Imphal Review of Arts and Politics

12/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/the-modern-westphalian-state-is-a-colonial-legacy-but-can-there-possibly-be-an-alternative/

The anxiety in many Northeast states at the Centre’s move to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and also to do away with the free movement regime, FMR, for local populations is understandable. However, there can possibly no other way than for the communities to come to terms with the new reality of the...

12/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/can-the-goi-plan-for-convening-a-joint-meeting-of-meitei-led-csos-and-kuki-zomi-csos-by-year-end-materialise/

While the Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) says the Kukis won’t sit with Meitei Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for talks, the Union Government of India (GOI) particularly the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is now working on a plan to bring Kuki and Meitei leaders to the same table for a joint mee...

12/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/rebuttal-to-navin-upadhyays-article-based-on-kohurs-memorandum/

Apropos the article entitled “KOHUR Digs up History to Assert: “Kuki Hills” Existed Before Manipur” authored by Navin Upadhyay, published in the magazine “Operation Corridors” on 23rd June 2025. The observations and assertions of the author, Navin Upadhyay, made on the basis of KOHUR’s...

12/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/water-sprout-at-kangla-in-1942-imphal-bombed-watersprout-at-govindaji-temple-in-2025-what-portend/

It is ominous.On the day it was sprouted,it was not noticed as it was Ratha Yatra day,and large crowds thronged at Govindaji temple.But the 4 inch water sprout on the north east side,could not escape notice the next day. Barish Sharma asked Pandit Khomba what significance it held.Pandit Khomba recal...

12/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/tamo-bimols-vocation-a-personal-history-of-politics-in-a-state-of-crisis/

It was late February 2024, and we were on our way to meet Shree Okram Ibobi Singh, the President of the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee, after attending a seminar at Manipur University. I remember vividly that one of the senior leaders, Shree Kangujam Ranjit Singh, was also present. Inside a clos...

12/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/mrinal-sen-ritwik-ghatak-adoor-gopalkrishnan/

Let me start with a thought from Ritwik Ghatak. Documentary film-making is a different craft and game than constructing fictional features, Ghatak said. I am not going to apply an eleventh commandment status to this idea. In a way, i would like to share something very personal and subjective as a pe...

05/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/two-girls-from-manipur-provide-a-glimpse-into-a-brave-new-moral-world/

Twenty-five months after a violent ethnic conflict between Meiteis and Kuki-Zo group of tribes broke out, and four months into Presidents Rule, warring guns have become more or less silent in Manipur. There is a sigh of relief everywhere yet none is fooled to believe this is peace. If at all, this c...

05/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/leisure-art-and-society-in-manipur-today-is-literally-love-in-the-time-of-cholera/

05/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/who-really-owns-the-land/

05/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/although-mha-agreed-territorial-integrity-of-manipur-is-non-negotiable-the-challenges-is-to-get-a-constitutional-guarantee/

Almost 26 months or 790 days after the violent conflict that erupted on May 3, 2023 in Churachandpur and its bordering areas of Bishnupur district where Kuki-Zomi militants attacked Meitei civilians, the three leading Meitei-led civil societies group of Manipur together for the first time met the of...

05/07/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/new-delhi-must-deal-cautiously-but-firmly-with-the-muhammad-yunus-led-regimes-creeping-authoritarianism/

By Ajay Darshan Behera, Jamia Millia Islamia The manipulation of historical memory is often inseparable from the pursuit of political power. In Bangladesh, successive governments have used state machinery to revise official narratives about the 1971 Liberation War and post-independence politics. How...

28/06/2025

https://imphalreviews.in/the-idea-of-manipur-must-evolve-and-transform-continually/

Ernest Renan’s famous 1887 lecture on nationalism in which he tries to make sense of the peculiar nationalism that took birth in his native France during, and in the aftermath of, the French Revolution 1789, can hardly be far from mind in any attempt to understand the boundaries, and equally and p...