Voices

While the newsrooms are noisy as usual the conference hall was marked by silence on that particular day. After a long pause, my boss and senior colleague Durbar Ganguly opened his eyes and said as long as there is...

Moscow: Russian observers have not registered any significant violations in the Syrian presidential election that could affect vote legitimacy, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian lower chamber's international affairs committee, said on Thursday.Earlier in the day, EU foreign...

In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, The North-East Affairs caught up with top Indian woman mountaineer Priyanka Mohite to find out what all is happening at her front.We discover she has not self-isolated herself like most of us. Rather, she...

I“Oksha di nang thongo. Eromba di ei shemke” (You cook pork. I will prepare eromba). Or “Hoksa ina hangkei. Eromba nana semlu” (I will cook pork. You prepare eromba). This could be any random conversation between two friends; a...

There is an intimacy between the body and the cloth we wear. In fact, clothing is, as Marshall McLuhan in his well-known work, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, puts it, “extension of our private skin”. To that extent, clothes are...

The enemy’s shell can land in our camp whereas ours cannot in theirs. My fellow countrymen! It is a disgrace to die fleeing. Death is now certain for us. But we will never retreat: Paona BrajabashiManipur, a land of natural...

“Please do not mention women’s body or body parts in public gatherings” is perfectly a prudent and normal societal code in a patriarchal world. But it is a deeply problematic appeal to be made by those who are fighting against...

“Women are not only walking talking vaginas”, declares Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar in public.“Please do not mention women’s body while speaking in public gatherings”, screams a headline in a newspaper, quoting a women’s group in Manipur.No, don’t get it...

The history of the modern game of polo is inextricably intertwined with Manipur. For, this is the place where polo originated. It all began when two British officers, Lieutenant Joe Sherer and Captain Robert Stewart saw the Manipuri princes...