The main aim of this article is to disseminate awareness on the health hazards associated with mobile towers, especially those families who stayed nearby the tower at Sinakeithei and other Tangkhul villages of Ukhrul district.
The 21st century, the civilization characterized by a pinnacle of science and technology, innovation, communication...
MR. O Nabakishore Singh (retired IAS) former Chief Secretary of Manipur, under Mr. O Ibobi Singh, former Chief Minister of Manipur, your write ups: Perspective of the Hill tribals in Manipur and your rejoinder to the rebuttals by Mr. Ngaranmi Shimray were commendable but lack the sense of justice...
Chandel district (formerly known as Tengnoupal district) came into existence on May 13, 1974. The district lies in the south-eastern part of Manipur. It is about 64 km away from Imphal. According to the 2011 census, Chandel district has a population of 144,182 with a literacy rate of 70.85%...
Climate change in the present times is being jargonised and represented in every sphere of international and national dialogues and platforms. We have been constantly hearing of alarming and apocalyptic news related to it such as the infamous melting of the Arctic glaciers, rise in sea level, and temperature...
Memories of the tragic end of Sir Akbar Hyderi and the violent political conflict that ensued as a fall-out of his backtracking of the Naga-Akbar Hydery (9-Point) Agreement, 1947 is still fresh to every fellow Naga.
Framework Agreement 2015 is the output of a concerted effort, hard talks and...
The term “Kacha Nagas,” originally coined by Western anthropologists during ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork in the then-Northeast Frontier, especially among the many Naga Hills people groups, seems to have re-emerged, albeit limited to social media.
This outdated term, primarily used for classifying people into tribes or sub-tribes, also appeared in...
Introduction
It is estimated that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, however the number of species in not indicated. It is predicted that Indo-Burma biodiversity hot spot region is a home of more than 3,000 species of plants. Frank Kingdon Ward, who embossed our flora and fauna...
In the anticipation that full-fledged statehood will be accorded to Manipur on 21st January, 1972, the Parliament passed the 27th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1971 extending a Constitutional protection for the Scheduled tribes of the Hill Areas. The protection it accords has been in consonant with the protection already accorded...
INTRODUCTION
In the dehumanising colonial doctrine of “terra nullius”, the ruling dispensation seems to have found a new sadistic pleasure for aggressive “territorial imagination” by asserting that the “Hill Areas” of Manipur are a “No man’s land”.
“Land”, however, is sacred to the tribals. In the traditional belief system of their...
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Children are referred to spring season where love and hope grows everywhere. As the saying goes “The soul is healed by being with children.”Being with children, we tend to forget our own problems as they influence us with their positive outlook towards life. I believe it will not...