Day: February 9, 2013

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IMPHAL, February 9: The Manipur People’s Army of the United National Liberation Front observed its 26th Foundation Day at its GHQ today, said a press release.

It continued the day was also observed at all batallion HQs; tact HQs; CHQ UNLF and branch HQs.

As part of the observation, floral tributes were paid to the slain cadres of the outfit. The Military Affairs Committee, UNLF acting chairman also read out the outfit’s message during the observation said the release.

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IMPHAL, February 9: Manipur has the highest varieties of orchids growing in a state as compared to other orchid plants growing in places such as Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, China and Arunachal Pradesh, said Rajr, okumar Kishore, an orchidologist and trustee of the Manipur Nature Society. He was speaking at the function of the 1st Salam Nabakumar Singh Memorial function held at MFDC hall today.

He further said that Manipur Nature Society is open for all who are interested to study more deeply about orchids.

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IMPHAL, February 9: The Manipur State Shumang Leela Council called a press conference today saying that there is no need for the council to clarify on the allegations level by certain ‘leela troupes’ and their demand for review of the Ningthem Kumhei results.

Speaking to mediapersons, festival chairman Tarpon said there were five judges during the festival and the result was according to the marks given by the five.

Not a single member of the council was involved in declaring the result, he said and as such there is no need to review the results as the judges result should be final.

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IMPHAL, Feb 9: The NT Theatre, Manipur will be organizing the 3rd North East Theatre Festival with financial assistance from the Department of Culture, New Delhi at the Playhouse, Hongnemshang, Changangei Uchekon Airport Road.

This was announced by Director Ningthouja Deepak during a press conference at the Playhouse. He further said that the festival will be starting from February 13 and conclude on February 20.

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IMPHAL, February 9:  UNACCO group will establish township with flat system to handle increasing population.This was announced by N Irabanta Singh, President of the 2nd Annual Day Celebration 2012-2013 held at UNACCO School premises at Khongman Zone-III.

He further said that UNACCO is striving  to make stronger the four pillars of society i.e. schools, newspaper, micro-finance and township and added that the UNACCO group has now spread to neighboring states. 

Kh Ratankumar Singh, Minister for works and transport lauded UNACCO for its vision to give quality education.

Speaking at the function, Bijoy Koijam President of the Manipur Olympic Association said that education is the best weapon to change a society. 

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IMPHAL, Feb 9: The Students’ Union of Kangleipak has in a release appealed to stop organizing festivities with loud speaker like music concerts, Lila/Drama, film screening, thabal chongba etc starting from February 15 in consideration with the coming BOSEM and COSEM examinations 2013.    

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IMPHAL, Feb 9: The BJP Manipur Pradesh has in a release strongly condemned the killing of truck driver Ningombam Govardhan Singh and demanded arrest of the prime accused handyman Henna.

The BJP Manipur Pradesh also shared in the grief of the family of the deceased, the release said.

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B.G. Verghese
When Pakistan’s Lt Gen Shahid Aziz, with the ISI in, writes in his new book that Musharraf conspiratorially plotted the Kargil caper with a few other cronies and lied about it being a Muhajideen-led strike for freedom in J&K, he says nothing new but only further confirms known facts. The first of these exposures was the Musharraf-Aziz-Nawaz Sharif tapes of Indian intercepts of conversations between the trio from Beijing, where Musharraf had gone to drum up Chinese support, Army Hqrs, Rawalpindi and Islamabad.  The diaries of Capt Hassan, captured on the Kargil heights, also disclosed that elements of Pakistani troops were dressed as mujahideen and filmed by his unit for propaganda use later. The Government of India has at its secretive best, classified these revealing Annexuresof the Kargil Review Committee Report.

Interviewed on Indian TV barely 10 days before Lt Gen Shahid’s tell-all story broke, Musharraf had one again repeated the balderdash he served up in his autobiography. The man is a consummate liar, a commander who disowned his own troops whom he led to death and disaster. Some tribute is,however, owed to those Pakistani officers who distanced themselves from Musharraf even if they were not strong or bold enough to stop his aggressive adventure.

