Sports, drama and a blast
By Chitra Ahanthem
This week saw two major incidents: one was literally a loud blast in our own backyard `“ the bomb blast at MG...
On reading and books
By Chitra Ahanthem
Lately, there is this ‘tag friends with your list of 10 books that have deeply influenced you’ going about on a social...
Notes on writing
By: Chitra Ahanthem
There have been various instances when people have tried to nudge towards writing on an array of subjects. This outgoing week, one...
Coping with Infertility
There is no other word to replace Motherhood. To give a definition of it would be a futile endeavor, though we might succeed if...
The media files
The media files
By Chitra Ahanthem
The IFP Saturday edition’s photo, showing a bloodied hand and a shining if not sparkling gun held as ‘proof’ of...
Passport to inconvenience!
Passport to inconvenience!
Chitra Ahanthem
By an unexpected play of fate, which took me out of the country recently, I was able to apply for my...
Decoding Highway 39
By Chitra Ahanthem
Sudeep Chakravarti’s ‘Highway 39: journeys through a fractured land’ published by Harper Collins (388 pages, Rs 450) was a much anticipated book...
That chip on the shoulder?
By Chitra Ahanthem
Having missed out on so many Sunday pages of Imphal Free Press, it sure is a relief to be able to write...
Dear Electricity Department: Please shed some light!
BY Chitra Ahanthem
Today’s FOOTNOTES is a first ever: it is an open letter and entreaty to the Electricity Department, it is an elegy to...
A B`day note for E-pao
BY Chitra Ahanthem
That Manipur has a generation of people living outside of the state and establishing themselves in their respective sphere of work is...
As the Year Ends…
By Chitra Ahanthem
Well!FOOTNOTES has missed its Sunday date with the IFP page for two consecutive Sundays now. The first Sunday space was made up...
A Message from Irom Sharmila Chanu
Translated by Chitra Ahanthem.
It is the day that left its mark on time. If only human beings were able to relate to nature and...
Sangai Festival 2011: a scrutiny
By Chitra Ahanthem
The ongoing Sangai Festival with the theme “Destination Manipur” being organized by the Government of Manipur and fronted by the Tourism Department...
Photographs in Sepia
By Chitra Ahanthem
The heading of this piece borrows from “Portraits in Sepia” a book by Isabel Allende, which uses the metaphor of photography as...