Time to correct course and stop mistaking the wood for the forest
By Pradip Phanjoubam
In his regular column in the Indian Express this week, the president of the New Delhi based autonomous think tank, Centre for...
Look East Policy Discussions in Manipur: Moving beyond illiteracy
By Amar Yumnam
There has been a rise in the discussions on Manipur’s prospects in the light of renewed seemingly overt focus of India on...
Tryst of covering conflict
By Pradip Phanjoubam
Covering Manipur and indeed so many other North Eastern states in the past one or two decades have virtually come to mean...
Home : where all our stories began
By Tinky Ningombam
It has been a hectic yet pleasant one week in Imphal and like every home-coming non-resident; I try to squeeze in as...
Narcissistic Road to Mediocrity: Manipur`s Existential Crisis
By Pradip Phanjoubam
There is an old Manipuri adage “Ikai khangdabagi hidak leite” (there is no medicine for shamelessness). Other than the mere factuality and...
Money, get back!
By Tinky Ningombam
I am tired of reading about really rich people telling you how to save up. It is sad and superficial as listening...
The ever-elusive search for self-identity
By Tinky Ningombam
The question of self-identity is something that has haunted me for years and mostly due to external affectations. And just as finding...
Manipur`s Missing Basics: Official Ennui and Public Morale
By Pradip Phanjoubam
For those who call Imphal home, flying into this city after a long stay outside the state always presents a picture of...
Is everyone hooked to a TV Series ?
By Tinky Ningombam
Are you a TV Serial Addict? If your whole life depends on reaching home in time to catch your favorite show, this...
Freeing Voices
By M.C. Linthoingambee
Sedition denoting an act done to disregard or an attempt to cause hatred and contempt against the Government by means of visible...
`You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you`
By Pradip Phanjoubam
When you point your index finger at somebody, there are three other fingers of the same hand, other than the thumb, pointing...
Seeing Is More Than Believing: China`s development and lessons thereof
By Amar Yumnam
It is said that seeing is believing. This applies in a much more robust way in the case of the Chinese growth...
To write is to live forever
By Tinky Ningombam
I was loitering around the city one evening and suddenly chanced upon a small standee in a squiggly writing. It said “Books...
The Horseman Must Think Faster than the Horse
By Pradip Phanjoubam
The periodic revival of the agitation to demand the reintroduction of the Inner Line Permit system in Manipur needs a much more...