Senior journalist Patricia Mukhim discusses the trauma of people in Manipur, which has been a site of ethnic conflict for 19 months, and the culpability of its chief minister Biren Singh.
India’s ruling BJP claims to have overcome the “tyranny of distance” that has plagued the Northeast but its politics have created greater division within the region, as the Manipur crisis shows
The collapse of a deep Meitei–Kuki friendship shows how Manipur’s nascent queer movement is fraying, threatening its hard-won gains in the violence-torn Indian state
Sexual violence in conflict has a long and terrible history – and its combination with disinformation and nationalism in Manipur makes for an especially ominous mix
I stopped at a small mobile-phone shop in Kathmandu. I wanted to ask a few things. The shopkeeper must have been around 30, a very friendly person. He spoke to
It is a Sunday afternoon as Kolkata Polo 2010 (17-25 December) gets underway. The murmur of the crowd dwindles to near silence as the horses canter to the centre of
