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In an article published by ANI, the news agency has posed that Christianity has transformed Nagaland and credited Christian conversions in the North Eastern State for the development there.
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BJP created history on Thursday (Mar 2) by returning to power in Tripura and the NDPP-BJP alliance swept the polls in Nagaland. The BJP is also part of the sweepstakes to form government in Meghalaya.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was on course to retain power in Tripura as the party reached the halfway mark in the latest trends amid the ongoing counting of votes on Thursday (Mar 2).
Tripura witnessed a voter turnout of over 32.06 per cent till 11 am in the ongoing polling for 60 Assembly seats, the Election Commission (EC) informed on Thursday (Feb 16). The state recorded a 13.69 per cent voter turnout till 9 am.
Stalwarts and savants like Mahatma Gandhi, Thakkar Bappa, and M. S. Golwalkar had time and again expressed their dissatisfaction over splitting communities under the categories of tribals, non-tribals, etc. Gandhi had blamed the British for dividing Indians into these categories.
The two issues of Christian conversions and insurgency, although might seem as isolated issues, but function in a co dependent manner. The North Eastern insurgency therefore, where based on the principle of sons of soil, merely with an ideological deception several in the North East are convinced for independent statehood and thus separatist elements are nurtured.
August 9th is celebrated worldwide as the International Day of the Indigenous People. One must ask then - Who are the Indigenous People? When was this day created? What was the need for such a day? What it means for India? Here I try to find answers to above questions.
Every year the world celebrates the Indigenous People's Day. In the Indian context the term 'indigenous' is often referred to suggest the tribal people living in deep forests, or on the hills far away from the madding crowd of the so-called civilized people.
Observation of Indigenous Peoples' Day on 9th August is started world wide following its declaration by UNO in 1994. The significance of the day is to comemmorate the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Population (UNWGIP) which was held on 9th August 1982.
Amid the protest against implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act in Assam, the Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal asserted that his government is committed to safeguard ‘Jati, Mati, Bheti’ (Race, Land and Homeland) and will work to protect the rights of the indigenous people in the state. The state of Assam has been boiling ever since the CAB was passed by the parliament fearing that they may lose their ethnicity, tradition and culture. Adding fuel to this fear, the oppositions mislead the masses providi
Currently, out Of 7,000 indigenous languages spoken today, four in 10 are in danger of disappearing, rights experts said on Wednesday, in a call for a decade of action to reverse the “historic destruction” of age-old dialects.
August 9 is observed world over as the International Day of the Indigenous Peoples. It is promoted by the United Nations and is also known as ‘First People’s Day, National Indigenous People’s Day, Native American Day etc. in different countries across the globe. In India it is known and celebrated as ‘Adivasi Diwas’.
While the issue of Rohingya Muslims is heatedly discussed in the public domain, former Chief Election Commissioner H S Brahma has warned that illegal migrants in Assam would pose a serious threat to the indigenous people and cultural institutions like ‘Sattras’ pushing them to the point of extinction.
Centre Government has announced that it'll grant citizenship to all Chakma and Hajong refugees living in the Northeast since 1964. The move comes at a time when India is set to deport illegal Rohingya refugees.
