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“One who pays bills regularly, even if he is the poorest or the most backward, is more important than a Very Important Person who...
Good Society As The Global Challenge: Time to critically examine in Manipur’s case
By Amar Yumnam
‘The Good Society’ is title of a book written by Lippmann in 1937 and followed by another book of the same title...
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...
Entrepreneurship In Policy-Making: Modi’s hallmark and Manipur’s lacuna
By Amar Yumnam
Change and development do not happen in a vacuum. The UPA II period was a vacuum. There was no authority, no accountability,...
Diversity and Convergence `“ Good; Diversity and Non-convergence `“ Unstable: Manipur in the latter...
By Amar Yumnam
In early and non-complex environments, people generally prefer a non-diversified society. It makes management of society easier and make early breakthrough possible....
Cauldron of Pretensions, Confusions and Opportunisms for, By the North East and Of the...
By Amar Yumnam
This is the moment necessitating extreme introspection, sublime efforts for contextual understanding, and freeing from the routine approaches for appreciating the social...
Head Misused And Disappearing And Heart Lost: Manipur today
By Amar Yumnam
Let me start this time with a long quotation from the first chapter of a 2010 book on Where Good Ideas Come...
A New Wind, A New Hope And A New Approach Across India Sans Manipur
By Amar Yumnam
Culture - in the sense we understand as to how the general population and the community behave, interact and react to people,...
Manipur and The Development Demands: Media, knowledge and all that
By Amar Yumnam
T.S. Eliot once said: “What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.” Let us apply this...
Manipur`s Time: Our turn to catch
By Amar Yumnam
Time is of the essence. This is more so in in the case of development trajectory of a society. A society does...
Securing People or Securing Territory or a Combination
By Amar Yumnam
India’s Prime Minister was in Myanmar recently. In the academic circle the impact of this visit has been an issue of detailed...
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...
If You Love a Bird… Time to Mature India’s Manipur policy
By Amar Yumnam
There is a saying and a lovely one at that which goes as: “If you love a bird, set it free. If...
Messiness as Social Agenda: Dilemma of transition
By Amar Yumnam
Every individual and every society goes through phases of transformation. This is however never a continuous process nor a linear progression. It...