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Religion and Politics

By Ananya S Guha When politics is mingled with religion, nothing could be more dangerous than this, in a country like India. This is because...

A Report on Performance of MPs from North-Eastern States of India

Progress report of MPs from the Northeastern states of India: Report At last the progress report of our Member of Parliament has come out. For...

Voices of Individuals…

By Ananya S Guha The BJP is proudly portraying Narendra Modi as the next Prime Minister of the country. But isn`t this a classical example...

Conundrum of the Rohingyas

Conundrum of the Rohingyas By Nehginpao Kipgen Since May of this year, Burma has witnessed an escalation of simmering tension between two groups in Rakhine state....

Aspirations, Opportunity and Deliberative Democracy: Manipur picture

By Amar Yumnam Aspirations are critical for both the individuals and collectively for the society. Aspirations for the future determine the present behaviour having future...

Making Sense of Corruption In Manipur

By Angomcha Bimol Akoijam Corruption is a popular vocabulary in the discourses on public issues not only in Manipur but also in the other parts...

Stranger Than Fiction

By B.G. Verghese   Much as in Alice’s Wonderland, things in Pakistan seem to get increasingly curious to the point that unfolding events and explanations strain...

Equal Citizenship: A Long Way to Go

By B.G. Verghese In his famous closing address to the Constituent Assembly, Dr Ambedkar warned that no country could live on the basis of one...

Security of the NE natives in India

By Rajkumar Bobichand Violent conflict between Bodos and Bangladeshi Muslims (Bengali speaking immigrant Muslims) in Assam is neither a fake nor a fiction. The violent...

Without integration, no lasting settlement

by TAPAN KUMAR BOSE Last month, Manipur was on fire once again. This round was triggered by the accusation that Colonel Livingston of the NSCN...
Manipur police truck has been burnt down by the agitators on the road at Churachandpur

People of Manipur Protection Bill – Lost in Translation: Linda Chhakchhuak

By Linda Chhakchhuak 07 September, 2015 Countercurrents.org Some folklore say that Manipur is land of the three brothers. They are the Meitei, Naga and the Kuki communities....

Talks With Undergrounds And Their Tactics On Ground

By Anil Bhat One cannot but lament at how a state so rich in its heritage of culture, sports and arts is held to ransom...

Agenda Before the Peoples of India`s Northeast

By Rajkumar Bobichand Now, a number of mainstream media seem try to display deliberately the peoples from India’s Northeast (Nowersesia) as panic-prone and vulnerable to...

Perspectives of North East India

The tension in Assam continues especially in the Chirang district. Arup Kumar Dutta a veteran writer of Assam writing in The Telegraph on the...