Speaking on the 3rd foundation day of Naga Women Union, Chandel NWUC held at the head office of CNPO which was attended by members of NWUC and various leaders including CNPO President Ws Kanral Anal, Deputy Commissioner of Chandel Robert Khetrimayum …
Speaking on the 3rd foundation day of Naga Women Union, Chandel NWUC held at the head office of CNPO which was attended by members of NWUC and various leaders including CNPO President Ws Kanral Anal, Deputy Commissioner of Chandel Robert Khetrimayum called on the members of the NWUC to cop erate with district administration so that rapid development of the communities could be ensured Source Hueiyen News Service
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59th Touring of Sat Sanga with Sangkirtan and Awareness Programme on Religion will be jointly organized by Laishram Mani Goura Sangeet Akademy, Thoubal Wangkhem and Laishram Leirenjao and family, Thoubal Wangkhem Mayai Leikai on July 12 at their reside…
59th Touring of Sat Sanga with Sangkirtan and Awareness Programme on Religion will be jointly organized by Laishram Mani Goura Sangeet Akademy, Thoubal Wangkhem and Laishram Leirenjao and family, Thoubal Wangkhem Mayai Leikai on July 12 at their residence Source Hueiyen News Service
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IMPHAL, July 5: Kalakshetra Manipur`™s acclaimed play `Pebet`™ has been invited to the prestigious International Theatre Conference 2015, jointly organised by the International Federation for Theatre and Department of Theatre
IMPHAL, July 5: Kalakshetra Manipur`™s acclaimed play `Pebet`™ has been invited to the prestigious International Theatre Conference 2015, jointly organised by the International Federation for Theatre and Department of Theatre Arts, University of Hyderabad.
The International Conference is to be held from July 6 to 10 at Hyderabad University. `Theatre and Democracy`™ is the theme of the conference. Pebet will be showed as part of the major performances on July 7. Heisnam Sabitri of Kalakshetra along with the director Heisnam Kanhailal will give lecture cum demonstration on the following day.
The conference will be attended by around 300 delegates from different countries of the world along with 75 delegates from India. During the conference renowned scholars like Prabhat Patnaik, Partha Chatterjee, Elaine Aston and Anuradha Kapur will give their presentations as key note speakers.
Kalakshetra Manipur troupe has left Imphal for Hyderabad today to take part in the conference. It may be mentioned that `Pebet`™ since its production in the early period of 1970s has staged more than 70 times till the present date. The play has also travelled to international festivals across the globe in cities like Cairo and Tokyo.
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Imagine a land where there is no law. If that is possible, you are either in the amazing dream world of Lewis Carroll`™s Alice in Wonderland, which we all have
Imagine a land where there is no law. If that is possible, you are either in the amazing dream world of Lewis Carroll`™s Alice in Wonderland, which we all have read either in the original or else as abridged versions of it, or more likely in illustrated comic books. Or else you are in the other wonderland called Manipur. It is quite a parallel too. In Carroll`™s wonderland, the characters make law as and when they need it `“ so too in Manipur. There is supposed to be something as an established constitutional law in force, but that law today has receded into the background, thanks to its keepers who have either lost interest in it or else have become a law unto themselves. Instead, what are actually and most tangibly at work are on the spot laws, un-edified and untenable in any court of law, and made by any and everybody as and when they please. Leave aside the underground organisations which are pretty straightforward in their stand, claiming to be challengers of the established law as such, for other than them, the law and its enforcement have become a free for all agenda. What is absolutely confounding is, the government seems not to mind this at all when it should actually have been treating the matter as an insult to its authority. Reams after reams of commentary have been written on this and yet, not a single word or idea seems to have registered, and things continue as they always were, spiralling deeper and deeper into the abyss. What exactly is it that the government wants, can it please spell it out so that the people at least would know what to expect from it? Not that they expect much anyway, for proof of this the government just needs to look at the advertisement spaces of vernacular dailies and discover who the people are looking up with awe in matters of crime and punishment.
