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...
Book Review – Keeping War: Stale-mate on a `Durable Disorder`
By Soibam Haripriya
Highway 39 snakes its way through three states –Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, its winding path could be a metaphor for a river...
Book extract / Rivers, River Valleys, Mountains as integral region
By Pradip Phanjoubam
Here is another extract from another chapter of my forthcoming book written as a fellow of the IIAS, Shimla. Here too the...
“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...
LAKKHINI EIGISU YELHINGTHA
LAKKHINI EIGISU YELHINGTHA
Paikhro Painingba Maikeida,
Nongmadon Khetna Leichillakta,
Naningtamna Hangla Malanglakta,
Sakhap Toina Atiyapakna.
Chajaru Umanggi Uhei,
Thakcharu Loknunggi Laija,
Tongjaru Ufeida Ningaidana,
Khongjaru Nakhou Pongna.
Eigi Yelhing Hundraba Punsise,
Lepli Ngasisu Saraba...
Short Story : The lady who thanked her doctor after her death
By V.N. Devi
Chaobi is a lady patient like any other, who got married and was ready for a child. She wanted a family like...
Chakliba Thammoise Eigini, Magi Natte (Part II)
“CHAKLIBA THAMMOISE EIGINI MAGI NATTE” – Part II
Dr. Moirangthem Jiban Singh
Asengbagidi “Saroja (Bibi), eina punsigi ahanba oina nungsi fongdok-khiba chanura-ni”. Maga-eiga thengnakhidaba chahi 12-gi...
Chakliba Thammoise Eigini, Magi Natte (Part I)
“CHAKLIBA THAMMOISE EIGINI MAGI NATTE” - Part I
Dr. Moirangthem Jiban Singh
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Pallike (BBMP) na Bangalore-gi mafam khudingmakta Cauvery-gi eeshing youhanba ngamdri. Cauvery-gi...
Sharmila
Sharmila (15.7.2013)
By: Sophia Arambam
A legend, an enigma, a unique human being,
Unsung and unknown
To most people of the world,
Frail body, wild hair, pale skin...
Book Review of Seram Neken's "Voice of the Voiceless"
Electoral politics has tarnished the expected democratic values in Manipur. Instead of selecting the fittest representatives, the electorate always votes for the wealthy and...
Spring
Spring
A poem by Bijayata Akham
They say,
Once the gale blew ,
The fragrance of the flowers
Pervading ,
When the king arrived .
Blandly He was
visiting homes and hovels
to...
Book Review : Amanba Yum by Dr Th.Munindro Singh
Book Review : Amanba Yum by Dr Th.Munindro Singh, Director Planning, Govt. Of Manipur.
I have been reading Dr Th. Munindro’s ‘Amanba Yum’, his own...
GUN AND A GOD – Manipuri Film – Sonia Nepram
Purnima is having the best of her evenings with her inmates in a jail room. Yet her every laughs and giggles are concealing a...
My First Born
By Michae
A smile visible on my two month Old’s lip,
Is all it takes for me to realise the power of a smile;
A smile followed...