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Mirabai Opens India’s Medals Tally; Courts Free Manipur’s High-Profile Political Dissenters Imprisoned Frivolously Under NSA; MPCC President Resigns
Manipur’s weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has opened India’s medals tally of Tokyo Olympics 2020 (held in 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic) on July 24 as

Why the Poor End Up Making Poor Healthcare Decisions in the Midst of COVID Needs to be Understood
Watching Manipur public’s response in these harsh and tragic times of COVID-19 pandemic is painful for many reasons. On the one hand, there are so

Covid-19 Pandemic is a War That Cannot be Won by a Morally Corrupt People Led by Morally Bankrupt Leaders
After a spate of ineffectual curfews in the past, the state now has another. The rationale given is that the death and positivity rates are

Manipur Government Needs to Learn Lesson on the Applicability of NSA from Court Orders Releasing Erendro and Kishorchandra
The abuse of National Security Act (NSA) by the present Government of Manipur under Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for criticising

Twelve Incredible Manipuri Myths Retold and Packed in a Children’s Book
Title: AND THAT IS WHY Manipuri Myths Retold Date of publication: 21st June 2021 Author: L. Somi Roy Published by: Penguin Random House India under

Myanma Nat and the Meitei/Meetei U-Mang-Lai Nat Festival
Manipur and Myanmar not only had the long history of conflict for supremacy in the westernmost border of South-East Asia, that is now extreme north

How Unique is Being Unique: Why Histories are Man-Made but Humanity is Divine
Introduction We live in an epoch of instantaneous copycat culture, severe competition and polarised ethnic identity politics. The idea of copyright, patent, DOI, etc., are

The Unpublished Plays of Khwairakpam Chaoba – Part 1
The poet Khwairakpam Chaoba Singh (1895-1950) produced nine books in print during his life time, none of them was a play. Consequently, nobody had given

Woman Entrepreneur Continues to Earn Laurels With Her Lotus Silk Fabric Innovations
Twenty nine years old Bijyashanti Tongbram, founder of an enterprise “Sanajing Sana Thambal” and a resident of Thanga Tongbram near Loktak Lake makes silk yarn