokha, president, Angami Youth Organization, while vote of thanks was proposed by Mar Longkumer. It was followed by signature campaign at MLA Hostel Junction.

nMa supports ACAUT rally

KOhima, OctOber 29 (mexN): The Naga Mothers Association (NMA) has expressed support to the proposed ACAUT Nagaland rally against corruption and social issues in Kohima on October 31. “Our State has been plagued by rampant corruption and taxation and mothers faced heavily the brunt of all these social injustices,” stated NMA in a press release. The NMA further supported the demand of

ACAUT Nagaland for setting up Lokayukta Commission to take action against corruption in any sphere of governance. “So long our State is inundated by heavy taxation and corruption, there can be no peace, unity and development in our land,” NMA expressed, while calling each individual to reason and come together to fight the social menace. The NMA also appealed to all authorities to listen to

the voice of the common people and also the younger generation, and create a space for unity, peace and development to usher in Nagaland. Further, it urged all its units based in Kohima and women organisations from different wards/colonies and church women department to attend the rally and support the call for accountability to bring in the much desired positive changes.

ministers, parliamentary secretaries, and other important persons, tourists etc who will be visiting the Doyang Reservoir Area” on November 7 and 8. In this regard, the youth wing through its president, Rhanbemo Odyuo, has appealed to all the vehicles owners of Wokha area, plying on Wokha-Merapani Road, NEEPCO Ltd/DHEP, 17 Assam Rifles, A-Coy, Central Industrial Security Forces Doyang, Nagaland

Police Out-Post, Doyang, Lotha Hoho, Doyang, Principal of Vivekananda Kendra Vidayalaya Doyang, Doyang Youth Welfare Association (DYWA), Pastor & Catechist of United Baptist Church (UBC) and St. Thomas Catholic Church, Doyang, Chairman/ Head GBs & VDBs Secretaries, Pastors of all the villages in Englan Range, the President & General Secretary of Englan Range Students’ Union, Range Teachers’

Forum, all the heads of educational institutions in the area, Natural Nagas, Chairman, Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Wokha, NPF Officials in the area, Chairman, Wokha Village Council, VDB, Secretary, Wokha Village Development Board, Pastor, Wokha Village Baptist Church, Wokha Village Youth Organization, Staff and Labours of PWD (R&B) Wokha Division to participate in the social work.

DRFCB bans illegal excavation on Dhansiri riverbed Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): The Dhansiri River Flood Control Board (DRFCB) has banned random illegal excavation, extraction of sand, sand gravel stone from the riverbed of Dhansiri River and its tributaries. DRFCB Chairman

Hokheto Kiba in a press release stated that some “mahaldars” use excavators for illegally mining sand, sand gravel stone from the riverbed due to which the course of the river is changing and damaging government developments such as Bridges, Referral hospital, The

Global Open University Nagaland, Urban Haat, Circuit House, Assam Rifle Camp, etc. Further, people residing near Dhansiri River and its tributaries are losing their land, it added. It also reiterated the reply of RTI which stated that “wherever the river flows

belongs to the State and the claim of riverbed by any individual does not arise.” Therefore, the release informed all concerned that after November 10, 2014, if anybody is found violating this ban, strict action will be taken as per the provision of the law.

Lhisemia youth organization CL John at MCC foundation day reiterates on guidelines KOhima, OctOber 29 (mexN): The Lhisemia Youth Organization (LYO), Kohima village has informed the public of the guidelines, which have been in force since long, stating they will be strictly enforced in L. Khel ancestral jurisdiction. It has warned that offenders will be penalised as per standing order. The guidelines, among others, included prohibition of alcohol sale. It warned that heavy fine will be imposed upon offenders, followed by exile from L. Khel jurisdiction for repeated offence. It also stated that en-

Mex FiLe DAYO emergency meeting today Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): All the advisors, executive members, and unit presidents of Dimapur Ao Youth Organization (DAYO) have been informed that an emergency meeting has been called on October 30 at the treasurer’s (Chuba Pongen) residence at 2:00 pm. DAYO general secretary, Chitenlemba Imsong, has requested all to attend the meeting.

GBs social work in Dimapur on Nov 1

Women orgs condemn Appeal to participate in social work on Wokha-Doyang road rape of 80-year-old WOKha, OctOber 29 (mexN): NPF, Youth Wing, 37 A/C, Wokha is organizing mass social work on Wokha-Doyang Hydro Electric Project road on October 31 starting 7:00am. The youth wing plans to repair potholes, clear landslides, jungles etc to “create a congenial atmosphere and to facilitate convenient passage for the in-coming of Chief Minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang and his cabinet

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gaging illegal Bangladeshi immigrants (IBIs) in any form of service is prohibited. Penalty for the offence is Rs. 10,000. Further, hunting, fishing, collection of firewood and other natural resources is prohibited. Offenders will be penalized as per existing rules under different categories, it added. Engaging in immoral activities at any time within the jurisdiction will invite stern disciplinary action, it stated. LYO president Kethosietuo Mepfhiio and general secretary Thepfuvizo Vizo in a press release have informed colony, area youth organization under L. Khel ancestral jurisdiction to enforce the said guidelines in their respective colonies/areas.

Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): All the GBs under Sadar area in Dimapur have been informed that there will be a mass social work at Wednesday Market, Naga Shopping Arcade (Supermarket) on November 1 from 6am to 10am. GB’s Union Dimapur Jt. Secretary, Rangau Elung has informed that it is compulsory for all GBs to participate in the social work. A fine of Rs. 500/- will be imposed upon those who fail to attend, it was informed. All GBs are to bring machete (dao)/spade/shovel.

Excise seizes IMFL in Dimapur Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): The State Excise department, in continuation of its drive against illegal sale, possession, transportation, and smuggling of liquor and drugs, conducted raid at Eros line, Rail gate, Supermarket area, and Central Jail area in Dimapur on October 27. During the raid, 23 persons were arrested and 490 IMFL bottles of different brands seized. A press release from Dy. Commissioner of Excise, Lanuwati Jamir informed that the raid was jointly carried out by the officers and staff of Narcotic Cell, Mobile Squad, and district excise. All the arrested persons have been booked under the relevant section of NLTP Act ’89, it added.

GPRN/NSCN mourns Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): The GPRN/NSCN has expressed deep pain at the demise of Major Kakheto (Naga Army no.16851) of Kiyekhu Village on October 14. The MIP of GPRN/NSCN in a press release stated that a condolence message from Major General Vihoto Chophi, GSO 1 (Administration) GHQ, said the late officer was a 'dedicated and a sincere' worker, who joined the 'national movement' in 1993 and contributed his all, serving the nation under various 'capacities'. It lamented that the 'void' left by the late comrade and a friend will be difficult to fill, the release said. While offering condolences to the bereaved family/ friends/ dear ones, the GPRN/NSCN prayed for the departed soul to rest in peace.

Kohima police recover vehicle KOhima, OctOber 29 (mexN): Kohima North Police Station personnel recovered one vehicle - Gypsy (White) bearing registration number NL-10 6022, which was abandoned by the road side at Kidima village on October 28. According to a release from Sub Divisional Police Officer, Kohima, Shouka Kakheto, the vehicle was reported stolen from Don Bosco School Colony, Kohima on the same day. The suspects have been identified, but are absconding and efforts are on to trace them down, it informed.

Schools/colleges in Dimapur informed Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): The colleges and schools under Dimapur district, which have nominated participants for the essay competition “Role of a citizen on clean electoral roll and for clean election” to be held on October 31 at DC office complex, Dimapur, have been requested to ensure that the participants reach the venue at 10:30 am positively. Assistant Election Officer, Dimapur, R Toshi Aier informed this in a press release.

Work charge/casual employees to be paid through DLC mOKOKchuNg, OctOber 29 (Dipr): Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel has informed that as per the discussion held during the District Planning and Development Board Meeting on October 8, the wages for all the contingent/casual & work charge employees in all the departments would be paid by the District Level Committee (DLC) from now onwards. In this regard, all departments are informed to adhere with the directive. The schedule for payment of wages will also be circulated from November 10. Departments which are yet to submit the list of Work-Charge and Casual employees have been informed to submit the same on or before November 1, 2014.

GPRN/NSCN discharge four

Minister CL John arrives at the 7th foundation day celebration-cum-cultural day of Model Christian College (MCC), Kohima on October 27.

KOhima, OctOber 29 (mexN): Minister for rural development & REPA C.L. John graced the 7th foundation day celebrationcum-cultural day of Model Christian College (MCC), Kohima on October 27. The minister called upon the students to be practical learner and not just theoretical, where their education is relevant to our the society and culture and maximum benefit can be derived from the educated people. He lamented that due to

lack of dignity of labour in the society, “our economic resources are been drained out to other states.” The Minister also stated that in view of inter–tribalism and speaking different dialect, “our desire to become a strong state has become a futile exercise.” In this, he opined that the younger generation should foster to bring out a common dialect for all the Nagas. Athili Kathipri, director, technical education also graced the occasion as guest of honour.

Dimapur, OctOber 29 (mexN): The GPRN/ NSCN discharged four of its members on various grounds on October 28. Sergeant Kakheho of UT 1 (Naga Army No.17137) and 2nd Lieutenant Hotopu of Sumi Region (Naga Army No.16990) were discharged on health ground, according to an order issued by Major General Vihoto Chophi, GSO 1 (Administration), Naga Army GHQ, MIP of GPRN/ NSCN informed in a release. In a separate order signed by the GSO 1 (Admn), Sergeant Vilhou (Angami Region) bearing Naga Army No.18685 was “Force Discharged” for breach of ‘Ahza' in connection with illegal tax collection and extortion and penalized under Article 76 Clause II (2) of Naga Army Rules & Regulations. 2nd Lieutenant Lonshah (Konyak Region) bearing Naga Army No.14903 was also “Force Discharged” for committing rape and penalized under Article 88 of Naga Army Rules and Regulations. The GSO 1 (Admn) has stated that the orders come into immediate effect, it was informed.

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October 31 is National Unity Day Hello Birthday Girl !!!!!!!!!!!

KOhima, OctOber 29 (mexN): The Government of India has decided to observe the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) on October 31. Therefore, Directorate of School Education has directed all high/higher People from different walks of life and age groups thronged the state stadium, secondary schools in NaDimapur on the first day of Transformation Crusade on October 29. Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo from Koinonia Baptist Church, Kohima spoke about how Jesus died on galand to present a speech on “the life of late Sardar the cross for “us”. Photo by Caisii Mao

the unity, integrity and security of the nation and also strive hard to spread this message among my fellow countrymen. I take this pledge in the spirit of unification of my country which was made possible by the vision and actions of late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. I also solemnly Rashtriya Ekta resolve to make my own conDiwas Pledge “I solemnly pledge that I tribution to ensure internal dedicate myself to preserve security of my country.” Vallabhbhai Patel and his contribution towards unity, integrity, safety and security of the nation” in the morning assembly on the day, followed by administering the pledge and end with singing the national anthem.

any many happy returns of the day. May the day brings untold joy and happiness to you ...... I wish u a new dawn of life. With lots of Good Luck and best wishes. From Mark Noks'

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Outside the The Disheartening Gamer Gate Campaign box? Stay out.

