Is PR coming ?
A solution to the demand for introduction of the Inner Line Permit System, ILPS, continues to be elusive. The government it is known now...
The exile and the kingdom
It does seem the contentious issue of the introduction of the Inner Line permit system in Manipur is unlikely to end soon. The government...
Accord and autonomy
Amongst the hints of the shape of the `framework agreement` between the Government of India and the NSCN(IM) signed in New Delhi on August...
Mind Barriers
Of all the athletics feats in history, the one accomplished by Roger Bannister on May 6, 1954 at Oxford University`™s Iffley Road Track, is...
Remedies for merger ills
In the wake of the recent historic `Naga Accord` or now more accurately known as the `framework agreement` between the leaders of the NSCN(IM)...
Cloaked honest opinions
It needed someone like Rajdeep Sardesai to say it. Manipur`™s reaction to the slow displacement of its indigenous population, not just in terms of...
Problem solving
In these trying times before Manipur, it is difficult not to be reminded of how physicist turned philosopher, Karl Popper, characterised the idea of...
Room for naturalisation
One of the most magnanimous gifts that a society blessed with a sense of confident and of security is generosity of spirit. Peace would...
NE states ignored again
The laments of chief minister Okram Ibobi two days ago and by Congress president, Sonia Gandhi on how Congress states in the Northeast neighbouring...
Comprehensive peace
The new Naga Peace Accord, it is now clear, was only an important agreement on a commonly agreed route map to a future settlement,...
Speculating Naga Accord
An official report from New Delhi, announced on the national TV channels as well as on the Press Information Bureau website, the Government of...
Disaster upon disaster
Manipur has never been in bigger trouble. Even the weather gods seem not at all eager to be kind to it this time. Incessant...
Unholy corruption feast
It is no longer just the roads that get washed away every monsoon. Now bridges too are unable to withstand the torrents. From what...
Inhuman punishment
Yakub Abdul Memon, one of the accused in the Bombay serial blasts of 1993, was hanged to death early this morning inside the Nagpur...