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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The Unpublished Plays of Khwairakpam Chaoba – Part 1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

Ethnic Churning in Nepal: Of Majorities with Minority Complexes
This article was part of three travel stories written two decades ago after a series of conference-related trips to Kathmandu when an ethnic churning had

Jaishankar’s Tashkent Speech Puts Into Perspective, Gadkiri’s “Eyes With No Vision” Whipping of State Leaders
The Union External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, speech at Tashkent yesterday, (Friday, July 16) during the summit on Regional Connectivity in Central and South Asia,

Total Curfew for 10 Days From July 18, Pearsonmun first fully Vaccinated Village, Anti-Repression Day Observed
In view of the wide prevalence of Delta Variant of the Coronavirus in the state and considering the need of taking up stringent measures to

Manipur COVID-19 Crisis Deepens, While Manipur High Court Blasts 2-Man Central Committee’s Report on COVID in State
Although the Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren announced recently that Manipur was now fully prepared to face a possible third wave of COVID-19 and the emergence

As Fuel Price Spirals Uncontrollably, Low Wage Consumers Left to Bear Agony in Addition to Covid-19 Miseries
Prices of Petrol and Diesel in the country are sky rocketing causing an adverse chain reaction to the people in the midst of deadly Covid-19

The Mystery of Consciousness and the Conflict Between First Person Subjective Experience and the Mind as an Object in Understanding OCD
How can a physical object like a brain generate or produce a personal subjective character of experience? Philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists called this subjective experience