ouple of months back I met a group of young people huddled in a room somewhere in Dimapur. They were discussing how to begin a movement to address an issue. “It is okay for a Naga man to slap me,” said a young woman at the gathering, “but it is not okay for a Bangladeshi man to slap me.” No one objected. From the moment it lands on your skin, to the moment one starts to assign social meanings to it, a slap is just a slap—a stinging act of violence. But the foreigner’s slap is outside the gamut of understood realities. A Naga male can slap a Naga woman and it is OKAY because her status of subordination is defined by the patriarchal system—this accepted system makes Naga internal dynamics ‘cleaner’ than the other’s. Those outside the box, though male, do not belong to this system and gaining control of the Naga woman’s body through a slap is to desire equality with the Naga man. Male jealousy of women dating ‘outsider’ men, for instance, is rather common and women are amply abused. In essence, Naga patriarchy becomes further entrenched, accepted by both the man and woman, and abuse rises. And then there are those, from inside, who are strategically excluded for being outside a box. When they are found to be disagreeable or disagreeing in what the mainstream structures and agencies believe, they are ‘outsided.’ Tracing the lineage of the modern public intellectual to Shamanic philosophers of ancient India, historian Prof. Romila Thapar, at a public lecture recently held in Delhi, said the non-Brahminical thinkers of ancient India were branded as Nastikas or non-believers. “I am reminded of the present day where if you don’t accept what Hindutva teaches, you’re all branded together as Marxists,” she noted. At a public lecture in Dimapur, Dr. Gordon Graham, Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and Arts at the Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, recently observed that a way to confront true Christians on the ‘other side’ of a debate is often to say, “They are not really Christians.” For Dr. Graham, a Christian must accept that faithful, good, honest and sincere Christians can be on two sides of an issue, whether of homosexuality, abortion or slavery—abuse of human rights of several grades exist and many Christians understand, witness it and advocate against them. As among the Hindus, many stand against the Hindutva construction of any region. Similarly, for ‘insiders’ of a political, ethnic or social entity, it is important to recognize that the ‘other’ is as much human first, their generosity or violence as genuine, political, or violent, as any that an ‘insider’ majoritarian structure promotes. To recognize only the ethnicity of a man when he slaps a woman is to miss two points—against unwarranted immigration as well as violence against women—thereby misplacing advocacy. Perspectives may be sent to moitramail@yahoo.com

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Nick Dearden

30 years on: Ethiopia & the business of hunger

t’s 30 years since Michael Buerke’s harrowing report of a ‘biblical famine’ reached BBC TV screens. Following a year of cynical government inaction and silence, Bob Geldof launched a frenzied celebrity campaign to get aid to the famine-hit regions. Money from the public, if not the government, poured into the country. But in the process, the politics of what was happening in Ethiopia was completely erased, and our ideas of ‘charity’, ‘hunger’ and indeed ‘Africa’, were changed in fundamental ways which to this day are difficult to challenge. The BBC remains proud of its reporting of Ethiopia’s famine, and certainly it directed public attention to a horrific situation. But it did this at the price of understanding what was really happening in Ethiopia, a problem compounded by Bob Geldof who insisted on seeing the famine as a terrible ‘natural disaster’. In fact Ethiopia’s authoritarian government under Mengistu Haile Mariam, heavily armed by the Soviet Union as a key proxy player in the Cold War, was waging a war against Eritrean and Tigrayan freedom fighters. Drought was being used by Mengistu as one tool to starve and defeat the rebel areas. Yet when aid started flowing in, it largely went to the Ethiopian government itself, which further used that aid to forcibly displace thousands of opponents. In an excellent article for the Guardian yesterday, former BBC journalist Suzanne Franks makes clear just how problematic the aid effort was: “Victims of famine were lured into feeding camps only to be forced on to planes and transported far away from their homes. Some estimate the number of deaths from this policy to be higher than those from famine.” As Franks says, Médecins sans Frontières refused to play along – a principled position they have maintained in humanitarian emergencies ever since. War on Want sent aid directly to rebel areas, where it was administered by the rebel infrastructures and senior Labour Party figures like Glenys Kinnock continued to support the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front and expose the horrific circumstances they were facing. But by and large, aid agencies played along with the politics as the best chance they had of getting aid in. Indeed, the Ethiopian famine played a huge role in the enormous growth of the aid industry over the next few years. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced that such a situation would be tackled more honestly today. Partly that’s because the way Ethiopia was treated fundamentally shaped the way we view Africa. Our idea of starving Ethiopians – helpless, passive and in desperate need of Western salvation – became our image of Africa as a whole. Media and governments played a role, but the biggest culprit was the aid organisations themselves, who understood it was untruthful, but found it an incredibly successful way of raising money. In a report commissioned several years ago called ‘Finding Frames’, researchers found that this framing of Africa – what they describe as the ‘Live Aid’ legacy – remains incredibly strong today. Swept away is the political context of Africa – the decades of Empire and slavery through to structural adjustment and debt crisis. Also ignored are the many examples of African resistance and success – from the national liberation governments of the 1950 through to Thomas Sankara’s transformation of Burkina Faso up to 1987. Africa’s agency is marginalised. The idea that we are a ‘Powerful Giver’ to ‘Grateful Receiver’ continues to dominate the aid discourse today, constantly reinforced by some aid agencies who still insist of perpetuating offensive imagery in order to raise funds. It’s important we use the anniversary of the Ethiopian famine not simply to show ‘how far Ethiopia has come’, after all Ethiopian civilisation long precedes our own. Rather we should use it to review our image of, and relationship towards Africa, and refuse to support those organisations which still grow rich on the ‘Live Aid’ legacy.

OR more than five years, almost every word that I’ve written professionally has been about video games. I used to cover things like presidential campaigns and prison reform. But at some point, video games began to seem as consequential as those subjects, if not more so. As they became more popular, more profitable and, most important, more powerful as a means of creative expression, video games started to feel to me like the Internet had in 1999: a technology on the verge of washing over our culture and reshaping it wholesale. Millions of people of all ages were playing games. These were boom times, and thanks not just to the mega-studios that produce things like the Call of Duty series, but to countless small, independent developers as well. Game design began to be taught in art schools alongside theater and sculpture. The interactive age had arrived, and video games were its most promising entertainment. And then came GamerGate. Over the past few weeks, as this inchoate but effective online movement has gathered momentum, I’ve begun to wonder if I’ve made a horrible mistake. GamerGate — named for its Twitter hashtag — began this summer when Zoe Quinn, the designer of the game Depression Quest, received threats of violence after an ex-boyfriend posted a long diatribe about her on the Internet. Some of the crusaders against Ms. Quinn justified their actions by constructing flimsy conspiracies that she colluded unethically with journalists who write for enthusiast websites about video games. After targeting Ms. Quinn, GamerGate widened its scope to include others perceived to be trying to cram liberal politics into video games. The movement uses the phrase “social justice warriors” to describe the game designers, journalists and critics who, among other alleged sins, desire to see more (and more realistic) representations of women and minorities. That critique, as well as more accusations of collusion among developers and journalists, attracted some conservative gadflies to GamerGate, like the “Firefly” actor Adam Baldwin. For all of us who love games, GamerGate has made it impossible to overlook an ugly truth about the culture that surrounds them: Despite the growing diversity in designers and in games — games about bullying, games that put you in the role of a transgender woman, games about coming out to your parents — there is an undercurrent of “latent racism, homophobia and misogyny,” as the prominent game designer Cliff Bleszinski wrote in March, before GamerGate even began. It’s the players who enjoy this culture, even as they distinguish themselves from the worst of the GamerGate trolls, who truly worry me. If all the recent experimentation and progress in video games — they’re in the permanent collection at MoMA now — turns out to be just a plaster on an ugly sore, then the medium’s long journey into the mainstream could be halted or even reversed. The very word “game” understates (and in some ways restricts) the promise of this new form. Video games have been used, yes, to create digital translations of sports, folk games and carnival games. And they have also been used to invent new modes of competition, from classics like Pong to the “e-sport” League of Legends. But like any medium of communication, the possibilities for what games can do are close to limitless. Already we use video games to exercise, to make music, to advance political arguments, to tell stories, to create beauty. One of the finest games of 2013, and undoubtedly the most important, was Gone Home, which had no combat or killing but used the perspective of the first-person shooter genre, as well as some of the same narrative techniques, to tell a story about two teenage girls in love. Gone Home, however, was

HE best escalator to opportunity in America is education. But a new study underscores that the escalator is broken. We expect each generation to do better, but, currently, more young American men have less education (29 percent) than their parents than have more education (20 percent). Among young Americans whose parents didn’t graduate from high school, only 5 percent make it through college themselves. In other rich countries, the figure is 23 percent. The United States is devoting billions of dollars to compete with Russia militarily, but maybe we should try to compete educationally. Russia now has the largest percentage of adults with a university education of any industrialized country — a position once held by the United States, although we’re plunging in that roster. These figures come from the annual survey of education from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or O.E.C.D., and it should be a shock to Americans. A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. But the American dream seems to have emigrated because many countries do better than the United States in educational mobility, according to the O.E.C.D. study. As recently as 2000, the United States still ranked second in the share of the population with a college degree. Now we have dropped to

not universally beloved. Some players resented the idea that the game didn’t involve much conventional challenge, in the sense of puzzles to solve or buttons to mash. Its designer and writer, Steve Gaynor, was bothered enough by negative user reviews online that he gave a talk at this year’s Game Developers Conference titled “Why Is Gone Home a Game?” GamerGate — a stupid word — has not targeted men like Mr. Gaynor, with a few exceptions. The movement’s supporters say they want to improve video-game journalism. But their actions look a lot more like an orchestrated campaign of harassment against women who make or write about video games. At least three women — two who make games and one critic who was honored with the industry’s nearest equivalent to an Oscar, a Game Developers Choice Award — have fled their homes after receiving violent threats. Under pressure from GamerGate, Intel pulled its advertising from Gamasutra, a website that covers the medium from a developer’s perspective, because of a column by Leigh Alexander that criticized mainstream game culture as an embarrassing cesspool of adolescent consumerism. Anita Sarkeesian, the critic whom video game developers honored with an Ambassador Award in March for the YouTube series “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games,” canceled a talk at Utah State University after an email warned of “the deadliest school shooting in American history.” The actress Felicia Day, a devoted video game player, published an essay online on Wednesday about how saddened she was by GamerGate, how it had made her suspicious of fans she encountered online and in person. Almost instantly, what someone described as her home address was published in the comments. That is not an exhaustive list. Other game designers, journalists and cultural critics have been threatened, or have faced hacking attempts on their online accounts, from email to social media to banking. Video games are unquestionably poorer than they were two months ago when this strange and disheartening series of events began. Talented people are quitting. If this continues, the medium I love could go backward into its roots as a pastime for children. Instead of being a mainstream form of entertainment, it could end up being something like comic books, a medium that has never outgrown its reputation for power fantasies and is only very occasionally marked by transcendent work (“Maus,” or the books of Chris Ware) that de-

mands that the rest of the culture pay attention to it. Games like Gone Home do not threaten to displace the blockbusters that dominate sales. The best of them will be bought by a million people or so (which, granted, is better than any music album other than the “Frozen” soundtrack this year). Grand Theft Auto V, by comparison, has sold more than 34 million copies since its release in September 2013. Yet these games, and the praise they receive, confound and infuriate some players. In a way, this backlash is similar to the irritation that people who like Michael Bay movies experience when film critics prefer something quieter or more difficult. But there’s something about the newness of video games that exacerbates this feeling. Perhaps the medium’s interactive nature gives players a greater feeling of possession over it, or maybe its relative invisibility in the wider culture has given some players the wrongheaded impression that it’s their private preserve. These players are so concerned about the fragility of big-budget video games in the face of cultural analysis and criticism that they circulated an online petition last year calling for the website GameSpot to fire a critic, Carolyn Petit, for daring to complain that Grand Theft Auto V “has little room for women except to portray them as strippers, prostitutes, long-suffering wives, humorless girlfriends and goofy, new-age feminists that we’re meant to laugh at.” (There were no such demands for the heads of male critics — including me, writing in The New York Times — who said pretty much the same thing.) To me, these anti-intellectual players, who want games to be “just games” and want criticism of them to be devoid of things like political and social context, are almost as worrisome as the horrifying, and criminal, actions of the harassers. True, telling a stranger that you will rape and murder her, after reciting the stranger’s home address — as a Twitter user did last week to the game developer Brianna Wu — is worse than asking for a journalist to be fired. But there’s no real debate around these threats and others like them. No one defends them. “The abuse is not the hard part for me,” Leigh Alexander, who wrote the column that led Intel to pull its advertising from Gamasutra, said to me in an email. She’s more discouraged by her peers at websites that took two months to denounce GamerGate. Others have yet to make a statement at all. Some of the participants in the community of intelligent writers and designers who think and talk about video games in print and online, on websites and social media networks and podcasts, are being cowed into silence. In particular, if the large companies that make video games remain quiet, they risk allowing GamerGate to win the debate over whether diversity — of people, of ideas, of games themselves — has a place in their culture. Ms. Alexander foresees a schism between the culture that surrounds blockbusters and the indie scene. And sure, I concede that we live in a world that contains “Boyhood” as well as “Transformers,” James Wood along with James Patterson, “The Americans” and also “America’s Got Talent.” So will it be — so it already is — with video games. But not all that long ago, I was hoping, even predicting, that something better was not just on the horizon, but imminent. Eric Zimmerman of New York University has called that vision, adopting the Latin word for play, “the ludic century.” To that dream, and to the notion that a cultured person ought to have an informed opinion on Gone Home or Grand Theft Auto as much as on “The Death of Klinghoffer” or “Game of Thrones,” GamerGate has dealt a grievous if not yet mortal blow. Chris Suellentrop is a former editor for the Op-Ed page, a video game critic and a contributor to The New York Times.

