By Thongkholal Haokip Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 59(31), 2024, pp. 36-40. The politics of othering that has emerged from the war on drugs and the emergent forest policy in Manipur is discussed. While the war on drugs is not only anachronistic in its approach but also selective in its outrage, the forest policy is mainly the re-manifestation of the […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip Contributions to Indian Sociology, 56(1), February 2022, pp. 1-5. Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities in the hills of Northeast India fought the epidemic by taking recourse to traditional preventive health measures, both sealing off villages and quarantining to combat the spread of the highly infectious coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. These traditional emergency health measures grew out of local […]
» Read moreBy 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 […]
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