Defining Public Interest
The trouble with the notion of legitimacy in Manipur is, it has in the past few decades come to be seen as something quite...
ADC election and after
The elections to the Autonomous District Councils for the five hill districts and Sadar Hills are long over, and the results for them declared....
Peacetime Wars
By the turn of the next generation, the Manipur society probably will be further segmented along a new class system, all this thanks to...
Crusade as Escape
Wars, it has been so rightly pointed out, have many domestic uses. There is nothing like the spectre of external aggression and a threat...
Spurning Big Brother
One of the reasons observers speculate why the Government of India chose to so loudly publicise what it called surgical operations into Myanmar in...
Myanmar Pivot
National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval will begin his visit of Myanmar on June 17 (today). One of the agendas before him during his meetings...
After the Operation
Things are settling back to normal after the June 4 devastating Chandel ambush which broke what everybody thought with relief was the return of...
Nurture Entrepreneurship
One of the most enduring quips, some say first made by maverick American businessman of the 1970s and 1980s, Lee Iacocca, ex-president of the...
Media and Violence
It is a welcome development that dead bodies, especially horribly defaced victims of violence, have slowly but surely begun disappearing from the front pages...
Wasteful Litigations
Who ultimately pays for all the court cases the government gets to fight perennially, round the year every year. No prizes for guessing it...
When Media Stops Doubting
Signs are, the days of the media as the tough and uncompromising interrogators of established authorities are gone. At least this is what was...
Wars and War Mongers
After the devastation of the June 4 insurgent ambush on a 6-Dogra convoy which left 18 soldiers dead, news emanating from press conferences in...
MHA Pushed Into Corner
The allegation in the Asian Age daily today that the current unsettled situation in the peace initiative in the Northeast is a handiwork of...
Media and Mainstream
A conclave for promotion and bringing media focus on the Northeast, an initiative of Rotary International District 3240 and hosted by Rotary Club of...