RK Nimai
The author is a former bureaucrat, Imphal, Manipur
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Posted on 20 Nov 2024
The silence of PM Modi on the abduction and killing of the six women and children in Manipur was shocking as he tweets on any occasion of unnatural deaths, whether in India or abroad. The PM had perhaps forgotten that there is a state called Manipur in India.
Posted on 12 Nov 2024
There is a need for redeployment of the security forces to ensure that they are stationed in between the two parties, rather than placing them in the valley for convenience as this give advantage to one party.
Posted on 6 Nov 2024
After looking back including the false narrative of Anglo-Kuki War, a rebellion that was suppressed by armed police only with no British Indian army involved and where the casualty was mostly Naga, past Kuki nation, propagation of the idea of Zalengam or Kukiland, etc one is forced to infer that the violence in Manipur was the outcome of the idea of a Christian state.
Posted on 30 Oct 2024
The ways things are managed in Manipur one is apprehensive about the final product; it may cost heavily but its life span may be even less than 20 years. What mix design Manipur will adopt will also tell on the final product.
Posted on 22 Oct 2024
Since it will be difficult to roll back the creation of the new districts the only way out is the redrawing of the district boundaries through the District Boundary Commission. The concept of ethnocentric district must pave way for multicultural districts, the boundary of which is based on administrative convenience.
Posted on 8 Oct 2024
The claim that there was no drone bombing is at the most an effort to deflect the investigation being conducted by the NIA. The police based on eyewitnesses, including personnel of central forces and other evidence, claimed that there were drone bombings. The denial is based on what was claimed to be the use of technology.
Posted on 2 Oct 2024
Peace is not newsworthy but violence is. And when violence erupted, in Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Moreh and then in the Central Manipur valley the earliest narratives was that it is a violence between the majority and minority communities and then between Hindus and minority Christians.
Posted on 24 Sept 2024
Nine hundred trained armed personnel is not a small number and even if they infiltrate at all, it will have to be in the small numbers crossing the border in batches. Movement of such a large number will be detected almost immediately and can be ambushed anywhere.
Posted on 17 Sept 2024
The retired general had joined the voices in the Manipur crisis, with allegations and counter allegations from both sides and this could have been avoided if the former DGAR chose not to speak out after his retirement. Perhaps, he was trying to justify the acts that happened during his charge, but with selective offerings, unfortunately people are more convinced that their belief of AR being partisan must be true.
Posted on 11 Sept 2024
Let the CM pull up his socks and tell the UHM that in this circumstances he will not be able to continue and will resign if not allowed to lead the Unified Command and that he will do way with the Advisor (Security) and the DGP, as one is a retired person and the other is from Tripura cadre and then issue necessary orders.
Posted on 4 Sept 2024
The effort to balkanise Manipur can ultimately lead to the balkanisation of the entire country with Manipur as an experiment and when India wakes up to this reality, the stage may be too late for any effective countermeasures.
Posted on 29 Aug 2024
The recording, if authentic, must have been done sometime last year not long after the visit of the Union Home Minister in the last week of May and the time lag on its surfacing, point to the fact that it was done deliberately for a purpose.
Posted on 20 Aug 2024
Mamata Banerjee is a street fighter, no doubt, and fights her way through in many difficult situations but everybody has his or her time and the RG Kar incident can be her Waterloo, if not handled properly.
Posted on 14 Aug 2024
Strictly from the administrative point of views, the district boundaries need to be redrawn where fingers of either hill or valley is merged with the main districts.
Posted on 7 Aug 2024
In the Budget at a Glance for 2024-25, the GSDP used for 2022-23 is still the old figure of Rs. 37,043 crore, instead of Rs. 40,662 crore as indicated in the Economic Survey. This indicates lack of convergence among the various agencies involved in budget preparation.
Posted on 31 Jul 2024
Outgoing Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey's humanitarian acts during the crisis are unbiased and people welcome her initiatives. But one thing is for sure, unlike most of our leaders she has full empathy for the people affected by the crisis, irrespective of the community to which they belong. The only drawback is her desire to communicate in Hindi only, restricting many unable to communicate freely with her.
Posted on 24 Jul 2024
The demand for Zalengam nation may become more forceful with most of the Chin State now under the control of the rebels and the conflict in Bangladesh with sympathy from the cognate tribes on the Indian side.
Posted on 17 Jul 2024
Unlike in Jammu & Kashmir where any attack was countered by large scale combing operation involving all forces available on the ground to flush out the militants, in Jiribam or elsewhere in Manipur it was not so.
Posted on 10 Jul 2024
The rich and those who are getting salaries from the government can always manage as their salaries are paid, though there are delays in disbursement but those who earn their livelihood either through small businesses or industrial units and in private sectors are finding it difficult to sustain themselves.
Posted on 4 Jul 2024
Inner Manipur MP Akoijam Bimol Angomcha delivered his maiden speech in the Parliament with the right dose of emotions and his focussing on the 60,000 odd people staying in the relief camps brought in the sympathy from anyone who heard his speech.
