By Amar Yumnam It is good that Ibobi has come back from Tokyo, without further proceeding to Europe and others. It is a case of good sense prevailing upon our leader. So we should give him the credit for that. We also know that he left Manipur for a tour abroad at a very wrong [...]
By Amar Yumnam Nero was an Emperor of the Roman Empire in the beginning of Christian era. He is considered by history as one of the most irresponsible, irresponsive, non-transparent and gory ruler. In fact, he symbolises any ruler who rocks and rolls when his empire is in danger. We never imagined that Nero [...]
By Amar Yumnam There is an interesting Latin phrase as “absentee la edit cum ebrio quilitigat”. When translated into English, it runs as: “to quarrel with a drunk is to wrong a man who isn`t even there”. Everything happening in relation to Manipur seems to exactly fit into this phrase. Look at the governance, and [...]
By: Amar Yumnam The fundamental drive for human beings is survival, Darwin or no Darwin. Now this survival has meanings only when we can afford what we feel like possessing and still have something (better if we have much more) to satisfy our greed. This is because human beings are not absolutists but are always [...]
By: Amar Yumnam The basic purpose of having an administration and a governance system anywhere needs to be recalled and analysed at this moment of history when we are celebrating six and a half decades of independence from foreign rule. This is because, despite the recent more or less impressive track record of good [...]
By Amar Yumnam Two recent events have caught the attention of social analysts in the land of the jewels (people say, but we are yet to see any crown of jewels). One is the bomb blast at Sangakpham where two young school-girls were killed among others. Another is the damages being suffered in the wake [...]
By Amar Yumnam Justice is what would be on everybody’s lips and is what everybody desires. Everybody cries foul in Manipur and laments that justice has been buried in every exchange and transaction of relationships in the land. Whereas the people have been sharing views and ideas on it and there have been plenty number [...]
In this age of globalisation of information, technology, culture, norms and even emotions, no region or community can remain unaffected by the changes. This is true for Manipur as well. In fact, we naturally observe the presence of new technologies and currency of new terminologies among the people of Manipur. The easy examples are the [...]
By Amar Yumnam Thomas Hobbes said in his classic Leviathan thus: “All Laws need Interpretation”. We can think of paraphrasing him and assert thus: All individual behaviours need interpretation. We know that a society is much more than interaction and exchange between individuals. We also know that since a society has already been put in [...]
By Amar Yumnam The author is celebrating his 25 wedding anniversary today and we wish him many happy returns of the day To an academic, a semInar is a success if it scores at least on forcing us to ponder on the issues of the seminar not only during the seminar but even after the [...]