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IMPHAL, December 31: The Democratic Students` Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) called a press conference at its office at Keisampat with the theme, “Media plays an important role for a better society of Manipur.”

During the function, a two minutes silence was also observed in respect for the departed soul of Journalist Dwijamani.

During the conference, a member of DESAM delivering the keynote address said that DESAM members respects the media for its contribution in spreading their ideas to different corners of the state. He further said that it was unfortunate that in times of bandhs and protests as has happened recently, the media were obstructed in their movements during the course of their duty.

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IMPHAL, Dec 31: Police recovered a Chinese made hand grenade this morning at around 6 from the residence of Horticulture & Soil Conservation department Joint Director M Kuber at Wangkhei Ningthem Pukhri Mapal under Porompat police station. The bomb was found placed at the courtyard in front of his house by unidentified person(s).

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IMPHAL, Dec 31: The dead body of an unidentified woman which was found at Hotel Inn, North AOC on December 26 last was handed over to IMC for disposal after conducting a post mortem at RIMS today, as no one had turned up to claim the body.  

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IMPHAL, Dec 31: The chairman and colleagues of Autonomous District Council, Ukhrul have in a release vehemently condemned the multi incidents that occurred in the state where actress Momoco and her two colleagues were assaulted and subsequent killing of journalist Dwijamani in police firing while on duty.

“It is also utterly condemned the looting, assaulting and attempt to rape of innocent minor girl of Risomphung village at Napet Palli and brutal killing of two hunters of Kongkan village under Kamjong Sub-division, Ukhrul. Such beastly morality and inhuman ethics should be given befitting punishment,” the release said further said.

“We also appeal the state Government to treat impartial measure and assistance to the families and express our deep sorrow at the dead of two hunters and journalist,” the release said. 

“The chairman, vice-chairman and colleagues of the ADC, Ukhrul also wishes the people of the state a peace and prosperous New Year and pray that may His grace touches the heart of each and everyone,” the release added.

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IMPHAL, December 31: The 5th Kabi-kirtan (Wakma hongba) was observed today at the residence of Late Poet Nongthombam Biren at Uripok Achom Leikai organised by the deceased poet`s wife Nongthombam (O) Karuna Devi (Wife) and sons, and the Shri Biren Ningshing Khudol Fongdokpa Lup.

The occasion was attended by literary icons and artistes of the state that included Laishram Birendrakumar Singh,   RK Jhaljit Singh, B Jayentakumar Sharma, Khumanthem Prakash Singh, Elangbam Sonamani Singh, Aribam Chitreshwar Sharma, Elangbam Dinamani Singh, Aribam Shyam Sharma, Thoidingjam Tomba Singh and Ratan Thiyam.

A book titled “Shri Biren ningshing khudol” was also released at the function.

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IMPHAL, December 31: The Chandel Naga People`s Organization, the apex body of the seven Naga tribes of Chandel, along with the Naga Women`s Union Chandel (NWUC) Naga Students Union Chandel (NSUC) and Anal Sinnu Ruwi (ASR) has in a press release strongly condemned the Kongkan incident and called for those involved in the incident to be tried and punished as per the law of the land.

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IMPHAL, December 31:  A Press Meet was organized by the CPI Manipur State Council  at the party office at Irabot Bhavan, regarding the resolution made yesterday by its Council Members. Addressing the press meet, CPI Manipur State Council Secretary, Dr Moirangthem Nara said that the party would start awareness campaigns along with public in both hill and valley, against Corruption, against Mal-Practice, against the odds which are faced by the people from February 1.

“Public distribution system has failed. Distribution of food items should be universal and be distributed equally to both BPL and APL,” he said.

Speaking during the press meet, Ex-Minister, Kumbi A/C,said, it was very unfortunate that the state Government needed first to take clearance from the Cnetral government before committing to take any action against Livinstone, the accused in the Chandel incident.

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IMPHAL, Dec 31:  sponsorship of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Government of India,

A state level workshop on implementation of Right to Education Act 2009 was organized by the Centre for Women and Children Education, Manipur at Nongmeibung on December 28, 2012, under the sponsorship of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Government of India. Altogether, 112 delegates from different part of the state took part in the workshop.

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By Ananya S Guha
I simply cannot describe my feelings. The word Rape, recurs in my thoughts as a totally de -mystified entity. I associate it with the worst kind of demonic attacks, as devout Christians would call it. Twenty three years old Damini after waging a relentless war against death, incarnate in her assailants finally caved in. To say that I am feeling terrible is just an approximation to the truth. Even tears do not come into my inert eyes, as I think of the rod piercing her body.

