By Shachi Gurumayum “Give *us* the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.” – Michael Collins It started with an article I chanced upon en route from Beirut to Dubai. Hoping to keep busy on the plane, I picked up an early [...]
By Tanveer JafriHafiz Saeed, the mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and the chief of Pakistan based so called “socio-cultural organization” Jama’at-Ud-Da’wah, is well known for his anti-India stance. Spewing venom against India and conspiring against it is usual for Saeed. From encouraging terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir to masterminding the 26/11 terror attack on [...]
By: Neken SeramAlthough Manipur does not have any successful production unit, health and education have become its biggest industries. Besides establishment of hospitals and clinics, running private schools and tuition centres have become successful businesses in Manipur. Since the state government and most private school owners have neglected the true vision and inherent mission of [...]
By Soibam HaripriyaThousands have lived without love, not one without water – W.H. AudenOne has often been bemused by the elusive ethno-philosophy that guides the conception of the landscape covering the panoramic Loktak Lake. Of late, contesting knowledge systems seem to have saddled on a site considered simultaneously sacred as well as profane by myths [...]
Z. K. Pahrii PouWelcome to SMILE-LESS state – MANIPUR. No one is smiling here. If you smile in this part of India, you could be suspected as abnormal being. ‘But’, you may say: ‘I use to see Chief Minister Ibobi Singh smiling from time to time’. Don’t take me wrong. I tell you, those were [...]
Leader Writer: S HaobamPower disruptions in Manipur, following the infamous massive drive by the electricity department against consumers have highlighted an uncomfortable truth. So old and so fragile is much of Manipur’s power infrastructure that further blackouts will tend to occur more in the near future. That creates an equally problematic scenario centered on just [...]
By Heigrujam NabashyamAllow me to evaluate myself. My knowledge of India – not Bharatvarsh – is a poor 20 percent. But my knowledge of Manipur is a fair 60 percent. As a layman, Manipur – India conflict, as it was widely reported in the media only last week, one or two questions raised in my [...]
“Plebiscite not only leads to break provinces but also helps consolidate countries according to the wishes and determination of the inhabitants. Notwithstanding the merits and demerits of the proposal for plebiscite in Manipur, we may consider it as truly the first ever peace initiative from a separatist insurgent organisation to which the government always appeals [...]
B.A. Sharma Commencement of New Year, end of the old year is the matter of astronomy. The Sun, the Stars, the Earth, the Moon are origin of Astronomy. Astronomy is science of Galaxy, in which innumerable worlds attached. The science of astrography beholds the origin of time, day, month and year. Year is derived from [...]
Source: Sanjib Meitei Whenever I came across the word “Reconciliation”, what comes in my mind is the desperate move and appeals by Dr. Wati Aiyer’s The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) to bring peace and unity among different Naga sub tribes. I’ll support the mission just after hearing its name mission because the phrase ‘Reconciliation [...]