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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
Although MHA Agreed Territorial Integrity of Manipur is Non-Negotiable, the Challenges is to Get a Constitutional Guarantee
Almost 26 months or 790 days after the violent conflict that erupted on May 3, 2023 in Churachandpur and its bordering areas of Bishnupur district
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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A Singapore-Like Smart City Cannot Have Ambiguous, Outdated, Addresses as Imphal Does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
Overuse of Medicine is Now a Silent Pandemic Especially Among Seniors
By Justin Turner, University of Montreal in Montreal Deprescribing is
In the Wake of the Recent Ambush Near Behiang, Some Thoughts on How Wars Cannot be Won Without First Winning Peace
The November 13 ambush near Behiang on the India-Myanmar border
Who is Not Afraid of Media? In These Times of Bigotry, the Press Must Stand Firm
Speech delivered on National Press Day of Press Council of