Nawaz Sharif, who was only partially informed by Musharraf but was opportunistically fired by his own ambitions, has now urged an inquiry into the Kargil folly which had unpleasant consequences for Pakistan. Itis doubtful if this will happen as an inquirycould open a can of worms going back on a whole series of belated revelations after furious initial denials of terror attacks against India by the military-ISI-LeT/jihadi complexover decades. The deceit and denials started from 1947-48, through 1965, the destructionof Charar-e-Sharif, Siachen, and the attacks on the J&K Assembly building, the Red Fort,the Indian Parliament, etc, to 26/11 and thereafter.

In all those years of cross border violation, UNMIOGIP did nothing and its one damning report, that of Gen Nimmo, its Australian commander on Operation Gibralter, was conveniently shelved by Pakistan’s comforters in the UN Security Council.  

In each case the cry has been,‘let’s move on, let the peace process proceed,do not look back’ And India has repeatedly responded only to be stabbed in the back yet again. The Pakistan establishment is openly colluding withthe J&Kseparatists who have been warned that jihad may intensify after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014.Nevertheless we must keep trying as Pakistan civil society is beginning to realise that it cannot continue to breed the monster devouring the nation that it fed with a false ideology of Nazar-e-Pakistan from its very creation by denying any identity bar being the “Other” to hated, Hindu India. Kashmir is a fiction, a bogey and a chimera on which the military and mullahs batten.

It is necessary to repeat and explain this sorry narrative as the Pakistani establishment still thinks it can befool the world by evoking UNMOGIP or the OIC, neither of which commands much credibility. What the Government needs to consider is bringing all this damning material together in a White Paper which authoritatively documents Pakistan’s brazen deceptions and confessions, including its patronage of the Taliban and AQ Khan’s nuclear-rocket roguery. The conclusionsand follow up on investigations pertaining to Benazir Bhutto’s assassination by the UN Inquiry Committee that was sought by Zardari and the more recent internal inquiry into the Osama bin Laden Abbottabad safe-haven retirement home mystery, are awaited. The truth may be too dangerous and embarrassing to reveal.

If Pakistan has gone the way of medieval political Islam, India is not free of a similar menace in the form of an exclusivist, backward-looking, divisive and chauvinistic Hindutva that has nothing to do with Hinduism, an eclectic faith. This in turn has spawned counter Islamic radical movements, throwbacks to the past or seeking revenge for perceived Muslim victimhood, real and imagined.

Recent weeks have seen the BJP caught in a fractious struggle between those like the RSS and VHP and sections of the BJP who would rally behind the banner of Hindutva for the 2014 polls, and the moderates who realise that this would not consolidate but divide the Hindu vote and ensure failure at the polls by frightening away present or potential NDA allies. Meanwhile NarendraModi has been projected as the next BJP prime ministerial face with his development model for making India a world power. He came to Delhi to address college youth and visited the Kumbhmela to acclaim.

Modi’s development model in Gujarat has certainly delivered, despite some failings. But the man’s singular flaw lies in his terrible human rights record. Yes, cases are going forward in Gujarat as his supporters argue, but only after herculean efforts and Supreme Court orders to ensure a modicum of due process regarding the 2002 pogrom which he has studiously sought to deny at every turn. This is the CM-cum-Home Minister whose message to his traumatised people over PrasarBharati at the very commencement was, “If you want peace, do not seek justice”. What he wanted was that the upstart “miahs” should kow-tow to him as second class citizens Is this the man being projected as a possible BJP prime minister? God forbid, for he has shown no sign of remorse or shame.

The truth is closing in on Modi and maybe his own party may disown him before the 2014 poll as the wheels of justice keeps moving. As for the Ram temple, if it is to be built, let this be by consent and with grace and not by the kind of crusading brute force with which it was crudely demolished by an act of calculated political deception.

