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...
Exploring a village in Meghalaya – 2
Chitra Ahanthem
Morning sees me waking up wanting to do some serious nature calling knowing there is no closed toilet structures around and muscle pain...
Online footprints!
By: Chitra Ahanthem
As the world gets more wired today, it is fast leading to a situation where, on one hand people you hardly know...
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...
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...
Media stories
Today, the media in Manipur in context of print and cable TV is in an interesting yet stagnant phase. Gone are the days when...
Stand in queue please!
Chitra Ahanthem
A familiar routine of life in Manipur and more so specifically true of Imphal is the sight of long winding queues: for petrol,...
Musings on a decade
Chitra Ahanthem
The beginning of a “New Year” inevitably brings a stream of “best wishes for the year ahead” which happens every year. It is...
An AR Security Experience and a Beauty Contest
By Chitra Ahanthem
There’s been a long gap with FOOTNOTES: one week saw me headed to Moreh for a documentation of how children in the...
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...
Meeting Notes: Anna Hazare and Sharmila Irom
By Chitra Ahanthem
It was 1997, the year India was marking her 50th year of Independence. There would have been many celebrations of this momentous...
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...
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...
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...