There are also people getting summarily executed in frightful regularity by all sorts of people who claim to have the law in their hands. Sometimes the guilt of these unfortunate victims are pronounced after they are dead and gone. Like in the haunting command line of the Queen in Alice in Wonderland `Off With His Head`, pronounced every now and then, with no apparent forethought or afterthought, and said as if by rote absolutely at random, it probably occurred to somebody somewhere that somebody else was guilty and passed a verdict in one of the on-the-spot piece of legislation. If the government needs any reminder it should feel guilty for these incidents, it should look at the helpless and muted protests on the streets against these atrocities, marked by the apparitions of womenfolk in ceremonial white, with fruit baskets in front and placards spelling out their protests resting on the side, performing what has come to be known as `wakat mipham`. Elsewhere, school buildings are being razed, hospitals are being stoned, bans are being imposed, `taxes` are being levied, shops are being shut down and the list of woes can carry on endlessly. All these are perpetrated by known and unknown players, but seldom ever named even if known. And the government still continues to turn the other way, pretending it has no eyes, ears or mouth. It does however with zest climbs the podium at every opportunity, talking of the virtues of democracy and democratic rule. What a miserable irony. It is bewildering and frustrating to know that all complaints and cries of lament have seldom made a difference, or is hardly likely fall on attentive ears of those who can make the difference.
Despite all this, people however still want to believe in the established institutions of constitutional law with clearly prescribed and edified procedures, as opposed to arbitrary decrees. Hence, here is our appeal once again to the Manipur government to please get its acts together. While it is evolving a peace policy on the issue of insurgency, at least take control of the home front and ensure things do not descend into complete madness. For this, it must first of all establish its presence and prove its credibility. Let its focus come back to good governance. Let ministership become an important and powerful tool of governance, and not the goal itself, as has so long been. Let it lead by example and not merely appeal to the people to be law abiding and diligent. And most important of all, let it clearly demarcate what portion of law keeping is its sole prerogative and what areas it can share or outsource to private parties, if at all this is proper or essential. Failing this, it cannot blame anybody else but itself for the resultant chaos.
Leader Writer: Pradip Phanjoubam
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IMPHAL, July 5: The Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Anurag Thakur inspected the state of the Manipur Cricket Association at Luwangpokpa Cricket Stadium today. The
IMPHAL, July 5: The Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Anurag Thakur inspected the state of the Manipur Cricket Association at Luwangpokpa Cricket Stadium today.
The BCCI secretary who is also an MP of the BJP, was received at the Imphal Airport by a BJYM team.
Later, accompanied by national general secretaries of the BJP, Saynthan Basu (administration) and Doni Nich (in-charge Manipur) visited Luwangsangbam to meet the official of the MCA. The MCA and BJYM together submitted a memorandum to the visiting dignitary urging him to help establish an international standard Cricket Stadium in Manipur.
Later, Thakur launched a BJYM Manipur mission called `Explore Manipur` to explore the tourism potential of Manipur.
This will be a month long drive to identify tourism spots in Manipur and to assess the tourism potential of Manipur, and put on the map of world tourism, he said while attending a function `Youth for future` at the office of BJP Manipur Pradesh.
Thakur said that very soon a BCCI meeting on the new area drive is going to be held at New Delhi and he assured he would bring up the matter of MCA and various other issues of MCA submitted to him today.
He promised that within a month all problems face by the MCA in popularising cricket will be resolved. He further assured maximum support will be extended to MCA, including construction of cricket infrastructure in Manipur.
Thakur further said that BJP has converted the Congress`™s Look East Policy to Act East Policy, indicating the party`™s intent to engage with this important issue. Funds will be sanctioned for the purpose, and the NDA government under the leadership of Narendra Modi is very serious about this.
Manipur is well known for its talent in sport, Art and Culture and tourism, but the last 13 years of rule by the Congress has suppressed all these potentials he said. However the NDA government will undo all the wrongs and give added emphasis to the development of the NE region of India, he said. Without developing the NE region, India can`™t developed, he added.
He asked to make the state free from insurgency and drugs. He also said the mission launched today is also with this in sight. He said in his next visit to Manipur, he will be a tourist coming along with his friends and family, to enjoy the beauty of the state.
He said he is dismayed to learn that more than eight lakh youth are unemployment in Manipur. He said developing tourism can help ease this problem.
