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Misinterpretation of the Naga COVID-19 detection in 30 seconds?
Political Settlement By Raju Vernekar India has got support from
Israel and is testing four
Mumbai, Aug 2:
technologies that can detect
By - Pakinrichapbo “achievement of Statehood received for the reasons best The tests were conducted for a coronavirus infection in 30
Advocate was a triumph of the people’s known to those (CSOs) COVID-19 detection seconds. The Israeli Defence
will (cited in Jimomi 2009: 49).” demanding the details of using four Israeli technologies R&D, the Defence Research
In order to understand why we Its later political adversary, the framework agreement. with an aim of COVID-19 and Development
should build a safe atmosphere United Democratic Front Seeing suchunhealthy political detection in 30 seconds, at Organisation, and Council of
to facilitate meaningful debate (UDF) disagreed: “People of no environment where even CSOs Indian Council of Medical Scientific and Industrial
in any controversial topics, other state in India have made are involved in taking sides Research, Delhi on Saturday. Research(CSIR) have come
what they meant to us, and why sacrifices like the Naga, so onlyshows the days ahead Professor K Vijay Raghavan, spectroscopy provides a Consequently, THz together for this project.
younger generation should much so that the State of won’t be so pleasant. Taking principal scientific adviser to particularly powerful method spectroscopy on Israeli Ambassador to India
inculcate the habitto Nagaland is not considered as sides, because of group’s PM Narendra Modi, explained in resolving and controlling semiconductors is relevant in Ron Malka said that even if
examineour political history a gift, but as a State created for hidden interests will not only that the first technology uses individual transitions between revealing both new one of the four technologies
with honesty, it is prudent to a price dearly paid: a sacrifice create political turbulence but the terahertz spectroscopy. In different many-body states. technological potentials of succeeds in noticing the
commence by examining two of over ten thousands lives also create chaotic atmosphere this, a sample is taken, By doing this, one gains new nanostructures as well as in infection in less than a minute,
turning points in the history of (cited in Nibedon 1978ÿ282).” just as it happened in the deposited on a chip, and then insights about many-body exploring the fundamental then it will be the biggest
the Naga political movement The second major turning past.CSOs, therefore, need to examined in a manner that quantum kinetics and how properties of many-body breakthrough the world has
and their implications even to pointis the Shillong Accord. As seriously study if taking/ specifically detects SARS- that can be utilized in systems in a controlled been waiting for.
this day. Abraham Lothain ‘The choosing sides would help CoV-2 virus that causes developing new technologies fashion. As per the plan, nearly 10,000
The first major turning point is Hornbill Spirit:Nagas living bring permanent peace COVID-19. that are optimized up to the The second approach is people will be tested twice,
best explained with an extract their Nationalism’states that andreduce collateral damage T e r a h e r t z elementary quantum level. named “isothermal test” and once using the RT-PCR
from the essay‘Exploring the Shillong Accord, instead of once the ongoing peace talks spectroscopy detects and Different electronic the third one detects process, the traditional and
Democracy in Nagaland’ by resolving the Naga issue, breaks down (which by the controls properties of matter excitations within “coronavirus-specific poly most effective way to judge if
an anthropologist, Jelle JP created a divided house, way appears inevitable).It is with electromagnetic field that semiconductors are already amino acids”. The fourth someone has been infected,
Wouters. He states: “In splitting the nationalists into essential for us to realize are in the frequency range widely used in lasers, approach is to study speech and then using the four
December 1963, Dr. NNC and National Socialist thatthe GoI have a long term between a few hundred electronic components and samples from asymptomatic technologies to judge their
Radhakrishnan, India’s then Council of Nagaland (NSCN). plan to gradually bring an end gigahertz and several terahertz computers. At the same time, and pre-symptomatic efficiency. If the technologies
President, flew to Kohima to What we can conclude or to Naga national ( THz). In many body systems, they constitute an interesting patients, compare them with yield favourable results, they
inaugurate Nagaland state. gather from these two turning movement,sinceending a several of the relevant states many-body system whose others and see if the tools of would help kick start the
‘Friends’, he began his speech: points is that it is not only the nearly hundred year old issue have an energy difference that quantum properties can be artificial intelligence can be economy faster and allow co-
‘I have great pleasure in central government, but even won’t be possible with a single matches with the energy of a modified, e.g., via a used to identify those who are existence with the deadly
inaugurating the new state of the Nagas themselves were accord (as demonstrated bythe THz photon. Therefore, THz nanostructure design. COVID-19 positive. virus, feel experts.
