Wish every Indian by birth, identity, history, emotion and affinity a happy Independence Day! May
#IndependenceDay2023
renew our commitment and zeal to keep our unity, diversity, tolerance and respect for each other flying high ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ
#HarGharTiranga
#HarGharTirangaAbhiyan2023
Black day for humanity. Two minors from Imphal were abducted from Bishnupur (district in Manipur) and killed. Their fault? They were
#Meitei
. Can see the young boy protective about his friend who is frightened but what could he do when confronting such hate elements?
I hope
#AssamRifles
realises they were chased away fm Kangla Fort Imphal for misconduct in 2004 and can be chased away from the whole state
#Manipur
for their misconduct with women (viral video of dancing with them) & biased activity during the current crisis.
@arnab5222
Please write your message on paper, don a black tee and join in. Let us flood social media with our faces, our demands so we are not just numbers but people. Yeh gunda raj nahi chalegi!
Patricia Mukhim from Shillong Times on an interview on The Wire says Kukis cultivate poppy in Manipur because no other cultivation is sustainable but this is completely false. The hills are rich for growing fruits, vegetables. By her logic, drugs business also validated!
I hope
#AssamRifles
realises they were chased away fm Kangla Fort Imphal for misconduct in 2004 and can be chased away from the whole state
#Manipur
for their misconduct with women (viral video of dancing with them) & biased activity during the current crisis.
3 lakh Covid-19 cases (0.3 million) in India in the last 24 hours and cremation grounds getting busier, dead bodies piling up,more people losing their lives to the deadly disease. These deaths aren't statistics but loved ones. Let's offer help to others.Pic: Delhi, Reuters.
There's always more than what meets the eye. Who would have thought western intelligence backing fueling & sustaining the
#ethnicclash
in
#Manipur
for the larger agenda of creating a sanctuary in
#India
for insurgents fighting military junta
#Myanmar
Hills in
#Manipur
#NortheastIndia
rich in nutrients for wide range of fruits, vegetables, tubers, mushroom, bamboo shoot. Name it & it either grows naturally in abundance or bears high quality if cultivated. Patricia Mukhim, Shillong Times shouldn't normalise poppy cultivation.
Patricia Mukhim from Shillong Times on an interview on The Wire says Kukis cultivate poppy in Manipur because no other cultivation is sustainable but this is completely false. The hills are rich for growing fruits, vegetables. By her logic, drugs business also validated!
@MoonFaceP
How convinient for Christiandom to clarify Manipur crisis as not being a religious conflict after 5 months after demonizing
#Meitei
globally. Will these clarifications reach far and wide as our defamation was pushed?
What am I hearing that we need to take formal permission from the police to go caroling! Caroling isn't a public event, it's part of
#Christian
#faith
and
#worship
in
#Christmas
time so why, why, why?
#Meitei
#Manipuris
love
" ngari" fermented fish used as a popular cooking ingredient made following high standards of hygiene & preservation. On the lighter note ngari can be the litmus test of citizenship ๐ If we being called ngari community nothing else needs to be spoken ๐คฃ
Thoubal District Hospital will be developed into a medical college. This is a positive development because
#Manipur
had its third
#medicalcollege
in
#Churchandpur
which had to be shut down due to violence. Peace is the first prerequisite for setting up
#education
institutions.
This was how
#IndependenceDay2023
#HarGharTiranga
was celebrated in
#Imphal
#Manipur
with cute little munchkin leading the way with purity of heart, innocence, good will and hope. This picture is a stark contrast of what the world saw in another part of Manipur on 15 Aug 2023.
Candle Light Protest for Justice for Sushant Singh Rajput is being conducted today 14 Dec 2021 between 4-5.30 PM at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Those who are in Delhi please take out some time to participate in this gathering hosted by the late actor's family.
#JusticeForSSR
I received my Sakhi Bio- Degradable Sanitary Pads I bought on
@amazonIN
for Rs.90 per pack of 8. It decomposes in just 8 days when mixed with mud and is made of pinewood fibre.