He said prolong rein of the Congress in the state inhibited the development of the state but now with the BJP`™s return to power at the Centre things are poised to change.
He assured that if the BJP government comes to power in Manipur, 24X7 hour power supply, good road connectivity and infrastructure amongst many others will be assured for the people.
The BJP state president Th. Chaoba also spoke at the function and agreed with the central leader that tourism can create jobs for the unemployed youths of the state. Tourism cannot end at Hapta Kangjeibung and needs to reach out to all corners of the state, he added.
He criticised the Congress government in the state for its inability to start construction of National Sport University even after one year of the central government sanctioning it. He also alleged that the present government is taking keen interest only on developing Thoubal.
O Malesh president BJYM Manipur Pradesh, M Asnikumar general secretary administration and national general secretaries Saynthan Basu and Doni Nich were also present at the function.
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IMPHAL July 5: The Sunday congregation at Chadong Baptist Church today sang mournfully and soulful today, perhaps for the last time as water level continues to rise and flood their
IMPHAL July 5: The Sunday congregation at Chadong Baptist Church today sang mournfully and soulful today, perhaps for the last time as water level continues to rise and flood their homes, and perhaps by next week the church too would be underwater.
The fasting prayer list includes praying for strength and ability to adapt and rebuild when they are forced to migrate to a new site home.
Some have already moved to the nearest towns while the remaining await their fate in dread.
Lamlai Khunou villagers had built two bridges this week following the submergence of the bridge in the approach road to their village. Without these two bridges, Lamlai Khunou village and Chadong village would have been completely cut off from the rest of the world.
It takes approximately 50 minutes to walk to the bank of Chadong village from there and wait for one`™s turn in the only boat manned by amateurs. It takes another 10 minutes to row through the vast stretch of water and reach Chadong village.
Till date no government representative had come to assess the pitiful situation and assist our rehabilitation. Instead the Chief Minister has wrongly informed the Assembly during the ongoing session regarding our plight, said a member of the Mapithel Dam Affected Villagers Organisation (MDAVO).
As we row to Chadong village, the visible houses appear like the floating huts in Loktak.
Inside the village, people are seen loading their food grains and household goods and shifting to the higher grounds of the mountain. By the water edge, children were playing with new flocks of grasshoppers.
They talked about the rats in their dwellings at night and the fear of other reptiles. The school campus has become a militarized zone after the Manipur Rifles and Manipur Police shifted to the two school buildings since July 1.
Barracks have transformed the new Junior High school into a fearful sight. One of the classrooms has been converted into a kitchen otherwise it may have been the midday meal kitchen.
They said their erstwhile shelter in the vicinity was dismantled and shifted by the house owners so they moved in to the new school buildings. The government has not provided any water transport for men in uniform to transport their ration so they share the only boat of the villagers, which was donated by Centre for Social Development for the affected people.
A reliable source informed that two boats from Fishery and Loktak Development Authority were approved by the government. But even after a month of submerging the only connecting bridge, the arrival of the boats seem to be still tangled in bureaucratic procedures.
While documentary film makers and media persons continue to document the anxiety and anger of the affected people, hordes of people irrespective of community flooded the banks and littered the environment. They came by car, bike, auto rickshaw and even by hiring bus.
Most of them said they are exploring the new landscape. It thus spells a huge tourist potential which needs to be managed in a better way.
As for Riha Village, the government has not specified anything on community water rights after the construction of the dam nor have they survey the river banks or settle community owned grazing grounds and private farms/standing property.
We are losing all our traditional ownership rights over our river and resources, lamented Tuithung Lunghar, a villager of Riha.
He said, “™We are the people whose livelihood is dependent on the seasonal products of the forest and the river resources. Yet these rights are not settled till date`™`™.
Another affected villager adds, “™We feel so helpless as citizens in pursuing through the right course. As the government is trampling over even a stay order of the court, what else is left for us to pursue? We have collectively knocked on every possible door of the concerned departments and authorities`™`™.
The government has merely compensated for the paddy fields and completely ignored the repeated petitions on river based livelihood including our fishing rights. Soon they will expect us to pay for this water that belongs to us, he ridiculed.
