Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, (New Delhi), 12 August 2019, p. 14. The presence of faculty as executive members of students’ unions in colleges in India, particularly in the North-east, goes against the rationale with which the unions should be set up On 22 June this year, I got a chance to visit Churachandpur Government College for the first time. The […]
» Read moreThe 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 […]
» Read moreVoting 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 […]
» Read moreIndian 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. […]
» Read moreThongkholal 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 […]
» Read moreThongkholal 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 […]
» Read moreThongkholal Haokip Ahsijolneng – The Monthly Voice of KSO Shillong, October 30th 2005. A year had passed since a two day seminar on Manmasi Identity (Kuki-Chin-Mizo) in Northeast India was held from 15th to 17th October, 2004 at Bethany Home, Shillong. In that seminar Dr. Khuplam, Dr. Seilen and Father Peter Tongmang presented papers related to the aforesaid topic. They […]
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