By Thongkholal Haokip L. Salemphai (Wakan) Baptist Church Golden Jubilee Souvenir, 2019 India sah solam gamkai a cheng ho lah a haosa a kivaipo thinglhangmi ho lah a haosa hereditary hi a chejom jing chu Kukite hi hettheipen khat ahi. Masang chun isopiu Lushei ho jong eiho bang in ana kivaipo un, ahin Mizo gal lai chun ana subei taovin […]
» Read moreThe cultivation of poppy in the hills of Manipur should be taken as a crisis of agriculture THONGKHOLAL HAOKIP The Statesman, 30 November 2020. In 2018, a year after he came to power, the N Biren Singh government launched a “war on drugs” to curb trafficking, illicit crop cultivation and consumption. The Narcotics and Affairs of Border department of Manipur […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, October 12, 2020 On 7 October, 249 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Manipur, among whom 234 were local residents without travel histories and six were personnel from the Central Armed Police Force. Only nine were visitors or returnees to the state, which is just 3.6 per cent of the total number to have tested positive […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 14 September 2020 Community based organisations in the hills of the North-east are imposing time tested traditional systems of local governance during the pandemic In these times, social distancing is an important public health measure to combat the extremely contagious coronavirus disease. There is a doubt about the practicability of social distancing in India given our […]
» Read moreThongkholal Haokip, Lamhil (A Monthly Newsletter of KSO Delhi), September 2020. Kum somthum le gup jouvin ichennao India gam a sorkar in National Education Policy (NEP) 1986 chu akhel din NEP thah hung kisem chu lha masa Lhadou lhalhun kon nisim 29 ni chun India Inpi semang pachong hon phatsahna ananei taovin ahi. Hiche phengmai 60 jen a kisunlha India pumpi […]
» Read moreThe mass stifling of college teachers in Manipur through imposition of the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules is an impairment of their profession Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, September 1, 2020 PDF On 10 August 2020, the Nongthombam Biren Singh government in Manipur, through the Directorate of University and Higher Education, issued an office memorandum enforcing the Central Civil Services (Conduct) […]
» Read moreItems of clothing in the leirum or luirim motif have sparked off traditional ownership claims in Manipur Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 27 July 2020 On 14 April 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his tele- vised address to the nation regarding the second phase of the lockdown wore a traditional scarf as a facemask. The political circle in Imphal was […]
» Read moreIn the hills of the North-east, lockdown and quarantine measures primarily stem from the time-honoured cultural understanding of communicable diseases and epidemics By Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 1 June 2020. In these times of the Covid-19 pandemic, hill areas of the North-eastern region were the first to voluntarily enforce a lockdown and people had taken steps quite early on to […]
» Read moreThongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 27 April 2020 Perpetrators of the arson last month in Manipur’s Chassad village seem to have gone unpunished Chassad village in Manipur was in the news for more than a week for the arson committed by its neighbouring villages last month. Located at the district headquarters of the newly formed Kamjong district in the North-eastern hills […]
» Read moreProtests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Meghalaya are more about demanding the implementation of the Inner Line Permit system in the state Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 16 March 2020. On 28 February this year, a clash between protesters and supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act broke out in Ichamati village near the Meghalaya- Bangladesh border. One of the protesters […]
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