Nagaland. It takes an rendering their own two past agreements/
hounoured place today as the interpretation and version of agreement and the Shillong Over 11,45,000 people recover from Covid-19 so
accords,i.e. sixteen point
Sixteenth State of the Indian the terms of thefinal
Union…(our) attempts to settlements vis-à-vis accord,that greatlyreduced the
secure you the fullest freedom statehood and the Shillong spirit of Naga Nationalism). far; Case fatality rate further declines to 2.13 pc
to manage your own affairs accord according to their self- Remarkably lots have
have culminated in the creation interests, thereby fueling happened since the incidents
of Nagaland State… May I also political instability. While, on of political drama of statehood Agency 65.43 per cent. The case number of cases to 17 lakh 50 63 thousand 172 tests were
express the hope that, now that the other hand, the GoI and Shillong accord. Back in New Delhi, Aug 2: fatality rate of coronavirus thousand 723. Presently, the conducted by various
the wishes of the Nagas have considered the creation of those days, we sawas the has further declined to 2.13 total number of active corona laboratories within 24 hours.
been fully met, normal Nagaland state to be the final aftermath of these two A record 51 thousand 255 per cent. cases in the country is five So far, one crore 98 lakh 21
conditions will rapidly return to settlement to Naga issue, watershed events,thousand of recoveries from Covid-19 The Health and Family lakh 67 thousand 730. In a thousand 831 tests have been
the State, and those who are whichsomeNagas, through the frustrated Nagasjoined the have been registered today in Welfare Ministry today said, single day, 853 deaths have conducted in the country. At
still unreconciled will come NNOand few succeeding Naga militants groups to fulfill the country. This is the a total of 11 lakh 45 thousand also been reported taking the present, one thousand 344
forward to participate in the political parties and state its political goals of highest number of recoveries 629 people have recovered in nationwide toll to 37 laboratories across India are
development of Nagaland.’” politicians, considered or establishing Naga Nation. in a single day since the the country so far. In the last thousand 364. conducting Covid-19 tests
Members of the NPC agreed interpreted the same. However,going by thepresent COVID-19 outbreak in the 24 hours, 54 thousand 735 Meanwhile, the Indian that includes 913 government
with this statement made by Another note worthy remark of scenario in Nagaland context,it country. With this, the new cases of Covid-19 have Council of Medical Research laboratories and 431 private
then president of India. S.C. the speech during the is highly unlikely to see the recovery rate has improved to been reported, taking the total said that a total of four lakh laboratory chains.
Jamir (2016: 96) remarks: “It is inauguration of the Nagaland repeat of the past events,
still a baffling proposition as statehood was that he where youths joinedthe Contd. from Page 1
to how a tiny district, the addressed the audience as the movementwith the object to
district of the Naga Hills of Nagas,notNagas of Nagaland. achieve the aims of Naga
Assam province at first became It is fair to assume that the Nationalism. The sentiments of Modi Cabinet expansion..............
Naga Hills-Tuensang Area and President thought all the nationalism, especially among
then a full-pledged state.’ The unreconciled Nagas, the Nagas of Nagaland,have
NNC, and its loyalists, however irrespective of state reacheda pointof But the point is, the state is important role in the National People’s Party leader charge of Northeast, may be
mourned the new state as a boundaries, would soon exhaustiondue to the repeated going to polls in early 2021 and formation of the BJP-ruled Agatha Sangma, who is also removed from his
divisive ‘sell-out’ and instantly reconcile, but fourteen years failures to achieve any it is not likely to be smooth governments in the the sister of Meghalaya chief organisational responsibilities
rejected the new state’s later, the rising tide of Naga substantial breakthrough. This sailing for the party because Northeast. minister Conrad K Sangma, is in the region, said sources.
legitimacy to govern. Phizo nationalism forced GoI to is made worse when we include of the massive protest against Sarma expressed his another contender for a berth “It is almost certain that Ram
himself was unequivocal in his impose another accord, the the problems and the CAA. So we need him willingness to contest the last in Modi Cabinet. Madhav will be removed from
judgment of NPC members: Shillong Accord of 1975, growingissues of here too.” parliamentary polls, however, Sangma is the Lok Sabha MP the responsibilities of the
‘They are traitors. Every one hoping that would be the final multipleparallel-governments, Sarma, who is the North East his wish was turned down by from Tura constituency. Northeast,” the report quoted
of them. They have betrayed settlement.However, the GoI tribal rivalries, and Democratic Alliance (NEDA) the central party leadership. Meanwhile, Ram Madhav, the a source close to the RSS as
us and dishonoured the was proven wrong again, regionalism.In case similar convenor, played an Former Union minister and BJP general secretary in saying.
martyrs who died for our cause leading to the present tense arrangement (similar to the
creation of statehood and the
(cited in Steyn 2002: 118).’ situations, even after the Shillong Accord)is made ATSUM warns government of facing the
In modern Naga political signing of the Framework
history, few events remain as Agreement (in August 2015) between Central Gov’t and
controversial and contested as and 17th November 2017 NNPGs,disagreementamong wrath of tribal people .........