The American Dream Is leaving America Nicholas Kristof IHT fifth. Among 25-to-34-year-olds — a glimpse of how we will rank in the future — we rank 12th, while once-impoverished South Korea tops the list. A new Pew survey finds that Americans consider the greatest threat to our country to be the growing gap between the rich and poor. Yet we have constructed an education system, dependent on local property taxes, that provides great schools for the rich kids in the suburbs who need the least help, and broken, dangerous schools for inner-city children who desperately need a helping hand. Too often, America’s education system amplifies not opportunity but inequality. My dad was a World War II refugee who fled Ukraine and Romania and eventually made his way to France. He spoke perfect French, and Paris would have been a natural place to settle. But he felt that France was stratified and would offer little opportunity to a penniless Eastern European refugee, or even to his children a generation later, so he set out for the United States. He didn’t

speak English, but, on arrival in 1951, he bought a copy of the Sunday edition of The New York Times and began to teach himself — and then he worked his way through Reed College and the University of Chicago, earning a Ph.D. and becoming a university professor. He rode the American dream to success; so did his only child. But while he was right in 1951 to bet on opportunity in America rather than Europe, these days he would perhaps be wrong. Researchers find economic and educational mobility are now greater in Europe than in America. That’s particularly sad because, as my Times colleague Eduardo Porter noted last month, egalitarian education used to be America’s strong suit. European countries excelled at first-rate education for the elites, but the United States led the way in mass education. By the mid-1800s, most American states provided a free elementary education to the great majority of white children. In contrast, as late as 1870, only 2 percent of British

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14-year-olds were in school. Then the United States was the first major country, in the 1930s, in which a majority of children attended high school. By contrast, as late as 1957, only 9 percent of 17-year-olds in Britain were in school. Until the 1970s, we were pre-eminent in mass education, and Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz of Harvard University argue powerfully that this was the secret to America’s economic rise. Then we blew it, and the latest O.E.C.D. report underscores how the rest of the world is eclipsing us. In effect, the United States has become 19th-century Britain: We provide superb education for elites, but we falter at mass education. In particular, we fail at early education. Across the O.E.C.D., an average of 70 percent of 3-year-olds are enrolled in education programs. In the United States, it’s 38 percent. In some quarters, there’s a perception that American teachers are lazy. But the O.E.C.D. report indicates that American teachers work far longer hours than their counterparts abroad. Yet American teachers earn 68 percent as much as the average American college-educated worker, while the O.E.C.D. average is 88 percent. Fixing the education system is the civil rights challenge of our era. A starting point is to embrace an ethos that was born in America but is now an expatriate: that we owe all children a fair start in life in the form of access to an education escalator. Let’s fix the escalator.

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7 A week on the road in North Korea

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30 OctOber 2014

NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Eric Talmadge

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he Kaema Plateau, the "Roof of Korea," is a stunning, forest-covered highland nestled in such treacherous mountains that it was never taken by the Allies during the Korean War. It's now a truck stop. As we squatted beside our lunches of kimchi and cold rice, in the distance, almost hidden in the thick mist, a woman sold refreshments in a tarp-covered stall. A half-dozen older people put down their loads and sat on a weed-covered embankment nearby; they had arrived on foot, even though the nearest town was hours away. One member of the group, a leathery man, rolled a cigarette and drew the smoke in deeply. It's quite possible none of them had ever seen an American before. But our presence went unacknowledged. No glances were exchanged. No words were spoken. We had been granted unprecedented access to see North Korea and travel through places that, we were told, no foreign journalists and few foreigners had been allowed to see before. We would drive 2,150 kilometers (1,336 miles) in a country that has barely 25,000 kilometers of road, and only 724 kilometers of those paved. By the time we returned to the capital a week later, our Chinese-made Great Wall SUV had a few new scratches and one less hubcap. But this trip was on North Korea's terms. There would be no stopping to interview random people like the ones at Kaema. Even on the loneliest of lonely highways, we would never be without a "minder," whose job was to monitor and supervise our activities. We were not to take photographs of any checkpoints or military installations. For the most part, we were not to detour from our pre-approved route, which, to no one's surprise, didn't include nuclear facilities or prison camps. We finished our meal in silence and drove on. Though we would not get to know the people along the way, the country itself had a great deal to say. And it was opening up before us. We set off from a luxury hotel in Pyongyang. Before leaving the capital, we stocked up on supplies at a supermarket that sells everything from Evian to Skippy peanut butter. We also bought $100 worth of coupons good for 65 kilograms of diesel fuel — that's how it's sold in North Korea. A big red sign at the gas station proclaimed the site a "battleground" in the nation's socialist revolution. Razed to the ground in a scorched earth policy by the U.S. military during the Korean War, then rebuilt almost entirely from scratch with help from the Soviet Union, the North's capital is intended to awe. By many measures, and certainly by developing world standards, Pyongyang, with its pastel-colored high rises, its towering monuments and its orderly, litter-free avenues, is an impressive metropolis. And to the nine-tenths of North Korea's 25 million people who don't live there, it is probably as alien as the Emerald City was to Dorothy. As we made our way out of town down Reunification Avenue, we checked our Instagram feeds and Whatsapp chats with friends in the outside world, and gazed out at sharply dressed Pyongyang women clutching their domestically assembled Arirang smartphones, which aren't connected to the Web and can't make, or receive, international calls. Even in the capital, North Korea remains, to virtually all of its inhabitants, a country that has yet to enter the Internet age. After about 20 minutes, we, too, would be off the grid. Two hundred kilometers of the country's best road is the stretch of highway connecting the capital, which is in the west, to the east coast port city of Wonsan. It's paved all the way. Beyond Wonsan, potholes, cracks, sudden patches of dirt road or, worse yet, partially paved dirt road make travel a joltingly bumpy experience. To get out of Pyongyang, we weaved our way around buses, streetcars, the black sedans of party officials and fleets of colorful new taxis that have over the past few years become commonplace. Outside the city limits, bulky, exhaust-belching trucks made in China with rounded hoods reminiscent of the 1950s rule the roads. Passenger cars — and more importantly, our attention-getting

trange Fruit is a remarkable song. Its extraordinary artistic and popular success has tended to eclipse Lewis Allen’s other achievements. He wrote well but never as well. He did write one of the great songs of his century. What is so striking about Strange Fruit is the power it gains by metaphor. The imagery is as shocking as the photographs the song alludes to, the lynching of mutilated Afro-Americans in the Deep South. Stated directly, the protest loses its power. Retold as poetry, it burns into the conscience of a nation. ‘What is hidden cannot be loved,’ Derek Walcott observed in his Nobel lecture. It is on public utterance our private thoughts are sifted and refined into coherent shape and reasoned direction. The jejune, the awkward and raw utterances of the first draft are processed into something more dignified and intelligent. Between the scribbled notes and the typed script lies so many inner conversations between imagination (the writer you) and reason (the editor you). The contrast between initial ideas and final expression may be marked. Can these two have been written by the same person? The raw is cooked. The wild is tamed. Anger becomes disdain. Passion becomes love. An impulse is transformed into an arrangement of words. One motive for writing is to gain the respect of others, a hope that presupposes a more generous world than ours. We have a perception of the world we need to express. A perception is a way of looking. It is not an objective and definitive statement of facts. The truths of literature are truths to feeling rather than the truths of experience. Art recreates. It reshapes. It expresses an imaginative response to the world. Journalism, by contrast, communicates experience. By definition, journalism details daily life which it seeks to portray accurately. A journalist cannot invent and remain truthful. A writer must invent to be truthful to the imaginative response emerging from the bewildering

In this June 20, 2014 photo, young North Korean school children help to fix pot holes in a rural road in North Korea's North Hamgyong province. The Associated Press was granted to embark on a weeklong road trip across North Korea to the country’s spiritual summit Mount Paektu. The trip was on North Korea's terms. An AP reporter and photographer couldn't interview ordinary people or wander off course, and government "minders" accompanied them the entire way. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Pyongyang license plates — were so rare that when we passed police or soldiers, they assumed we were important officials and saluted. But vehicles of any kind are relatively few to begin with. Most of the action happens on the shoulder. Even on the most rugged stretches of road, lone pedestrians laden with belongings or wares for the market stoically plod to the next village, which could be half a day away. The number of bicycles, along with long-distance buses, has skyrocketed in recent years. Ox carts and cobbled-together contraptions with lawnmowersized engines outnumber the aging trucks. And those trucks? They often end up on the side of the road, too, the driver's head buried under the hood while passengers sprawl out in the nearest patch of shade. Through the windshield, we observed a landscape that appeared somehow preindustrial. Villagers washed their clothes in rivers while barefoot children splashed and played. Old folks, in no hurry to be anywhere else, socialized under trees. And while the fashion set in Pyongyang obsesses over where to find the latest high heels, the countryside maintains a classically utilitarian look. The olive green work suit. The reliable rubber boot. Blink-and-you-miss-them villages flew by as we headed north from Wonsan to North Korea's secondlargest city, Hamhung. This is the traditional Korea: small, walled-off clusters of old but neat one-story houses, white with blue trim under clay roof tiles. Some were rigged with makeshift wire antennas, suggesting TVs inside. Others had single solar panels attached to their roofs. We would see more of those later, on the balconies of apartments in the larger provincial cities. Most of North Korea's villages — and cities, for that matter — are built around a central plaza or giant mosaics of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, and his son, Kim Jong Il. Their portraits hang in every home, and are worn over every adult citizen's heart. We could only wonder what the people in those homes might have to say to us. But we were barraged by what the government has to say to them: "We Are A Great Spacefaring Nation!" ''Our Country Is The Best!" ''Let's Go Our Own Way." And the most common slogan, "Single-Minded Unity." The slogans are written in bright red on posters, murals and banners, or chiseled in stone. In field after field, posters of workers with their fists raised to

the air declare the importance of the nation's struggle, the quotas to be met and the valor of the model citizens who have fulfilled them. "Congratulations to Chong Yong Il, head of work unit 1, for taking the lead in weeding our fields," said one. Above the words was a painting of the Chollima, a mythical winged horse often used to symbolize the North's many "speed campaigns." The inescapable voice of the ruling Workers' Party is part pep talk, part reminder of who is in charge, part sermon on how the nation must strive and sacrifice to achieve the goals of "Kimilsungism" and "Kimjongilism," which long ago supplanted Marxism and Leninism. Inward-looking as it is, North Korea still likes to tout its special brand of socialism abroad. But the kind of internationalism embodied in such slogans as "Workers of the Word Unite" seems today to be, at best, an afterthought. Only in the deepest mountains did the red-letter roar grow dim. About four-fifths of North Korea's land is too rugged to farm. But not for lack of trying. Reflecting its preoccupation with agricultural selfsufficiency, every valley and flatland we passed seemed to be utilized for some sort of crop. The countryside bursts with the bright greens of rice, corn, soybeans and cabbage. On hillier ground lie orchards for apples and pears. Up in the mountains, it's potatoes. Whole villages are devoted to growing mushrooms, a "magic bullet" innovation from the 1990s when the country faced a near-cataclysmic famine. Those desperate days appear to be long over. This year, according to United Nations experts, the North could come closer to feeding itself than it has in decades. But poor nutrition remains a serious problem. The World Food Programme says a third of North Korean children are stunted. Of the thousands of people we saw on our weeklong trip, only two were clearly overweight. The wounds of famine-inspired policies fester in other ways. Hillsides were stripped of trees to allow farming, though the plots produce little and increase the risk of erosion and landslides. Grass and shrubs might help keep the slopes intact, but then there are the goats: They are everywhere, thanks to Kim Jong Il's mass goatbreeding campaign of 1996. The landscape is filled with reminders of not only the desperate 1990s, but the booming 1960s, when North Korea was among Asia's most highly industrialized nations. The once-productive cities along its east coast, like the coal mining town of Kilju and the nearby city of