Anger is hurt transformed at times. Anger is something which makes us go to primal atavistic ways. Here anger is not enough, laws will not help, the worst has come, death in its most primordial fashion. Did she or her family deserve this agony, this unmitigated barbaric behaviour, committed by people she never knew?

What did she do to deserve this immolation?

Even as I watch the television, with young women weeping, the tears are no longer idle. They are not deliberated but to expiate for our sins. They come down in torrents, because we know not why, why, why and how?

All these thirteen days, we deluded ourselves into thinking she will survive. A wrong after all has to be righted. There is after all a God in this evil ridden universe. But this did not happen, and the capital city of our country, where this happened, wears an eclipsed, fallen look. This surely is the Free Fall of Man, of civilization, of a Nation which boasts of a hoary civilization and culture. All this is reduced to an unsavoury truth or untruth, a bohemian claptrap.

All the protests which took place were an indication of sheer insecurity. But our leaders, read politicians did not understand the signifier: all that the protesters wanted were empathy and comfort, an assurance that such an incident would not be repeated, call it making new and stringent laws, fast track courts, whatever. Yet in their infinite wisdom our leaders refused to address the protestors, young, hurt, men and women.

What is the assurance now?

All kinds of suggestions are rife: fast track courts, non bailable offence, arrest warrant what have you. Theories will not explain away the fact that the worst form of atavism, took place in this hyped developing country, which is regressing, as an antinomy to progressing, to limits of infinitude.

Her name is no longer a cloistered secret. She is dead after all.

We should hang our heads in shame, even as the tears do not moisten in her parents` eyes.

She may rest in peace; I pray for that, we can`t. It is a collective responsibility and our capital city the historic Delhi is a witness, once again to a sordid history.

How does a sitting Member of Parliament and the son of the President of our country make an irresponsible and insensitive statement that the protesters assembled in India Gate over one of the worst type of criminal and sexual assaults in our country, were women all painted and decked up? The statement shows utter disregard for a crime of the vilest proportions. It also shows a canny disrespect towards the community of women especially in our country.

Instead of finding solutions to the present crisis, and assuaging the fear of the youth our politicians have treated this problem as a law and order problem. The protests are not lawlessness; the protests are an indelible stamp of anger at sexual and criminal misbehaviour. Moreover, the youth feel very insecure and also fear that their rights to individual liberty and freedom are being trampled upon. It is not a question of moral court or dress behaviour. It is a question of human dignity and survival in the midst of such dignity being trampled upon and violated in the worst manner, due to lawlessness of people. Moreover, the brutal callousness of the public over the incident as the lady and her friend lay in utter helplessness for three hours is also a cause for fear. If such incidents are repeated then who will come to the rescue of the victims?

And in the midst of such turmoil when the capital of the country is emersed in a civil war of sorts, we have a Member of Parliament making sly digs at the women community. He has to just look around and see what is happening in the country. Rape and molestation are the orders of the day. Around that time when this took place in Delhi, at least three incidents of rape and molestation took place in different parts of the country. Even now the reports are pouring in of such cases in places such as Mumbai and Punjab, the media covers this up exotically by calling them “alledged cases”. Everything is alledged; nothing is proved even when the victim commits suicide as in Punjab. In this incident it simply happens that it took place in Delhi, because of which the public of the country got more light on it. Otherwise, it would have receded into the background. The clever ploy of the media is to use words like alledgedly and then hide the facts. But this could not be done to the Delhi episode considering the animal behaviour of the criminals and the gross public misconduct of bystanders and the people around who must have seen the lady lying for hours.

Does not the venerable Member of Parliament know this? Does he not know that public sentiments have been aroused not only because of the rape but the brutality involved in dumping her by the road side and inflicting physical injuries of the worst kind? She has already had three operations, how many ordeals will she go through, or for that matter her family members. I have never seen such a despicable situation in my life, in the country where everyone is so deeply hurt and agitated at such atavistic human behaviour.

Simply an apology and retracting one’s statement and that too an irresponsible statement will not do. Also, the blame game of the politicians must stop, and the media must restrain sensationalizing the death of a police constable, by unravelling Yes and Nos, regarding his death. His death is equally unfortunate but we must understand that the public, especially the young, both men and women are terribly afraid and insecure.

It is all over. A friend, who teaches Philosophy in an American University, wrote to me saying that this has always been happening in New Delhi, since she knew the place since the seventies when she was a student. Yes, we remember the Sanjay and Geeta Chopra case which had rocked and shamed the country. Sujan Dutta The Telegraph (Kolkata) correspondent says that he feels ashamed, ashamed of all the sexist lewd jokes he has cracked, ashamed of making comments against women and matters which show our male sex-centricity.

