IMPHAL, Jan 31: Pandit Ningthoukhongjam Kelchandra Singh, Padmashree, is no more. The unparalleled authority on ancient Manipuri literature and culture, whose contribution to the historiography tradition in Manipur is peerless, passed away at 9.30 pm this evening.
Family sources said, his cremation will be in the morning tomorrow.
The scholar a mission of knowledge quest without a pause till the time of his death was 91.
My deepest condolence.
I met khura khelchandra at the last November Shahitya Parishad celebration in Imphal. I knew him while I was a boy. I can’t think of any other Meitei scholar like him.
I’m so sorry not to have met Oza Khelchandra. I’m grateful that he has left us some of his wisdom in his many published works.