Kimchaek — built around a sprawling but now eerily quiet ironworks complex — have become a rust belt, gritty and relentlessly gray. Throughout our journey, we saw "shock brigades" — some soldiers but mostly regular citizens — mobilized to build levies along rivers, shovel dirt into potholes and repair retaining walls along hillsides. It's backbreaking work, done mostly by hand. Still, every year, the country faces a cycle of flooding followed by drought. Tourists experience only a bare trace of the deprivation residents feel. At the best hotels in cities such as Hamhung, Samjiyon and Chongjin, the places where we stayed as our journey proceeded through the hinterlands, the rooms, replete with doilies and cushy velvet-covered chairs, were clean, the decor retro Soviet and the food plentiful. But the vintage TVs, when they worked, offered only one channel. Standing by the window after my third night under a cold shower, in an overheated room with no thermostat, I looked out past a cabbage patch at the glow of candles and the beams of flashlights dancing in apartments across the street, where the power was out. An hour later, at midnight, the lights were shining brightly from nearly every room. I wondered if people had forgotten to turn them off before they lost their electricity, or if, despite the hour, they were taking advantage of the light while they had it. Despite all its firewalls, North Korea has never truly been a hermit kingdom. It has depended in turn on the largesse of the Soviets or Chinese, and has deftly extracted aid from what it sees as its own "axis of evil" — the United States, Japan and South Korea. Even so, when the North opens its doors, it does so for a reason. It is now pursuing a plan to create dozens of special foreign investment and tourism zones. The highlight of our road trip, majestic Mount Paektu, with its crystal-blue crater lake, is one of the places the North most wants to promote. That's probably why we were allowed to make the journey. Along with its natural beauty, Paektu is considered the home of the North Korean revolution, dotted by reconstructions of "secret camps," where guides dressed in period costume recount the legends of Kim Il Sung's battles against the Japanese imperialists. Though Paektu is central to North Korea's identity, much of the mountain is in China. Before we left Pyongyang we were warned, half-jokingly, not to get lost. "If you wander off into China," we were told, "you will be shot." Something similar had, in fact, happened many years ago. No borders were involved, but a South Korean housewife who strayed off the accepted path at a tourist site was fatally shot in the back by a North Korean guard. Wrested out of our beds for our ascent up to the summit, we fumbled without lights to pack our equipment, made our way down a candlelit staircase and climbed into our car in the pouring-down rain. With no signs to guide him, our driver steered silently into the night. Many people have been amazed by nighttime satellite images that show North Korea as dark as the ocean, set against a northeast Asia brimming with light. There is nothing quite like experiencing that darkness on the ground over long stretches of the North Korean back country. Possibly more than any other populated place on the globe, North Korea is terra incognita. As we drove toward the dawn, two armed soldiers in camouflage ponchos emerged from the darkness, signaled for us to stop and for our minder to get out. The rain was coming down harder as they stood in the blurry pool of our headlights. One peered in at us through the rain-dotted window. There was a good deal of gesticulating. Then some head nodding. Our minder got back in the car. We had gotten lost, but we weren't in China. We were going the wrong way down a one-lane, one-way road. The soldiers waved us on. With North Korean tourism still in its infancy, we were safe. We wouldn't see another car until we reached the snowy, windwhipped parking lot below the crater, where two small vans full of shivering Chinese waited for a guard to wake up and lead them to Lake Chon.

On Journalism versus Literature

mass of experiences confronting him. Journalism is written in the heat of the moment. The response is instant. Copy has to be written to meet the deadline which is fast approaching. There is no real time for the kind of reflective consideration which is the finely-honed essay. Journalists, like learned counsel in court, must think on their feet. They cannot go back and revise a week later. A week later it is old news and life has moved on. The disciplines of journalism are exacting. It is no easy task to ascertain the facts of a situation, to assess the truth, and then immediately to write an articulate and reasoned account of it. Little wonder that so much journalism tends to the superficial, the emotional and the inaccurate. There is insufficient time to check the facts. The apparent becomes the obvious. All that seems to matter is what is happening at this moment. Good journalism requires qualities many may aspire to but relatively few possess. To be calm in the storm is a rare gift. Writing is driven by passion as much as by reason. I once heard Thomas Mann quoted concerning a writer’s responsibility. Mann was alleged to have said that a writer must be apart in order to retain a sense of dignity in the chaos of public events. I looked up the quotation. What Mann actually said was that a writer must be involved in the world’s chaos in order to sustain his integrity. To be lyrical in the cacophony is a rare gift. Instant responses to the news are not on the whole what writers do. A very few can forge out of the heat of political events exceptional words exceptionally written. Carol Ann Duffy can do it with incandescent ability. David Hare can do it. But generally, instant literary responses are first drafts at best. At worst they are, to borrow Capote’s

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"The truths of literature are truths to feeling rather than the truths of experience. Art re-creates. It reshapes. It expresses an imaginative response to the world. Journalism, by contrast, communicates experience" famous phrase, not writing but typing. Consider again Derek Walcott’s observation. What is hidden has no role in human community. Communication is dependent on a certain candour in public utterance, and on openness of meanings and motives in public affairs. An honesty of intentions is required of those who enact and of those who report those actions. Discovering the whole truth takes time. There are witnesses to be heard and facts to be measured against the general picture. Some distance in time and space allows for a mature and sympathetic assessment. ‘All my thoughts are second thoughts,’ said Aldous Huxley. Literature is concerned with expression through metaphor. The novel we think of as realist in the tradition of Defoe whose quasi-journalistic style was legerdemain of genius. And yet his supreme achievement, Robinson Crusoe, can be seen as an allegory. What looks to be an adventure, a recasting of a shipwrecked mariner’s tale heard in a Bristol tavern, becomes on closer reading a plea for capital and empire. That is not to reduce its stature as one of Western literature’s great narrative myths. It is possible with such a mythos to rework it, as Adrian

Mitchell and Michel Tournier both did, with greater emphasis on Friday, and in the light of modern conjectures and explorations of the psyche and of social relations. Crusoe is morally complex. It has the richness of literature open to varying and continuing interpretations. A metaphor is not literal truth. Its approach is oblique because there is so much in plain sight we cannot see. If Thomas Mann cannot be quoted accurately what does that say about the highly regarded journalist who misquotes him? We only see what we want to see. That applies to all of us involved in the world’s chaos. That is why literature works by allusion and implicit comparison. The truths it seeks are those that lie behind the observable facts. We need those facts. We need accurate presentation of the facts. We need information about what is happening, and that means all that is happening not simply what conventional wisdom thinks we ought to know. When we have an accurate picture of the world we may search for the uncharted continents of the imagination, the imagined realms where undiscovered truths explain our realities. The question of relevance is ill-defined. There is a woolly notion that art must relate directly and immediately to current concerns. It is redolent of run of the mill discussions where complexities are ironed out in received opinions. The relation between cultural expression and its social context is a complex interplay of aesthetic, moral and social questions. An historical perspective is requisite. The work of Leo Lowenthal and Raymond Williams is of continuing relevance, but of course there are others to be considered. The questions are radically important. ‘Is it relevant?’ is a question neither radical nor important. It has a desperate edge to it, a clutching at straws. The supposition is

that art serves an immediate social purpose, and that is literature’s primary function. It would be better to say that one primary social function of literature is to stabilize and to shape the conversations taking place in public discourse. Random thoughts and vague surmises are tested in the crucible of the carefully written word. Ideas and values cohere in capable form. The obligation falls on each of us to relate to that form. We do so according to our personal mindset. However we relate to a work of art, we acknowledge the obligation of reaching out beyond our private sphere and into a social world that may not be familiar but which is sure to develop our responses to the more familiar spaces we occupy. There is, however, an empirical concept identifiable as social relevance in art. It is has value in the process of communication between the creative act and the social world. It is not the primary function of literature to offer a social prescription. Social experience is translated into art by way of metaphor. [Picasso’s Guernica is a prime example.] Art may be translated into social experience [especially in revolutionary practice: ‘Imagination has seized power.’] These are dynamic processes in the mechanisms of social transformation. They are not aesthetic principles. We do not regard literature by subject matter alone. Nor would we require of literature that it simply confirm our preconceived notions of the world. ‘Choose a subject that is suited to your abilities, you who aspire to be writers.’ That was Horace in his Ars Poetica, written in the light of remarkable experiences that few can hope to equal. An ally of Caesar’s assassins, Horace became an intimate of both Virgil and Augustus. He wrote from the bittersweet knowledge that hurt him into poetry. The alternative was something wilder than metaphor: the assassin’s blade, the traitor’s smile, the demagogue’s tirade. When the fruit ripens it is time to harvest. Metaphors taste better than lies.

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Black Money: Special team to probe 627 Indians with foreign bank accounts New Delhi, OctOber 29 (iANS): The sealed envelope with the names of 627 Indians holding bank accounts overseas, against whom a probe is on to ascertain conformity with domestic tax laws, is to be passed on to a special team set up under the Supreme Court’s direction. This directive from the apex court came after Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi submitted the envelope along with two others to a bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, and Justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and Madan B. Lokur Wednesday, as sought by them a day earlier. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Justice M.B. Shah, with Justice Arijit Pasayat as vice chair, was called for by the Supreme Court by way of an order July 4, 2011, and officially notified by the government end-May this year. The other two envelopes pertain to information furnished by the French government and the action taken by the Government of India thus far in trying to get back the illegal funds parked by Indians in overseas banks and estimated at between $426 billion and $1.4 trillion. Directing further hearing on the matter Dec 3, the apex court said the special team, by that time, would

submit its status report on the steps taken by it in pursuance to this list of 627 account holders. Rohatgi told the apex court that half of these account holders were Indian residents and the other half non-resident Indians and pertained to a period up to 2006. He said action was initiated, with some of having paid the taxes and others under investigation. The top law officer requested on behalf of the government that care be taken such that nothing impedes the Indian authorities and probe agencies in getting information from these countries and others on foreign accounts in future. Importantly, he said, the Income Tax Act had been amended to extend the limitation period for recovering taxes from these account holders till March 31, 2015. Earlier, the limitation period was six years and would have expired in 2012. Rohatgi once again told the apex court that the government had no intention to hold back any information or names it had in its possession on this matter and was open to inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation, Income Tax authorities or any other agency. “Our only one request is: According to terms of the treaties entered by the

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government with other countries, there is a confidentiality clause. Nothing should be done that may impede our ability to get information from these countries and others,” he said. The court agreed. “We have no intention of causing any embarrassment to the government. We will send all these names to the SIT and ask them to proceed in accordance with law.” All the 627 accounts in the list are at HSBC Bank in Geneva and the details were secured from the French government. The data was actually stolen by a bank employee, as a result of which the Swiss authorities declined help in any manner, the court was told. At the same time, HSBC Bank had said that if the Indian authorities get a no-objection certificate from the account holders, it could then share the relevant details. Some 50-60 of the account holders had given their consent. The entire matter came up after senior counsel Ram Jethmalani and others filed a public interest suit wanting the government to be restrained from signing double tax avoidance pacts with other nations, and block information flow on ill-gotten money parked abroad. The appointment of the special probe team was one of the outcomes.

Black money can add up to $35 bn forex: BofA-ML

India’s Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, center, addresses the media outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Wednesday, October 29.The Indian government Wednesday handed over to the Supreme Court a list of more than 600 Indians with unauthorized foreign bank accounts as it attempts to crack down on rampant tax evasion. Rohatgi said the list with the names of 627 people having bank accounts abroad was handed over to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

New Delhi, OctOber 29 (iANS): The unearthing of untaxed income Indians have allegedly stashed away in foreign accounts could add up to $35 billion to the country’s foreign exchange reserves, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA-ML) report said Wednesday. The report came out the day the government submitted to the Supreme Court names of 627 people who are holding accounts in foreign banks revealed to it by the French government. “Reports place Indians’ deposits in Swiss accounts in an astonishingly wide range of $2 billion-2 trillion. We have worked with an estimate of capital flight of about $200 billion based on a recent research study,” the BOfa-ML report said. “If even half of this is unearthed, it could add $3035 billion (three to four months of current import cover) to forex reserves over time, if taxed at, say, 3035 percent,” it added. The report cites a recent study by Raghbendra Jha and Duc Nguyen Truong of the Australian National University, which estimated India’s total capital flight at over $186 billion during 1998-2012.

