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The Archetypal Stock Homo of the Shumang Leela
Media and performances have represented trans feminine and gender non-conforming identities through a speculative lens of ridicule and stereotypes. The origin of the word Homo

Relocation or Opening of SOO Camps of Kuki-Zomi Militants Should not be to Balkanize Manipur Further
While the civil society organisations (CSOs) of Manipur including Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) have been demanding abrogation of the Suspension of Operations (SoO)

The Silent Crisis: Unchecked Migration and it’s Impact on Manipur’s Identity: 1941–2025: Tracing Manipur’s Overlooked Demographic Shifts
The state of Manipur, located at India’s geostrategic frontier with Myanmar, has long grappled with unregulated migration, ethnic imbalance and contested land rights. Over the

The Zombies of Our Time
Synchronizing with the opinions and the anecdotes that usually surfaces in public domain, and actualizing the same tendency to the very life-world of the self

A Journey From Darkness to Light IPPNW Kenya April 2023
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is a non partisan federation of national

An Appeal for Correction of Terminology in Manipur SACS Promotional Video on ART
Sir, Through the columns of your esteemed journal, I wish to draw the attention of the concerned authorities and the general public to a matter

Secularism must mean not just Separating Church from State, but also Ethnicity from Politics
To say Manipur’s problems are intractable would be an understatement. There are too many of them, a great many of which work at cross purposes,

Push for a Popular Government has Diverted and Diluted the Focus of People’s Movement for Conflict Resolution
Now, the mind, time and energy of the people of Manipur including a section of the society working in the space of civil society, opinion

Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on Gender and Social Exclusion
Vinati Manchanda, UG student at FLAME University, Melody Kshetrimayum, Assistant Professor, FLAME University Symbolic Interactionism is a sociological perspective which refers to how people

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

Unworldly and Torturous Alienation is a Precondition of the Supremely Creative
Much has been written about the likeness of the movie

Going Beyond Tokenism – Manipur Seriously Needs More Women Elected Representatives For its Own Welfare
Manipur badly needs more women elected representatives to assure gender

FIRE LILIES
She was sitting on the porch and enjoying her usual

A Singapore-Like Smart City Cannot Have Ambiguous, Outdated, Addresses as Imphal Does
The idea of Imphal as a smart city is attractive.

From the Editor’s Diary: The Christmas Gift
(This is a story written a decade ago and has





