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Monday, May 20, 2024

The wait for Godot?

By Tinky Ningombam I am an agnostic.  I believe there is a possibility that a supernatural being/ thought/ consciousness can possibly exist, but if it/he/she...

The Right to Know

By Tinky Ningombam Not many people have the knowledge or the means to understand the various policies of the State and the Government but only...

Information addict

By Tinky Ningombam The human urge to be connected to something/someone is inescapable and makes for a good debate. Do you get restless when you...

The games we play

By Tinky Ningombam About 20 years back, we used to boast about how many marbles we collected or how many dresses our dolls had or...

Anyone care for a selfie ?

By Tinky Ningombam The Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year for 2013 is “selfie.” In what seems to be perhaps the most inevitable choice, “Selfies”...

A self-fulfilling prophecy

By Tinky Ningombam I bet you have friends who are self claimed oracles; People who repeat “I told you so” after every bad incident that...

How JUST is our society?

By Tinky Ningombam I read a rather startling disclaimer from one article on a bandh in Manipur. It warned people, who might commit the mistake...

The books that made it!

By Tinky Ningombam “We live for Books” said Umberto Eco once and how right he was, even for small time bibliomaniacs like me. Of course,...

Ways in which Lingo evolves

By Tinky Ningombam In my home in Imphal, we used to have a lot of household things that we gave our own unique names to....

IED recovered

IMPHAL, April 6: A Road Opening Party of the 27 Assam Rifles of 28 Sector under HQ IGAR (S) detected two suspected IEDs today...

Prone to hyperbole

By Tinky Ningombam I recently got duped by a friend (who meant well, I think) and sent me to attend an event which was supposed...

Bad to the bone

By Tinky Ningombam The “I used to be a bad boy” image is the most sought after by contemporary wannabes. Kids fall in line to...

Woman-hood

By Tinky Ningombam As I sat down to write (type) today, I stared at the blank page for a good 15 minutes. Considering I have...

Exam bells a-ringing

By Tinky Ningombam Some wise men said that the fruits of labor are the sweetest, that if you succeed after having worked harder, it gives...