Tag: Tangkhul

Whose gamcha is it anyway?

Newspaper Opinion

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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Will justice be denied?

Newspaper Opinion

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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