School children transit in school bus or van, private vehicles, metro occasionally in bicycles in other parts of India. In Thanga Karang
#Bishnupur
#Manipur
they row canoes.I am taken aback to see no adult in charge of the canoes in such a huge lake as
#LoktakLake
#northeastindia
@ANI
Bravo Bihar Police for the commendable job. Bravo to all those who fought for this day. Sushant must be happy from wherever he is. Rhea hope she goes in for decades. And when she does get out, may God's court give her the harshest punishment for breaking someone's trust.
In
#SupremeCourt
as per government reports 46 places of worship destroyed in
#ethnicclash
#Manipur
till date which INCLUDES (note) temples & churches. Why has
#Archbishop
#Christian
reports given a wrong fact as 249 churches on day
#1
suggesting thousands in 3 months? Intent?
Why is
@timesofindia
contradicting
#Archbishop
's statement claiming 249 churches razed in the first 24 hours of
#ethnicclash
in
#Manipur
? It reminds me of Chinese Whisper a game we played as kids where false communication gives result to an entirely different narrative.
My Kuki friends did not unfriend/unfollow me on social media but my Mizo friend of over a decade did over what's happening in Manipur. Makes me wonder about Mizoram and Mizo's role in all this ๐ค
Condemn the vandalising of
#JNU
Professor
#BimolAkoijam
's car in Delhi by unknown miscreants for his honest appraisal of
#Manipur
's current situation and discussing the causal factors. If you have seen his interviews you will know who must be most unpleased with him.
A society which demonizes women of other community & doubts the authenticity of a rape victim has been infested by termite & maggots & is heading for a pathetic pitiable state. I pray for such society to find light, direction & grace
#SaveMeitei
#Manipur
#SaveManipur
๐๐๐๐๐
This is a time lapse video of
#rains
in
#Bengaluru
over the last few days. Time lapse videos are long videos taken from one place and played at a fast speed making events look faster than they actually are. Whoever has made this masterpiece it looks like the sky is coming down!
Honored with the prestigious global award
@WomenHaveWings
Courage Awards that honors women of extraordinary courage,vision and action. I am deeply grateful and humbled to be among the ten women chosen from around the world to receive this award
@WorldPulse
@YouthKiAwaaz
For the world people become statistics the further they are geographically or culturally from them. I hope what's happening in
#Manipur
rekindles humanity and people respond with sharing resources, their attention, giving their ideas on solutions at different levels & prayers.
Former Executive Director, Manipur Human Rights Commission, Ashoka Fellow, Senior Journalist & a living chronicle Yambem Laba on the
#ethnicclash
in
#Manipur
calling it a preplanned move
#narcoterrorism
backed by legislators linked to militant groups.
#Thalaivi
to be appreciated for the acting and direction as much as for the story of Tamil Nadu's former Chief Minister Jayalalitha a leader with vision, compassion,self confidence,fearlessness and competence. It was a treat to watch
@thearvindswami
@bhagyashree123
after years.
Manipur is unique for so many reasons like we celebrate
#Holi
'Yaoshang' for 5 days with colours, sports in the mornings, dance in the evenings in the community, children visiting relatives for donation and several feasts and on the opening day, look at the beautiful procession.
Women are coming together in
#Manipur
to extend help,support, love & encouragement to the displaced; their loss is just so massive. Coming week is our next distribution of essential items in
#reliefcamps
.
#Donate
or contribute new phaneks & woollen shawls
This bloodbath is unacceptable. How can business go on as usual when so many innocent people are killed in the northeast? Why is this nobody's concern other than the local people?
13 innocent civilians were gunned down by the armed forces in Nagaland's Mon district bordering Myanmar in what looks like a case of mistaken identity during an insurgency operation. Just last month an army officer was gunned down with his wife, 5 year son in Manipur.
What a strange world. Haters of Modi automatically HATE the state, govt, people where BJP in power; haters of saffronist Hindu fundamentalists automatically HATE all Hindu people in every region even if they don't know them. They stand in protest against HATE then!
