The writer is editor, ‘Imphal Free Press’ and author of ‘The Northeast Question: Conflicts and Frontiers’.
May 06,2023 12:59:48 PM
Tension over parallel narratives of marginalisation had been building up for a while, needing only a spark for the violence to erupt
August 17,2019 10:08:36 AM
Easterine Kire’s book provides vivid portraiture of a people on the fringes of the frames of conventional historiography
March 05,2018 00:08:11 AM
The party has grown roots in Tripura, brought a tectonic political shift. Its success in Meghalaya and Nagaland is more dependent on others.
May 02,2017 00:05:35 AM
SC ruling rejecting immunity to armed forces in ‘war-like’ situations has profound implications
March 20,2017 01:22:59 AM
No one doubts Irom Sharmila’s heroic resistance to AFSPA. But somewhere, she lost her bearings, confused moral strength with temporal power
February 18,2017 00:20:02 AM
In Manipur, Congress battles fatigue, BJP struggles to grow roots. And Irom Sharmila makes a poll debut
December 22,2016 03:23:52 AM
The current crisis in Manipur must trouble us all. Blockades embitter entire populations.
August 20,2016 00:36:32 AM
A decade from now, there would probably be only scattered archival materials and secondary sources to draw from for such a project.
February 28,2016 00:04:57 AM
This situation also brings to mind Earnest Renan’s famous line that the “nation is a daily plebiscite”, signifying that national identity is constructed and not intrinsic.
