Let Our Winter End
The concluding line of Chief Seattle in his famous reply to the government of the United States of America when the latter offered to...
A Wish for the New Year
It is funny, but if one were to try and recollect the major markers of the year that has just gone by, the mind...
Election and Media
The strictures by the Election Commission of India, ECI, to the state media on how the latter should go about conducting their businesses of...
Address the Average
It has become a wont in Manipur to cite the example of those who made it big from the state as the evidence of...
Time for Reckoning
Elections are round the corner. Although the campaigns have still not picked up heat, the tension in the air characteristic of an election is...
A failed democracy, a failed public
Leader Writer: Paojel Chaoba
India after being liberated from the British rule in 1947 has come a long way. The sub –continent has forged towards...
Awaiting a New Order
It is quite an interesting coincidence that as the world sings to the tune of the old adage of ringing out the old and...
Whose Development?
On an absolute scale, there can be no doubt whatsoever Manipur has developed. A former Governor of the state 15 years ago, who had...
Election Carnival
Elections to the state Assembly have been announced. There is just about a month left to the appointed day on January 28. Although the...
Abdicated Moral Space
The trouble with Manipur is, nothing sounds the alarm bell loud enough for it to remain awake long enough. Nothing, not even the worst...
Over to Parliament
By B.G. Verghese
Speculation has ended with the tabling of the Lok Pal and related Bills. Now it is for Parliament to take over and...
For the first time in years, I`m actually looking forward to Christmas
Christmas gets grumpy when people make far too much effort, then get resentful when it is not appreciated enough. So don’t bother
By Deborah Orr
If...
I don`t believe in God, so why is it that I don`t want to...
By Ian Jack
A couple of weeks ago, a nurse stood beside my hospital bed with a pen and a clipboard. After the questions about...
Flashback: The Rise of the Moguls
By Subir Ghosh
The consolidation of the Hollywood Studio System could not have happened without the power exerted by the moguls. There were many, among...