Ningol Chakouba or Chakouba or Hiyangei Nini Paanba is a festival, celebrated by the Meitei people in the second lunar day of Hiyangei (October–November) month of Manipuri calendar. The festival is celebrated in the theme of
It amazes me that some ‘experts’ in India are analyzing the current Meitei and Kuki political conflict from a majority hindu Meitei resource grab perspective. These viewpoints only reflect their petulant petty politics and do not help in anyway addressing the problem at hand. Government and Corporates must be resisted if they are found grabbing and destroying, land and forest. I also further argue that as part of their imagined homeland, it is the ‘Kuki’ elites who have imagined a viable Kuki State by dreaming to usurp these resources. Let me pick a few of the news items to explain my argument.
Ningol Chakouba or Chakouba or Hiyangei Nini Paanba is a festival, celebrated by the Meitei people in the second lunar day of Hiyangei (October–November) month of Manipuri calendar. The festival is celebrated in the theme of
The sangai is an endemic and endangered subspecies of Eld’s deer found only in Manipur, India. It is also the state animal of Manipur. Its common English name is Manipur brow-antlered
Lilium mackliniae, the Shirui lily or Shirui Kashong Timrawon, is a rare Indian species of plant found only in the upper reaches of the Shirui hill ranges in the Ukhrul district of Manipur, India, at an
