NHRC finally says it out loud: A National Highway cannot be an ethnic border
Dec 11, 2025For thirty months, a national highway in India functioned like an international border—until a single citizen’s complaint forced the system to wake up. Now, with a deadline ticking toward January 4, the question is whether Manipur will finally reclaim its own road.
The Price of Your Battery: Youth, Rare Earths and Escalating Violence in Africa
Dec 11, 2025Every time we swipe, scroll, or recharge, we tap into a hidden global struggle. Few realise that Africa’s young miners are paying the highest price for the world’s clean-energy ambitions.
Towards a Win-Win Strategy for Meitei and Kuki in Manipur
Dec 11, 2025The only lasting way out of Manipur’s agony is a genuine win-win settlement between the Meitei and Kuki communities. Yet every honest observer knows that such a settlement will never emerge from the offices of politicians, the bunkers of militants, or the press statements of civil society organisations.
Rooted in Language, Soaring in Learning: NEP-2020 and the Northeast
Dec 10, 2025For decades, schools in the Northeast imposed languages foreign to children’s daily lives. English or dominant regional languages were treated as necessary for mobility, while tribal languages—Mising, Karbi, Tiwa, Rabha, Dimasa, Ao, Konyak, and Khasi—were ignored or sidelined.
A Cry from the Ashes: How India’s Manipur Betrays the Kuki-Zo on World Human Rights Day
Dec 10, 2025Over 60,000 Kuki-Zo people—indigenous tribes and mostly Christians—mark it not with celebration, but in the suffocating squalor of relief camps. They are haunted by the ghosts of over 300 torched villages and a relentless campaign of unpunished atrocities.
Vande Mataram: Revered, Not a Political Plaything
Dec 09, 2025Vande Mataram is not simply a patriotic song; it is a historical emblem that accompanied India’s struggle for freedom. Penned by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the late 19th century, it was sung at countless rallies, protests, and marches, infusing courage and hope into ordinary citizens who shared little but a vision of an independent India. Figures such as Subhas Chandra Bose and Aurobindo Ghose drew inspiration from its verses, and it became a unifying anthem across linguistic, religious, and regional divides.
RSS - A Century Of Service
Dec 09, 2025The history of the birth and growth of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is in many respects ,unique .Founded in 1925 by Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar with a handful of young men ,the sangh has now spread to nearly more than 80,000 daily 'Shakhas' are conducted or at frequent intervals leaving no part of the country untouched
Between Grief and Glory: What Post Malone in Guwahati Says About Us
Dec 09, 2025The Guwahati of 2001 was afraid. Not in any way we'd admit, of course. We dressed our fear in the language of cultural preservation, wrapped it in the legitimacy of post-insurgency trauma, called it pride. But underneath all those student protests and editorial think-pieces was a city that wasn't sure it could survive contact with the wider world.
A Tangled Border, A Fractured State: How a Fence in Manipur Deepens India's Divisions
Dec 09, 2025Last week, in the remote hills of Manipur’s Chandel district, unidentified individuals cut through 100 to 200 feet of newly erected steel fencing along the Indo-Myanmar border.
The Moscow Moment: Why India’s Northeast Could Be the Real Winner
Dec 08, 2025When the Russian president arrived in New Delhi this December, the headlines focused on global strategy, energy bargains, and diplomatic symbolism. Yet the most consequential outcomes may unfold far from the capital — in the Northeast, a region whose economic potential is often acknowledged but rarely positioned at the centre of national policy.
Assam Decides 2026: Development’s Lights vs the Dark Arts of Propaganda
Dec 08, 2025The people of Bihar always spring surprises. During the Bihar elections, the opposition used this very sentence to dismiss the exit polls that were favouring the BJP. Yes, the people of Bihar did create a surprise!
The Manufactured Scarecrow: How Delimitation, Demography, and State Bias Fuel Ethnic Cleansing in Manipur
Dec 08, 2025Since May 3, 2023, Manipur has been the stage for what analysts from the London School of Economics have termed a campaign of "ethnic cleansing."
How Japan’s coastal pine forests are becoming nature’s frontline against Tsunamis
Dec 07, 2025In a world where nearly 47 million people were displaced by natural disasters in a single year, the search for stronger, more sustainable coastal defences has never been more urgent. Emerging research now points to the Japanese black pine—not concrete walls—as one of the most promising natural barriers capable of reducing tsunami force and safeguarding vulnerable shorelines.
Manipur is not an “Ethnic Conflict” — It is a test of India’s Democracy
Dec 07, 2025The violence that began in India’s northeastern state of Manipur in May 2023 has routinely been described, both domestically and internationally, as an “ethnic conflict.”
The Betrayed Meitei Voters of Moreh, Kangpokpi and Churachandpur
Dec 07, 2025Across the three hill districts of Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Tengnoupal of Manipur, approximately 13,000 to 15,000 Meitei voters—scattered yet steadfast—have, for decades, quietly held the balance of power, turning close contest after close contest with their ballots, deciding who sits in the Assembly seat after seat.
Indian healthcare needs Indigo treatment, ASAP!
Dec 06, 2025Resident doctors and nurses work impossible hours in Indian hospitals! 16, 18, 24, even 36 to 48-hour shifts; doctors in higher training work even harder. They are also entrusted with high-level responsibilities of patient care. It is only their young bodies and the burning ambitions in their hearts that keep them going.
When Monopolies Hold Passengers Hostage: The IndiGo Crisis and India's Aviation Reckoning
Dec 06, 2025When IndiGo, which controls nearly 70% of India's domestic aviation market, decided to game the system rather than comply with safety regulations, it knew exactly what would happen: passengers would suffer, and the government would capitulate.
Turmeric: North-East India’s golden wonder crop for health and wealth
Dec 05, 2025Villagers in India’s North-East have long guarded a golden secret buried in their soil—one that scientists and exporters are only now beginning to understand. Could this vibrant root be the key to both better health and booming livelihoods?
Why Rs 30 discount feels like a jackpot: The Endowment Effect behind GST 2.0
Dec 05, 2025Why does a minor price drop feel like a personal victory? The answer reveals a hidden psychological force that could determine the success of GST 2.0.
Manipur’s Poppy Fields Have Eclipsed Chin State of Myanmar
Dec 05, 2025A new country is being born inside India, and its currency is heroin.Its borders run along the mist-shrouded ridges of Kangpokpi, Churachandpur, Pherzawl, and Tengnoupal. Its army is made up of thousands of “village volunteers” who guard poppy fields.
How Ambedkar and Gandhi differed in their approach to manual scavengers
Dec 04, 2025Dr B R Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi stressed cleanliness as vital for dignity and social justice. Their advocacy against manual scavenging inspires ongoing efforts for equality and swachhta in India
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