RK Nimai
The author is a former bureaucrat, Imphal, Manipur
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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.
Posted on 27 Jun 2024
The cabinet sub-committee had interacted with the IDPs but unfortunately the data available with the government at the most is sketchy, though the numbers of IDPs in relief camps and temporary shelters are available. Field workers need to be trained to collect usable data which has to be analysed and areas identified for providing skill training or up-skilling in those trades they have been familiar with.
Posted on 13 Jun 2024
In other parts of the vulnerable areas, reinforcement can be reached in an hour or two but not at Jiribam. Perhaps the state security apparatus was lulled by the sense of relative calm that prevails in the district without understanding the implication.
Posted on 29 May 2024
Why the GoI took so long to initiate measures to bring back normalcy in Manipur needs an analysis as even though the conflict is between two communities, the impact is felt by all.
Posted on 22 May 2024
Narratives and counter narratives will be the new norm in the present Manipur crisis and the readers will have to decide which to trust.
Posted on 7 May 2024
With thousands in relief camps away from their homes most of which were destroyed and even bulldozed, can it be said that the situation now in Manipur is free from disturbance? Merely a lull in the firing cannot be termed as returning of peace as this can be broken anytime.
Posted on 1 May 2024
Manipur due to its own problems cannot see beyond its nose and is not interested in the national scenario to its own peril.
Posted on 24 Apr 2024
On the first anniversary of the Manipur crisis, we must pay our respect to those who have departed untimely, seek the bodies of those missing and resolve to continue support to those displaced so that they can return to their homestead.
Posted on 17 Apr 2024
Manipur does not figure in the BJP’s manifesto which is called “Modi ka Guarantee” making the whole election tamasha a personal agenda, confirmed by his 51 pictures in 71 pages.
