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Monday, May 20, 2024

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...

Of this and that

By Chitra Ahanthem It's been an eventful time for sure in Imphal: events across the town! Along with the Chinjak festival that was held at...

(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...

RTE: winds of change or a passing breeze?

By: Chitra Ahanthem The topic of education in Manipur has various layers of complexities considering the way all educational institutions gets affected by the cycle...

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...

Flight stories

by Chitra Ahanthem One major change that one sees in the past decade is the advent of low cost or budget airlines. Though flight tickets...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...