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...
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...
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...
Where is Imphal?
Chitra Ahanthem.
What would you do if two people with cameras slung around their necks walk up to you and try and coax you to...
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 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...
That chip on the shoulder?
By Chitra Ahanthem
Having missed out on so many Sunday pages of Imphal Free Press, it sure is a relief to be able to write...
Watching Hindi films: A personal revolt!
By Chitra Ahanthem
Ah well! Imphal now has a cinema theatre showing the latest English films after a more than decade long break. But the...
Dance: Movements and Therapy
by Chitra Ahanthem
Most people say that those born in Manipur have an innate sense of dance. Often, elders “teach” or rather, introduce small babies...
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...
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...
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...