The Shillong Times, Newspaper Editorial, April, 2026

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On Khasi Identity: State and Social Customs are Emergent and Malleable, A World Within a Forest: India’s Hidden Biodiversity Crisis, Reassessing Genetic Links in Northeast India: Evidence vs. Narrative, Bob’s Banter, Politics Consumes Us; We’re Too Busy For ‘Real’ Issues, The West Asia Conflict: Bitter Pill for India, Trans women in sports: Genetics of Sex are Complex, As US President Trump orders UFO data release, a question beckons: What would Aliens think of us?, The Pnar concept of God, An Earnest Plea for the Allegedly Tainted Teachers, Garo Hills Mourns the Loss Of a Veteran Gynaecologist, Why has NEHU not Captured the National Imagination?, C areer of Allied Health Sciences Profession: Impact, Need, and Future, From Garo Hills to Assam: The Ripple Effects of the GHADC Decision, Kimki Chowdhury - A Ray of Hope, Or is She?, Religion without Conscience Collapses into Disaster: Michael Syiem Affairs, Moral & Emotional Development of Children a Critical Need, Ancient Greeks, Romans' despair at world, 'First contact' that may have led to complex life on Earth finally witnessed by scientists, Children of a Lesser God, Who will benefit from the high voter turnout in Kerala? Rival fronts on the ticklish job of reading the political leaves, The Ceasefire that wasn’t; the Mediator that couldn’t, and what India must do. before April 21, Fiscal injustice may foster hostility, Love, Care and Fear: Ritual and Emotion among the Niamtre Pnar, Shillong Bypass poll 2026: Sympathy, Strategy, and Sanbor Shullai, A Life Composed in Chords, Soil, and Care: The Legacy of Dr J. L. Sailo Ryntathiang, Critical Thinking and Khasi Society: Hazards of Living in a Bubble & Glamourising the Past, The Strait of Hormuz: Why Everyone’s Losing Their Mind Over It, The Lumpongdeng Lease & a Government that Has Already Made Up Its Mind, Beyond Words: Khasi Language and the Question of Existence in India, Gallipoli's four lessons for Strait of Hormuz crisis, When oil refineries burn, here's what happens to yoor lungs, heart, Lumpongdeng Is More Than What Meets the Eye, When the Earth Speaks, Are We Listening? Lessons from the Kogi, Promise, Politics and Paralysis: The Unending of Women’s Reservation Saga in India, Iran’s Asymmetric War with the US and Israel, BJP Meghalaya Dilemma: Indigenous Rights or Outsider Politics?, What Model of Development (Social, Political & Economic) is Meghalaya Following?, The Myth of the “Average” Menstrual Body, Women’s Reservation & Delimitation Must Come with New Delimitation Concessions & New Category of States, The deeper story of a bill that failed, A Generation still trying, A State in Crisis, A Nation Too Quiet, Middle East Conflict looks like a War nobody can win, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations early exploration of ‘romance fraud’, The Pnar Understanding of Cosmology, Beyond Outrage: Why Meghalaya Must Confront Its Own Contradictions, Meghalaya Getting Relatively Poorer; It Needs An Independent Think- Tank to Plan an Alternative Course, From potential to power: Scaling Indigenous Peoples’ Nature-Based food, When Women Ruled? Reclaiming Khasi Political Traditions, All Talk, No Progress? The Numbers & Reality Suggest Otherwise, Badminton and Beyond
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