The villagers have various relationships with the river besides the livelihood angle. Christian rituals like Water Baptism are held in the river and fasting prayers are hosted on the banks. Recreation and social activities like annual picnic cum fishing of peer groups and village bodies are held on the river beds. Such traditions of fishing and feasting will be history now, narrates a women community leader woefully.
Tangkhul Shanao Long and Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong also visited the surrounding villages today to take stock of the situation.
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IMPHAL, June 5: After the continuous spewing of ashes and smoke from an expanding crater in a swampy area of old Wahong village, which many suspect to be volcanic activity,
IMPHAL, June 5: After the continuous spewing of ashes and smoke from an expanding crater in a swampy area of old Wahong village, which many suspect to be volcanic activity, spreading fears amongst villagers at Shitru area of Ukhrul District, official of the Disaster Management Department sent a team of experts joined by some more officials of the Ukhrul administration, including the SDC Jessami, to the spot.
The combined team, it is reported, has reached the spot at Wahong and examined the soil in the area. The team has collected soil samples as well but after preliminary examination said it can`™t be volcanic activity. More test will be conducted in laboratories, an official said.
The official said the phenomenon is unlikely to be volcanic activity and therefore there is no cause for the villagers to panic. The 6-member expert team from the Disaster Management Department and the five officials from SDO Jassami inspected the area very thoroughly and returned today.
It may be mentioned that DC Ukhrul had ordered for restriction of entry to the area recently.
It is further reported that according to the villagers they have sighted smoke coming from the swamp area first at Shitru in the month of April, 2015. However villagers thought to be charred ember remains of pine root from a wild fire.
The area is at the tri-junction of Manipur and Nagaland along the Myanmar border. It is also reported that a villager Wisdom Vashum, had accidentally stepped into the crater and received severe burn injuries on his left leg, sending fears to the villagers that some unnatural phenomenal was unfolding.
Another villager, Standhope Vashum, reported that he saw three holes of one square foot diameter and these holes were clearly visible and were spread around a circumference of 60 feet. The water from a nearby pond too is reported to taste very sour.
Following the reports, the Deputy Commissioner Modak Hrisheekesh Arvind already sounded the alert to the higher authority for intervention and investigation. The DC also directed SDO Jessami to immediately look into the matter.
The team rushed to the spot on Friday responding to appeals by the villagers.
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IMPHAL, July 5: The JAC of All Manipur Trade Unions`™ Council (AMTUC) and All Manipur Govt Employees`™ Organisation (AMGEO) has decided to launch mass cease work strike from July 20
IMPHAL, July 5: The JAC of All Manipur Trade Unions`™ Council (AMTUC) and All Manipur Govt Employees`™ Organisation (AMGEO) has decided to launch mass cease work strike from July 20 except in police department in case the government fails to come up with positive response to the charter of demands submitted to the government.
Speaking to media persons, secretary general of JAC of AMTUC & AMGEO said that formal and informal rounds of thorough discussion had been held with the Chief Secretary, Commissioner (Finance), Special Secretary (DP) but there has been no positive response to the long cherished demands of government employees, workers, pensioners and family pensioners.
Reiterating that the JAC had also submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 17, 2014 in this regard, he made it clear that the JAC will go on with the mass cease work strike from July 20 if the government fails to fulfil the demands within July 18.
The charter of demands include regularisation of work charged employees; conversation of muster roll and casual workers to work charged employees and provide all retirement benefits as per existing rules as agreed; regularisation of contractual employees existing in various departments namely GAD, MIS, Economics & Statistics, NRHM, MACS, RNTCP, Forest, Social Welfare etc to their respective posts so that the fund from the plan head is not affected and per capital income of the state is maintained.
It also demanded that secretariat duty allowance and overtime allowance in respect of secretariat employees and other department employees respectively should be paid at 10 percent of corresponding Basic Pay as agreed upon.
The general secretary of JAC of AMTUC & AMGEO added that the said resolution was taken during a gathering at Kuki Inn on July 3.