Far better to pay homage to faith by working dedicatedly – and not by tokenism – to get rid of caste, a terrible blot on the nation. The recent Dalit-Brahmin caste-hostel clashes in Patna, in which the Dalits were abused in the most shocking terms, are a reminder how much caste is still embedded in Bihar’s feudal structure which Nitish Kumar has been afraid to take on frontally. He backed down on both land and school reform, pigeon-holing the recommendations of two committees he himself had set up. His opposition to NarendraModi is shallow when he presides over the most caste-ridden state in India.

The Centre and Congress too have been pusillanimous in fighting caste and communal hatred as witnessed by their current stand in limiting promised equal opportunity legislation solely to minorities rather than across the board as recommended.  And is only after much protest and prompting that Praveen Togadia of the VHP, that arch Hindutva communalist, has been booked for hate speech

In J&K it is good that Omar Abdullah has cracked down on the Grand Mufti who, in his profound ignorance of Islam, Kashmiriyat and sufi traditions, decreed that music is un-Islamic and shut down a girls rock band in Srinagar. A lawyer plans to challenge the less-than-Grand Mufti’s self-appointed status as an arbiter of 21st century secular Islamic conduct.

One overdue closure was Afzal Guru’s execution.

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By elKay Takhel
There are buddy cop flicks and then there are buddy cop flicks. We are, all of us, more than familiar with the genre and the linear, almost predictable storyline. However, with all the photocopied plots and never-ending bromance, the genre almost never fails to entertain. The movie in question this week, is one of the better ones of the lot.

“End Of Watch,” I have learnt is a term used when an officer of the law gets slain in the line of duty. That pretty much sums up the whole movie for you, but not quite. In all the ways the movie is similar to the unending list of films in the genre, it still manages to hold its own, entertain and surprise in its own way. It manages to find the sweet spot between the territory familiar with fans and things that are still new to them. And in the end, manages to leave an aftertaste that’s not sour at all, not in the least. The end result being the fact that this is one of the best movies of the genre.

Like all films of the genre, past and future, the screen opens up to show two “buddy” cops on duty and then goes on to show the level and depth of their friendship. Taylor and Zavala played by Jack Gyllenhall and Michael Pena respectively play the lead characters as the ‘buddies.’ Taylor and Zavala are two Los Angeles Police Officers, who have been friends for a long time and almost like family to each other. Unlike other films where cops use their badges to run amok and go out hunting the bad folks cowboy style, the cop action here are kept slightly in touch with reality where the police is made accountable for their actions or inactions for that matter. But being “real” doesn’t mean that we are deprived of our rightful dosage of gore and on-screen gunfire.

Taylor is the more serious of the two; the organized person, who takes everything seriously, while Zavala his partner, is the one who breaks the ‘ice’ of seriousness. The two cops have their share of laughs when not in the line of duty but when called, they complete their work in all seriousness, honesty and with fierce intensity. They are in their own right the ‘heroes.’ They risk their limbs and more frequently, their lives in their ‘heroic’ line of work, to the extent of seeming preposterous at times that two policemen would face so much of action on their own so very frequently. But all this is forgiven in the name of cinematic liberty and masked by the excellent work of the actors, director and the tight execution of the tale.

The movie goes on to show Taylor’s new-found fascination with filming everything at work. Taylor and Zavala are transferred to a crime-infested part of LA where unwittingly they get deeply involved in conflict with the big fishes of the infamous Mexican Cartel. Things get more intense and the crimes more gory as they dig deeper into what they should have let lie, thus endangering themselves more than they already had which builds up the plot for the last act of the film.

