By Thongkholal Haokip in Economic and Political Weekly, 2022, 57(14), 25-28. The conflict about the proposed Manipur (Hill Areas) Autonomous District Councils Bill in Manipur is a manifestation of the deep divide between the hills and the valley, and the exercise of political hegemony over the hill areas of the state. Beyond the melee, a close examination of the bill […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip in Rakhee Bhattacharya (ed.). Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on India’s North East. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2019. This chapter has laid down a critical alternative to understand ‘development through trade’ by relocating India’s Northeast in its highly debated Act East Policy. The Northeast which was ‘a meeting ground, a transit point and the southern trials […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip in Jelle J.P. Wouters and T.B. Subba (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Northeast India, New Delhi: Routledge, September 2022, pp. 434-439. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003285540-72 Writing on hill politics in Northeast India at the time when most of the hilly areas of the region were still demanding statehood Shibanikinkar Chaube contends “that until the British advent, the notion of territorial […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip in Amita Singh (ed.) International Handbook of Disaster Research, Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022. The experience and knowledge of older generation on disaster are rich with local warning indicators from birds, animals and other natural phenomena. Stories about natural disasters in the past are found in oral literatures, songs, poems and even lullabies. Such past knowledge can not […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip Tribal bodies in the North-east, with perniciously self-serving leaders at the helm, usurp the role of constitutionally recognised traditional institutions. Tribalism & its tragedy Tension gripped Nagaland in early 2017 over the reservation of one-third seats for women in urban local bodies of the state. It happened after the Naga Mothers’ Association, which is functioning as an […]
» Read moreMemories of the gruesome Tamei massacre haven’t faded for the Kukis as they continue to observe a traditional rite every year until the crime is resolved according to their customary laws. Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 13 September 2021. Fulltext PDF Lingering trauma of a black September Twenty-eight years ago, on 13 September, 88 innocent civil- ians, including a multitude of […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip Gangpijang kho hi 1961 kum in ana kisat nin, atamjo Naga hon India douna a gal ahinsat kipat uva chuleh amaho tamna Manipur sahlang gamkai a cheng Kuki ho asuhtheng nom jeh uva ahin nodoh ahilouleh ahung jamdoh ho grouping centre anahi. Hiche ahung kichondoh kho ho chu ahileh tua Ukhrul district lhumlam gamkai a ana um […]
» Read moreThongkholal Haokip The melee surrounding the proposed district councils bill in Manipur is nothing but a manifestation of deep divide between the hills and valley. A collective of eighteen MLAs from the hill areas of Manipur, including Chairman of the Hill Areas Committee, drafted “The Manipur (Hill Areas) Autonomous District Councils Bill, 2021” to be introduced in the 13th Session […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip Originally written on July 24, 2011, in a group email. We have been discussing and sharing our views on the recently concluded “Nampi Kipumkhatna Maicham”. Different approaches have been taken ranging from accusation, biblical, pessimism to optimism based on one’s personal background and also on the propensity with the parties involved in the erection of the monumental […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip Sadar Hills was burning in September 2007 during the Manipur panchayat polls. The two Kuki organisations, Sadar Hills District Demand Committee (SHDDC) and Kuki Students Organisation (KSO), opposed the inclusion of some areas in Sadar Hills under Panchayati Raj system. Violence rocked during the panchayat elections held on September 19, 2007, where supporters of the SHDDC and […]
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