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Dynamic Manipur’s Inspiration Workshop on Media- career outlook and society …
KanglaOnline While delivering his speech as resource person on the topic ‘Role of Media in Nation Building and Career Avenues in Media’ during the Inspiration Episode-8 (IE-8) organized under the tutelage of Dynamic Manipur on the theme ‘Media – Career outlook and … |
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Dynamic Manipur's Inspiration Workshop on Media- career outlook and society …
KanglaOnline While delivering his speech as resource person on the topic 'Role of Media in Nation Building and Career Avenues in Media' during the Inspiration Episode-8 (IE-8) organized under the tutelage of Dynamic Manipur on the theme 'Media – Career outlook and … |
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Rava Presents Ethical Fashion Event 2nd Edition 2015 “Walk Till You Die” – Random Pictures by Deepak Shijagurumayum
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Current road condition of Imphal-Jiribam highway in this rainy season of 2015 (Photos are taken near Maku village)
Photo by Momon Toudam
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Elegance of the Dancing looms – Random pics by Deepak Shijagurumayum
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Mediapersons are social engineers – Dr. Ibomcha IMPHAL, July 5: Media persons are social engineers as teachers are human engineers. In the present social fabric, media can play a
Mediapersons are social engineers – Dr. Ibomcha
IMPHAL, July 5: Media persons are social engineers as teachers are human engineers. In the present social fabric, media can play a pivotal role in building a good society. Media has a magical influence in good governance, improving healthcare delivery system, streamlining public distribution system and empowering the masses in this knowledge-based society. A good nation without a good media system is a distant dream, said Dr. Aribam Ibomcha Sharma, News Editor and Regional News Unit Head, All India Radio, Imphal.
While delivering his speech as resource person on the topic ‘Role of Media in Nation Building and Career Avenues in Media’ during the Inspiration Episode-8 (IE-8) organized under the tutelage of Dynamic Manipur on the theme ‘Media – Career outlook and Society building‘ held at MIMS, Manipur University today, AIR News Editor Dr A Ibomcha Sharma said that media persons, being the professionals of an important pillar of democracy, are now needed as journalists, public relations executives, spin doctors, information managers, content creators and also in academic avenues in different capacities.
“The demand will be on the rise and it has to, in line with the changing paradigm of telecommunication, trade, tourism and other transformations in many fields of social life. However, the demand at the global job market of media is par excellent product and grooming such professionals is not an easy thing”, he said.
Since Media plays the role of a watchdog in society who always manages to highlight the errors of Politicians, Judiciary and executives through constructive criticism, Media itself is supposed to render its service to the society sincerely to avoid trust deficit. Otherwise the sanctity of the media professionals would be maligned.
While quoting former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s line “When you salute your profession, you need not salute anybody; when you pollute your profession, you need to salute everybody”, he said that every professional, may be doctors, engineers, journalists or IAS officers, need to serve the people with sincerity and dedication to win public respect. When they pollute their professions with personal profit oriented motive, they will not get public respect.
Impact TV Chief Editor Yumnam Rupachandra spoke on how a responsible media can help bring about major change in society and how you can become a responsible journalist.
He said that media influences people to help the people to bring about a better society. It plays a vital role in strengthening democracy, keeping the people well informed. Being a journalist is one of the noble professions as journalists serve people from top to bottom. When there is no elected opposition in a government, media effectively takes the role of opposition to criticize and brakes the wrong policies of the government.
Senior journalist. Editor-in-Chief of Impact TV Yumnam Rupachandra is a former correspondent of The Statesman and Seven Sisters Post. He is a fellow National Press Foundation (DC Washington, Alumni IVLP (US State Dept) and SRDM awardee World Bank.
Khelen Thokchom, Special Correspondent of Telegraph, national daily said that mainstream Indian media is losing its objectivity due to extensive commercialization of the news business. Editors have little role in deciding editorial contents in contradictory to what the editors are supposed to do with young CEOs dictating terms on what the readers want. It is because of this that instead of carrying a picture or story of a poor and pathetic farmer on the verge of suicide, editors are opting for pictures of celebrities like Aishwarya Rai or hospitalization of another well known actor.
Concerned about the increasing trend of ‘paid news’ in the state, the senior journalist said that such trend will lead to trust deficit on the part of the journalists and malign the profession. When journalists are under the hands of a few powerful, how can they bring about a dynamic change in society by revealing the malpractices of the people in power. People generally believe what the journalists expressed through their pen. When the mouth of the journalists is shut up with money, they cannot highlight the news what the people need most.