It is tragically embedded in our Indian psyche and consciousness, which boasts, especially in some parts of the country of a conservatism. But behind the curtains ugly scenes take centre stage. Behind the curtains women are targetted with the lewdest and lascivious jokes. Jokes doing the rounds in the new avatar of the mobile phone are sexist and `rapist` in nature.

It is very good that we are doing a deep down introspection, and trying to expiate for our sins. But we have to right the wrong, and carry the mortal remains of this valiant woman to its logical conclusion – that is, punishment to the rapists, and a grim warning to those who follow suit. After all these things are happening, because people think that they will get away. It is amazing how synchronistic things are, even now we hear of similar happenings, in Delhi, Punjab, Manipur, Meghalaya and Mumbai. How many such cases have taken place `silently` which have gone unreported?

The India of our dreams, has become nightmarish, the depraved and the corrupt exist in all walks of life. How do we take it out of this deep seated quagmire? What developments are we talking about, when there is a moral and spiritual devolution of the worst order, a `descent` of man and mankind?

What must be going on in the family of this woman, as death as disrupted rudely, simple middle class lives? It is not a who dunit, it is why we have done it? What is wrong with our collective conscious? We need to have a look at the TV serials and soap operas we produce, which family after family watch, with eyes sticking on to the sets like glue? Violence and sex are shown on these shows with crass impunity. There must be an embargo on such proliferation, on the use of mobile phones by the youth, with a National Screening committee to come out with findings and restrictions. The film actors today, who are weeping crocodile tears, forget that it is the Hindi Film scene that has initiated such culpability since a long time. Now of course most of the regional languages are following suit with aplomb.

India of our dreams – dream away till the scent of these nightmares vanish, dream away till such putrefaction, does not stink but smells of roses, odoriferous, bearing stamp of human dignity. The India of our dreams, weep, weep till the tears do not dry but are aromatic of fecundity, respect for the poor, downtrodden, victims of sexist violence, female foetice and yes, oh yes,  jubilitating at the birth of a girl child.

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As we stand now at the beginning of yet another year, we inevitably end up taking a relook at what passed us by, what we achieved and lost. A few among us might begin to scoff at the romanticism of the fuss that is associated with the annual cycle saying that the beginning of another year will not change things, that they will remain the same. Yet, for all purposes when January 1 dawns on every ‘new year’, people all across the world will herald its advent with cheer and celebrations. Millions of people will peg on hope that there will be better times ahead, that there will be more progress and peace. What happens in real terms will only be reflected in a balance sheet that marks what has earlier happened in the 365 days that has gone by.

Manipur’s 2012 started on a subtle note after emerging from an extended economic blockade. Back when 2012 was about to start, we hoped that we would not see another economic blockade. We prayed that we would not have to see any more long lines at petrol pumps, that we would not have to pay exorbitant prices for the most basic requirement to run a kitchen, the LPG cylinder. We heaved a sigh of relief as the days, weeks and months passed by on the calendar without an economic blockade breathing down our necks but by December, the pace of life unstuck itself. First came a brief interlude with an economic blockade that thankfully resolved before it could bring in a sense of déjà vu. In the earlier part of the year, all the buzz over a shift on who would lead the government were laid to rest with the outmost conviction when the Congress romped home with the maximum number of seats in the history of democratic processes in the state. Though the Congress showed who was boss in the state terms of muscle power, the one positive takeaway from the elections were that there were a few first time elect representatives who crushed known names.

On a somber note, post mortem records from the state medical records show that out of 505 cases, the maximum number of deaths being pegged at 196 happened due to road accidents in the state cautioning each one of us on the perils of clogging the narrow roads of Imphal and other districts with more and more vehicles and less and less abiding of traffic rules. It tells the relevant authority to also pull up its socks and ensure that traffic rules are followed and not be left to be flouted by VIPs and security personnel who get the go ahead. The number of deaths by hanging is another somber reminder of the fragile nature of the state, society and family. There can be no joy in death and if the figure of deaths in the state is a toss up between road accidents, death by bullet injuries and suicides, it tells us that we need to have a look at what it is that we are missing.

A New Year set to begin should not only be confined to the solemn and the gloomy bit. Like Pandora’s box, which unleashed sickness and anger and unhappiness but also had hope, we should all have a glimmer of hope that we do have what it takes to bring out the best in our self and in the people around us. As we shake our heads and say the all too familiar, “things will never change”, let us resolve that each one will take the responsibility to change what we can. Trouble and strife is what fills our spaces in the newspaper and media sector but maybe, there will be a time when we can sit down and write about things working, about how life is changing for the better. Here is looking to that time.

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