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Friday, November 29, 2024

Film Institute in Manipur: Need of the hour

By Bobby Wahengbam Sensing the urgency of formal education and training in film making, the Manipur Government under the able- leadership of the Chief Minister...

Everyone`s Tamoyai

By Khura Seraton As usual, Tamoyai was in his usual shorts and jersey burgundy walking barefoot unwaveringly by the side of the road. He looked...

Wish list in Ibobi`s legacy years

By Pradip Phanjoubam It is not too infrequent that we hear of President of the United States of America, Barak Obama, being in his legacy...

Grandmother`s tale

Malangba Bangormayum I have known some wonderful women. One of them is clearly my grandmother who is no more. I saw in her something `“...

Upfront

By RK Lakhi Kant There`s clarity now in my vision of the world moving around me. The instance is an old man coming out of the jungle with his...

People who don`t want AFSPA repealed are also our own!

By Deben Bachaspatimayum From what has been going on it seems like three sets of people do not want AFSPA 1958 repealed in India and...

“The room”

By Ajay Moirangthem The song played, The book puzzled, The mind set, The light blushed, Challenging the darkness. This is how i stay in my room. The aim determined, The goal unseen, Came...

Growth of Manipuri Cinema- Horizontal

By Bobby Wahengbam A paragraph in an article by critic Meghachandra Kongbam (Manipuri Cinema: Chingolnungda asum? Poknapham, 22nd December, 2014) haunts me. He quoted a...

Mind Matters

By Paonam Thoibi `Adults should be careful of what they are watching on TV in front of the children and should be able to make...

The fatal attraction of people in glass houses to throw stones

By Yambem Laba IMPHAL, December 23: If the BJP State president Th Chaoba is so fond defending the State against corruption, he should have been...

I Am A Manipuri, So I Am A Liar: Globally speaking

Manipuris are now emerging or rather have been made to emerge as a bunch of liars. Anybody who connects with the rest of the...

Book Review/ How Tibet showed Nehru as a tragic figure

By Pradip Phanjoubam Lezlee Brown Halper and Stephan Halper`™s new book, `Tibet: An Unfinished Story`, takes the reader on a tour of a twilight zone...

The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

By Tinky Ningombam As I was sitting balled up with a shawl on my balcony, my cat majestically stretches up the ledge of the railing...

The Lost Commentator

By Khura Seraton "What nice poses these body builders of our motherland are displaying in this cold winter evening. As I need not say, how...