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”
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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...