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How the Political Culture of Campaigns by “Intending Candidates” Undermines Democracy on the Altar of Demagoguery

PRADIP PHANJOUBAM 16/10/2021

The election mood in the state is inching towards feverish. It is interesting that all this is happening even before the exact dates of the

Opaque Curtain Between Official and Public Memory: Why Phulo and Irabot are Unequally Treated in Meetei Imagination of Their Past?

THONGAM BIPIN 16/10/2021

What is history and memory, therefore, the nation/community made of? The past is constantly reconfigured in search of an identity in the present. It has

Merger Protest Lockdown Affects Life; Athuan Laid to Rest; Myanmar Release Indian Captives; CM Launches Public Engagement Initiative

IRAP ONLINE 16/10/2021

Among the top headlines this week was the Merger Agreement Lockdown called by underground umbrella organisation known by acronym CorCom; CM launching an amibtious public

Manipur Government Missed September Target for 100 Percent COVID-19 Vaccination, Still to Go a Long Way

RAJKUMAR BOBICHAND 16/10/2021

While Manipur Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren who is also Health Minister of the state and the State Department of Health Services made repeated tall claims

Only Environment-Friendly Behaviour of Humans Can Contain Proliferation of Wasteful and Toxic Degradation of Life

FR. PAUL LELEN HAOKIP 16/10/2021

We all have come across words or items like wastage, garbage, sewage, electronic waste, solid waste, biomedical waste, chemical waste, industrial waste, time waste, etc.

Ponzi Scheme Swindlers are Repeat Offenders – Likely to Target Rural and Hill Areas of Manipur

MADHU CHANDRA 16/10/2021

The world has suffered enough from financial swindlers and it has not left any nations nor states. India has suffered and has not stopped the

Election Mood Heats Up; Cong ex-MLA Switches Camp to BJP, Independent Probe Into Athuan Murder Ordered, MHJU Elects New Office Bearers; COVID Rage Subsides

IRAP ONLINE 09/10/2021

Even as political campaign by intending candidates of the different parties, in particular those of the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress heats up,

Any Conflict Resolution Requires All Stakeholders to First Break Free From Their Respective Prisons of Perspective

PRADIP PHANJOUBAM 09/10/2021

The hunt for a conclusive answer to the periodic waves of frictions between different ethnic communities in Manipur must not be abandoned. The current flashpoint,

Displaced Myanmar Nationals Become Refugee Issue in India’s Northeast Particularly Manipur and Mizoram

RAJKUMAR BOBICHAND 09/10/2021

Some of the Myanmar nationals who fled their country to avoid military persecution to Manipur for safe haven have become victims of refugee including death

The World of G.C. Tongbra – Part 1

PROF. NONGMAITHEM TOMBI SINGH 09/10/2021

From the volume “Confluence: Essays on Manipuri Literature and Culture” complied and edited by B.S. Rajkumar. Tongbra has a unique individual world. Most people

As They Have Done in Sports and Arts, Youths in the State Must Now Show the Quality of their Discretion in Voting

SANASAM YAIPHABA SINGH 09/10/2021

As youths are the future of the society they have a big role in process of the development of the society. The exercise of their

Demand For Tribal Status for Meiteis Reveals Many Aspects of Manipur Society, Must However Not be Rushed

PRADIP PHANJOUBAM 02/10/2021

The demand from certain sections of the Meitei community for inclusion in the 5th Schedule of the Indian constitution which lists an ever-increasing number of

NIA to Probe into Athuan Abonmai Murder Case; Myanmar Nationals With Fake Aadhaar Cards Held; Centre Okays Loktak Tourism plan

IRAP ONLINE 02/10/2021

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on September 30 issued an order directing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe into the case of killing of

Movies that Remind us Group Norms Evolved to Provide Secure and Stable Society

C. IKEHARA 02/10/2021

– Somehow I feel that an ordinary person–the man in the street if you like – is a more challenging subject for exploration than people

An Intimate and Extraordinary Story of the Faith of a People, Told With Passion and Insight in 103 Black and White Photographs

PRADIP PHANJOUBAM 02/10/2021

There is a haunting charm about black and white photography. It carries a rare sense of focus and purpose. It sees little else than what

The Paradox of Manipur Society is, Much of its so Called Intellectual Elite Have Still Not Grown Out of Compte’s “Theological” Mindset

R.K. RAJEEBSANA 02/10/2021

Modernity does not emerge in a harmonious way. Advances towards modernity were accompanied with lots of chaos and disorder. On one hand there were changes