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In Celebrating Teachers’ Day This Year, We Must Also Remember a Great Scholar’s Dedication to Education
In India, 5th September is celebrated as “TEACHERS’ DAY” to mark the contribution made by the teachers of the society. 5th September is the birthday

Manipur Government Launches e-ILP Platform But JCILPS Wants a Clear and Distinct Definition of “Indigenous People” First
While Manipur Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren claims that the launching of the electronic-platform for Inner Line Permit Systems known as e-ILP platform in the state

The Poet Lamabam Kamal: Life And Times – Part 1
From the volume Confluence: Essays on Manipuri Literature and Culture complied and edited by B.S. Rajkumar. Canchipur: His Birthplace This place occupies an important

Defeating COVID-19 Will Require Insightful Coach, Versatile Captain and a People Determined to Win
The mutated variants of Covid-19 with new symptoms have been still infecting 40,198 people in India on the 31st August, 2021, causing stress and agony

La Ganesan is New State Governor; UCM Demands Halt to Construction Work of Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing Immediately
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, La Ganesan has been appointed and was sworn-in as the 17th governor of Manipur on August 27 at a ceremony

Serious Thoughts Now Need to be Given to the Idea of Hills and Valley as Two Mutually Autonomous Regions
Besides the ever-present deep fissures along different ethnic fault lines, the now raging controversy over ‘The Manipur (Hill Areas) District Council Bill, 2021’ has brought

As Thousands of Children Test COVID-19 positive, Government is Gearing Up to Fight COVID-19 in Children
While less number of COVID-19 positive cases due to less number of tests are reported in the third and fourth week of August 2021, the

Insurgency Causes Mutant Democracy to Emerge in Nagaland
This review was first published in the current (August 28, 2001) issue of ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ under a slightly modified headline. The EPW story

Parables, Flying Scrolls and Fiction: What is Evil?
It is easy for derivative theoreticians who cannot creatively comprehend the deconstructive nature of creative texts to dismiss creative processes and their decentered layers and