There is not an iota of doubt that the year 2015 will be remembered as one of the most news maker years. For the Naga society, the year 2015 is not going to be that “past year” sort. In other words, it is unlikely that element of newness will come along with the coming of 2016 for the Nagas. Piles of debris of 2015 episodes have implications which will definitely reverberate into the coming year and the same old story is likely to begin. But even then, our hope is that it will not be all of a doom and gloom. Well, the implications of the NSCN-K ceasefire abrogation and the August 3 Accord will continue to dominate the Nagas’ 2016—the two events have the potential to even turn the Naga world into something else. ACAUT will find its relevance more in the Naga society in 2016. To the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR), it needs to recharge itself on urgency—given the present ‘configuration’ of the Naga world our society will go haywire sans the service of the Forum. To the Naga Hoho and the ENPO, it is our prayer that they come under a single banner. We have allowed the process of division to have a free-ride for too long and it is time we reverse it to prevent the obvious. Coming to media situation, by the end of 2016 Nagaland based newspaper editors will be sporting bald pates. After the NSCN-K ceasefire abrogation and the subsequent ban of the outfit by New Delhi it is a tightrope walking for the journalists in Nagaland. Adding more heat to the already highly charged room is the ‘ignorance’ of our Naga organisations who use coercion to get their unmerited ‘press releases’ printed in the next editions of the newspapers.