#SaveManipur
On to a new adventure. Bridging oceans and continents. Asia- Africa. 23 kgs of training material, training manuals, demo kits, tools, sanitary materials. 7 kg of office operations documents and paraphernalia.
Been collecting & distributing sanitary pads to girls & women living in poverty
#Bengaluru
. Now I want to give knickers too after I learnt that girls lack underwear. Thanks to Sharda Loitongbam for her donation. Feels like we're providing essentials for our daughters โคโคโค๐ง๐ง๐ง
Bangalore City Police policing during COVID-19
Back at home, police persons are the most corrupt, bossy, arrogant, rude, ill- behaved and troublesome people and people go to great lengths to avoid them.They should learn a lesson or two from Bangalore city police.
Deeply touched to receive sanitary pads donation from my friend Prema Vishwanathan, an author and journalist based in Bengaluru. She is so supportive she said, " If you need more, let me know." These hygiene items will be distributed in slums in Karnataka
#IMHDay2022
@MHDay28May
If I was in Delhi today, I would be in Jantar Mantar for sure. Sushant's case is not about a film actor. Its about the lies the law enforcement agencies, PR in Bollywood and politicians can weave to close a case of an innocent citizen if it suits their interest
#JusticeForSSR
Candle Light Protest for Justice for Sushant Singh Rajput is being conducted today 14 Dec 2021 between 4-5.30 PM at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Those who are in Delhi please take out some time to participate in this gathering hosted by the late actor's family.
#JusticeForSSR
The cuisine in
#NorthEastIndia
is exotic. Wood ear mushrooms "uchina" is made into "eromba"- a chillies and dry fish based chutney with white peas. I am enjoying uchina eromba, aloo "kanghou"(stir fry) served with steamed rice today.
My love for ethnic wear, handloom, jewelry and other accessories gets appeased when I attend local festivals in northeast. These pictures are of my shopping for tribal earrings made of beads and yarn at the
#tamenglongorangefestival
#15SLOF
in
#Tamenglong
district in
#Manipur
.
(4)
#MeiteiWomen
1977 fought against alchoholism & drug addiction rallying against substance use through "Nisha Bandi" a campaign to save the youth and future of
#Manipur
; 2001 they were a major part of uprising to demand the territorial integrity of the state.
(3) 5000
#MeiteiWomen
fought against forced labour of Manipuri men in the British regime in 1904 (Nupi Lan I /Women's War); against the British in 1939 for famine created by excessive rice export where thousands of unarmed women were killed by the military deployment(Nupi LanII)
@MoonFaceP
What a revelation! All this while Meitei were being demonized for looting arms, which was a false propaganda. Such is the power of fair and professional investigation. Now that the miscreants are with CBI, we can expect more shocking revelations.
The time we waited for 6 long years finally came to realize yesterday!
Landed in Lagos, Nigeria after the longest 24 hours flight on Ethiopian Airlines to be welcomed and showered with love by my best friend
@OlutosinGod
answers prayers, always, if we say the right ones.
Received the prestigious national journalism award in United Nations sponsored Youth Ki Awaaz Summit today 21 Dec 2019 in Dr. Ambedkar International Center, New Delhi and my story on Shirui Lily and Ukhrul/Manipur won the Best Article of 2019 in Environment.
@YouthKiAwaaz
Been trying to identify
#slums
in
#Bengaluru
and contact persons preferably who live there, social worker linked to the slum, even a frontline worker. If you have such a slum or person in mind for our mass distribution of sanitary napkins for girls/ women, please help out.
To call out illegal immigration fm Myanmar into
#Manipur
,
#poppycultivation
,drugs cartel's attempt to create safe haven in the state to spread destruction through drug addiction of the youth inside/outside, capturing land which doesn't belong 2 them
#BengaluruProtest
#SaveManipur
You can take out a Manipuri out of
#Manipur
but you can never take out Manipur from the person. No matter which part of the globe we may be located our hearts are in grief, turmoil, disappointment & trauma. The collective loss and destruction takes us back to 100 years?
