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...
School Vans: Recipe for Danger
Chitra Ahanthem
Ever thought of doing a simple head counting of school going children stuffed in Omni Vans? It doesn’t take too much to see...
Food festival: of gastronomic delights and fusing food
By: Chitra Ahanthem
In recent years, one has been seeing an annual feature of a food festival (also called Chinzak festival) adding staunch supporters and...
Thoughts in Random
By Chitra Ahanthem
Two Sundays have gone by without this column making it to the pages of Imphal Free Press or on the web page...
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...
Blockade Notes
By Chitra Ahanthem
Let us start from the beginning of it all. It is not going to matter how long the highways are blockaded really....
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...
Festivals and a lesson in faith
What an eventful week it has been! The festive air hanging over Imphal is unbelievable and a casual onlooker who is not too familiar...
Our Social Network: Going in Circles
By Chitra Ahanthem
I distinctly remember a time when I was in school (which means it was long ago!) and believed that socializing with friends...
Sangai Tourism festival: in perspective
By Chitra Ahanthem
Going by the fact that the recently held Sangai Tourism festival was being passed around as the “biggest and grandest” festival, it...
Binaton rally!
By: Chitra Ahanthem
As the countdown to the Common Wealth Games gets ticking, controversies continue to dog it at Delhi and good old Manipur. The...
The games children play
Chitra Ahanthem
Children more often than not ape the ways of people around them. Theirs is a world full of innovation, intelligence and innocence but...
Media and the NGOs
Chitra Ahanthem.
One popular trend that has been catching up the past few years has been for NGOs working in various sectors to call in...
Exploring a village in Meghalaya
by Chitra Ahanthem
Mention Meghalaya, and there is almost a cloud of romanticism over its idyllic town, Shillong the capital with its legacy of neat...