A mere pass percentage of 65.22 Time for society, Govt to wake up
The congratulatory notes must have started circulating. That is for the students who have come out with flying colours in the just announced result...
Ordinary and Extraordinary
Extraordinary times these are that Manipur is living in. But its tragedy is, these extraordinary times are being met by a general ordinariness of...
New Dawn Hopes
The news that seven candidates from Manipur cracked the examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission, for recruitment to the top civil services...
Understanding the service of passenger vehicles One time payment of taxes
One time payment. The Transport Department may have its reasons to come out with the order that all commercial vehicles should pay their taxes...
Present tense, future perfect
One of Manipur’s most problematic issues awaiting a resolution is a general mindset entrapped in the pre-modern time frame, when the rest of the...
Mutual respect vital
There will be only few who keep dogs as pet who have not watched Caesar Millan’s incredible series “Dog Whisperer” on National Geographic Channel,...
Bills of Contention
It is unfortunate that the matter of a legislation to check population influx into Manipur and also the danger of demographic overturn in the...
Public curfew, torch rallies, road blocks Reliving the days of 2015 ?
42 hours public curfew, torch rallies, mass protest. Road blocks, the clanging sound of electric posts in the night, the smouldering remains of the...
Hand that rocks the cradle Saluting mothers the world over
Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. A short sentence but which is pregnant with meaning. Obviously this is the ultimate tribute to...
ST status demand : Two opposing voices Don’t punch below the belt
Tough to say whether the debate is healthy or not. But it is interesting to note that two opposing voices have come to the...
ILP Imbroglio; Crisis Within
The 42 hour public curfew announced by Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System, JCILPS has already begun denouncing the government’s ‘delaying tactics’ in...
ST demand driven by reactionary outlook : Macha Leima
IMPHAL, May 5: All the likely benefits and opportunities that may be reaped by Meiteis through their enlistment as a Scheduled Tribe is not...
Make helmet, seat belts compulsory All about road safety
On paper the State Government seems to be doing something. That is if one goes by what Transport Minister Dr Kh Ratan Kumar had...
State of Fringe States
The extent to which corruption has penetrated life in Manipur is depressing, to say the least. Election times bring out this aspect of the...