I believe even the views of Nagas's Gandhi, AZ Phizo, had undergone a change some time before he died in London in 1990 -- I was then India's High Commissioner to the UK. Phizo told his old comrade-in ...

Phizo, called the ‘father of Naga insurgency’ had declared Nagaland as an independent country on August 14. He had become the chairman of the now defunct Naga National Council, the root of all Naga ...

Kohima, March 29: The two factions of the Naga National Council (NNC) have locked horns over the issue of A.Z. Phizo’s date of birth before the celebration of his 100th birth anniversary begins on May ...

The 1960s saw the ties that had once linked Arabia to South Asia largely disappear. But in India, Pakistan and Burma, where the new borders crossed land rather than sea, it was not so easy to forget ...

Kohima, Feb. 18: Sebi Dolie is an old man. His hair has turned silver and skin wrinkled and his hand shakes a bit as he arches to cut wood with a saw. Yet, there is something about him that speaks of ...

The fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India’s elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people’s heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow ...

Lt Gen H S Panag was General Officer Commanding in Chief (GOC in C) of Army's Northern Command and Central Command. After retiring in December 2008, the General served as a Member of the Armed Forces ...

The Nagaland Legislative Assembly to-day [Sept. 19, Kohima] unanimously adopted a resolution condemning outright the move initiated by the rebel leader Mr. A.Z. Phizo, for securing help from China. Mr ...

316pp, Rs. 499; Speaking Tiger In the history of Naga political struggles, the village Khonoma occupies a unique place. “No other Naga village has ever enjoyed similar prestige or was strong enough to ...

The Nagas living in northeast India have seldom captured the country's attention. Whenever they have, it is either a clash between the underground among them and the armed forces or sporadic incidents ...