the creation of Nagaland state. Agreed Position. Nagas is bound to emerge
It divided Nagas politically into Fast forward from the givensome sections of
two different camps—the catastrophicdays of post- Nagaswithin Nagaland and Such outlandish act and issues but we have never therefore she should start is the lone sagacious person
people of the new state and, creation of Nagaland Nagasoutside Nagalandwill contemptuous utterances commented on the court learning to shut her mouth and in Manipur and the rest of us
the other, those supporting statehood and theShillong continue with the struggle with the intent to demean and proceedings or verdict except behave like a police officer. are fools to swallow such lie!
Naga independence— Accord, we now face similar even if the framework is demonized the tribals will not keep our fingers crossed. This Her conducts are so If she’s true to her accusations
although the distinctions situation where signed, which will be viewed be condoned not now, nor in is not out of fear but reverence egregious and absurd that if why not bring out evidences-
between them (and have) misinterpretation of the as a “sell-out.” And in such the future. to that halo character item its the government does not put phone call records, witnesses,
overlap on various dimensions impending final settlement, to scenario, as the saying goes Of late, this person an on grata as it is the last resort an a plug on her it will send written documents to support
and they seem to share more be made between central govt. that a manis at his worst has gone berserk and lashing individual citizen can wrong message to the people her claims instead of trying to
common characteristics than and NPGs,is likely to occur whenbetrayed by his own out at every one that comes approach when they are under and the government churn public emotions.
differences. Most Naga again.Not long after the kind, it willbe difficult to find her way. The state’s the impression that their rights employees. What if every Now that the skeletons in the
‘overground’ politicians tend signing of the framework a m i d d l e g r o u n d a n d t o legislature, the executive, the had been sabotaged and all government servant started cupboard have tumble out, of
to nourish sentiments of agreement, each of the parties startanew. judiciary came under fire from other options for justice had coming out and publicly her complicity in demanding
sympathy towards the larger involved hascreatedits own The pressing question now is her invectives. Everybody fail. So, Brinda is above the chasten the government and hush-money from the
Naga political cause, while versionsor interpretations of how to bring different armed respects and revered the Judiciary. judiciary! Won’t this lead to accused family the
Naga undergrounds, or what the framework is, which factions to acomprehensive judiciary inspite of its many She even started poking her ferment and chaos? And, no government should take
‘national workers’ as they are often contradictory even agreement for the sake of short comings and lapses nose where she should have wonder the governments prompt action and punish her
became known, routinely seek though the threegroups are creating a safe future for all respect but she did not. Brinda really kept off. currying is for cover instead as per the laws of the land.
access to the treasures and referring to the same accord. the Nagas.To restart the work must be the only person in the She was acting as if she is the of chastising her. Lastly, there’s something
benefits the new state puts on Not surprisingly, Nagaland’s of bringing different armed entire world who has openly leader of the opposition in one Without providing an iota of called ‘Rule of Law’ which
display. leading intellectuals and Civil factions to an agreement, challenges the judiciary in the of her face- book post just evidence she dragged two binds all citizens to act and
Divergent political positions Society Organizations (CSOs) CSOs and the mass public conduct of its business and before the Rajya Sabha tribal officers in the in famous perform their respective
on the new state were also had only questioned the have to be honest in their calling it as entirely corrupt. election of Manipur lashing drug-haul case of June, 2018 duties with in its ambit. Brinda
articulated in the post- framework agreement signed approach.In conclusion, the Even the executives, out at the King. If she’s in the affidavit that was should not be under the
statehood democratic domain. between GoI and NSCN IM by Naga Nationalism runs the desperados, civil societies and interested in politics and doing submitted to the hon’ble court fallacy that she’s above all
The Nagaland Nationalists asking its contents to be made risk of becoming one of the students’ organizations what the elected which was craftily leaked to these democratic institutions
Organization (NNO), the public. While the agreed greatest farces of the 21 st refused to comment on any representatives should have both national and state medias after all she’s just as peck in
political party that swept the position signed between GoI century if it continues to be matter after it reached the done why not resigned from which she later ludicrously this momentous circle of
first post-statehood elections and NNPGs did not receive on the same pagefollowing court but she did not. We also her service and join politics. claimed that it was given for democracy’s big wheel. And,
in 1964, emphasized in its the same treatment of attention the existing degenerating had approached the hon’ble Her actions and public ‘reading purpose’. Is she she should start by learning
manifesto that the the framework agreement method. court many times on relevant utterances are untenable and under the impression that she to keep her mouth shut.
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