David Ayer, the writer-director of this film and the well known “Harsh Times” deserves all the good word and accolades for a well-executed, almost plausible flick. He kept the storyline tight, plot intense, characters human and all this at a palatable pace. He has also been credited with films like “Training Day” and “The Fast and the Furious,” where also his job had been more than exquisite. The actors in the lead role Jack Gyllenhall and Michael Pena have also lived up to the expectations to the point where their performances didn’t feel like acting anymore; and they almost seem like real life police officers (on reality TV?). The supporting casts in the form of Natalie Martinez, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera and Dan Houser have all been uitilized superbly and each one have all done their job without leaving any room for complaints.

I have had the joy of multiple viewing of this delightful piece of cinematic joy and I would advise anyone to do the same for they are not going to be disappointed, and that goes for you too dear reader. And like always, till we meet next, keep your eyeballs glued to the flickering screen.

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By Tinky Ningombam
I am a Cat-lover. Always have been. But not all things have been bright and sunny for our darling felines. The world is filled with a huge amount of cat-haters. It has been a rather unfair world for Cats I believe; they are considered lazy, selfish and arrogant. No wonder they are scheming for world domination.

One does not choose a cat, a cat chooses you. People who are mostly are scared of Cats seem to be themselves insecure, it sort of freaks them out that cats can be so mysterious, I think because they do not understand them. And it is puzzling for them to own and live with something that they do not understand. They need clear intelligence like say “Woof” when you say “Yes”, drool when you are hungry or pee on the lamp-post when you are being playful.  I do not have anything against dogs, I do not like them but I do not hate them. I just think that they are not smarter than cats.

Haters say a lot against cats. They please no one but themselves they say. They are not loyal as dogs they say. But I choose to ignore them. So what if they are anti-social? You do have a right to pick who you want to purr to. Of course, cats do not want to be patted by every Tom, Dick & Harry.  Cats will go about doing their own business rather than following around you and seeking your undiluted attention even when you are with friends. They will not bark and howl when you go out with friends and leave them alone, they would not be bothered to be left to themselves, no Sirree. That’s called independence.

So, does the choice of your pet define who you are? I would say yes. Everyone has heard the famous saying that married folks start looking like each other, but own a pet and you start looking the same pretty much too. Just get out early in the morning and see people jogging with their dogs, they might not look alike, well at first, but they do act the same. Grumbly ones, happy ones, crazy ones and those with a drooling tongue.

Cats would not expect you to take them out for walks or throw them Frisbees. They will just be lazy and cuddle up to you when you watch your movies and eat Tacos. You do not need to bathe them, they can take care of their own. They are agile , graceful and strong. You are never scared of carrying them around or throwing them in the air. Seriously, what good is a pet if you cannot play catch, throw them up in the air and land on their feet?

What of pet- birds, you ask? You cannot own a pet canary without a cage or a parrot or a duck. Too high a maintenance for snakes, a mouse or even a rabbit for that matter. Felines are the only pets you can keep without a lease. They are first and foremost, low- maintenance; they move quietly, they are more polite. Of all the half a dozen cats that I have had as pets, none of them ran away unannounced, they would purr to me when they needed attention and would come at my beck and call. Some of them would be my excellent siesta companions. Sun-basking in the winters, chewing on strings, climbing trees and collecting dead bugs, what all did I not do with them?

Of all the good to mankind that cats have done, the media and movies have not always been nice to cats, this much we know. What with their movies about loyal dogs, about Dogs who help cops and dogs who become heroes. Cats have been stereotyped all their lives and for what? For being what they are? Super Villians and old witches shown patting cats in their laps. Why the constant connection of old hags and cats, one wonders most annoyingly. Every neighborhood seems to have an old lady with a dozen cats, “Crazy Cat Lady”, they call them, I seriously do not know how one assumes one is crazy when they own a lot of cats. What about people who are surrounded by pets just because they are kind-hearted and loving? And do not even talk about those poor black cats. Just because they are rarer, one calls them unlucky. Totally biased , don’t you think? And above all, Hollywood does not spare them either. Cats are always shown, if not as cute or dumb kittens, too girly for their own good or evil and scheming, the likes of serial killers: making Tom dumb in Tom & Jerry or Lucifer, the stepmother’s cat in Cinderella or bad old Sylvester constantly trying to kill the yellow canary Tweety bird. Even Garfield is obese and cares nothing more than eating and kicking Odie off the table.

