Two personnel killed in offensive, claims RPF

The Revolutionary People’s Front RPF today claimed that two jawans of 26 AR under the aegis of Red Shield Division were killed and few others injured in an offensive launched by the PLA’s 252 mobile unit under its Operation Blue Eagle on Dec 21 aroun…

The Revolutionary People’s Front RPF today claimed that two jawans of 26 AR under the aegis of Red Shield Division were killed and few others injured in an offensive launched by the PLA’s 252 mobile unit under its Operation Blue Eagle on Dec 21 around 6 Source The Sangai Express

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PDP largest party in J and K, BJP to form Govt in Jharkhand

The results for Jammu Kashmir and Jharkhand Assembly polls came out on Tuesday with the PDP emerging as the single largest party in Jammu Kashmir and the BJP with its ally the AJSU getting a simple majority in Jharkhand Source The Sangai Express…

The results for Jammu Kashmir and Jharkhand Assembly polls came out on Tuesday with the PDP emerging as the single largest party in Jammu Kashmir and the BJP with its ally the AJSU getting a simple majority in Jharkhand Source The Sangai Express With inputs from PTI

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Death anniversary observed

Thoudam Ningthoujao and Tampha Memorial Trust, Thoubal observed the first death anniversary of Thoudam Ningthoujao and Thoudam O Tampha Devi today at Thoudam Irong Leima Ima Panthoibi Community Hall Source The Sangai Express

Thoudam Ningthoujao and Tampha Memorial Trust, Thoubal observed the first death anniversary of Thoudam Ningthoujao and Thoudam O Tampha Devi today at Thoudam Irong Leima Ima Panthoibi Community Hall Source The Sangai Express

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Vendors lay down ultimatum

Vendors of Khwairamband Nupi Keithel warned of launching agitation against the Imphal Municipal Council IMC unless the license card is issued to them within Jan 15, 2015 Source The Sangai Express

Vendors of Khwairamband Nupi Keithel warned of launching agitation against the Imphal Municipal Council IMC unless the license card is issued to them within Jan 15, 2015 Source The Sangai Express

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JAC accuses husband of murdering wife

The JAC constituted against the death of Huidrom ongbi Tombi 25 of Kakwa Huidrom Leikai has claimed that the young homemaker did not commit suicide but was murdered by her husband Source The Sangai Express

The JAC constituted against the death of Huidrom ongbi Tombi 25 of Kakwa Huidrom Leikai has claimed that the young homemaker did not commit suicide but was murdered by her husband Source The Sangai Express

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Two held with drugs

Troops of 24 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector AR under the aegis of Hqs IGAR South apprehended two drug peddlers along with contraband drugs from Khudengthabi check post yesterday Source The Sangai Express

Troops of 24 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector AR under the aegis of Hqs IGAR South apprehended two drug peddlers along with contraband drugs from Khudengthabi check post yesterday Source The Sangai Express

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Committee accuses Pradhan

Nongbrang Awang Leikai Development Committee and local clubs of the area have accused Tumukhong Moirangpurel Gram Panchayat Pradhan of siphoning off a huge amount meant for MGNREGS works and funds coming from State Finance Commission Source The San…

Nongbrang Awang Leikai Development Committee and local clubs of the area have accused Tumukhong Moirangpurel Gram Panchayat Pradhan of siphoning off a huge amount meant for MGNREGS works and funds coming from State Finance Commission Source The Sangai Express

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Christmas greetings pour in from all over

MLA Th Shyamkumar, MLA St Victor Nunghlung, All Manipur Christian Organisation AMCO , Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee MPCC , Kuki Inpi, Manipur KIM , Most Rev Dominic Lumon, BJP ST Morcha, JD U and ZB AMN have extended heartiest greetings to …

MLA Th Shyamkumar, MLA St Victor Nunghlung, All Manipur Christian Organisation AMCO , Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee MPCC , Kuki Inpi, Manipur KIM , Most Rev Dominic Lumon, BJP ST Morcha, JD U and ZB AMN have extended heartiest greetings to the people of the State on the occasion of Christmas and New Year Source The Sangai Express

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Chaoba writes epitaph of State unit Cong

Buoyed by the results of the Jammu Kashmir and Jharkhand Assemblies polls, Manipur BJP president today took a jibe at the Congress and predicted that the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee MPCC would get no fewer than five seats in the State Assemb…

Buoyed by the results of the Jammu Kashmir and Jharkhand Assemblies polls, Manipur BJP president today took a jibe at the Congress and predicted that the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee MPCC would get no fewer than five seats in the State Assembly election expected to be held in 2017 Source The Sangai Express Newmai News Network

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‘Fishers use bleaching powder for fishing’

