Lonesome Crusade
Fifteen years ago, before that fateful afternoon of November 2, 2000, on which the Assam Rifles gunned down 10 innocent bystanders at a bus...
Future Imperfect
The need to be remembered as men of integrity, and as someone who has contributed his little to society and humanity must have to...
Disciplining Imphal Traffic
Traffic in Imphal is increasingly sinking into a mess. The growth in the number of motor vehicles has been phenomenal `“ partly to do...
New secularism needed
To say Manipur`™s problems are intractable would be an understatement. There are too many of them, a great many of which work at cross...
Looking East
Persistently writing on a single topic has the danger of repetition of points. But this is a characteristic hazard of all campaigns, including journalistic...
Sceptical about Sceptics
Healthy scepticism is recommended on any public issue. This is what the time worn cliche `scientific temper` is all about. Never let anything go...
Pathetic Engineering
There are two foot bridges of identical design at the Waheng Leikai stretch of the Nambul river, connecting Waheng Leikai with Major Khul and...
Skill as education
There is a wellknown unwritten rule about rules. It simply says, know the rules well enough to creatively break it. It sound rather absurd,...
The last man
The idea of democracy and together with it the Western Capitalist model of economy as the end of history as postulated by Francis Fukuyama,...
Unity in Crisis
Crisis brings out the best and the worst in everybody. The worst crises especially, have always been of peculiar interest of study universally. There...
O When May it Suffice
Manipur`™s cup of woe has never been empty. While it is unlikely any place in the world has not had their shares of misfortunes,...
Ideology Hegemony
An article by Garga Chatterjee carried in the IFP on Sunday, on the move from certain quarters to have auto drivers in Mumbai know...
Manipur`s Magna Carta
Some changes cannot be reversed, and this ought to be the biggest lesson Manipur learns from the current crisis. The place cannot continue to...
Road to perdition
Residents of Wangkhei blockaded the Kongba road and all its arterial lanes today to let the government know their resentment at the continued neglect...