Both the chairman of the Hill Areas Committee and the MP from Outer Manipur are constitutionally elected Nagas. They are not outsiders; they are our own. That is why their voice is crucial, their silence is more painful, and their responsibility to do much more is non‑negotiable.
Like in most countries around the world, water bodies in Manipur – lake, marshes, rivers, paddies and ponds – are more or less dominated by introduced fish species such as Asian carps, some of which have since become invasive by nature.
Michael Meiphami Shaiza writes about Naga existential threat, the Manipur catastrophic crisis, and the urgent imperative of NRC, census and constitutional justice.
The Nepal disaster is a potential recipe for neighboring country Bhutan, another of the Himalayan nation state perched precariously amongst fragile mountain landscape that is fast deteriorating from climate change impacts, in particular receding glaciers and increasingly evident glacial lake formation.
The tribal market, located along National Highway 202 (Imphal–Ukhrul road), was built by the Nashira Area People’s Organisation (NAPO) with funding from the 4th State Finance Commission through the Autonomous District Council (ADC), Ukhrul.
If the National Register of Citizens [NRC] update does not precede the Census exercise, there is a high and real possibility that the demographic balance of Manipur will be altered irreversibly, cautions Michael Meiphami Shaiza.