Another Crossroads
The time has again come for Manipur to do some serious introspection. If the different communities must remain together within a single map, it...
Centre`s Adhocism
Has the Central government lost its plot in the Northeast? At this moment there seems to be an utter lack of focus on its...
Negotiating Peace
If there is a negotiation, something will have to be negotiated ultimately. But sometimes, the negotiating process itself becomes a strategy and thereby often...
Kangla Sanctity
The recently concluded Bhagyachandra National Dance and Music Festival held at the ruins of the old Govindaji Temple inside the Kangla was, to say...
Sympathetic Oscillation of Crises
It is surprising that not many have pondered on this revealing thought. Isaiah Berlin, points out in his essay “In Search of an Ideal”...
For the Children
Leader writer : Paojel Chaoba
Times are tough,no need to describe the sufferings of the public. The economic blockade still enforced by the UNC leaves...
Blockade Deadlock
This absurdity is acquiring an air of the surreal. Manipur is under siege for over 100 days now, and the governments both in the...
Death Wish Grandeur
Gen. George S Patton, the controversial American general during the Second World War, whose memory still commands a fan following which runs into millions,...
Art of the Possible
(Brave sons and daughters of the land, Your fatherland is on fire. The flames are rising roaring and cracking, Come and douse the fire,...
Fourth world`s strifes
One of Manipur’s most problematic issues awaiting a resolution is a general mindset that still perilously entraps the vision of the individual in a...
Landmarks Sharmila Set
Irom Sharmila Chanu has completed 11 years of an epic protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, AFSPA-1958. She has not managed to...
Of oneself and the collective good
Leader Writer: Wangkheimayum Bhupendra Singh
The state as it is has become a long story of agitations and demands cropping up on a daily basis...
A View on Views
A very frequently debated question in Manipur is what constitutes freedom of the press. The classical definition of this freedom is that while news...
Nation Colonised by Itself
Is coexistence about sharing or is it about segregating? This is the million dollar question a multi-ethnic state like Manipur is left grappling with...