`How Long This Silence`?
By B.G. Verghese
Dr Manmohan Singh is a man of few words and slow to anger. He has sincerely sought to pursue peace negotiations with...
Minorities unsafe in Pakistan
By Tanveer Jafri
Pakistan’s founder ‘Qaid-e-Azam’ Mohammad Ali Jinnah dreamt of a country which would be Islamic, at the same time secular. The basic ideals...
The Right to Know
By Tinky Ningombam
Not many people have the knowledge or the means to understand the various policies of the State and the Government but only...
SPIRITUAL TRIVALENT BONDING BETWEEN MOTHER TONGUE, HEART AND OTHER LANGUAGES – Part-2
“SPIRITUAL TRIVALENT BONDING BETWEEN MOTHER TONGUE, HEART AND OTHER LANGUAGES" Part-2
International Mother Language Day, 21st February, 2013
by:Dr. Moirangthem Jiban Singh
MANIPURI DOESN’T HAVE ANY INEFFICIENCY...
Knowledge Alone Is Not Enough: Contextualisation is significant
By Amar Yumnam
I invariably maintain a short hair. While I was growing up, my father, my elders, my teachers and the entire older generation...
Reforming Prasar Bharati
By B.G. Verghese
Among the agenda of reforms being urged or promised, few are more needed, and overdue, than the grant of autonomy to the...
What Will Benefit Meiteis When Listed To Schedule Tribe?
B. Angousana Sharma
A Scheduled Tribe is the Community for whom the existing government has extended a planned time for own development within. The 5th...
School Education, Work and Poverty: Time to cry, time to act
By Amar Yumnam
There are reports that people are withdrawing themselves from the work force and leading life on temporary works. This is of the...
Discrimination: How should we deal with it?
Discrimination: How should we deal with it?
By Desperate Dreamer
Discrimination. This phenomenon has for long been the talking point for people who have opportunistic interests...
RTE Act 2009 Versus Unaided Minority Schools
Prior to the introduction of Article 21-A to the Constitution of India by the 86th amendment in 2002, the right to education was implicit...
Families of ‘fake encounter’ victims hope for justice
By Yambem Laba
On 4 January the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of a commission to be headed by Justice (retd) Santosh Hedge of...
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...
Deepening Poverty of the Poor: The immediate challenge
By Amar Yumnam
Adam Smith wrote in 1776 in his celebrated classic An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations thus: ...
Manipur: Please Give Loktak Lake A Chance!
Figure 1. Loktak Lake as seen from Google Earth. The circular structures are man-made ‘Athaphum’ for rearing fishes.
I was born and brought up in...