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11 months

Like arson attacks began at Torbung on May 3, gun snatching too began at Ccpur on the same afternoon.

Puppet on a string

The conflict has already taken an officially-confirmed toll of 175 people dead, 1,118 injured and 32 missing. Of the dead, 96 are still in state mortuaries, their bodies yet to be claimed

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9 months

ST status holds no special attraction for me nor am I keen to oppose the demand, but I can't understand this paranoia Meiteis will land grab if they become ST. Even now can one ST, say Maram, simply go and set up a village in Ukhrul or Chandel. So how is it different for Meiteis.

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Sr. journalist, Subir Bhaumik wrote this monograph "Insurgencies in India's NE: Conflict, Co-option & Change" commissioned by East West Centre in July 2007. His premonition of the present uneasy relationship between Meiteis, Kukis and AR, is evident. See highlights.

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11 months

It turns out, as suspected, the EGI fact finding team to Manipur was Army invited/funded. The EGI should have said this instead of claiming it was a crowd funded independent mission.

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11 months

Concentration of troops in Manipur with no action to arrest the problem could be a gameplan to draw Meitei insurgents from their Myanmar camps into the conflict so they can be cornered to enter negotiations like Nagas & Kukis.

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11 months

Sizing up deadly conflicts is certainly not for parachute journalists or parachute fact finding teams.

Manipur crisis and the difficulty of representing trauma during a conflict situation

The unprecedented bloody feud in Manipur between the Kuki-Zo group and the Meiteis crossed the four-month mark on September 3, yet there is no sign of this trag

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11 months

Didn't our CM say Amit Shah told him, he (CM) should rein in the valley (Meira Paibis) and he would ensure hills return to normalcy. Shouldn't Shah then be made answerable for the two murdered kids.

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10 months

AFSPA should be removed totally, provided all are ready for state forces in equal strength. You cannot say no AFSPA and no state forces as well. In the valley, police are a potent force so AFSPA could be dispensed. If deemed needed anytime, it needs very little to bring it back.

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11 months

Crisis opens your eyes to people who you never expected would be genuinely concerned about your troubles, but quite hurtfully and surprisingly you also get to sense so many others who slyly wish you ill.

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11 months

Let those in this fight remember we are a tiny spec on the spectrum of concern -- national as well as international -- remembered momentarily for troubles, then forgotten to fight and suffer alone. Only those in this mess can wake up and set things right, not anybody else.

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11 months

Maybe somebody should file a PIL to have the EGI reveal who are in the "crowd" which funded their Manipur mission.

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9 months

",,,whether or not to impose president’s rule or whether or not to replace the chief minister, N. Biren Singh, have come to be interpreted as victory or defeat for one or the other party and no longer as a means to usher in normalcy.

State withdrawal

For the State’s monopoly over potential violence to gain legitimacy, it has to first convince people that the coercive means in its hands are for the security of the State and its people

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11 months

EGI should have concentrated on bad reporting cases only, and not jumped their brief to pretend they know everything about the inner dynamics of the Manipur conflict.

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11 months

The case of the two murdered children had been handed over to the CBI in July itself because of its sensitivity, just as the one of naked parade was. The emergence of the photos of the murder merely made the matter more urgent. So what's all the fuss about.

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9 months

Never could have imagined such extensive hatred was possible until now. Healing must begin.

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11 months

The raw malevolence of mob violence deserves severe penalty, but this is nothing compared the nihilistic darkness of cold blooded execution. This is simply beyond even the very notion of human morality. Luwangbi's haunting eyes said this eloquently.

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9 months

"Amid this, it is painful to tolerate the naïve cockiness of many watching the conflict from social media gallery seats with patronising pretensions of foreknowledge of what fair representation of Manipur’s agony should be."

Manipur caught between healing and forgetting

The agonising conflict between the once-fraternal communities Kuki-Zo and Meitei in Manipur is at the half-year mark. While the state government remains clueles

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11 months

We were taught the media's credo is to speak truth to power, not become PR agents, directly or indirectly, for power or any of its institutions.

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10 months

Dissent is not treason. Dangerous for all if the opposite thought is given social legitimacy.

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Tangle in Tawang

It is unlikely that Kiren Rijiju is unaware of Tawang’s recent history

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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8 months

My column in The New Indian Express today in which I argue identity is fiction in line with Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities".

The fluidity of identities in the Northeast

The Northeast ethnic cauldron is known for regularly boiling over. This is only to be expected. Long before the arrival of modern administration brought by the

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11 months

One way of controlling poppy menace is to legalise it. Profit margin will drop for it will no longer be for the illegal narcotics business but for pharma industry. The problem is, small farmers who cannot sustain on official rates will drop out, and big pharmas will take over.

