Your '80s AI image could run your water tap dry
Sep 14, 2026Your Instagram feed is a time machine. Big hair, aviator sunglasses, denim jackets, the grainy warmth of a Bollywood studio portrait from 1984. Your friends are posting them. Your favourite cricketers are posting them. Even Union ministers have joined the party, turning a harmless nostalgia trip into a full-blown political meme war.
No NRC, No Census: Can Manipur Afford to Skip the Count?
Sep 14, 2026Manipur's ethnic conflict intensifies as Meiteis demand NRC before Census 2027, while Kukis oppose this order. The region faces governance challenges that require simultaneous NRC and census implementation for better policy outcomes. Provide the answer in Indian English
13 September: Thadou Martyrs’ Day — Remembering the Sacrifice, Defending Our Identity
Sep 13, 2026For the Thadou people, 13 September is such a day—a day to honour and remember the courageous life and sacrifice of the late Thadou hero and martyr, Pu Nehkam Jomhao, and the Thadou men and women who gave their lives in defence of their Thadou identity, dignity and peaceful existence.
The Money Arrives. The Voice Does Not: India’s Ageing Challenge and the Human Side of Viksit Bharat 2047
Sep 13, 2026A widely shared story about a delivery worker and an elderly woman has sharpened attention on ageing and loneliness in India. It underlines that remittances and development alone cannot replace dignity, connection and everyday care.
Divine Panthou’s Teaching Is What Manipur Desperately Needs to Hear
Sep 13, 2026What does it mean to preserve a faith without turning it into a reason to look down on someone else? In Manipur, Divine Panthou’s message offers an answer that reaches beyond religion—to how we live with one another and with the world around us.
Is Manipur Watching the Slow Erasure of the Liangmais from the Koubru Range?
Sep 12, 2026Repeated killings, attacks on villages and displacement along the Imphal–Tamenglong Road demand more than routine condemnation. India must ask whether violence is being allowed to change the demographic and administrative map of the Koubru Range.
A Tale of two Frontiers: Darjeeling, Ladakh and the unfinished exit from the 1988 Model
Sep 11, 2026Ladakh and Darjeeling began with almost the same political bargain: give the hills a council, and keep the map unchanged. Nearly four decades on, one is negotiating a new constitutional model while the other is back in another round of talks — raising the question of whether India is changing the rules of self-rule or simply renaming the old ones.
Everything That’s Wrong with the Workplace in Randhawa’s Fine Shyt
Sep 09, 2026Guru Randhawa’s Fine Shyt may be one of the most-watched depictions of an Indian office this month. That makes it worth asking what kind of office it depicts.
Bhupen Hazarika at 100: The songs that made humanity his homeland
Sep 09, 2026A century after Bhupen Hazarika’s birth, the most important question he leaves us is also the simplest: if human beings do not stand by one another, who will?
BRICS and the Northeast: India’s Gateway to a Changing Global South
Sep 09, 2026India’s BRICS moment should be read beyond the conference halls of New Delhi. The 18th BRICS Summit comes at a time when the geography of global power is changing rapidly, economic weight is shifting towards Asia, supply chains are being reconfigured and the countries of the Global South are seeking a larger role in shaping the institutions that govern the world.
Beyond an MoU: Manipur University’s Opportunity to Become India’s Academic Gateway to Southeast Asia
Sep 09, 2026For years, Manipur has been described as India’s gateway to Southeast Asia. The description is geographically persuasive. It has also become politically familiar. Whenever the Act East Policy is discussed, Manipur and the wider Northeast appear naturally on the map connecting India with Myanmar and beyond.
The Unsettled Bard: Beyond The Centenary Phantasm of Bhupen Hazarika
Sep 08, 2026Today marks the formal culmination of the birth centenary of Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika. Across New Delhi and Guwahati—from the air-conditioned grandeur of Bharat Mandapam to the manicured lawns of his Samadhi Kshetra—the final commemorative addresses are being delivered.
Captainless Ship: Tussle Between Manipur’s Two Dy CMs Exposes the Danger of Communalisation of Government
Sep 08, 2026The growing public confrontation between Manipur’s two Deputy Chief Ministers, Losii Dikho and Nemcha Kipgen, is no longer merely a disagreement between two senior politicians. It reflects a deeper crisis of governance: a government increasingly divided along ethnic lines, competing centres of political authority, and a Chief Minister increasingly perceived by the public as favouring the interests of Kuki armed militant groups while unable to impose a coherent direction on his administration.
After Chongtham Vikram Singh’s Killing, Condolences Are Not Enough
Sep 08, 2026The death of the Manipuri musician in Delhi has reopened an old wound. India has mourned too many young people from the Northeast without creating a law strong enough to confront the discrimination they face.
Let’s Build a Capable Manipur: Can RSS’s Panch Parivartan Show the Way?
Sep 06, 2026A Teachers' Day reflection uses the RSS's Panch Parivartan framework to ask whether Manipur can rebuild itself. It argues that recovery depends on trust, responsible conduct and institutions doing their duty.
Widening Dis-trust: Between Manipur Government And Tribes Of Hill Areas
Sep 06, 2026For years, Manipur’s constitutional safeguards for its hill tribes have been tested by a series of legislative, judicial and administrative moves that tribal groups say have steadily eroded their autonomy and deepened distrust of the state. Now, with the Hill Areas Committee set to meet on September 7, the question is whether its elected members will finally assert the powers meant to protect the hills — or allow another contentious state move to pass.
From a Cowshed to a Classroom: The Teacher Who Built a School with Conviction
Sep 05, 2026India’s education system stands in disrepair, despite being a shared responsibility under the Concurrent List of the Constitution by both the Union and State governments.
100 Days Without Justice: What the NIA Must Answer About the 13 May Massacre of Three Thadou Church Leaders
Sep 05, 2026More than 100 days have passed since three senior leaders of the Thadou Baptist Association India (TBAI)—its President, Rev. Dr. Vumthang Sitlhou, Rev. Kaigoulun Lhouvum and Pastor Paogoulun Sitlhou—were killed in a targeted ambush in Kangpokpi district, Manipur, on 13 May 2026.
Census Cannot Determine Citizenship: Why Manipur’s NRC Debate Needs Facts, Not Fear
Sep 04, 2026Manipur’s NRC debate is no longer simply about who should be counted—it is about whether population data, citizenship and indigenous identity can be separated in a state scarred by ethnic conflict. As competing communities demand scrutiny while fearing exclusion, the real test may be whether one citizenship standard can be applied without turning verification into another fault line.
Strengthening Research Culture: Why Manipur University’s New Push Matters
Sep 03, 2026From reviving Research Update to bringing research ethics, multidisciplinary studies and postgraduate research into the conversation, Manipur University’s Research Scholars’ Meet is an attempt to carry an old academic tradition into a new generation.
How the cockroach became a political metaphor and protest identity
Sep 03, 2026What happens when an insult meant to put people down takes on a life of its own? A cockroach, once a creature people could not wait to crush, has somehow crawled into the heart of a political movement—and turned the joke back on those who coined it.
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