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...
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...
In search of citizenship
Chitra Ahanthem
The fight against India is not uncommon anymore: there has been a long history of questions over citizenship that most of us living...
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...
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...
Beyond the headlines of child trafficking
By Chitra Ahanthem
There is a saying that there are times when the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. An...
Keeping it clean
By Chitra Ahanthem
Over the years, Imphal has come to be so ravaged by plastic that various campaigns have come up to clean up...
TV Reality Check!
By Chitra Ahanthem
In the golden days of a single TV channel, the only entertainment programs used to be the very popular “Chitrahaar” on every...
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...
(W)raped about ourselves
By: Chitra Ahanthem
Suddenly, the issue of ?rape? is now occupying center stage due to a spate of such incidents across the country and the...
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...
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...