We are back to square one in black money case: SIT chief

New Delhi, OctOber 29 (AgeNcieS): On Wednesday, the government submitted the entire list of black money account holders to the Supreme Court. The documents include 627 names and status report of their investigation in these cases. Later in the day, in an exclusive interview with CNN IBN, Special Investigation Team (SIT) chairman former Justice M B Shah said that the developments in the black money case in the last few days are insignificant. “We are back to square one. The government has submitted the

same list which was submitted to us last June. All the facts that have been revealed in the black money list were already known to the SIT,” said the Justice Shah. He added that the filing of a re-

report by next year,” Justice Shah said. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday had said it will be up to the judges to decide whether to make the names public. “There

ernment at the behest of the apex court. The primary purpose of this exercise is to ascertain who among the individuals and the entities named hold such accounts in contravention of Indian laws and what kind of proceedings can be initiated to prosecute them and get back any ill-gotten money. Meanwhile, the apex court did not allow the plea of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to provide additional information on the issue to the SIT, saying that it will consider his plea on next date of hearing on December 3.

Justice Shah says GoI has submitted the same list which was provided in June port would be time-consuming. “The probe is a difficult one. There is no eyewash. The report will take time. We have already filed the first report in August. I’m hopeful that we should be able to file the final

is nobody that the government wants to protect,” he said. The names as sought by the Supreme Court had already been given to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the gov-

India leads South asia in ease of doing business: WB ers’

New Delhi, OctOber 29 (iANS): Indians need general physicians to address a majority of their health problems but the country has more specialists than basic MBBS doctors, experts feel. For a country which produces an average of 50,000 MBBS doctors each year, a majority 30,000 opt for speciality or super-speciality courses, Naresh Gupta of the cardiology department of the Maulana Azad Medical college said here. He said, as compared to other countries, India had more number of specialists. Gupta said that the 398 medical colleges in India produce specialists in fields, which do not exist anywhere else. He was speaking at a discussion on ‘Specialisation and super-specialisation in medicine-- the more the merrier”, organised by Consumer’s India in collaboration with the India International Centre here Tuesday evening. “We have a very good network system of health care but the functioning of that network is not very strong. For posts in primary health care centres, even specialists apply as it is a government job, which is bad for both the patient and doctor.” “We have a large number of problems which can be addressed by a basic doctor or even less than a basic doctor,” he said. Gupta said that in a study on major illnesses faced by Indian men, it was found that diarrhea was the most common ailment. “This can be easily treated by any general practitioner.” But in India, very few MBBS doctors go on to be general practitioners. Noted liver specialist S.K. Sarin of the Institute of Liver and Billiary Sciences of the capital said that there were not many good general practitioners in the country as of now. “Specialists take on a lot of work which a good general physician can do,” he said. He recalled MBBS doctors of earlier days when a patient had full confidence in his or her family physician which they consulted for all ailments.

children want life skills education in school

New Delhi, OctOber 29 (iANS): Poor, marginalised children from eight countries Wednesday demanded inclusion of life skills education in school curriculum. These children are a part of the Children’s Development Khazana (CDK) - a voluntary bank run by children between 9-18 years with guidance of adult facilitators. “For the past two years I have been saving my money for my future with CDK and have also been able to help my family in difficult times. Life skill education should be taught to all,” Karthik, a CDK member from Mumbai, said in a statement. Only poor marginalized rural, urban and tribal communities’ children can be members of CDK, started in 2001. “I now understand the benefits of saving money. I am now even encouraging my parents to save money and not waste it on alcohol and other unnecessary things. If this is incorporated then everyone will get empowered,” Martin, CDK member from Madagascar, said. Started in India, CDK is now helping children in seven other countries - Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Madagascar and Ghana. Within India, the programme is operational in 10 states and union territories: Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Kerala, Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. “Children’s participation is the basic premise on which CDK is designed, implemented and promoted, with children coming together as collectives to take action for their empowerment. CDK has become a lifeline to poor children. They can today fall back on their savings and advances to tide over a crisis at home,” said Rita Panicker, director.

wAShiNgtON, OctOber 29 (iANS): A new World Bank Group report finds that has India set the pace for regulatory reform in South Asia since 2005 with 20 measures - the largest in the region. India was followed by Sri Lanka with 16 reforms while three countries - Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan - focused their efforts on adopting modern electronic systems to facilitate business activity. The “Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency” report released Wednesday found that four of eight economies in South Asia implemented at least one regulatory reform making it

easier for local entrepreneurs to do business since 2005. “Doing business is easier in economies with administrative efficiency and strong regulatory protections,” said Rita Ramalho, Doing Business report lead author, World Bank Group. The report noted that in India a little over a decade ago, an entrepreneur seeking a loan to grow his business would have had little luck, because financial institutions lacked access to information systems to assess creditworthiness. “Today, thanks to the creation and expansion of a national credit bureau offering credit scores and coverage on par

with those in some high-income economies, a small business in India with a good financial history is more likely to get credit and hire more workers,” it said. Three of India’s regulatory reforms benefiting local entrepreneurs were in the areas of starting a business, getting electricity, and protecting minority investors, including through the adoption of the new Companies Act of 2013. India made starting a business easier by considerably reducing the registration fees, but also made it more difficult by introducing a requirement to file a declaration before the commencement of business opera-

tions, the report said. These changes apply to both Delhi and Mumbai. In addition, the electricity utility in Mumbai made getting electricity less costly by reducing the security deposit for a new connection. Finally, India strengthened minority investor protections by requiring greater disclosure of conflicts of interest by board members, increasing the remedies available in case of prejudicial related-party transactions, the report said. It also introduced additional safeguards for shareholders of privately held companies. This reform applies to both Delhi and Mumbai. This year, for the first

time, Doing Business collected data for a second city in economies with a population of more than 100 million. In India, it now analyses business regulations in Delhi and Mumbai; in Bangladesh, in Chittagong and Dhaka; and in Pakistan, in Lahore and Karachi. The report covering 189 economies worldwide, found that Singapore tops the global ranking on the ease of doing business. Joining it on the list of the top 10 economies with the most businessfriendly regulatory environments are: New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Denmark, South Korea, Norway, the US, Britain, Finland and Australia.

‘One-third India’s women, children underweight’ India, Oman sign agreement on

New Delhi, OctOber 29 (iANS): India’s improved ranking in the Global Hunger Index is good news, but the country still has a long way to go as one-third of its women and children under five still underweight, experts said Wednesday. India improved its position from 63rd in 2013 to 55th in 2014 in the Global Hunger Index released recently. “India has clearly made progress towards improving nutrition, but the road ahead is still long,” said Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI and co-director of POSHAN. “The evidence - from within India and from other countries - tells us that gains in maternal and child nutrition come from actions in several sectors and that leadership must also come from all levels,” she said. “The data released by the government which was used in computing

Global Hunger Index has shown a decline in under-nutrition. It has dramatically improved India’s rank,” she said while briefing the media about a conference on under-nutrition being held here. The two-day conference is being jointly hosted by Transform Nutrition and POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India), both initiatives led by IFPRI. Pramod Kumar Joshi of the IFPRI said focus now needed to be put on how to effectively implement the national food security act. “How it can be revised. We are also looking at various options like Public Distribution System and direct cash transfer.” Lawrence Haddad, who has worked extensively to improve the nutrition situation in Maharashtra, said in that state, there were still is-

sues like open defecation, which were affecting overall health. “The decline in under-nutrition rates did not happen overnight. It took a lot of time around 10-15 years,” he said. Stuart Gillespie, senior research fellow at IFPRI and CEO of Transform Nutrition said: “Leadership has been absolutely pivotal. Inadequate capacity is the reason for failure”. “India is unusual in that even the delivery of nutrition-specific interventions requires two ministries. The health ministry and the women and child development ministry have to work together,” he added. Shenggen Fan, Director IFPRI, listed three ways to deal with nutrition issues in India namely -- improving agriculture, social protection and specific interventions like sanitation.

legal cooperation against crime

New Delhi, OctOber 29 (iANS): India and Oman Wednesday signed an agreement on legal and judicial cooperation in criminal matters and anti-terrorism. The agreement was signed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh and visiting Omani Commerce and Industry Minister Ali Bin Masoud Al Sunaidy. “The agreement provides for substantial engagement in the areas of pursuing and eliminating transnational crimes and terrorism in its different forms,” a home ministry statement said. It said the memorandum of agreement contains provisions for transfer of documents, records and assistance in investigation. “The agreement will also be a deterrent to those who directly or indirectly obtain benefit from proceeds of crime,” the statement said. The statement said that Rajnath Singh also informed the delegation that India has experienced natural disasters like rain, flood and cyclones and was able to minimize the loss of human lives due to better forecasting methodology and adept handling of the ground situation. “He also offered Indian expertise and experience in this field to Oman,” the statement said.

anti-tobacco campaign elicits concern among viewers New Delhi, OctOber 29 (iANS): A powerful anti-tobacco mass media campaign titled Sunita, which was launched by Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, has elicited fear, shock and concern among viewers, a release said Wednesday. The 30-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) has been translated into 17 languages and will run for five weeks nationally on all government and private TV and radio channels through the National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP). Viewers who watch the new advertisement say they experience fear, shock and concern at seeing the harm inflicted on Sunita and her family by smokeless tobacco (also referred to An Indian man fills water containers from a public tap before distributing them to pavement as “chewing tobacco”), the release by vendors and others at a market in New Delhi on Wednesday, October 29. Several parts of India’s the World Lung Foundation said. capital city lack piped network and many people make a living selling water.(AP Photo)

Men and women who currently use smokeless tobacco express their intention to quit, it said. The campaign shows the personal testimony of Sunita Tomar, a 27-year old wife and mother, who developed oral cancer after using smokeless tobacco. Sunita lives in a small town in Madhya Pradesh with her husband, a truck driver, her 12 and 13-year old sons, and her parents-in-law. The advertisement shows Sunita before and after an operation to remove a cancerous growth and part of her mouth. She describes how happy she was before tobacco took its terrible toll on her health and her appearance and how she never expected to develop oral cancer. The advertisement closes with a warning against using smokeless tobacco in any forms.