Some unknown fishermen dipped many bags of bleaching powder Calcium hypoclorite to kill and catch fish near Thoubal Bridge yesterday Source The Sangai Express

Some unknown fishermen dipped many bags of bleaching powder Calcium hypoclorite to kill and catch fish near Thoubal Bridge yesterday Source The Sangai Express

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The Song Must not Fade

Bertolt Brecht once wrote: Will there be songs in dark times? / Yes. / Of dark times. These words, pregnant with his characteristic intuitive brilliance, have also proven prophetic. There

Bertolt Brecht once wrote: Will there be songs in dark times? / Yes. / Of dark times. These words, pregnant with his characteristic intuitive brilliance, have also proven prophetic. There is poetry in life, even in its darkest times. In retrospect, even the leanest and most agonizing periods of anybody`™s life becomes the subject for nostalgia: all the more reason for those in difficulty never to give up. But more literally, have there been songs in dark times? Even a cursory scan of the list of Nobel Prize winners for literature in the post colonial era should provide the clue. For indeed some of the most powerful literature the world has seen have come out of the dark, poverty stricken, chaotic world of the newly decolonized Third World. The works of men like, Neruda, Walcott, Soyenka, Paz, Marques, Naipaul are evidence. Even though not Nobel Laureates there have been equally intense and powerful articulators of ideas like Achebe, Okri, Rushdie, Roy, Sen, Fanon`¦. The last named, Frantz Fanon, although his works were based on the conditions of Algeria of the mid 20th Century, are still considered a powerful portrait oppressed and oppressor binary anywhere in the world anytime.

The question then should not be all about doubts as to whether there would be songs in dark times, but about the quality of the songs in dark times. The demonstrated answer has been, these songs can resonate with a brilliance that can break new grounds and indeed add new colours to intellect as well as literary creativity. Dark times produce a peculiar angst and yearning for rebirth that can only find satisfactory articulation through creative outlets and critical minds. Creative energy thus built cannot remain bound all the time and there always comes a moment of truth when `Prometheus (becomes) Unbound`, to use another analogy from the world of literature. But if Prometheus must become unbound sometime or the other then there is also another uncomfortable fact. The wait for the time he matures and takes courage to shed his shackles can be terribly long, sometimes too long for creative energy to remain kinetic. It may even cool and become dormant, perhaps never to awake again.

What is the nature of Manipur`™s songs about its own dark times then? For dark times we are in without a doubt. Ours is no longer just a question of oppressor versus oppressed, for the line that divided the two is on the verge of vanishing. The oppressed and oppressors have become interchangeable. Here the mind is never without fear and nobody walks with his head held high. Few or nobody sing from the heart or speak from the mind. In such a circumstance, even the idea of freedom is no longer a lived experience but reduced to seminar room rhetoric, signifying empty semantics more than substance. Our intelligentsia have been less than articulate, or else have lacked the courage of conviction to be open or honest. Will our creative spirit ever become unbound then? Will we ever know the true essence of freedom? We wish our bards and intellectuals would honestly sing these tunes someday in the near future. Our arts have had a taste of the energy that only dark days can generate `“ energy which comes from a yearning for freedom, or a will to resist oppression. It therefore also signifies hope and aspiration. When hope is murdered, this energy too will die. The question which all of us who love the place should be asking at this moment is, are all the mindless violence, petrifying terror, paralysing intimidations, monolithic corruption, institutional injustice, doing precisely this?

Leader Writer: pradip Phanjoubam

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Chemicals polluting Manipur’s Thoubal river – Eastern Mirror

Chemicals polluting Manipur’s Thoubal river
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Many aquatic animals were seen writhing in the water due to toxicity,” says Managing Trustee L.Biswajeet Meitei of PFA Manipur in a press release. “On seeing our approach, the illegal fishers managed to escape.”PFA team started to collect the fishes

Chemicals polluting Manipur's Thoubal river
Eastern Mirror
Many aquatic animals were seen writhing in the water due to toxicity,” says Managing Trustee L.Biswajeet Meitei of PFA Manipur in a press release. “On seeing our approach, the illegal fishers managed to escape.”PFA team started to collect the fishes

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Three killed in Manipur blast – Zee News

Three killed in Manipur blastZee NewsThis is the third such incident within less than a month in Manipur. Two youths were killed and four others injured when militants triggered a bomb blast in a market in Imphal Dec 15. A 10-year-old boy was killed in…

Three killed in Manipur blast
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This is the third such incident within less than a month in Manipur. Two youths were killed and four others injured when militants triggered a bomb blast in a market in Imphal Dec 15. A 10-year-old boy was killed in a blast Nov 29, a day ahead of Prime

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