The event was organized by Dynamic Manipur with LRS INDIA, S. S. Electronics, Manipur Creations, Babina Diagnostics, The Classic Hotel, Imphal, Globizs Web Solutions, Shija Hospitals & Research Institute, HVS Constructions Materials Pvt. Ltd. as Sponsoring Partners while Green Biotech, CC Tea – The Sui Generis, MIMS, Manipur University, Korea Manipuri Association (KMA), Manipuri Association of Canada (MAC), North American Manipur Association (NAMA), Likla – Thangjam Agro Industries Pvt. Ltd., Imphal, WiseWorld Immigration & Education Consultants, Toronto, Canada as endorsing Partners.
As advertising, Printing and Technology Partners, WOL Media, Siroi Offset Printers, Thoubal, Globizs Web Solutions, Media Partners, E-pao, Impact TV, Manipur Times, The Peoples’ Chronicle supported the event.
Video recordings of IE-8 will be later shared at Youtube.
Sincerely,
Dr. N. Jiten Singh
Chief Coordinator, Dynamic Manipur
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Deccan HeraldManipur tribals urge PM to save their villageDeccan HeraldAfter repeated attempts of the villagers to pursue the Manipur government to handle the artificial flood around the village failed to draw a solution to the crisis, the United Naga …
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Manipur tribals urge PM to save their village
Deccan Herald After repeated attempts of the villagers to pursue the Manipur government to handle the artificial flood around the village failed to draw a solution to the crisis, the United Naga Council (UNC), the powerful apex body of the Nagas living in Manipur … |
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Manipur govt employees threaten cease work strike
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Manipur asked to abandon rice import from Myanmar
Nagaland Post Earlier, India planned to import one lakh tonnes of rice from Myanmar to avoid supply crisis in Manipur and Mizoram pending the completion of the ongoing construction work of railway line connecting these two north-eastern states to other parts of the … Condemns move of Manipur government to close Government School in Manipur! |
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Manipur govt employees threaten cease work strike
Nagaland Post Employees of the Manipur government under the banner of Joint Administrative Council (JAC) of All Manipur Government Employees Organisation (AMGEO) and All Manipur Trade Union Council (AMTUC) has set July 18 deadline to the Manipur government … JAC to launch indefinite cease work JAC announces cease work stir JAC threatens mass cease work stir over charter of demands |
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Very respected Apunba Manipur Matam Ishei Kanglup, in the name of holy traditions of the land, I’m sending you my deepest regards. I hope you are doing well and I
Very respected Apunba Manipur Matam Ishei Kanglup, in the name of holy traditions of the land, I’m sending you my deepest regards. I hope you are doing well and I believe I’m not disturbing you in your daily raga recital. The last time I heard about you was when you insisted the government to declare Sana Leibak Manipur as the state anthem just after the demise of the legendary Bachaspatimayum Jayentakumar Sharma who penned the song. Unfortunately the authority is indifferent as always but lesser than that of the people, who are assured that this song would evoke the false pride in you. That’s another story.
You have made a bolder step this time. But why would you act like the army and issue diktats? As far as we know, you are a group of contemporary singers just as your name suggests; and neither would anyone believe you are a fascist organisation. Didn’t you feel getting out of tune when you write out that Tapta cannot sing anymore simply because he is not a member of your organisation? Probably you don’t. That’s why you have not only boycotted him but gone ahead and made your terrifying royal promise of banning the film as well of which he is a playback singer. Perhaps the film, Keishal, under the banner of Plus Media Production, might never see the light of the day. This is considering that you can summon artistes for negotiation in rebel camps or pay the police to do what they do best: threaten the people. However, there are so many things at stake here. Truth be told, your name must remain as it was: like a band of Nazi-inspired musicians but in a non-existential zone or wherever far from a sane society. Today, you might not mind it, you have never. You would not care that you have become the laughing stock in the whole town these days. A real musician would have produced a fine work from such humiliation but we know you are callous. Your fascist ideology—if there is any other such thing beside sheer stupidity behind your organisational workings—is only as good as your crappy tabla-harmonium music. If there is one thing that is so typical in the world of artistes, it is their love for freedom and liberty. But clearly you have become blind and you cannot see beyond your overbearing octave. For that matter, Tapta is more popular than all of you combined, yes, he also performs better than the combination of all your rule-obsessed, cheesy singing mates. Doesn’t this give you some clue why people are calling you all sorts of names because you are blindly trampling on the people’s choice of music and professional affiliation? Tapta is creative, independent and politically engaged—all of which you are not. We can see these issues would be too much because for you, art should be only for art’s sake. You have nothing to do with the diktats from both the state and non-state actors, which have shoved us into a corner of collective listlessness. Of course, nothing can be more important than obtaining a visharad degree from your alma mater located in faraway Agra and Gwalior and others; and yes, flaunting your power in this land of no master. 