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Thursday 30 October 2014

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Myanmar’s story, told by one crumbling building Tim Sullivan Associated Press

he little apartment building was graceful once. Maybe even beautiful. There is an elegance in the arched windows now covered with grime. It’s in the ornamental pillars, coated with paint so faded that it’s hard to say if the building is yellow or white. It’s in wide windows kept open through the endless hot months, bringing in the breeze from the Yangon River. The building whispers of a past. Of middle-class lives. Of a cosmopolitan, colonial city that was once a great Asian crossroad, the capital of a country once called Burma. But that was a long time ago. Now, in the late afternoons when the breeze starts to pick up, two old friends carry out plastic chairs to sit in front of a building battered by time, monsoons and history. They talk about the neighborhood and their children. They worry about money. U Tin Win has spent 67 years in the building on 41st Street, moving in when he was 6 years old. His friend Round Namar isn’t sure how long it’s been. Sixtyfive years? Seventy? “All I know,” Namar says, “is my mother told me I was born here.” All those years the two have lived next door to one another, in ground-floor apartments each a little

In this Jan. 21, 2014 photo, Round Namar, center, hangs laundry as street venders sit next to their stalls outside a little apartment building on 41st Street in Yangon, Myanmar. Namar isn’t sure how long she has been living. Sixtyfive years? Seventy? “All I know,” Namar says, “is my mother told me I was born here.” (AP File Photo)

bigger than a shipping container. From here, they watched the birth of an independent Burma, the first coup d’etat and the rise of the military juntas. They watched as generals turned Burma into a poverty-battered international pariah, and as 2010 semi-democratic elections nudged a few generals aside. In the past couple years they have seen construction cranes blossom across this city, long known as Rangoon, a place which had seemed frozen into a crumbling echo of British colonial life. This is the story of one apartment building, two

stairwells, 12 tiny apartments and the 60 or so people who live in them. In some ways, it’s also the story of a country wavering between a decades-long era of brutal military rule and the promise of some vague new golden age. The handsome young man leans over a desk on the building’s ground floor, absently surfing the Web as presses clatter around him in his family’s printing shop. Aung Phyo Win has a life that many young Burmese would envy. He goes to dance clubs at expensive Yangon hotels. He rac-

es cars. His family, by the building’s standards, is well off. They come to 41st Street only to work, living in nicer neighborhoods. He believes fiercely in the new Myanmar. His country is democratic, he’ll tell you. Look at the elections of 2010 and the new political parties. Look at the protests. Small protests are now regular occurrences in front of Yangon’s city hall, with a couple dozen people railing against illegal land seizures or high electricity rates. Just a few years ago, those protests would have been met with arrests or even gunfire. Yes, Aung acknowledg-

es, the army could end the protests anytime it wants. It still wields immense power. “They just don’t want the bad publicity overseas,” he says. Yes, he acknowledges again, some people are still too frightened to talk politics. But the young men he goes clubbing with offer him Myanmar-style protection: “I’m friends with the sons of generals.” One after another, though, his neighbors turn conversations away from anything political. Because so much in Myanmar’s history has been about fear. During the five decades of junta rule, tens of

thousands of people were imprisoned for political crimes. Torture was commonplace. Children were taught not to speak about anything sensitive. But eventually, the junta became desperate for international respect and an end to crippling trade sanctions. Quiet discussions led to the carefully orchestrated 2010 elections, when former General Thein Sein was elected president. Four years later, the country’s political culture can appear upended. Those protests are now regular occurrences, and a welter of independent newspapers have opened. Opposition parties are growing. Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed. But despite all that, the military-backed party remains in control and the army can dissolve Parliament. A mysterious circle of generals is widely thought to weigh in on all important government decisions. Journalists who wade into sensitive territory are sometimes arrested. The confusion is evident on 41st Street, most often in what is left unsaid. “We come out here to talk about everyday things,” says Namar, her voice rising, as she and Win sit in front of the building late one afternoon. “We don’t talk about politics.” When Namar isn’t around, though, Win sometimes breaks that rule. He’s a cheerful dandy, a former neighborhood playboy who carefully oils

his combover before his gossip sessions. He flirts with passing women as his much younger wife rolls her eyes. One afternoon, he points to the narrow but well-paved road that runs in front of the apartment. For decades it was little more than a swath of potholes. But just before the 2010 elections, the militarybacked USDP party came through the neighborhood, announcing they would fix it. The repair improved his neighborhood, but he still sees it as a betrayal. “They did it for the votes,” he growls. He spits out a final word disdainfully: “Elections.” With each decade, gentility gave way a little more on 41st Street. The sprawling apartments were divided, and divided again. Poor Chinese moved to the neighborhood, which in colonial times was almost exclusively Indian, then poor Burmese. Grass sprouted from the rooftop. These days, there’s a tangled mix of ethnicities inside. At times, the building has witnessed profound tolerance, like when Namar’s family hid Win’s during waves of anti-Chinese violence in the 1960s and 70s. But the building, like Myanmar itself, is no happy melting pot. The country’s divisions are byzantine, producing everything from jingoistic political parties to ethnic armies. Now, years of ethnic distrust are magnified in Yangon by the city’s growth, as poor rural villagers flood

in searching for work. On 41st Street, that distrust echoes. Ma Yi Win came to Yangon three years ago, moving into a top-floor apartment with her husband and two roommates. All are ethnic Burmese, refugees from rural villages. “We don’t know the neighbors,” says Ma Yi Win, a woman worn by her work in a hotel laundry. “And the whole street is full of Indians, so I don’t want to be friends with them.” A few months later, she and her roommates were gone. As was Aung Phyo Win, the print-shop manager, who left after a series of family arguments. These days, change comes regularly to the building on 41st Street. Or it comes to some of the building. Because when the hot weather arrives, Win and Namar can still be found out front, often sitting there deep into the night. There are only a couple streetlights on 41st Street, and those rarely work. So the only light outside is often what spills from the apartments. But they don’t mind. The street is quieter then. And when they do go inside, there is electricity most of the time. They can change for bed without lighting a lantern. They can watch TV. Just a few years ago, they couldn’t depend on that. It’s hard to see that as an accomplishment, they say, but it is something. It’s one tiny change in a new Myanmar, shuffling awkwardly away from its own uneasy history, one building at a time.

Bangladesh Islamist party Black tea and Hopes fade for missing in Lanka landslide chief sentenced to death citrus fruits lower

dHAKA, OctOber 29 (AP): A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Wednesday sentenced the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party to death for his role in the deaths of thousands of people during the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, sat calmly in the dock as the head of a threejudge panel, M. Enayetur Rahim, read the verdict in the packed courtroom in Dhaka, the capital. Outside, police and paramilitary units patrolled the streets because previous verdicts by the tribunal have sparked violence. Nizami, a former Cabinet minister and chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was tried on 16 charges, including genocide, murder, torture, rape and destruction of property. Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 million people, raped 200,000 women and forced about 10 million people to take

shelter in refugee camps across the border in neighboring India during the nine-month war. The prosecution said Nizami acted as the supreme commander of a militia group, Al-Badr, which carried out a systematic plan to torture and execute pro-liberation supporters during the war, including teachers, engineers and journalists. The group is blamed for killing dozens of people by kidnapping them from their homes just before Pakistan surrendered to a joint force of India and Bangladesh on Dec. 16, 1971. At that time, Nizami was also the president of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, in what was previously called East Pakistan. He faces charges of personally carrying out or ordering the deaths of nearly 600 Bangladeshis. Asif Munier, the son of a university teacher and a prominent writer who was killed in

1971, said he and his family had been waiting for this for 43 years. “I want the verdict be implemented soon,” Munier said. The Jamaat-e-Islami party had openly campaigned against independence and its leader at the time, Ghulam Azam, toured the Middle East to mobilize support for Pakistan, but the party has denied committing atrocities. Azam, who was jailed until death for similar charges, died naturally in a prison cell on Oct. 23. Two special tribunals set up by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to try people for war crimes have delivered 10 verdicts. One senior leader of Jamaat-eIslami party has already been hanged for his role in killing people in 1971. Nizami was a Cabinet minister during former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s last term in 20012006. The prosecution welcomed the verdict but the defense said they would appeal.

ovarian cancer risk

LONdON, OctOber 29 (IANs): Having black tea and citrus fruits daily - and red wine occasionally - may lower the risk of developing ovarian cancer, research shows. Women who consume food and drinks high in flavonols (found in tea, red wine, apples and grapes) and flavanones (found in citrus fruit and juices) are less likely to develop the disease, it added. “We found that women who consume foods high in two sub-groups of powerful substances called flavonoids - flavonols and flavanones - had a significantly lower risk of developing epithelial ovarian cancer,” explained lead researcher professor Aedin Cassidy from University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School. For the results, the team studied the dietary habits of 171,940 women aged between 25 and 55 for more than three decades. “This is the first large-scale study looking into whether habitual intake of different flavonoids can reduce the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer,” Cassidy added. Simple changes in food intake could have an impact on reducing ovarian cancer risk. “In particular, just a couple of cups of black tea every day was associated with a 31 percent reduction in risk,” Cassidy noted. The paper was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

cOLOmbO, OctOber 29 (reuters): A landslide in hilly south-central Sri Lanka is believed to have killed more than 100 people on Wednesday as it buried scores of houses, a government minister said, and the toll is likely to rise. The landslide hit a village in the tea-growing area of Sri Lanka after days of heavy monsoon rain, with more than 300 people listed as missing. “More than 100 people are believed to have died,” Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera told Reuters from the disaster site in the village of Haldummulla, 190 km (120 miles) inland from the capital, Colombo. “We have suspended the rescue operations because of darkness and inclement weather. There is also a threat of further landslides.” Children who left for school in the morning returned to find their clay and cement houses had been buried. Nearly 300 children were gathered at a nearby school as night fell amid further landslide threats. The Disaster Management Center said 10 bodies had been found so far, at least 300 people were missing and 150 houses buried in the village, which lies south of a popular national park.

Sri Lankan men stand by their damaged house caused by mudslide at the Koslanda tea plantation in Badulla district, about 220 kilometers east of Colombo on Wednesday, October 29. (AP Photo)

Amaraweera said the landslide was at least 3 km (2 miles) long. Villagers had been advised in 2005 and 2012 to move away because of the threat of landslides, but many did not heed the warning, he said. “I was under the rubble and some people took me out ... my mother and aunt have died,” a woman who was being treated for injuries told media. There have been a number of landslides since the start of heavy rains in mid-September resulting in damage to roads, but there had been no casualties until Wednesday.

Some roads in the central districts of Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, and Badulla were blocked on Wednesday due to landslides, limiting public transport. President Mahinda Rajapaksa tweeted that military heavy machinery had been deployed to speed up search and rescue operations. The people living in the affected hilly area are mostly of Indian Tamil origin, descendants of workers brought to Sri Lanka from South India under British rule as cheap labor to work on tea, rubber and coffee plantations.

Journalist killed by army was former bodyguard of Suu Kyi

YANGON, OctOber 29 (reuters): A Myanmar journalist who was killed in army custody this month was once a democracy activist and a bodyguard for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, his wife said on Tuesday, adding she fears she won’t be able to find out how he

died because of the military’s sweeping powers. Than Dar, the wife of slain journalist Par Gyi, said in an interview that she planned to launch a national campaign to find out what happened to her husband. A photograph on the wall of her wooden two-storey

house showed her with a smiling Par Gyi and their young daughter posing with Suu Kyi. The family has received a letter of condolence from the Nobel Peace laureate. Par Gyi was arrested on Sept. 30 after completing a photo assignment documenting clashes between the military and the rebel Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and was killed on Oct. 4, the Myanmarbased Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said. The AAPP disputed a statement released by the military, which said Par Gyi was shot when he tried to steal a gun from a soldier and escape after being detained because he was a member of an ethnic Karen rebel organisation. Than Dar says she suspects he died while being tortured, leading the military to secretly bury his body. She has asked the police to exhume the body so an autopsy can be carried out to confirm the cause of death. The government has not commented on his death. In Washington, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday it was “deeply concerned and saddened” by reThan Dar, the wife of slain journalist Par Gyi, stands in front of a family ports of Par Gyi’s killing. “We call on photograph showing herself, her husband and daughter posing with Aung the government to conduct a crediSan Suu Kyi, during a Reuters interview at her home in Yangon October 28, ble and transparent investigation into 2014. (Reuters Photo) the circumstances surrounding his

death, and to hold the perpetrators accountable,” a department spokeswoman said in a statement. The journalist’s death comes at a sensitive time for the Myanmar government, with U.S. President Barack Obama set to arrive in the country next month for a regional summit amid growing U.S. concerns about the human rights situation there. Than Dar said she had formed a group of 59 social and political organizations from around the country that will work together to pressure the government to investigate the death. “We’ll set up a committee of ordinary people, lawyers and doctors to look into how the police are handling the investigation,” she said, sitting on the floor of her house, surrounded by a half dozen supporters. “We’ll put pressure on the police and government.” After 49 years of military rule, a semi-civilian government took power in Myanmar in 2011 and ushered in sweeping political and economic reforms. But rights groups say the government has been cracking down on journalists over the past year, and they accuse the military of continuing to commit abuses. Suu Kyi spent most of two decades under house arrest after a military government ignored the results of a 1990 election

win by her party. She was freed in 2010 and won a by-election to parliament two years later. Par Gyi was a member of the TriColor pro-democracy student organisation that served as bodyguards for Suu Kyi from 1988 to 1990, Than Dar said. While he no longer worked as a bodyguard, he remained a member of the organisation and had remained in contact with Suu Kyi, attending her birthday party last June, she said. RELUCTANT POLICE After Par Gyi’s death was confirmed last week, Than Dar said she went to local police in the town where he had been killed and asked for an investigation. However, she said, police were reluctant to look into the murder, admitting that they would face pressure from military authorities. She said she was not confident the police would carry out a fair investigation. “Everyone knows that the police can’t investigate independently,” she said. “The military controls everything here, so we have little hope.” Than Dar, an activist who served five years of a life sentence for defamation against the government, says she visited several military units looking for her husband, who went missing on Sept. 29, but that she was un-

able to get any information. She said she learned of her husband’s death on Oct 23, when a Myanmar journalist posted the news on Facebook, saying he had been murdered 19 days earlier by the military. The next day, the military released a statement confirming the death and saying Par Gyi had been shot after seizing a weapon from a soldier in an attempt to escape. No reason was given for the secret burial or the failure to notify the family. The military claimed last Thursday that Par Gyi was an information officer for an obscure insurgent group called the Klohtoobaw Karen Organization, and was arrested after clashes in eastern Mon state near the frontier with Thailand. Than Dar denies this, saying her husband was a journalist. She says the DKBA has also issued a statement denying he was connected to any rebel military organization. Various rebel groups have battled Myanmar’s central government since shortly after independence from Britain in 1948. While the government has struck ceasefires with almost all factions, clashes often flare up, undermining the government’s goal of signing a national ceasefire agreement before next year’s elections.

