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The Modern Westphalian State is a Colonial Legacy, but Can There Possibly be an Alternative
The anxiety in many Northeast states at the Centre’s move to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and also to do away with the free movement regime,
Can the GOI Plan for Convening a Joint Meeting of Meitei-Led CSOs and Kuki-Zomi CSOs by Year End Materialise?
While the Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) says the Kukis won’t sit with Meitei Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for talks, the Union Government of India (GOI)
Rebuttal to Navin Upadhyay’s article based on KOHUR’s Memorandum
Apropos the article entitled “KOHUR Digs up History to Assert: “Kuki Hills” Existed Before Manipur” authored by Navin Upadhyay, published in the magazine “Operation Corridors”
Water Sprout at Kangla in 1942, Imphal Bombed; Watersprout at Govindaji temple in 2025, What Portend?
It is ominous.On the day it was sprouted,it was not noticed as it was Ratha Yatra day,and large crowds thronged at Govindaji temple.But the 4
Tamo Bimol’s Vocation: A Personal History of Politics in a State of Crisis
It was late February 2024, and we were on our way to meet Shree Okram Ibobi Singh, the President of the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee,
Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Adoor Gopalkrishnan
Let me start with a thought from Ritwik Ghatak. Documentary film-making is a different craft and game than constructing fictional features, Ghatak said. I am
Two Girls from Manipur Provide a Glimpse into a Brave New Moral World
Twenty-five months after a violent ethnic conflict between Meiteis and Kuki-Zo group of tribes broke out, and four months into Presidents Rule, warring guns have
Leisure, Art and Society in Manipur Today is Literally ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’
Perhaps, the suffocation and the miseries we had had to endure due to the prolonged ethnic conflict needs a release. For some, mostly the teenagers
Who Really Owns The Land?
The Jainas presumed that reality is truly relative. This applies to everything and, according to Jainas, this very characteristics of relativity is also the principle
Weekly Digests
Manipur’s Sharp Ethnic Fault-lines and How They Can Influence the Election Results
This article first appeared in The Wire and the original
Too Many Candidates, Too Few Berths: BJP’s Problem of Plenty in Manipur
This report was written as part of the NL Sena
My COVID Ordeal Taught Me it is Culture and Attitude, Not the System Which are the Problem in Manipur
One of the major issues of the failing education system
Indigenous Lore and The Fire Knowledge We Ignore
By Christine Eriksen, ETH Zurich in Zurich The hazy outline of
Life Beyond AFSPA: Why Manipur Government’s Retrospective Declaration of Disturbed Area is Legally Untenable and Dangerous
Let me begin with a simple proposition- AFSPA is a
Why Manipur Urgently Needs to Reconsider its Blind Embrace of Palm Oil Plantation Idea
The palm-oil project in Manipur that was cited by Prime
