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Goodbye My Headmaster: A Tribute to Dr. Thanglora

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Discrimination: How should we deal with it? By Desperate Dreamer

By L. Keivom The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. – Thornton Wilder It was May 13, 2013, a lucky day for some and a fateful day for another. My nephew and co-traveler in the realm … Continue reading →

Confronting The State: Ulfa`s Quest For Sovereignty Review

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By Anil Bhat Much blood has flown with the waters of the Brahmaputra basin and much has happened over the decades to undo the efforts of Lokapriya  Gopinath Bordoloi in ensuring that Assam remained part of India and not erstwhile … Continue reading →

Free and compulsory but what about quality education?

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Contemporary Yaoshang is both festive and sportive. Fortunately, the latter has been trying incessantly to devour the former for the last many years. To the Manipuris, Yaoshang has become a Mini-Olympiad which preserves the indigenous games of the state. Yaoshang sports serve as a useful platform not only for channelizing the young talents but also for effecting harmonious socialization among the Manipuris. The state government needs to encourage this annual sporting movement in each and every locality of Manipur by incorporating provisions in State Sports Policy for strengthening and encouraging Yaoshang Sports.

By Keisam Pradipkumar In Manipur, a  stocktaking on implementation of Right to Education will indubitably bump up against  more letdowns than relative success stories. The two crucial nitty-gritty  of “The Right of  Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009”  … Continue reading →

Planning for the Future of the Scheduled Tribes: Time for evidence based approaches

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Amar Yumnam

By Amar Yumnam The Fifth Five Year Plan was the period of intense discussion and expectations on the transformation of the tribal economies (unlike in the dictionary, tribal is plural in India and so does the economy) of India. At … Continue reading →

Diary of a self-confessed insomniac

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By Tinky Ningombam Morning after morning, I am woken out of my bed with an alarm clock that would ring a couple of hours too early. While during the nights before, everything in the world would conspire against my sleeping. … Continue reading →

Environment and Us

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Loktak Lake, in Manipur is the largest freshwater lake in India, Photo by Amrit Koijam

By M.C. Linthoingambee As we braced ourselves to the announcement of a storm, did any of us take a moment to think what we have done wrong? The Cyclone Mahasen has been one of the recent leading breaking news heating … Continue reading →

Driving across the land of Pagodas

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An account of the February 2012 Indo-Myanmar Friendship Car Rally By Pradip Phanjoubam The road from Tamu, the Myanmar township just across the Indian border, to Kalemyo via Kalewa, could have been any Indian road in terms of construction quality … Continue reading →

Questions of North East India . . .

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Ananya S Guha

By Ananya S Guha The recent clashes in Assam once again reveal the gory and tragic history of India’s North East. Political and Social commentators have tried to explain away the North East problems in a very facile manner without … Continue reading →