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Thursday 30 October 2014

Local News ENSU Guwahati 17th Annual Fresher’s Fest held

Guwahati, OctOber 29 (MexN): The Eastern Naga Students' Union Guwahati had organized its 17th Annual Fresher’s Fest 2014 at Rabindra Bhawan Guwahati on October 25 with A. Neangba Konyak President, Eastern Naga Peoples' Union Dimapur & Eastern Naga Contractors & Suppliers Union graced as the Chief Guest. On the occasion, the chief guest A. Neangba Konyak highlighted many issues and challenges to aware that a big city like Guwahati offers and being a gateway

of North-East it possesses and weigh, he urges the Eastern Naga Students to stay in oneness effectively and to use and accumulate wisely. He also spoke on the Unity, Integrity and Fraternity of Eastern Naga people and stated that it is upon the student community to strive for excellence and work for the upliftment of the Eastern Naga people in particular and the Nagas' in general. It is a model role of student to endure greater heights that will bring laurel and fame to our society and to rejuvenate a vibrant society.

The Eastern Naga Students' Union Guwahati further acknowledged the guidance and advise that we received from the Eastern Naga Students' Federation (ENSF), Eastern Naga Gazetted Officers' Association (ENGOA), Konyak Union Dimapur, Eastern Nagaland Legislative Union (ENLU), Eastern Naga Peoples' Union Dimapur (ENPUD), Langphong Konyak Former General Secretary ENSUQ and all the part takers for making a programme a successful one.

Eastern Naga Students' Union Guwahati members and others during its 17th Annual Fresher’s Fest 2014 at Rabindra Bhawan Guwahati on October 25.

Seminar on leadership for Rural Development conducted

Kohima, october 29 (mexN): As part of his Leaders Arise Ministry, Rev Luoliehu Yimsung conducted a seminar on leadership for the officers and staff of RD on October 28 at RD Directorate Conference Hall, Kohima. A Naga by birth and a citizen of Australia, Rev. Luoliehou, who is also the Coordinator of Global Indigenous Prayer, Australia, has been giving Seminars for Leaders in the bureaucracy, administration, business, NGOs, entrepreneurs and youth as part of his Leaders Arise all over the state since 2013. Rev. Yimsung challenged the gathering to serve humanity with boldness, courage, hard work and to be a thinker to lead the people citing examples from his experi-

ences. Stress was made on qualities and key factors of leadership like character, relationship, knowledge, experience, ability, intuition, confidence and attitude. The speaker also encouraged the gathering to learn and manage emotion, time, priority, energy, thinking, words and one’s personal life to be a true leader. A press note issued by Rural Development, Dy. Director (Publicity) K. Neibou Sekhose stated that the seminar was chaired by V. Sakhrie, Commissioner & Secretary, RD who introduced the speaker and gave a brief overview of his ministry. RD Director, Metsubo Jamir, thanked the Speaker and requested the gathering to give priority to sincerity and have conviction to be a true leader in words and deed.

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Dortmund gets back to winning ways

berliN, october 29 (ap): Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa scored one goal and set up another Tuesday as Borussia Dortmund put aside its Bundesliga troubles with a 3-0 win at St. Pauli in the German Cup. Dortmund, last season's beaten finalist, was looking for relief after losing its last four league games, and started strongly against the second-division side in Hamburg. Ciro Immobile, who arguably had a good goal ruled out for offside early on, opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Kevin Grosskreutz cut the ball back and Kagawa helped it on for the Italy striker to convert from close range. Immobile then set up Marco Reus to make in 2-0 in the 44th, before the home side improved in the second half. Florian Kringe went narrowly close with a deflected shot and Dortmund 'keeper Mitch Langerak did well to save from Dennis Daube. But Kagawa settled any nerves by sealing the result with four minutes remaining after a poor clearance from St. Pauli goalkeeper Philipp Tschauner. Kagawa also scored in his previous German Cup game. In May 2012, in his first stint at the club, he helped Dortmund to a memorable 5-2 win over Bayern Munich in the final. "We can be happy with the result, also with the first half. Not with the second. We played too little football in it," said Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp, whose side next faces Bayern in the Bundesliga on Saturday. Elsewhere in the German Cup's second round, Werder Bremen defeated third-division Chemnitzer FC 2-0 to get Viktor Skripnik off to a winning start as coach.

Dortmund's Mats Hummels fails to score during the German soccer cup second round match between FC St. Pauli and Borussia Dortmund at the Millerntor Stadium in Hamburg, Germany on Ocober. 28. (AP Photo)

Fin Bartels finished off a clever pass from Izet Hajrovic to open the scoring in the 31st minute, and Argentine forward Franco di Santo beat the Chemnitz 'keeper at his near post in the 49th. Former under-23 coach Skripnik took over the Bundesliga's bottom club on Saturday, when predecessor Robin Dutt was sacked after claiming just four points from nine league games. "We really needed this success. It will do us a lot of good," Hajrovic said. Hertha Berlin crashed out 4-2 on penalties to third-tier side Ar-

minia Bielefeld. Bielefeld goalkeeper Alexander Schwolow was the hero with two saves after the game finished scoreless. Cologne had better luck from the spot, beating third-division Duisburg 4-1 on penalties after Timo Horn saved two. Cologne had Slawomir Peszko set off in the second half for kicking at an opponent and extra time failed to produce a goal. Hannover lost 2-0 at seconddivision Aalen. An own goal from Ceyhun Gulselam gave the home side a 24th-minute lead and Michael Klauss made it 2-0 in

the 59th. Fourth-tier side Kickers Offenbach caused another upset by defeating second-division Karlsruher SC 1-0 thanks to Benjamin Pintol's 63rd-minute strike. Second-division Bochum lost 2-1 after extra time at third-division Dynamo Dresden. Justin Eilers scored both goals for the home side. Kaiserslautern defeated second-division rival Greuther Fuerth 2-0. Cup holder Bayern visits Bundesliga rival Hamburger SV on Wednesday.

2nd Kohima dist volleyball tourney underway Our Correspondent Kohima | October 29

The three day long 2nd Kohima district volleyball tournament (Men & Women) under the aegis of the Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) got underway here today at the Kohima Local ground under the theme “Transcending through games.” Speaking on the occasion as the chief guest, Nizheto Awomi, assistant director, youth resources & sports maintained volleyball as one of the most popular game in Nagaland. In this, he challenged

hief guest Nizheto Awomi and others with the officials of KDVA during the inaugural function of the 2nd Kohima district volleyball tournament (Men & Women) at Kohima Local Ground on October 28. (Morung Photo)

the Nagaland Volleyball As- time urged upon the sports sociation (NVA) and KDVA lovers to take the game on to promote the game on professional line. larger scale and at the same Earlier, the function was

chaired by organizing committee convenor Kezhalelhou Zatsu while welcome address was delivered by KDVA

president Visasielie Suohu. KDVA joint secretary Er. Dziivichiito Khale administered oath to the participating teams. Altogether, 17 men teams and 9 women teams are taking part in the tournament. The first match for October 30 will start at 9:00 AM. The first match for women's volleyball will be played between Khonoma Youth Organization Vs Nagabazar Youth Organization at 9:00 AM. All the players are informed to report at the Kohima Local Ground at 8:00 AM. The tournament will go on till October 31.

St. Mary’s Cathedral School Sports Underway Participants during the Participatory Rural Appraisal Exercise held in 9 villages under Japukong range, namely Akumen, Changdang, Japu, Longchem, Nokpu & Nokpu Yimsen, Saringyim, Tsuremmen, Yajang A and Yajang C. Organised by Public Health Engineering Department, Mokokchung Division and sponsored by WSSO, Kohima, Nagaland, the Exercise was undertaken by the WSSO, PHED, Mokokchung Division Chemist and Consultants.

Training for ATMA functionaries held

medziphema, october 29 (mexN): State Agricultural Management Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) Medziphema organized a training on ‘Package of practices of spices & plantation crops’ on October 28 and 29 at SAMETI Training Hall Medziphema. Total 22 Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) functionaries such as DPDs, BTMs and SMSs from all over districts attended the training.

The resource persons were from Department of Horticulture SASRD, Dr. C.S.Maiti Associate Professor and Alen Phom Agri Inspector, IETC Medziphema. The trainees were imparted topics on technical knowhow of "Package of practice of spices such as ginger, turmeric, cardamom and king chilli, Package of practice of plantation crops, rubber, tea, cashew nut and Arecanut. Nguzonyi Wetsah, Director SAMETI and Principal IETC Medziphema

addressed the Valedictory Function. He advised the participants to encourage the farmers for growing more spices and plantation crops in commercial scale as it has good market value and economic importance. The programme concluded with awarding of certificates to the trainees by the Director SAMETI Nguzonyi Wetsah and words of gratitude was delivered by Dr. Ithika C. Swu, DPD, SAMETI Dire SAMETI & Principal, I.E.T.0 Medziphema, Nagaland.

Peace Counts organizes Training of Trainers

The trainees and others during the Training of Trainers (TOT) organized by peace counts (Germany) from October 21 to 25 at Pine Wood Hotel Shillong.

dimapur, october 29 (mexN): A five days Training of Trainers (TOT) was organized by peace counts (Germany) from October 21 to 25 at Pine Wood Hotel Shillong with 20 participants from the states of North East India. Peace Counts is a unique organization working in conflict areas throughout the world promoting Peace through use of art media and teaching modules. Resource persons included Anne Ro-

mund (Program Manager, Peace Counts), Jasna (Peace Counts) and Micheal Gleich (Founder, Peace Counts). The training included identifying conflicts and processes to promote peace. Dr. Leban Serto (coordinator of the program) highlighted the importance of Peace Education in the region. Participants were encouraged to be actively involved in the movement of peace building to stop hostilities, violence, conflicts and killings.

Kohima, october 29 (mexN): The annual sports and games of St. Mary’s Cathedral Hr. Sec. School, Kohima, was officially kicked off on October 28 with FP Zeliang IPS, IGP, Law and Order, as the Chief Guest and Rev Dr James Thoppil as the Guest of Honour. The highlight of the inaugural events included guard of honour, March past, spectacular drill display and cultural extravaganza. Rev. Fr. Johny, principal of the school expressed the school's commitment for all-round development. Fr. Carolus Niesalhou the Chairman of the school invoked God’s blessing. The Chief Guest FP Zeliang, IPS, exhorted the students to participate in the events in view of building up individual personality. “Devotion, hard work and keen enthusiasm are required to build up your personality’, he added and continued, “the foundations for the same is laid in the school”.He exhorted the students

not to miss the chances that the school provides. He also said that the parents and teachers are only help and achieving something in life lies solely in their hands. “We cannot go on day dreaming”, he said. Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil congratulated the management for the opportunity given to the students to learn lessons for life. He exhorted the students to take this opportunity given to them to learn lessons for their lives. Mr. Peter Solo, GB of Lereie Colony opened the sports week by kicking off a ball. The inaugural programme came to a close with words of gratitude proposed by Ms. Temjensangla. The various disciplines in the sports week include major games and sports, competitions for the lower primary children etc. The annual sports week will come to a close on October 31 with a closing ceremony which will be graced by Children displaying drills at the sports and games of St. Mary’s Cathedral Hr. Sec. School, Kohima. DIG, CRPF, Lerie.

