Amar Yumnam

June 17, 2012
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Securing People or Securing Territory or a Combination

By Amar Yumnam India’s Prime Minister was in Myanmar recently. In the academic circle the impact of this visit has been an issue of detailed assessment, both nationally and internationally. I understand that Indian intelligence agencies are so busy to … Continue reading

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June 12, 2012
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Time to Be Student, Time for Social Change and Time for Equalisation

By Amar Yumnam Now is the time to be a student of Social Science –Economics, Political Theory, and Sociology in particular. There is so much rethinking about the disciplinary exemplars, to use Thomas Kuhn’s term, in these subjects that the … Continue reading

College students burning effigies of Manipur CM, Kartaka CM and Manipur Home Minister on Wednesday.

June 3, 2012
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The Pipe Piper: Owning responsibility

By Amar Yumnam Definitely the land and people of Manipur are today passing through a very crucial phase in her trajectory of evolution towards a viable, happening and sustainable society. It was a viable and influential society for long in … Continue reading

May 27, 2012
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No Time for Halting Approaches: Time to think and immediate action

  By Amar Yumnam The present phase in human history is marked by features of immediacy and decisions of long term relationships on the shortest possible period of courtships. The suitors are many but the technology of information is such … Continue reading

May 20, 2012
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New Wind in Governance: From cyclical to structural

By Amar Yumnam We had reacted earlier that the faces in the new cabinet in the government after the elections in last February do arouse greater expectation, goodwill and trustworthiness in the resultant governance that would arise. This seems to … Continue reading

May 13, 2012
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Manipur and The Development Demands: Media, knowledge and all that

  By Amar Yumnam T.S. Eliot once said: “What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.” Let us apply this to contemporary situation to our land. Manipur’s development challenge today is unique, and the … Continue reading

November 16, 2011
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Make media a free zone, don`t disturb media, media is for all, IPR minister says at National press day observation

IMPHAL, November 16: The Directorate of Information & Public Relations, government of Manipur today observed the National Press Day 2011 and also distributed the Manipur Journalist Awards, 2011. A function was held at the Manipur Press Club today with IPR … Continue reading

October 22, 2011
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Governance Focus Right, but Where is the Proof of Direction

By Amar Yumnam The Planning Commission of India has recently presented to the country the Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan starting 1 April 2012. With 16 chapters, it is the lengthiest Approach Paper any Indian Plan has … Continue reading

October 15, 2011
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Communal, Corrupt and Criminal: New Picture of Manipuris

By Amar Yumnam In this column last week, I had sung a feeble song  of the competitive spirit of the Meeteis and the relative sharpening of this in recent years vis-à-vis the other ethnic groups in Manipur. In this intervention, … Continue reading

October 11, 2011
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Sargent and Sims and Macroeconomics after Keynesianism

By Amar Yumnam Now the world is concerned with the issues of financial meltdown. These issues affect the economy of a nation as a whole and so they are macroeconomic issues. This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded … Continue reading

October 8, 2011
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The Trend and The Risks: Towards Further Instability

By Amar Yumnam We need not master the great Einstein’s theory of relativity to establish that the deteriorating condition Manipur now finds herself has to have roots in our cumulative actions over the years. When I say cumulative actions, I … Continue reading

October 1, 2011
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No, We Are Not Convinced. So We Are Unhappy

By Amar Yumnam The inimitable Charles Dickens once said:  “When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.” The recent unfolding drama of 2G scam … Continue reading

September 3, 2011
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Nero Fiddled when Rome Burned: It is for real

  By Amar Yumnam Nero was an Emperor of the Roman Empire in the beginning of Christian era. He is considered by history as one of the most irresponsible, irresponsive, non-transparent and gory ruler. In fact, he symbolises any ruler … Continue reading