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...
Flood flashback
Chitra Ahanthem
The rains it seems are good only in films. The languorous pitter-patter of rains over the past week in Imphal has...
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...
The Yaoshang factor
By: Chitra Ahanthem
As another Yaoshang (holi) rolled off the calendar, one thing keeps coming back to mind: has the festival changed or is it...
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...
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...
A self study of “Self Help Groups”
By Chitra Ahanthem:
As is happening in other parts of India, Manipur also has its plethora of self help groups (SHGs), which are instituted through...
Manipur for the Tourists
By Chitra Ahanthem
“Is Manipur tourist friendly?” happens to be a very popular question doing the rounds in the virtual sphere(read internet, and particularly social...
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...
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...
Let children be themselves
Chitra Ahanthem.
This week threw a major surprise in the form of a newspaper advertisement in a daily Manipuri newspaper. It was an announcement for...
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...
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...