SMRS Alichen celebrates Decennial Function 2014

alicheN, october 29 (mexN): St. Mary’s Residential School, Alichen celebrated Decennial Function 2014 (Tenth Anniversary Function) on October 25 with Bendanglila, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung as the Chief Guest. Tomy John, Secretary, St. Mary’s Educational Society, in his Highlights of ten years of achievements of st. Mary’s residential school, alichen stated that the School got 100% first divisions in HSLC Exam 2013 in its first batch with Ms Chippy Tomy getting 90.83% marks with 27th rank under NBSE. The second batch in 2014 got all first divisions except one high second division. So far, the pass percentage in all batches of HSLC Exam from the school is 100% pass. Thus, SMRS Alichen is a unique school imparting high quality Education in Mokokchung District. The School admits both

Boarders as well as Day scholars. He also stated that the School Boarding and the School is in the same compound and the Boarders have the advantage of safety. Rongpangwati Longchar, Parent & Member, School Management Board, in his short message stated that St. Mary’s Residential School, Alichen is a unique school that provides High Quality Education and many officers in future for Nagaland and India will come from the students passing out from this School. As the school is residential, parents from anywhere in Nagaland can bring and enroll their children in SMRS, Alichen, Mokokchung. Mayang Imchen GB Alichen has felicitated the School for its achievements in the last ten years. The Chairman Village Council Longkhum accompanied by around forty Council members attended the function and declared

its full moral and administrative support to SMRS Alichen. He stated that the school has produced all first divisioners of its students’ in HSLC Exams and all children in different batches from Longkhum passed out in first divisions setting a HIGH QUALITY of EDUCATION. The Chief Guest, Bendanglila, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mokokchung unveiled the Roll of Honors in HSLC(List of Rank Holders of the School in HSLC Examination). Ms Chippy Tomy is the first person to get her name entered in this Roll of Honours with 27th Rank in HSLC Exam 2013with 90.83% mark overall. The Chief Guest also distributed the proficiency prize of the year 2013. She also gave away the HSLC EXAM Topper’s Award for 2013 to Ms Chippy Tomy (KERALA) and 2014 to Ms Imonenla Jamir (UNGMA). Mrs Bendanglila in her message stated that Mr. Barak Obama the

two times President of the United States of America had said that students should spend more time in the studies and that hard work in studies would place them in leading and high positions in life leading them to a very contented and successful life. She said that there is a right environment for excelling in Academics and also in other co curricular areas in St. Mary’s Residential School, Alichen and called upon the people of the District to take advantage of the same for the Educational advancement of the people of the district. The invocation was pronounced by Tia, Pastor, Alichen Compound Baptist Church and Benediction by Nungsang, Pastor, Christian Revival Church, Alichen. Mendensangba, School Captain, said the vote of thanks. The Programme was over with School Anthem and National Anthem, all standing in attention.

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Kims Kardashian Still Buy

he second round of Naga Orpheus Hunt 2014 was conducted on October 22, at Aries db hall in Dimapur, where 17 contestants performed. Although only twelve contestants were supposed to be chosen for the third round, the judges used two wildcards, so 14 contestants will be vying for the top 6 berth. Making things more interesting, the contestants will be singing the judges’

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he reality TV star recently confessed she is "on a mission" to save the Blackberry phone from dying out. Kim Kardashian may be a woman who keeps up with all the latest trends in fashion and pop culture, but when it comes to cell phones the reality TV star likes to keep things rather vintage, as

she is still a proud owner of a Blackberry. During the Re/code mobile conference on Tuesday (28th) in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Kim admitted that she prefers the Blackberry model over the iPhone, and is singlehandedly attempting to stop them from going into extinction. "People

are horrified that I have a BlackBerry," she explained. "And I don't understand that reaction. A BlackBerry is my heart and soul. I love it. I'll never get rid of it." However, the 34 yearold did confess that she also owns an iPhone that is primarily used for social media and uploading

photos, especially selfies. But when she is "angrily" writing messages or emails, the Blackberry is perfect for Kim to type much harder and faster. One major problem is that the phones are a dying breed, and it is becoming extremely difficult for the 34 year-old star to locate and purchase

her favourite technological tool. "I buy them on eBay. I have like three lined up in my room. So that if one breaks and I'm down to two, I search on eBay for that third. I have anxiety I'll run out." she explained. "I'm afraid it will go extinct. I'm on a mission to make that not happen."

explores the world of amnesia

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out repeatedly that he has been introducing himself to her every day for several weeks, Nicole Kidman took the time to do some full research into her condition. Nicole Kidman plays Christine, who wakes up with no recollection of her husband “I watched a number of documentaries where people do have this psychogenic amnesia,” she explains. 'The idea of actually having this is horrifying. Someone described it as like losing their soul, because you lose your identity, you lose actually what you are and that's really chilling, and it's also sad,” she added. -contactmusic.com

Ellen DeGeneres PK: Second hand 'hated stand-up clothes for Aamir Khan comedy'

hat show host Ellen DeGeneres has revealed she hated doing stand-up comedy, saying she only took to the stage when she was younger because she had ''no other skills.'' She said ''It's horrible, you only do it if you have no other skills to fall back on.'' Ellen now wants to be a design icon. The 56-yearold star, who is preparing to launch her new lifestyleand-clothing brand, E.D., early next year, says she plans to become a fulltime designer when her self-titled series eventually comes to an end. She told Vogue magazine ''When I someday decide to stop doing the show, my entire focus is going to be design.'' The comedienne and her wife, Portia de Rossi, are worth an estimated $200 million, but Ellen insists she

didn't grow up rich and believes everyone should have access to amazing furniture. She said ''I still understand that everyone should be able to have great design in their home, so let me do it in a more accessible way. ''When I think about decorating, that's when I start to meditate.'' The star - who regularly buys houses and revamps them before selling them for a profit - also claims she's made as much money from flipping properties as she has from her chosen career. But Portia is eager to move to a farm in the future even though they already have three cats, three dogs, three horses and are both vegan. She said ''I really am a farm girl. I would love sheep and goats, and I'd really like chickens. We need to get a farm.''

haracter building is an interesting exercise when you have two of the best creative talent working on it. In a brainstorming session, Raj Kumar Hirani and Aamir Khan decided that the character of PK should be seen wearing worn or old clothes. So, Raju and Aamir came up with the idea of sourcing Aamir's clothes

from a different place this time. For the first time ever, the makers picked up clothes from random people on streets of the places they shot at. For instance, while they shot in Rajasthan, they wanted Aamir to wear the authentic prints of the state. So the team went down the streets and requested common men to

outstanding performance. Mention may be made that in the first round the performer of the show was Contestant No. 1 - Albert N Hau from Jalukie, who sang Avalon’s ‘You were there’. The competition is based on 50% judges’ points and 50% public votes. For getting to know more of the contestants, check out our Youtube channel and also the show will be telecast on your local channels.

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icole Kidman took time out for some serious studying to play an amnesiac in Before I Got To Sleep. Before I Go To Sleep explores the darkness of losing one's memory to an accident, a fear that resides deeply in everyone and which Nicole Kidman displayed with remarkable commitment on the chilling movie adaptation with Colin Firth. In a bid to fully immerse herself in the character of Christine, a 40-year-old woman who wakes up one day believing she is still in her twenties and with no recollection of who her husband is, only to find

choice of songs in the next round, which will be held on November 8, 2014. Yes, it shall be an intense competition. The performer of the show in the second round was Contestant No 12 – Limayanger, a 16-year-old from Mokokchung. Singing away Sam Smith’s ‘Stay with me’, he left an impression on the judges, especially Tali Angh who gave a standing ovation for the

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give interesting shirts that they had worn in return for money or a new shirt. Surprisingly the strangers were very supportive and happily gave their shirts to the team. When the entire collection was displayed in front of Raju Hirani and Aamir Khan, they were very pleased with how different and quirky they all looked.

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Pitbull Developing Two Reality Shows R

apper Pitbull is expanding his reality Tv resume by launching two new shows. The Timber hitmaker is teaming up with producers at The Weinstein Company to develop the projects, which will focus on his life, career and celebrity friends. The first show, titled Pitbull: The Lyfe, will take viewers behind the scenes of his world tour and recording sessions, while the second series, The REAL Change Project, will enlist public

figures and celebrities, including Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga and Paul MCCartney, to talk about the difficulties they faced while building their careers and how they overcame them. The REAL Change Project will also feature live performances and the show's creators are hoping to raise money for school teachers and educators all over the world with the series. A statement from producer Harvey Weinstein reads, "Our television di-

vision at Twc has made an incredible name for itself in creating fresh and entertaining unscripted programming. "Partnering with Pitbull, one of the biggest names in music today, on The REAL Change Project and The Lyfe, is a phenomenal opportunity that we're all very excited to get started on." This isn't Pitbull's first foray into television - he has previously executive produced two episodes of his reality show La Esquina.

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NorthEast United play out goalless draw with Delhi

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 29 (AGENCIES): Delhi Dynamos and NorthEast United shared the spoils in an entertaining draw at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi in the inaugural edition of the Indian Super League (ISL). The game certainly had its top moments as NorthEast had a couple of appeals for penalties turned down while Mads Junker saw his effort crash off the post. The home side made just one change with Adil Khan coming into the starting lineup in place of Naoba Singh. On the other hand, NorthEast United started the game without captain Joan Capdevila, Koke, Isaac Chansa and Alexander Tzorvas due to injury concerns. James Keene, Tomas Josl and Massamaba Sambou were the three new faces into the first eleven from the last game. It was the visiting side that started brighter of the two teams with Keene in particular, being a thorn for the opposition rearguard. Van Veldhoven’s side preferred to sit back and hit on the counter. Despite seeing less of the ball, it was Dynamos who carved the best opportunity in the first half when Del Piero’s attempt from outside the box missed the target by inches. NorthEast built their play from the flanks with Robin Gurung and Josl combining well. However, the end product was disappointing on most occasions. There was a moment of controversy when Josl was allegedly brought down

inside the box by Khan but the referee chose to book the NorthEast United player for simulation. That didn’t deter Josl’s spirit as in the 44th minute, the Czech player saw his left footed effort from range dip and curl only to end up on the right side of the post with Van Hout being rooted to his spot. Veldhoven introduced the nippy Gustavo Marmentini after half-time for Del Piero in order to add more guile to their attack. The Brazilian was a treat to watch as his pace and delicate touches left the NorthEast United defenders puzzled. The north eastern side appealed for a penalty unsuccessfully after the hour mark when Leo Bertos found Gurung inside the box. Wim Raymaekers got his hand across the full-back which saw him hit the deck. NorthEast should have taken the lead when Keene combined well with Felipe to find Bertos unmarked but the Kiwi midfielder failed to capitalize and saw his shot go over the crossbar. Delhi came close when Herrero’s lofted pass saw Marmentini blaze past Miguel Garcia, but the final effort was surprisingly poor by the Brazilian. Hans Mulder also had a chance to break the deadlock five minutes before time but his effort was well saved by Rehenesh.

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Taekwondo Championship in Dimapur from Oct 31

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 29 (MExN): Faith in Action Foundation will be hosting the 1st Northeast Region and 2nd State level Taekwondo Championship on October 31 and November 1 at Dimapur Club, Dimapur, Nagaland

which will be a yearly event to promote the budding players of Northeast region. A press note informed that more than 300 Taekwondo players will be participating from various parts of Northeaster States aiming to unite all Martial

Arts through Taekwondo under one umbrella of Taekwondo Board of India to help in growing the young talented players throughout India especially in Northeast Region. On the occasion Taekwondo World Cham-

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pion Master Sandeep Surya, President, Taekwondo Board of India from Muktsar, Punjab and Palik Bora, National Secretary and Observer, North Eastern States “All India KishanMorcha”, Chief Advisor, Assam

Motor Transport will be the special guests in the Championship. The Grand Closing of the event will marked by VZ Angami, Superintendent of Police, Dimapur as guest of h onour on November 1 at 3:30 pm at Dimapur Club.

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