Ukhrul: In an effort to recognize the increasing threats posed by climate change and other factors, a joint team of Ukhrul-based journalists and concerned departmental officials conducted a one-day spot survey of Shirui Kashong (Lilium Macklinae), Kashong Timrawon in Tangkhul dialect, the state flower of Manipur, on Saturday.
The...
Recently the oil spill at Baghjan in Upper Assam caused a massive explosion and the authorities are still trying to douse the fire. Nearby villages had to be evacuated and a lot of irreversible damage has been caused to the farmland. This unfortunate incident becomes all the more important...
OUR HOUSEHOLD kitchen garden concept is profoundly based on British era gardening. It is the basic of rural community food security and asset creation.
Home garden in Ukhrul is a family enterprise. It is a natural based solution that can help in preserving the environmental stability and maintaining biodiversity and...
How often have you heard older people or your relatives ask what you do and when they hear you’re not a science person, they seem to almost not know what to do with your answer and begin to ask how useful it is and how much you earn?
Personally, a...
The familiar tracks frequented by toiling farmers
Are lost to the spreading lines of blackness
That stretches its colonising claws from cities,
Crawling maliciously towards the emerald hillocks.
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It brings noise, smoke, greed, and filth.
Hungry faces poke out from four-by-fours
Looking for game, sniffing for adventure,
Scanning for impressions on the forest floor.
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Gone are the...
“She will love herself, Like no man ever did”, writes Chirmi Shimray in her new poetry book, Raw. Women, since time immemorial have been the subject of a lesser sex. Shimray’s poetry book defies this subjugation and rises like the Phoenix— where there’s renewal and rebirth.
“Raw— perfectly flawed” by...