Development Sustained, But What Does That Mean?
By Amar Yumnam The world is right now preoccupied with the winds of change blowing across North Africa and Middle East. These establish or...
Confusion, Idling and Devoid of Knowledge Acquisition and Application: Are you talking of Manipur?
By Amar Yumnam
A famous person once said: “Knowledge makes one disqualified to be a slave.” We may ignore the acquisition and application of knowledge...
A Visit to Thoubal: Ibobi as Instrumental Value
By Amar Yumnam
I was in Thoubal on Sunday. This was my visit to the side after about a gap of one year. I must...
Socio-Economic Situation In Manipur: Poverty, budget and all that
By Amar Yumnam
One political economic characteristic of Manipur so far has been the absolute absence of thinking about the people of Manipur and of...
Governance Absent, but Tradition to the Rescue
By Amar Yumnam
We know for sure that the government is there. One may ask as how we can be so sure about it. Well,...
Hello, Hello, Hello, Am I talking to Electricity Complaint Room ?
“One who pays bills regularly, even if he is the poorest or the most backward, is more important than a Very Important Person who...
Manipur’s New Woes and the Vanishing Peace
India definitely is not a peaceful country, peace being understood in the negative sense of absence of violence. Rapes are definitely on the rise...
Information Manipulation, Stated Beliefs and Revealed Beliefs: Manipur’s current methodology
By Amar Yumnam
Governance has now attained the “the status of a lost word of the English language to a fashionable and challenging concept in...
From 2014 To 2015: Expectations on social life
By Amar Yumnam
The year just gone by has experienced significant changes in the political front. India underwent a dramatic shift in the power centre...
Steal, My Countrymen, Steal: A Survival Kit in Contemporary India
By: Amar Yumnam
The fundamental drive for human beings is survival, Darwin or no Darwin. Now this survival has meanings only when we can afford...
Governance Focus Right, but Where is the Proof of Direction
By Amar Yumnam
The Planning Commission of India has recently presented to the country the Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan starting 1...
Terrorism, One to Nine and Still to Count and Fractionalisation: Manipur today
By Amar Yumnam
Two recent events have caught the attention of social analysts in the land of the jewels (people say, but we are yet...
Human Vulnerability, Culture As Destiny, State Formation In A Border Province: Key questions in...
By Amar Yumnam
Any development in any society today has to be competitive and meaningfully address the issues of individuals and households in that society....
Leviathan Under Pressure: Winds of change
By Amar Yumnam
The winds of change are blowing the world over. Corruption and authoritarian regimes are under pressure in all the countries today. While...