Articles http://kanglaonline.com/columnist Columnists the KanglaOnline Channels site Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:23:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Legislators, Structuring Articulation, Unfolding Contexts and the Emerging Issues: Need for contextual rethink http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/legislators-structuring-articulation-unfolding-contexts-and-the-emerging-issues-need-for-contextual-rethink/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legislators-structuring-articulation-unfolding-contexts-and-the-emerging-issues-need-for-contextual-rethink http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/legislators-structuring-articulation-unfolding-contexts-and-the-emerging-issues-need-for-contextual-rethink/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By Amar Yumnam Recent months have been very hectic months personally engaging in policy articulations, debates and shared understanding about the issues of Manipur, India and the international context of South East and East Asia. I would like to start the record of this cycle with one recent personal experience which has been an absolutely rewarding one from multitudes of... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/legislators-structuring-articulation-unfolding-contexts-and-the-emerging-issues-need-for-contextual-rethink/feed/ 0 Questionable Power Play http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/questionable-power-play/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questionable-power-play http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/questionable-power-play/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By B.G. Verghese It would be premature to conclude that the recent power play within the BJP has ended to NarendraModi’s advantage.  He has won a couple of game points but the match is not yet over. His appointment as chief of the Party’s 2014 election campaign committee, over the head of Advani’s threats and sulks, is being glibly seen... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/questionable-power-play/feed/ 0 Freeing Voices http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/freeing-voices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freeing-voices http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/freeing-voices/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By M.C. Linthoingambee Sedition denoting an act done to disregard or an attempt to cause hatred and contempt against the Government by means of visible representation, words, speech, etc by a seditionist. It is defined under section 124A of the Code and whoever that procures the same act will be served with a punishment of 5 years or fine or... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/freeing-voices/feed/ 0 Is everyone hooked to a TV Series ? http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/is-everyone-hooked-to-a-tv-series/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-everyone-hooked-to-a-tv-series http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/is-everyone-hooked-to-a-tv-series/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By Tinky Ningombam Are you a TV Serial Addict? If your whole life depends on reaching home in time to catch your favorite show, this is for you.  TV Series addicts can spend hours distressing over marital issues of TV couples, they will cry when their favorite character dies and they will thrash the cable guy if they disconnected the... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/is-everyone-hooked-to-a-tv-series/feed/ 0 `You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you` http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/you-may-not-be-interested-in-war-but-war-is-interested-in-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-may-not-be-interested-in-war-but-war-is-interested-in-you http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/you-may-not-be-interested-in-war-but-war-is-interested-in-you/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By Pradip Phanjoubam When you point your index finger at somebody, there are three other fingers of the same hand, other than the thumb, pointing back at you. There is something about this rather curious metaphor which makes you want to return to it every now and then, especially while taking account of your own part in any emergent and... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/you-may-not-be-interested-in-war-but-war-is-interested-in-you/feed/ 0 Seeing Is More Than Believing: China`s development and lessons thereof http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/seeing-is-more-than-believing-chinas-development-and-lessons-thereof/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeing-is-more-than-believing-chinas-development-and-lessons-thereof http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/seeing-is-more-than-believing-chinas-development-and-lessons-thereof/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By Amar Yumnam It is said that seeing is believing. This applies in a much more robust way in the case of the Chinese growth performance in the last two decades or so. The changes happening in China are to be seen to believe. What is more significant is the speed with which the changes have taken place. Besides, the... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/seeing-is-more-than-believing-chinas-development-and-lessons-thereof/feed/ 0 Artful Dodgers All http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/artful-dodgers-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artful-dodgers-all http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/artful-dodgers-all/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By B.G. Verghese The Centre’s meeting with Chief Ministers on the Maoist threat was a damp squib.It was boycotted by Jayalalitha and MamataBannerjeeand near-rubbished by several of those who attended. Low politics triumphed. The diluted proposal for a National Counter-Terrorism Centre to coordinate all intelligence and operational planning was turned down as diluting federalism, a bogey, and on grounds of... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/artful-dodgers-all/feed/ 0 The Working Ants http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/the-working-ants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-working-ants http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/the-working-ants/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By M.C. Linthoingambee “A person is a person no matter how small”, is a line borrowed from a Hollywood movie whose name I don’t recall. But if we take some time to observe carefully, we will see little ants carrying food away for their family from our tray tables. It is common knowledge that ants are one of the most... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/the-working-ants/feed/ 0 To write is to live forever http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/to-write-is-to-live-forever/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-write-is-to-live-forever http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/to-write-is-to-live-forever/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By Tinky Ningombam I was loitering around the city one evening and suddenly chanced upon a small standee in a squiggly writing. It said “Books sold for Rs.50 each”. I rushed to the spot, with a steal like that who wouldn’t? Or so I thought. A closer scan of the books on display and I knew why it was sold... Read more →

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]]> http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/to-write-is-to-live-forever/feed/ 0 The Horseman Must Think Faster than the Horse http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/the-horseman-must-think-faster-than-the-horse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-horseman-must-think-faster-than-the-horse http://kanglaonline.com/columnist/the-horseman-must-think-faster-than-the-horse/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Imphal Free Press By Pradip Phanjoubam The periodic revival of the agitation to demand the reintroduction of the Inner Line Permit system in Manipur needs a much more serious debate than has been accorded to it so far. On the one hand are the agitators, so totally presumptuous that their xenophobic views are shared by one and all, and what they demand is... Read more →

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