Heading to another location Chitou 4 hours from Taipei the capital of Taiwan with a big gang from different countries. I am so happy because the diversity, the positivr attitude of sharing and learning and the weather are superb.
Today I started meeting community leaders from hill districts of Manipur and planning of Breaking the Silence on Menstraution for Noney District and Tamenglong District was done today here in Imphal.
Manipur's
#MirabaiChanu
reaches home after winning the silver medal in weightlifting
#Olympics2020
#Tokyo
, bringing the lone medal and 37th position to India. GoI should divert all the sports infrastructure and facilities development to Manipur for its sports talent.
Why is
@timesofindia
contradicting
#Archbishop
's statement claiming 249 churches razed in the first 24 hours of
#ethnicclash
in
#Manipur
? It reminds me of Chinese Whisper a game we played as kids where false communication gives result to an entirely different narrative.
I was allowed birth, similar school/clothes/toys/outings as my brother, decision to walk out of abusive marriage, live life as divorcee, choose not to remarry,raise my daughter on my own because I had a dad who didn't care a dime for social norms
#CriticalMatter
@OnPurposeComms
Representing India at the 7th Asia-Pacific Youth for Human Rights Summit 2019 in Taiwan tomorrow at 10 AM opening ceremony. This is my first time in carrying the Indian tricolor.
If you develop a relationship with light, darkness cannot touch you. My Diwali was about counting my blessings for having a loving family and few very good friends and for God's healing.
I am at the 7th Asia-Pacific Youth for Human Rights Summit in Taiwan. Today is the second day of the summit and also the day I speak at the summit. I am super excited and spent my morning walking in Chitou Mountain here as part of the guided tour for ambassadors. Wish me luck <3
The World Pulse film is about to be released, globally.Based on the personal story of four women from different parts of the world whose lives took a 360 degrees turn after they found World Pulse, the film is directed by award Rodney Rascona. One of the women is me.
I got your donation
@AshrafEngineer
, the postman just delivered your kindness. Now 10 girls/women will be taken care of for 10 years to manage menatruation hygienically without littering our mother earth. Thank you and god bless for supporting
#breakingthesilence
#campaign
Yay!! Seeing my column(My morning in an electronic cave).My articles on Tamenglong Orange Festival will be featured on the Morning Bell local newspaper. Please subscribe to the daily if you still have not.
Winners of National Competition on
#SolidWasteManagement
org by Breaking the Silence are Madhuri Sinha counselor(Bengaluru),
@_binapani
IT professional(Delhi),
@sushmitamalaviy
public health professional(Delhi) who have won bins for dry & wet waste as prizes & certificates.
You can order a copy of Breaking the Silence 2018 Manipur Campaign Report&support initiative that reaches remotest villages inIndia.Assam,Maharashtra,Nagaland,Karnataka, Manipur,USA are our destinations for today.Our reports are tools for advocacy on menstrual hygiene management.
Today I was interviewed by Finding the Voices ' 1001 Thagatchari' the Gratitude Project of Manipur led by US based Monica Ingudam. It was sheer delight to meet another Manipuri women and have a ' soul to soul' conversation. First time I spoke about my personal life.
Men Take Lead, yet another milestone achieved today!!Honorable Member of Parliament and BJP Delhi President Shri Manoj Tiwari joins Breaking the Silence Campaign to end stigma around menstruation and will lead the historical ride in New Delhi.
#Meitei
community from
#Manipur
are the victims of false narratives, propaganda and media injustice in the current imbroglio because we aren't a minority, tribal or Christian and this country's riding the wave of favouritism & stance is pre determined on political affiliations
Womanโs Equality Day observed in Imphal today by women survivors of the
#Kuki
led ethnic cleansing carried out in
#Manipur
since May 3, 2023. Itโs a call to those who still havenโt heard our cries of help and our appeals for an equal ground for the
#Meitei
Wore Manipuri ethnic attire for my speech. It was time for me to break the silence in this audience among human rights violations custodial deaths, bullying, control of media, child labor, racial discrimination, suicide. 7th Asia Pacific Youth for Human Rights Summit 2019, Taiwan
Speaking at the Women In Corporate Awards 2019 from
@womensweb
on 9th August. Women's leadership is as much a reality now as are the barriers that women leaders face. For someone who has resisted male subjugation at workplace, I have always believed in 'walking the talk.'
