Youths, Drugs and Justice: Absence of Smooth Transition
By Amar Yumnam
Recently we have been receiving news about the arrest of youths on criminal grounds. The latest in this genre is the arrest...
Their best
The working men in the opposite buildings return home honking ,though it is almost midnight, and soon they have gone up to their places...
Calling time on the most unsafe state in India – Part 2
MANIPUR ON A SWISS MODEL
Political legitimacy is indeed central to the sustenance of Manipuri identity. The existence of secessionist movements reflects a lack of...
Anna Hazare Wins and Nation Building Suffers: Manipur angle to a country-wide issue
By Amar YumnamIn the light of unprecedented cases of corruption, both in volume and frequency, two recent cartoons are of immediate meaningful relevance and...
Calling time on the most unsafe state in India – Part 1
Chingna koina pan saba Haona koina pan ngakpa;
Manipur sana leibakna Matau asumna pallami,
Maong asumna leirami.
Friends, Manipuris and countrymen; I’ve come to bury ethnic-strife,...
Manipur and the World
By: Binalakshmi Nepram
Art of debuting a column:
The news that I am requested to write a column from Kangla Online came like a spring surprise....
THE GREAT MEITEI NATION – II
MEITEIS WILL SURVIVE ECONOMICALLY WITHOUT THE HILLS
Having encapsulated the origin of the Meiteis in my preceding article this paper looks at how the primitive...
We Are Missing Something Terribly: The state
By Amar Yumnam
We have been very critical of the nature of the state as it manifests in Manipur. This critical attitude had at times...
The crows
This is the story of myself and people of my kind. My name is Roypuri Ranjit Singh from Joypur another name is “The land...
THE GREAT MEITEI NATION – PART 1
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Emperor Constantine of Rome who brought Christianity to the Empire proclaimed majestically standing atop… that “Under God’s watch, we shall...
The Yaoshang factor
By: Chitra Ahanthem
As another Yaoshang (holi) rolled off the calendar, one thing keeps coming back to mind: has the festival changed or is it...
Who said the Meitei lon is Tibeto-Burman? Dr GRIERSON, but he was wrong
By: Dr. Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Who’s this Dr Grierson?
George Abraham Grierson, an Irish linguist from Dublin, was an official of the Indian Civil Service. He...
HOW DID THE MEITEIS COME FROM AFRICA? By decoding the human Genome
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
The title may be shocking. Perhaps my choice of title bespeaks an unattractive scepticism.
But isn’t all scientific discoveries that were...
Who knows the origin of the Meiteis?- NO BODY
By: Dr Irengbam Mohendra Singh
Nobody knows where the Meiteis came from. Some Europeans (Pemberton et al) skewed this idea that the Meiteis probably migrated...