Why does one forget that cats are distant cousins of the king of the jungle? That they are fierce and strong? That they are free-spirited, wild and intelligent? That they are independent and are not bound to anyone? That they fight battles everyday just to keep our rooms free from rodent attacks? And that they still make sure to be presentable and pretty when summoned. Now that is a pet you want to live with.

(The author did not mean to offend dog-lovers, well not too much anyway. One good thing about cats though, they do not make you feel like a bum even if you slept through the day.)

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By T. Priyokumar

(I)
My spouse is handicapped,
For, but what can I do,
But ignorejustthe pain.

Ignore the pain,
That is within you,
With a smile meaningless.

(II)
True,
Still and today,
Love, is
Forever a freedom bird.

The dust gathers on the bidden path,
And on their footsteps,
Shall we tread, softly
Like the winter rain.

(III)
And as we wait for tomorrow,
A dream,
Repeating like the history of years,
So does yesterday catch up.

It was only a while ago,
When hatred and doubt filled the mind,
But I reached out,
And the Lord picked me up.

A ray shines on the near horizon,
Above the looming dark deep blue mountains,
Cumulus clouds so do fade,
With the herald of the rising sun.

And so, shall we wait ?
For the tomorrow of yesterday`s dreams,
As I eagerly hope,
For the addition of numbers, three to four ?

(IV)
Tears cascading down the cheeks,
Of the happy innocent eyes,
A child of my mind,
Where does the memory part ?

When you are not in my arms,
Do I gather in my mind,
But down the blood flows,
For there is a wound without you.

But you will reign,
In your kingdom of my heart,
And with the break of dawn,
Shall we no longer be `capped.

 

Dreams

On the trial of a dream,
Did I borrow your pen,
Just for a short while.
From whence did we break ?
Our dreams,
Dreams, filtered down the memory lane.

For Thee
In my hour of need,
Thou wert so-
Generous
But in thine,
I failed –
So miserably.
Willingly would I go,
Mites, But I plod,
In the muds of shadows,
With heart,
Shaking with fear.

Time will come,
Surely,
And ages hence,
People will stare,
Agape, at the creation
That is ours.

 

 

Time

Dear darling child:
Precious you are to us,
Vagabonds that we are, for
From eternity were you in our mind.
No woman ever leave you,
No man too big for you,
In time,
Shall you come to know Him.

No land separates us,
Nor feuds do us apart,
From your mother-
A love`s present you are.
The sun will set for today,
But fear not, child,
The stars will twinkle for you,
If not, will be enfolded by dear mother.

As the woods bridge the river banks,
Learn ye the lessons of the day, and,
If you forget, as it does happen,
Then remember you your mother in time.
 

 Of Love

It was a cold winter night.
Not very late but bright,
Of sight,
From the candle light.

Today, we did not meet,
But the future is for sharing,
And,
That is my hope.

Tomorrow when you wake,
There will be a message,
Beside your bed,
Brighter than the breakfast that waits.

Because,
Of hearts did we smoke,
Our reserve,
But not to the core.

 
For My Daughter

Sometimes,
And many a times,
They would pick up,
And wonder.

With tiny hands,
Bony and fleshy,
They wondered,
And smiled at your quest.
Had I a camera,
As of a photographer wanderer,
1 could catch it for you,
But in a poem I would do.

With cap on your head,
Of blue,
Red shirt and of yellow pullover,
A darker blue skirt and similar socks woolen.
 
A winter day’s early morning,
With your tiny cousin elder,
On the verandah, with the sun,
And happiness on my self.

Sometimes,
And many times,
I would wonder and wander,
With a smile, of tears.

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