Kum bang zah hiam paita in, lamka khawpi vengkhat ah teng Chiching(min kibang tampi om ahihman in nou min tawh a kibat khak leh ana theisiam un) te innkuan teng uhi… Innkuan khosakna ah nuamsa leh mi hausa innkuan ahi kei ua, nektawm zong a kilawh tawm a khosa bel ahi kei ua, apa pension
In a Quiet Little Corner of the City | By Vanglian Tonsing
Lapalang’s Madan (a khasi word for ground) – just like any other in the north-east’s hilly tracts, this is what a football ground looks, feels and behaves like around the slopes in Shillong – the land taken over by the clouds. Five months of sub-tropical monsoon showers and regular sprinkling of rain through the rest
LIFE MOVES ON | By Themneivah Sitlhou
Life is like a flower that blooms and dies. Life is like a fog in the morning which can clear any minute. Life is like a colourful rainbow full of experience, and ups and downs. Is life already determined by God even before we exist!!? This is a controversial issue. I won’t bother in proving
HEHPIHNA BEI TDS – 194N | By: Lianzamung Tonsing @ Mumung Tonsing
Government of India in sum a muhna uh tuh tax ahi. Source of Income tuamtuam tampi leng a nei ding ua, himahleh a sum muh na naakpi uh tuh tax ahi chih kuaman i haih kei. Government in tax toh kisai a income amuh nate beu lian pipi a khen ding hileng Income Tax, GST,
COMMON SENSE | By Themneivah Sitlhou
Humans have five basic senses: Touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. These help us understand what is happening around us and help us percieve them. Common sense is the additional sense of the other five senses in human body. Also,it is an internal sense formerly believed to be the sense by which information from the
In Solidarity : Lamka Vangkhua | By Vanglian Tonsing
A football pitch with a cross towering in the backdrop amidst the scenic hills; both a delicate glimpse of hope in this despairing town, Lamka. What really is it that brings us all together? In times when communities are divided in bitterness and disputation and chaos erupt for vague causes. When streets are overflowed with
Diversion: The political masterpiece? The validity (vanity) of the Chief Minister’s excuses on the helpless conditions of roads in Manipur | By Janghaolun Haokip
Jiribam, Henglep, Sapormaina to Kholep on Imphal-Dimapur road (NH-2), have frequently been on the news making big headlines and cover stories. These deteriorating conditions of roads and the sufferings of people have attracted wide criticism from people from all walks of life. The politicians are unsparing themselves for people’s sake (hopefully) as the opposition is
The cry for Justice! (Kuki Black Day –as a challenge to Justice and Humanity) | By Janghaolun Haokip
If ‘Justice delayed is Justice denied’, then the Kukis have been denied Justice –their rights to live with dignity and integrity. In fact, for almost three decades now the Kukis have been demanding Justice for the victims of the ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ or the “Kuki Genocide” carried out by the NSCN IM against the Kukis. Will
The message of the dead | By Janghaolun Haokip
The bodies burnt turns to ashes, and those that are buried kisses and ends up with the soil underneath. Who knows where the dead go? Who knows what remains of a life when one stops to breathe? Who knows what happens to the bodies that are burnt and the coffins that are buried? Who knows
MEITEITE THEI IN – Part FOUR | By Vungzamuan Valte
SANAMAHISMMeitei Culture ah sahkhua khat apu apate uapat a biakna dan uh Ancestor worhip kichi, Animism chikhat nei ua huaichu SANAMAHISM ahi hi. Hiai pupate biakna leh sahkua aneih pen uh kum zatampi mangthang sak kha ua, Hindu siampute leh Hindu gods/vai-pathian tampite koppih in khangtampi petmah ana mangthang uhi. Meitei te ahong khanglou thak