50,000 people attended Shirock, the annual rock festival in Ukhrul as the concluding program of Shirui Lily Festival.Can't believe how quick these 4 days have ended! American band Extreme is playing live tonight.Till next year, tata from us!
#ShiruiLilyFestival
@Manipur_Tourism
Received a donation of menstrual cups for my 2019 campaign from Five Days Marketing. I need 500 menstrual cups which I want to introduce to 500 girls/women in rural parts of India who I will be training next year as way to protect our environment. Please donate menstrual cup(s)
Today is the start of a really special journey for me getting to write my own column " Half the Sky" on the same newspaper that's been my friend all this time. From
@TheSangaiExpres
to
@DeccanHerald
, life has come a long way and am deeply grateful.
You are my inspiration, source of strength, wonder woman and I celebrate you today on your birthday
@patkararchana
. Wish you a happy birthday, loads of love, success and joy today and always. Your contribution to menstrual hygiene and women's rights will not be forgotten.
@cynstepin
Christians are the most peaceful, harmonious people. To be insecure of us would be like being afraid of sheep. I remember vividly neighbours complaining when we clapped in our church so our congregation practiced soundless applause thereafter. That's the extent we'd go.
Will somebody explain the logic behind security forces' aggression on students in
#Imphal
using pellet gun, tear gas, lathi & their war and combat skills which seem to be under utilised in the last 5 months they been in
#Manipur
. Why not use it on armed militants in
#CCpur
?
So happy to get more sanitary materials that will be given to girls and women in our village level and school trainings this year. Please donate reusable or cloth pads and biodegradable sanitary napkins also! And don't forget menstrual cups please ๐๐๐
#breakingthesilence
Paojel Chaoba for
#TheFrontier
reporting from ground zero in
#Manipur
- bullets are flying fire fills the horizon. If this makes people aware of size of the problem hope they'll make effort to understand the underlying cause before giving blind gyan on churches & tribals.
What's success rate of Central Bureau of Investigation?
#SushantSinghRajput
&
#JiahKhan
were CBI cases? Did these high profile cases see the light of the day? How important will 2 school students fm
#Manipur
be? Like RAF soldier said, do anything with them, they aren't one of us.
My question to Meghalaya following Patricia Mukhim's statement is will Meghalaya resort to poppy cultivation too bcz
" no other crop cultivation is sustainable in hilly terrain "? Will Meghalaya stop beetlenut, apple and other cultivation because poppy fetches higher income?
Patricia Mukhim from Shillong Times on an interview on The Wire says Kukis cultivate poppy in Manipur because no other cultivation is sustainable but this is completely false. The hills are rich for growing fruits, vegetables. By her logic, drugs business also validated!
Vocalist and Founder of the Band GMP and Gospel musician, James Riamei from Manipur extends his support to Breaking the Silence, a campaign that is aimed to end shame around menstruation in a country where menstruating girls and women are considered polluting.
The Honourable Chief Minister of Manipur Shri N. Biren launched Breaking the Silence Manipur 2018 Campaign Report today in Imphal at Chief Minister's Office, Imphal, Manipur
@patkararchana
@WorldPulse
@YouthKiAwaaz
@jensine
Today one year back I was in Nigeria living a long cherished dream to be with my friend and fellow social worker Olutosin. They say the route to a friend's house is never too long.
Deeply honored to receive the prestigious The Laadli Media & Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2020 from Population First and
@UNFPA
for my article "A community awaits electricity and healthcare for 39 years" which bagged the Best News Feature (print). Thanks
@Laadli_PF