Impossibility of social distancing

By 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 […]

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National Education Policy 2020 le Kukite

Thongkholal 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 […]

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Shrinking democratic space

The 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) […]

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Whose gamcha is it anyway?

Items 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 […]

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Trusting indigenous experience

In 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 […]

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Will justice be denied?

Thongkholal 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 […]

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Enduring ethnic fault lines

Protests 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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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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