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Frontier Nagaland Demand Could Help BJP Gets More Seats in Nagaland Legislative Assembly Election 2023
Ahead of February 27 Nagaland Assembly elections, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India (GOI) has succeeded in convincing the Eastern Nagaland People’s

Special Report: Governments in the red
By Tasha Wibawa, 360info in Melbourne Government debt in developing economies has reached a record high of USD$98 trillion. This is despite total global

Anusuiya Uikye Sworn in as 18th Governor of Manipur; Vehicles Scrapping in Manipur not to be by Age but Fitness; SoO Agreement Extended by a Year; Meitei Pangals Wants ST Status; MPCC Wants Drug Cartel Suspects Probed
Sushri Anusuiya Uikye, former governor of Chhattisgarh was sworn in as the 18th governor of Manipur on February 22 at the Darbar Hall of Raj

Manipur Still Burdened by Old Problems and Absence of Creative Consensual Solutions
If there is one word diagnosis for Manipur’s many endemic problems, the closest is myopia. For far too often, the state has ended up mistaking

Bad Roads and Unruly Driving is Making the State’s Roads Unsafe, Especially Within Imphal City
In 1991, Congress PM, Manmohan Singh ushered in Economic Liberalisation and as a result of it, there was a sudden spurt in the number of

Ants show the way to beating traffic jams
By Tanya Latty Ants can teach us a lot about dealing with traffic congestion but there is one stumbling block. Being stuck in traffic

Why Singapore isn’t gridlocked
By Walter Theseira Singapore doesn’t struggle with traffic jams the way other cities do. It hit upon a winning strategy in the 1970s and

Why we should not reuse plastic water bottles
By Sarva Mangala Praveena Whether microplastic particles cause long-term damage is uncertain but reducing our exposure to them will be wise. Taking a swig

Manipur Hosts Business-20 Sessions of Ongoing G-20 Summit; Lui-Ngai-Ni 2023 Celebrated; Popilal gets interim bail; Absence of Doctors at PHC Leads to Death
The first of the four subsidiary G-20 summits to be held in the Northeast has begun in Imphal on Friday. The Imphal summit is code

Reflections on My Long Journey With MSAD
The first time I heard about Manipur Students’ Association Delhi

The Idea of a Sovereign Socialist Manipur: Interview of Nonglen Meitei of Maoist Communist Party Manipur
The following is interview of one Nonglen Meitei, who claimed

Pursuit of a Proximate Frontier
In his seminal book Imperilled Frontiers: India’s North-Eastern Borderlands, the

Idea of a Sovereign Manipur: Interview of RK Meghen, former Chairman of the United National Liberation Front
The following is an interview of RK Meghen, former Chairman

As Ningol Chakouba Approaches, a Refection on Why Everybody Must be Ready to Take Life in its Strides
Amidst all the politics and politicking, we are here once

The Idea of a Sovereign Zalen’gam: Interview of General Secretary of United Kuki Liberation Front Pu David Haokip
The following is the reproduction of an interview with the

Irrational Conservatism Has Been the Pitfall For Many Societies in the Past and Will Remain so in the Future

Politics is no Longer About Morality or Ideology in Manipur, Instead it is Now Completely Transactional



Richest Languages Are Those Which Continually Enrich Their Vocabularies by Absorbing New Words


Illustrating ‘Jalabhara Dinarathrangal’: Lines, Water and Beyond Dr. Soman Katalur


From National Awardee Parents to Padma Shri Awardee Son – Konsam Ibomcha’s Journey as a Master Doll Maker

Padma Shri for Preserving the Old Aged Traditional Liba to Mrs Bino of Manipur


Unworldly and Torturous Alienation is a Precondition of the Supremely Creative

Woman Entrepreneur Continues to Earn Laurels With Her Lotus Silk Fabric Innovations


Satyamala Devi: The Life of a Manipuri Princess Who Became the Queen of the Most Powerful 18th Century Ava King

How a 1980s Cinematic Classic Portrayed the Challenges Before Gender Equality in a Man’s World

Jungian Archetype And The Harmful Consequence Of Cultural Stereotype

For the Aspiring Woman, Entrepreneurship can help Beat all odds Besides Levelling out the Gender Playing Field




Manipur Needs to be Extremely Wary of its Dying Water Bodies

