Moral war missing
The trouble with Manipur is, nothing sounds the alarm bell loud enough for it to remain awake long enough. Nothing, not even the worst...
Future Perfect
How much is culture responsible for the progress made or the lack of it of any given society? Or more provocatively in our context,...
Tyranny of Bandhs
So many times this has been said and by practically everybody. Yet all are still having to say it over and over again. When...
Salvage Hope
Poverty can be extremely depressing. There is no gainsaying that it can dehumanize, depriving self-esteem as well as human dignity from those caught in...
Egg and omelette
Can development be without price? Much as anybody may wish it, this cannot be so. Hence, the more realistic and pertinent question should be,...
Dismantling False Image
One of the worst crimes that the media can commit is to create a false consensus on any given issue. It is not always...
Freedom is not License
The issue of globalization cannot but be tackled at two different planes. At the one level it is about an inevitable process of the...
Civil society and corruption
It has been years since the Rights to Information, RTI, Act was implemented in the state, and as is its wont, with a dose...
To Love Manipur
Home is where the heart is, and Manipur is home for many of us not just in the sense of a physical structure, a...
Traffic Horror
Traffic in Imphal continues to sink into a mess. The growth in the number of motor vehicles has been phenomenal – partly to do...
Nurturing enterprise
It will come as no surprise that there is an exodus of young aspiring professionals away from the state. In a way it is...
Seeking a resolution
Let all stakeholders agree to have the trouble in the state end. Let those who agitated for the introduction of the ILPS, for which...
Time for white papers
If what the state has witnessed in the last few months still has not served as the wakeup call for everybody, let it be...
Discourse on Legitimacy
A two part, edit page article in The Telegraph, by Pratap Bhanu Mehta after returning from a India-China cooperation summit in Beijing some years...