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10 months

The greatest victory is war won by statesmanship not war

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10 months

In my monthly column in TNIE today, I talk of the need for a common denominator, not necessarily identical land law in Manipur.

Ancient frictions find an echo in Manipur crisis

It is despairing to watch Manipur continue to spiral deeper into the heart of darkness, almost completely out of the administration’s control. After the initial

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11 months

The idea of the withering away of the state and the dictartorship of the proletariat given a grotesque twist in Manipur.

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10 months

Over sensitivity of other's opinions is a sign of insecurity and lack of self esteem. Slanders should be challenged (though not by intimidation) but certainly not opinions.

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10 months

From Nagaland with love and wishes for Manipur's return to normalcy

One In Love for Manipur / Official Music Video / Various Artists of...

Written & Composed: Hailung ZeliangMusic Arranged: Alem AliaVideography: Visual Notes EntertainmentAudio Recorded: Tribes StudioAdditional Music: Wangching V...

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10 months

It is also ironic to plead for deployment of Army but complain against AFSPA which legally enables Army to do civil duty.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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11 months

Let me clarify. I am not saying that CBI is the answer to the problem. I am instead calling out those who claim the case of the murdered teens is given preferred treatment by way of prompt handing over to the CBI.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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10 months

Still waiting for 30 copies of my second book which returned to sender twice, also for another book sent to me for review, and today I received an email that a 100 dollar cheque sent as another tranche of royalty for my first book too has returned undelivered. Alas.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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10 months

At Naypyidaw this day 2015. I was part of the 5-member Indian delegation at Naypyidaw for the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. Today, despite the 2021 Military coup, India was there again to commemorate the 2015 event.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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9 months

Sea about to erase my footprints at a Goa beach this morning: Recalled my favourite lines: "There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after." Ecclesiastes 1:11

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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9 years

My EPW article on chest thumping stenographers. India’s War Against Itself http://t.co/Rh72dcD5JK

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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10 months

My review of Samrat Choudhury's book on NE. Beautifully researched and written, but not without it's share of moles and warts, especially in some unwarranted conflation of the British maps of economic concerns and strategic concerns. Still, lovely read.

Untying the knots

Each state gets 40 pages on an average, except Sikkim that has 20 pages, half of which is concluding commentary on book

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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9 years

My IFP editorial today also appeared in The Wire.

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8 years

My EPW article on the McMahon Line controversy.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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10 months

My parcel of 30 of my own second book which was due for delivery early May has had to return to the sender twice. I am informed it has been resent and I am waiting for it again.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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8 months

My review of IFFI Goa carried by The Hindu today. However, you have to be a subscriber of The Hindu on web to read the full article.

Around the world: an account from the 54th International Film Festival of India

Experience a cinematic journey around the world at IFFI Goa with 270 films from 105 countries.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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11 months

An author and intellectual I admire immensely.

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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8 years

My EPW article on the McMahon Line

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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9 years

Violence In Manipur Has Much to Do With Shrinking Space and Economic Opportunities http://t.co/WISWpr2SQI via @thewire_in

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9 years

Fear & loathing: why Manipur may bring back a British permit system http://t.co/ctjiJvgStN

Fear & loathing in Manipur: why the state may bring back a British permit system

Why are Manipuris agitating to bring back a British system? Find out

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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11 years

Trailor of award winning documentary "The Only Real Game" (baseball in Manipur) on Vimeo.

THE ONLY REAL GAME - Trailer

THE ONLY REAL GAME is a fighters' and dreamers' story about the magic of baseball for people in a remote and troubled place. The tiny state of Manipur,…

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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9 years

Though journalists have given up doubting authorities these days, let us still take Myanmar's denial with a pinch of salt until truth known.

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9 years

Ghost of the Shillong Accord 1975 will have to be first exorcised for a new Naga accord to work. http://t.co/xOdkvfQpsJ via @thewire_in

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9 years

Manipur Violence Subsides, But it's Not Quite Yet Over http://t.co/7um9505Dnp via @thewire_in

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9 years

My article on the Nagaland editors' face off with the Assam Rifles:

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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12 years

The Orphans of the Sino-Indian War: 50 Years Later, What Next for the Tibetans? http://t.co/GL5g5OhU

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Pradip Phanjoubam

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8 months

@MaxFisher895753 I am talking about identity per se, not any particular identity. Indian identity, American identity... all identities, are born out of stories people chose to belong to. Therefore resolving these frictions can be about these stories becoming more accommodative.

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@MoonFaceP Cannot join as speaker

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