`Where 5,000 Graves Don`t Speak`
By Ananya S Guha
Yes they don’t speak.
How can they?
They are merely graves.
Head less.
Face less.
They seek refuge
In the insides of
Molten, clayey earth.
They are not despoiled.
Their...
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...
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...
Attestation – Poem – Ananya S Guha – Assam Molestation
She walked out. She walked out.
From the bar they Yelled.
She has been drinking.
Did you have any inkling?
She is an inviolate oxymoron, the cuss,
the paradox...
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...
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...
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...
Yesterday's Bird
Yesterday's Bird
By T. Priyokumar
My wife calls out, aloud, to me,
In a complaining mood.
But,
That troubles me not why,
For it is of love that she nags,
Of...
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...
Patriots Day – Ode to Great Martyrs of Manipur
PATRIOTS' DAY
(An ode to the great Martyrs' of Manipur on the occasion of Patriots' Day)
Full of pride, honour, gay
Glorious Patriots' Day today;
Bravest...
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...
“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...
When I don’t feel
By BIJAYATA AKHAM
During my childhood
when I saw the moon in her calmness
raising from the Nongmaijing hill
casting its silvery rays with a smile
full of tenderness...
“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...
