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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

Ethics of Abortion: The Pro-choice and Pro-life Quandary
By Ganishka Bijani, FLAME University, Ananya Dhutia, FLAME University and Melody Kshetrimayum, FLAME University Abortion is one of the most complex ethical issues due

Self-Molestation, or Allowing the Self to be Molested
It is hard for hundred men to lift a mountain, but entrusting the task to a group of five to do it in their stead

A Little Deconstruction in the Search for a Common Platform for all to Stand Together on
There was a great deal of truth in the often-heard charge that paralysing Imphal for months by the myriad strikers and habitual bandh callers is

The Causes of Manipur’s Seven Years Devastation (1819-26)
A chain of events of eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the kingdoms of Manipur, Burma (Myanmar) and British expansionism are minutely analysed in the

For Flood Control and Irrigation in Manipur the Government Should Learn from Manipur’s Ancient Knowledge and Practices
Manipur has a history of floods. When we visited at the last century, the recorded flood of the 20th century was during September 30 to

Manipur Calls for a Regional Political Party
Manipur yearns for a strong regional political party. The persisting issues which the multi-ethnic State of Manipur has been experiencing since 1949 drive us towards

River Linking May be the Answer to Floods in the Valley Caused by Cloudbursts Such as Those Brought by Cyclone Remal
That climate change is for real needs no further proof than Cyclone Remal which is yet again devastating the Northeast, including Manipur. Last year the

Two Manipuri Films, “Loktak Lairembi” and “Tainted Mirror”, Raise the Bar of Psychological Drama to New Heights in Their Own Different Ways – Part-1
Two films, one not so recent, the other oven fresh,

Dedicating Andaman Peak to Manipur is Great, But Exposed Again is also Manipur’s Sloppy Scholastic Research Tradition
The renaming of Mt. Harriet in the Andaman and Nicobar

Anticipated Poaching Spree Ahead in Manipur’s Brand of Turncoat Politics is Making Parties Play Cards Close to Chest and Not Reveal Intended Candidates
Elections to the Manipur Legislative Assembly are barely five months

A Tattoo for the Soul: How a Self-Taught Tattoo Maker From Ukhrul Built an Enterprise in Delhi
Self taught tattoo entrepreneur Melvyn Shimray from Ukhrul, Manipur might not be

Opaque Curtain Between Official and Public Memory: Why Phulo and Irabot are Unequally Treated in Meetei Imagination of Their Past?
What is history and memory, therefore, the nation/community made of?

The World of G.C. Tongbra – Part 1
From the volume “Confluence: Essays on Manipuri Literature and Culture”



