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.
Unity is many voices choosing to sing one song. Many tongues of the Nagas are not a curse like Babel. They are a testimony that we were never meant to be cloned, but to be covenanted.
The Nagas of Manipur are a people of faith, of resilience, of deep love for land and community. That same spirit must now be turned toward truth. For only truth sets free.
When a Hospital Becomes a Mirror of a Nation’s Conscience. The sorry state of Ukhrul District Hospital is an Urgent Call for a New Spirit of Naga Leadership, writes Michael Meiphami Shaiza.