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Monday, October 14, 2024
People of Sadar Hills blocking NH-39 demanding full-fledged Sadar Hills district on Wednesday.

Highway Blockade in Manipur

By: Dr Angomcha Bimol Akoijam Another episode, another episodic reaction and noises; it is a déjà vu of frustratingly comical experience of a tragic life....

Ten issues/questions to understand the significance of the political premise of AFSPA

  To insist that one must address and understand “Political Premise” of AFSPA is to insist that we must fundamentally know/address the following...

What the heck do we know of AFSPA?

By: A Bimol Akoijam To all those who seem to have a problem when I talk of “Tragedy of de-linking the political premise of AFSPA” Read...

AFSPA: Tragedy of Delinking Its Political Premise

By Angomcha Bimol Akoijam All legislations are to address some realities/phenomena in our real world. Acts on dowry, sati, child-marriage, for that matter the...

Some Suggestions to Govt. of India on AFSPA

By: A Bimol Akoijam Going by the dominant views, primarily legalistic and devoid of political basis, on AFSPA amongst those who are protesting against...

Devil’s Advocate: Deranged Man and Protestors (PART 2)

By: A Bimol Akoijam Previously on Devil’s Advocate: Deranged Man and Protestors LP: What do you mean?   DM: If she decides to call off the fast or...

Devil’s Advocate: Deranged Man and Protestors

By: A Bimol Akoijam Amidst the sultry tropical weather, a group of protestors repeatedly shout, “Save Sharmila!!!! One of the protestors passes on the leaflet that...

Time to look within and have some shame and self-respect

By: A. Bimol Akoijam To all those denizens of Manipur who are offended or hurt by the manner in which the “mainstream”, the...

Sangakpham: We deserve to know

By:  A. Bimol Akoijam In a swift response, the Chief Minister of Manipur said that the terrorist violence that struck Sangakpham on 1st August,...

Sangakpham and Beyond Confronting Illegitimate Violence

By A. Bimol Akoijam In our times, empirically and theoretically speaking, terrorism has been an illegitimate child of a legitimate politics. The so-called “Islamic Terrorism”...

If Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay Were a Manipuri?

By : Bimol Akoijam In a seminar held at Manipur University recently, a gentleman who happens to be a ‘mayang’ (outsider) dares to say...

Let it be

muses of a lovelorn soul insights of an engaging mind a figment of imagination of a restless life… voice that comes like a gentle breeze sooths the weary heart; words...

Eight (8) Hours of Electricity in a Day: A Cruel Joke on the people...

By: Bimol Akoijam In response to a Public Interests Litigation (PIL), the Government of Manipur has reportedly promised that it is working towards ensuring “Eight...

No More Knee Jerk Reaction, Time for a holistic and realistic response to ethnic...

A. Bimol Akoijam That one strand of Naga politics has been deeply informed and driven by an `ethnic` rather than `civic` political perspective is not...