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Monday, November 25, 2024

AFSPA Extended

The irony could not have been any worse, not just in content, but also in the timing. Even as the completion of the 10th...

Kangjei

By Paojel Chaoba The question on the mind of the public is when will the state return to normal and when can everyone breathe...

When May it Suffice

On the day we remember the loved ones we lost to the terrible disease, HIV/AIDS, with candles on our streets and homes, we cannot...

Petrol Vanishing Act

The meeting of government officials and Indian Oil Corporation, IOC, yesterday to address the acute shortage of petrol and diesel in the state is,...

Harm Corrupt Men Do

This year must be an exception. The annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, CAG, on the accounts of the Central...

Children in Adult World

The new focus in Manipur on the plight of children in conflict environments is welcome. The intelligence of children and their susceptibility to adverse...

Media’s Must Step Forward

After the end of the Cold War, when the Spy vs. Spy, one-up-man-ship game between the Western Bloc (read USA) and the Eastern Bloc...

“Campaign for 2012”

Leader Writer: Hrishikesh Angom It seems that the “2012” election campaign for the Congress Party has kicked off with Sonia Gandhi’s four-hour Manipur visit for...

Reality First

The old saying “the mountain did not come to Mahomet so Mahomet went to the mountain” comes to mind in any consideration of the...

Markets for All

The news of the upcoming visit by the UPA chairperson and All India Congress Committee, AICC president, Sonia Gandhi is welcome if not for...

No Continuity

It is surprising that not many have pondered on this revealing thought. Isaiah Berlin, points out in his essay “In Search of an Ideal”...

Democracy or Mobocracy

Can democracy be translated as rule by the people? Yes, but with very restrictive qualifications. For far too often, too many self-proclaimed gurus of...

Kangla in Delhi

A little over three years after the alleged move of the government to lease off the 4.25 acres of prime institutional land belonging to...

Let 100 Flowers Bloom

Many of the festivals in Manipur, traditional as well as newly reinvented ones, are tending towards a cultural confluence. Purists may frown at this,...