250 musicians are Rockin’ In A Free World! Lyrics There’s colors on the streetRed, white and bluePeople shufflin’ their feetPeople sleepin’ in their shoesBut there’s a warnin’ sign on the road aheadThere’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off deadDon’t feel like Satan, but I am to themSo I try to forget it… Read More Rockin’ in the Free World
Each side claims it is wronged more and harmed worse. One community, the Kuki, is forced to prove its Indianness and patriotism. The other, the Meitei, is forced to hide its unease and let advocates mumble about its umbilical relation with the mainland’s Hinduism, even if it at times requires the community to be falsely… Read More How Manipur Is Forced To Parade Their Losses To An Ignorant India
गुरुग्राम दंगों की आशंका को नज़दीक से देख रहा है बल्कि दस साल से देखता ही आ रहा है। जिस मानेसर की पहचान मारुति, होंडा, जैगुआर फिटिंग, जिंदल स्टील प्लांट से हुआ करती है, मैन्यूफैक्चरिंग सेक्टर से हुआ करती है, वहां के मज़दूरों के जागरूक संघर्ष से हुआ करती है,उसकी जगह अब एक नया मानेसर… Read More Ravish Kumar: गुरुग्राम बन गया है मोनूग्राम Gurugram is now Monugram / Sikh community rescued Sohna mosque residents
The Modi government’s dangerous politicisation of the Indian Army SUSHANT SINGH The scenes were unusual, the response extraordinary. At around 2 pm on 24 June, an army column arrested 12 members of a Meitei separatist group, the Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup, in Itham, a village in Manipur’s Imphal East district. Among them was Moirangthem Tamba,… Read More Lock Step
How the BJP is enabling ethnic cleansing in Manipur Greeshma Kuthar “I DIDN’T shut up. I asked them how they can behave like this with another woman,” an 18-year-old Kuki woman told me, recalling her abduction and assault, in which Meira Paibis had played a major part. The Meira Paibis—the name translates to “torch-bearing women”—are a… Read More Fire and Blood
देश का सुप्रीम कोर्ट कह रहा है कि मणिपुर में मई से लेकर जुलाई तक कानून व्यवस्था नाम की कोई चीज़ नहीं थी। कोई कानून नहीं था। कोर्ट की तरफ से उठ रहे सवाल बता रहे हैं कि तीन महीने बीत जाने के बाद भी केंद्र और राज्य सरकार वहां किस तरह नाकाम रही है।… Read More मणिपुर में सरकारी मशीनरी ध्वस्त: SC | Breakdown Of Machinery in Manipur: Supreme Court
NB: Elections are approaching so our rulers are doing what they know best: spreading hatred and violence. These two journalists are among many who are trying to warn us Modi और Godi Media के इस गेम में फंसे तो कहीं के नही रहेंगे ये दंगे क्या 2024 का ट्रेलर हैं ?| Deepak Sharma
Note: The two links below are recordings of public lectures given by me under the kind auspices of The Raza Foundation (October 4, 2019), titled The Compass We Lost; and ANHAD Collective, titled Love at Work, Mahatma Gandhi’s Last Struggle (January 14, 2017). Dilip Simeon: The Compass We Lost <— link to AV Love at… Read More The compass we lost
Mukul Kesavan The violence in Manipur exhibits two symptoms – The impunity with which Meitei mobs have been allowed to loot police armouries and the instrumental use of rape to announce the end of Kuki citizenship Meiteis make up more than half the population of Manipur. They see themselves as Manipur’s defining majority and their claim… Read More Tipping point
The mining efforts in Manipur failed to recognize the indigenous community rights over their land and resources. The MoUs contracted with mining companies by GOM were without consultation of the communities and without revealing details of these MoUs and adverse implications. The details of MoUs and mining plan in general in Manipur has not been… Read More Jiten Yumnam: Nuances of mining plan in Manipur
After the truth-shower 