Sangmuan Hangsing

Sangmuan Hangsing is a student at the Kautilya School of Public Policy in Hyderabad and writes on the lived experiences of minorities and marginalised communities in India.

How state repression and deliberate ethnic polarisation made Manipur boil over

Biren Singh’s BJP-led Manipur state government has used arrests, intimidation and narrative manipulation as tools to dominate the public and exacerbate decades-old tensions between Meiteis and Kuki-Zomi-Hmars.

By Sangmuan Hangsing

/ 24 Dec 2024

A group of protestors against Manipur’s chief minister with a sign that reads "End the bloodshed. N.Biren Singh must answer f