Honesty as Revolution
Corruption has become such a crippling issue in Manipur today, and everybody knows it too, yet precious little has ever been done to seriously...
Sponsored Economy Woes
The Chief Minister, Okram Ibobi’s worry at the thought of the Centre ending the special category status for North East states, ought to be...
Moderating Ethnicity
The question of ethnic identity has been a preoccupation of the Northeast for quite some time now. The issue is sensitive and it does...
Songs of Dark Times
So many people, particularly journalists who come to Manipur return with the impression that it is a failed state. Most of these assumptions are...
Security Inflicting Insecurity
The sight of men in uniform has increasingly created a sense of insecurity among the local population especially in conflict zones whether it is...
Banality of evil
Quite obviously, the last word has not been said on the confession by Manipur Police head constable Thounaojam Herojit that he was indeed the...
Honest Media
Not as opposed to a free media, but in addition to being a free media, what is also extremely important is giving substance to...
March of the Republic
India will once again be celebrating the day it dedicated itself a Republic on this day in 1950, having given itself a constitution as...
The Republic’s Hiccup
Karl Marx was wrong on one count at least. The State has not withered away. In fact, it has become more domineering in the...
Ta Nganthoi and the moped
Our machine man recounted his story! His name is Nganthoi and this is his tale. He rides a moped to work, his duty starts...
What’s in a name?
Watching the unseemly developments over the renaming of Thangjing subdivision to Thangting, it is only natural to recall Romeo musing over a change of...
Is History Linear
While the postmodern theory of “deconstruction” cannot be a complete and rounded system philosophy as such, there can be little serious doubts about the...
Government and Media
The Manipur media’s largely adversarial role in the governance process has often been read as a basic anti-establishment characteristic. This is naive for this...
Manipur’s Bhutan Dilemma
Some of the news analyses of the events that preceded the busting of ULFA camps in Bhutan territory a decade ago make much more...