Wungreiyon Moinao
IN 1955 Pete Seeger wrote the famous song ‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone?’ expressing disdain for war. The song is cyclical in nature expressing the futility and the unending cycle of war. It opens with a simple question “Where have all the flowers gone?” And comes the...
Tamenglong people during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Within the last one month or so, denizens of Tamenglong headquarters have seen Community Transmission (CT) of Covid-19. People were so scared of the CT that they had abstained from venturing out to bazaar even for essential commodities. Orders of Containment Zones were...
I QUOTE a section of the Article to contextualise my opinion of the matter - “However, the narrative of the crisis is only focused on the Meiteis. Why are the rest of the non-Meiteis not taking a strong stance to end this crisis? Is the war meant for a...
The land is at the heart of indigenous peoples’ lifeworld, which sustains their culture, custom, religion, livelihood, knowledge system. Indigenous peoples see land as a living entity nourishing their well-being and lifeworld. Forest produces and crops drawn from the lands are reciprocated with rituals by paying obeisance and food....
MUCH WATER has flowed under the bridge since 1950 when an opportunity was there for the Meitei community to be Scheduled Cast or Scheduled Tribe in 1950-51 and also in 1955-56. They have now progressed far beyond the considerations to be a SC or ST that the proposal...
THE GOVERNMENT of India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs vide their letter F. No. 12026/02/2023-C&LM (E:25198) dated 26.12.2023, addressed to the Adl. Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur, Secretariat Tribal Affairs & Hills Development have expressed their keenness to process the deletion of the nomadic Chin Kuki from the list of...
THE JURISDICTION of Churachandpur District Headquarters is classified as a town devoid of municipality. The roles, functions, responsibilities and powers in the town management are all vested in the Autonomous District Council, Churachandpur (ADCC). The current Chairman of ADCC is Shri Khaipao Haokip.
Lamka is the headquarters of Churachandpur district....
A Little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God. A defining moment in a game of football and a moment of recollection to refer to the Legend, a genius of the winner, the unstoppable force who goes by the name Diego Armando Maradona....
For mountain dwellers, mankind and land is an association that has borne survival and kinship among generations for as long as one can remember. In the story of evolving from being the descendants of ‘hunters and gatherers’ to ‘settled farmers’ our very marker of existence has revolved around the...
THE KUKI-NAGA ethnic conflict ignited in mid-1992, began in a small town of Moreh in Chandel district, Manipur.
It was marked by the Kuki Student Organisation's (KSO) May 1992, "Quit Notice" which demanded that all Nagas leave the town within 24 Hours, forcing thousands of innocent helpless Nagas to abandon...