Silence of Indigenous Communities

As the country simmers in protest against the amended Citizenship Act, tribal areas in the North-east have been uncannily calm. Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 20 January 2020. The Parliament of India passed the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on 11 December, and it received the assent of the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, on 12 December turning the bill […]

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Misrepresenting the past

Given the fragile ethnic relations among groups with conflicting experiences, history must be written carefully By Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 25 November 2019 On 16 October 2019, the Government of Manipur declared 17 October as a “restricted holiday” for Kukis in the state to commemorate the valour and sacrifice of their forefathers, who fought a resistance war against a colonial empire […]

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Politics of remembering

By Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, October 14, 2019 Although the Manipur uprising of 1891 has been widely commemorated in the state, the Kuki uprising from 1917-1919 still has no place in public memory Two political occurrences were considered to be the “most significant” during the British rule in Manipur — the Manipur uprising of 1891 and the Kuki uprising from […]

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Deepening crisis in Manipur

The severe liquidity crunch in the state primarily stems, not from a lack of funds, but from failure of governance. Thongkholal Haokip | June 24, 2019 On 12 June, the Government of Manipur put on hold all recruitment processes in its various departments and undertakings. This notice came after the Reserve Bank of India instructed the State Bank of India […]

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How the hills of Manipur voted

Voting patterns in the Outer Manipur Parliamentary constituency exhibited the deep ethnic divide between groups, which were in conflict in the past and continue to simmer By Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 10 June 2019. The hills of Manipur, a hotbed of ethnic conflicts in the 1990s, went to polls on 11 April. The Outer Manipur Parliamentary seat is reserved for […]

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Northeast to the centre

Indian Express The region has emerged as an important battleground in this election. April 7, 2014 12:02:46 am By: Thongkholal Haokip With just 25 Lok Sabha seats, India’s Northeast has been a largely neglected region in electoral terms. However, in the era of coalition governments, because of the expectation of a fractured verdict in 2014, it has increasingly received political attention. […]

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Challenges before the new Manipur government

Thongkholal Haokip The Seven Sisters Post, April 25, 2012 The recently held state assembly elections in Manipur were mired with widespread proxy voting and mass manipulation of photos leading to not only one but two re-polls. Despite the poor handing of the 120-day economic blockade imposed on the two national highways by Sadar Hill Districthood Demand Committee (SHDDC) and a […]

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Retrospection of Nungbrang Incident

Thongkholal Haokip Imphal Free Press, January 22, 2010 Time and again the Kuki people had been subjected to various forms of abuses and revilement by our so called neighbouring communities, not taking into account the galore intimidations and killings perpetrated by the security forces and militant groups. Such irreverent incidents were vented in curses with minimum justice that can be […]

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