Again, Tapta is more popular than your organisation. This fact might be a source of great disturbance to your inflated ego. Why don’t you go and sing on the radio if it is not the music season in the town? There are lots of issues at hand that the people should care about. For instance, in one eastern corner of the land, in Chadong, hundreds of families have been displaced from their homes. The government’s myopic plan of building a dam has backfired though the authority is nonchalant as ever. The rhythmic patterns of violence and underdevelopment have already imprisoned us in a time warp of nothingness. In this kind of situation, your diktats and boycotts have become an unnecessary pain in the ass.
We are grateful to you for keeping up the Manipuri language. Albeit, everybody knows your disciplined approach to learning and practising music is doing much harm than helping it. Have you watched the film Western Sankirtan? You should ask your big brother, the Film Forum Manipur, if you have not. To explain briefly, the theme of the film is about going back to our roots, but while ignoring or too stupid to know that Sankirtan can never be a marker of our identity. It is no less different from your borrowed ragas and khayaals. And oh, your mates are tired of your adopted microtones and semitones: now they are aping the shittiest music from all over the world. I presume you like Ranbir Thouna. I like him too but I cannot tell how AR Rahman sounds so much like him. I’m kidding, I don’t like him but the mention about AR Rahman is true. (Footnote: Last year, the Forum banned six actors for not taking part in an Inner Line Permit protest. So apparently, the authoritarian madness run in the blood!)
In the last few days, metal-inspired Eastern Dark has also come out with their stories of intimidation. Incidentally like Tapta, this band is known for its socially relevant music just in case you had missed it in your self-righteous ride to conquer the music world in the stupidest ways. Pop stars from the olden days including Sanaton and Naba Volcano were the closest you can get but they are gone a long time ago. 
If copycats, alien music styles and unquestioning loyalty are the foundation of your world, you might as well boycott yourself and excuse us for some time. We know what our choice of music is and you cannot dictate what it should be. Please admit you are a fascist organisation and you are all powerful. We might be able to boost your ego and help do away with your talentless struggle, or, probably show you how it takes fans and supporters—and not primitive aggression and high-handedness —to raise an art form.
Finally, you are only strong as a group and, for your kind consideration, there is an adage: those people who cannot work outside a group or on their own, they are a nobody when they are alone. For all the talents you don’t have, it seems you are making up with your illegal dictatorial rules. Please do go to Agra and improve your skills. You might become a better singer some day. Who knows?!
Yours sincerely,
An anonymous music listener
Date: 3 July 2015
Place: Laphumakhong near Moreh
PS: Do send postcards from Agra. Don’t show off that your leader is an old-timer in the field. The general is just a piece of rotten ass with all the annoying, talent less foot soldiers.
Source : kapilarambam.blogspot
http://kapilarambam.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/an-open-letter-to-ammik.html
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Unique Transmission on Saturday organized inaugural function of Pilot Project Tamminnashi Khangminnashi at Unique Transmission office in ICICI HDFC bank building of Thoubal Athokpam in Thoubal District Source Hueiyen News Service
Unique Transmission on Saturday organized inaugural function of Pilot Project Tamminnashi Khangminnashi at Unique Transmission office in ICICI HDFC bank building of Thoubal Athokpam in Thoubal District Source Hueiyen News Service
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