“Chingtam Nongsha” Book Released
Imphal, Dec 9, 2017: A book entitled “Chingtam Nongsha” was published today at the Head Quarter of Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM), Sagolband...
Kangana Ranaut launches book Between the Poet and Her Pencil
Wearing a traditional Manipuri phanek with the enaphee (dupatta) draped like a pallu, Kangana helped launch her friend’s book. Curls firmly in place, the...
Switching hands
By RK Lakhi Kant
Driven ahead, driven to a risky end
by the mind of the new Indian
knows this but entangled
in its own gait
money and comfort...
Elixir of Drik India
Elixir of Drik India
By Joshy Joseph
Those are the days
bygone for lingering
gone but not gone.
while you come
in the going of gone things
memory excavates .
Party at...
Dear Teacher
Even stars vanished
when shines does the sun,
So does the moon gets smaller
or ... bigger,
But this never ending, enormous universe
got no ends
And so does my...
Devoid
By RK Lakhi Kant
No zest, only a cheap stage
tear jerkers pass off as
folk and classical tradition
social conditions, how to nullify
the impact of new wave
westernisation...
Poem – Adubu Eidi Wai
Adubu Eidi Wai
Laishram Sachirani Devi
Angouba leichingi marumdagi
Sangbannaraboa nongmadonda pairiba
Karigumba nahakna noklaklabadi
Eingonda lonna yengduna
Maphamduda ei lakkani .
Amukna nakna
Aduga amukna arappadagi
Nahakna eibu kourakkani
Eibu ingao ngaohangani .
Aduga ...
In the arms of little sister
By RK Lakhi Kant
The little girl called her brother who,
barely begun to walk, is at play;
"Come son, come. We'll go back home now," -
placing...
Poem – He! Singarei? (Manipuri)
He! Singarei............?
Kanasu khanghanda,Ahingdata Fugaina Satpadi,Minok-Meisa Kibanara?Nongalamdaida Ningaidana Kenkhibadi,Miwa Chirol Taningdabanara?Thengnakhiba Mikupto nang ga,Thenglaba Thabalgi Ahongdo,Leisaktuna Nang-gi Inglaba,Leinamduna Nang-gi Menglaba,Fajinbikhi Thamoise Leinarakta.Kaongamloi Nangbu Punsigi.Leisaktuna Nang-gi...
Hougatlo Thengle!
Hougatlo Thengle!
Nongpok maikei ngankhare.Nongchup maikei ninkhare. Awang maikei saktakle. Makha maikei noklakle.
Hougatlo thengle ereibakchasa!Punshina panthung youdringei.
Thawaina meekon naringei.
Pangalna sarep faringei.
Thangatlo thangol, pukhatlo potlum.
Hougatlo thengle ereibakchasa!
Sagatlo manglangi...
I DREAM OF SHEILA: HOPE SPRINGS
I DREAM OF SHEILA: HOPE SPRINGS
(Script Writer: PurnaChandra Sharma)
<Screen lights up>
<Phone rings>
Me: <Caller ID: PR><deep sigh>Yes?
<Split screen>
PR<Preet Ramani>: WASSHUPP! PC, bro?
Me: <exasperated> Mitt, no...
Distant Melody
Distant Melody
A song the wind brought
In the winter evening
From the distance ,
through the paddy fields
Brown with stubbles
Where the cattle grazing ,
Calves sucking mothers’ milk...
This is my heart lately
By RK Lakhi Kant
A flurry of small buildings
Without much architectural works
Much like the distant villages
Where most of India lives
Ladies and gentlemen
Now you are inside
And...
“HALAKKHIDRABA CHEKLA MACHA” (Manipuri Poem)
“HALAKKHIDRABA CHEKLA MACHA”
By: Dr. Moirangthem Jiban Singh
Chekla mama-na hai chatkhidanaba,
Eigi pikliba chekla,
Nahak mafamse thadokkhinu,
Yamna lapna paikhinu.
Mafamduda nangbu thoujanbiroi,
Mafamsigi hanglana atiyagum,
Mafamsigi senglaba malangbagum,
Mafamsigi ninghannadraba chingjaogum
Keidoungeidasu...