The Loktak:The tragedy and the way forward
By Amar Yumnam
The author is celebrating his 25 wedding anniversary today and we wish him many happy returns of the day
To an academic, a...
Health, Pollution and the State: Absence of regulation and common sense
By Amar Yumnam
Absence of Regulation: The general health indicators of Manipur are robust as compared to the rest of India. This has been corroborated...
Reaching Out and Connectivity Compulsions But A Failing State Instead: Our tragedy
By Amar YumnamConflicts have been with humankind since the beginning of life on this planet. The presence of conflict is not something which should...
Urban Development Yes, Management Questionable: Manipur`s current issues
By Amar Yumnam
Manipur is right now facing some veritable issues relating to the development and the management of her capital, the Imphal city. The...
Remain Unconcerned and Ensure a Future of OurYouths as Pimps and Prostitutes: Manipur and...
By Amar YumnamThree recent developments relating to the development agenda of Asia are of critical importance to the people and land of the region....
Information Society and Manipur Society: Bloody Who Cares?
By Amar Yumnam
The society of Manipur is at best a conglom eration of disconnected sets. The fundamental basisfor any society’s progress and enhancement of...
Death of the Moral Component and Demise of the Future
By Amar Yumnam
Whenever I meet a friend, influential as well as not so ones, I am invariably asked and naturally too as to how...
Youths, Drugs and Justice: Absence of Smooth Transition
By Amar Yumnam
Recently we have been receiving news about the arrest of youths on criminal grounds. The latest in this genre is the arrest...
Anna Hazare Wins and Nation Building Suffers: Manipur angle to a country-wide issue
By Amar YumnamIn the light of unprecedented cases of corruption, both in volume and frequency, two recent cartoons are of immediate meaningful relevance and...
We Are Missing Something Terribly: The state
By Amar Yumnam
We have been very critical of the nature of the state as it manifests in Manipur. This critical attitude had at times...
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...
Identity Formation and the Social Ethos: Pathways of Progress
By Amar Yumnam The concept of individual as used in Economics is now being subjected to renewed scrutiny in the wake of the new...
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...
“Mubarak: Enter + Shift + Delete”- Civilisational lessons of the Egypt Revolution[1]
by Amar Yumnam
It all started in a small Arab country with only about one-third the population of Manipur, Tunisia. The powerful dictatorial president of...