Chronicle of a conflict foretold
In Manipur, everyone will have to agree to a shared homeland if the crisis is to be solved
By Pradip Phanjoubam
(This article was first published...
The Hill-Valley divide widens again
Jubilate Kazingmei
The ugly face of ethnic Nationalism has risen again to bare its fangs and spew venom, one crying foul against the other. Unity...
Ethnic encapsulation and ethnocentrism : The Manipur experience
By Rajendra Kshetri
Ethnocentrism as Prelude to the Conflict:
Human beings everywhere live in societies. Some hundreds of thousands years ago, all societies are homogeneous in...
How Manipur’s Media helps Trigger Violence against Pangals
By Md. Abdul Gaffar
The remarkable power of the media, particularly the electronic media, as a means of mass communication is unquestionable. The media power...
Manipur can break out of its self-perpetuating cycle of economic stagnation and ethnic tension...
By Sophia Rajkumari
The recent events in Manipur – the State Government’s announcements regarding the formation of new districts in predominantly tribal populated hill areas...
Old faultlines, new crisis
By A Bimol Akoijam
The violence that erupted in Manipur on December 18 is unfortunate. However, the events were not unexpected. For a long time,...
Nationalism with different variety
By Masood Peshimam
Sir Winston Churchill had sarcastically thanked Germany for partially attacking England and diverting its whole resources and arsenal in assaulting Russia as...
End this communal impasse
“To make that happen, Naga and Meitei civil societies need to take some bold initiatives,” Lakpachui Siro.
For some sense and sensibility
By Thounaojam Brinda
Manipur today...
— Book review — Our world through the prism of Parag Khanna’s Connectography
Gaijuan Rongmei
Connectography is compiled of world vast information, out of which this writing is merely a part of what I understand. Reading and studying...
Fallen from grace
Rise, decline and fall are common historical realities. They are also a recurrent feature of our personal mortality, where decline comes naturally with age....
The man who opened Tata’s skeleton cupboard
By Garga Chatterjee
The Cyrus is out of the opaque bag called the Tata Group. After the unceremonious ouster of Cyrus Mistry from the chairmanship...
Shadow boxing with kid glove continues
Hiyang Athouba
The “concern” of the BJP national leaders for the welfare of Manipur is really touching. For over one month Narendra Modi and those...
Defuse the ongoing unrest in Manipur
It is very unfortunate to witness the development of social unrest recently in Manipur and the failure to bring a peaceful solution by the...
Please refrain from doing counter blockade in the valley.
I am kind of lost for words to see the happenings in Manipur – the indefinite blockade in the hills for the last so...