NEVER HAD a slight thought about such a big and catastrophic event would ever happen in Manipur. It seemed just like yesterday when I went to college and sat together with my Kuki friends and learned their culture and language. Remembering the past when I went to Churachandpur and...
THE DEMAND for implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Manipur would need to be understood and considered with reference to the origin of NRC and its implementation in Assam which is the only state where NRC is being implemented.
From 1979 to 1985, Assam was in turmoil as...
THERE ARE nuances in the way the government is handling the internally displaced persons in the valley and in the hills. The displaced persons in the valley are camped in educational institutions, government offices and sometimes in “fabricated shelter houses” with the understanding that they will be allowed to...
The recent and ongoing ethnic conflict of such magnitude and grievous nature which started on May 3, 2023, in Manipur, cannot be attributed to a monocausal. It is a product of multi-causes and the explosion of pent-up anger, emotion, and historical wrong. The mistrust among the ethnic groups is...
THE Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur (STDCM) has given a press release on 21st of February 2024 targeting the memorandum submitted by All Naga Student’s Association, Manipur (ANSAM) to the Hon’ble Governor on 17th February 2024. A news item was published on this matter in The Sangai Express...
AIR OF DESPONDENCY has set in after ten months of ethnic conflict with no end in sight but fear that Nagas may be drawn into the conflict.
The scenario in Manipur in brief.More than 3000 guns looted from the police armouries are still with the radical elements who flaunt it...
Recently, a certain nine-minute and forty-six-second video clip on the Manipur Legislative Assembly House proceeding went viral on social media. In the video, member of Hill Areas Committee member Shri Alfred Kanngam Arthur called on the Speaker of the House for clarification on disproportionate allocation in the Manipur’s budget....
IT WAS William McCulloch, the British Political Agent in Manipur who resettled the Kukis in 1840s in the ancestral lands of the Nagas to create his infamous ‘buffer zone’ as a policy to contain any resistance by pitching the Kukis’ mercenaries against the Nagas, the Burmese and the Lushais....
THE INDIGENOUS Liangmai people were the first settlers on the Koubru Mountain, located in present-day Kangpokpi district at an elevation of 2,562 metres above the sea level. As per historical chronology, the Liangmai indigenous settlement on the Koubru Range occurred after the exodus of Makuiluangdi Charanam. The Liangmai people...
Three distinct communities constitute the State of Manipur. Two of them are the Naga and Kuki tribes while the other is the non-tribal Meitei. Whenever demands are made by the Meitei, who is the dominant community representing more than half of the population of Manipur, the tribes have not...