There’s more to celebrate than UPSC

There’s more to celebrate than UPSC 

- Thangkhansuan Gualnam

With the declaration of the UPSC 2019 result, there has been an interesting development of conversation online, mainly on WhatsApp groups. The sentiment in most of the conversation has been that of disappointment. This is because, of the 829 selected candidates, none has been from our community. Now knowing the competitive nature of the said exam and expecting someone from our community to be on the list every year, I think the confidence we have on our youth is commendable. At the same time, it is frightening for our youth the amount of expectation and high standard of success set by our society. I’m no expert on “how to crack the Civil Service exam” and I do not have a YouTube Channel with videos about the tricks for such an exam. As such the objective here is not to analyse why our youth could not clear the exam this year or to give any advice on what to next and how to prepare for it. The objective here is rather of a larger issue, and it’s also a continuation of the personal discussion with friends or classroom discussions with professors over the years. 

Being a young university student and soon to be job hunting from place to place myself, I had some problems with the kind of conversion happening around the idea of “success” that

Urgent and open appeal to de-notify and withdraw Chibu Stone Inscription and stop constructing Chandrakirti Memorial Park at Chivu at the Indo-Myanmar border

Photo of Chivu Lake near the controversial Chadrakirti Memorial Park, Indo-Myanmar Border.

 17 May 2020

From: Tribal Intellectual Forum, Manipur

To:

Shri N. Biren Singh

Chief Minister of Manipur

Imphal, Manipur 795001

Subject: Urgent and open appeal to de-notify and withdraw Chibu Stone Inscription and stop constructing Chandrakirti Memorial Park at Chivu at the Indo-Myanmar border

Dear Hon’ble Biren Singhji:

Warmest greetings! Hope this letter find you in the best of your health.

We, the undersigned under the rubric of Tribal Intellectual Forum, Manipur, are deeply concerned and disturbed over the unusual enthusiasm shown by you and your government in the midst of Covid19 outbreak to edify and use the site of Chibu Stone Inscription as a proxy to construct a Memorial Park after the name of the controversial king, Chandrakirti Singh at Chivu, near Behiang in the Indo-Myanmar border. While we appreciate and welcome your effort to promote tourism and development through Behiang in the Indo-Myanmar border as a part of India’s Act East Policy, your calculated move to use Chandrakirti Memorial Park as a mascot to promote tourism and development not only contradicts your professed avowal on Chingmi-tammi amatani (hill-valley people are one) but may also endanger inter-communal peace, harmony, and the promotion of tourism and development at large in Manipur. In our considered opinion, which is duly supported by dense colonial historical records, your pet project to promote Chandrakirti Memorial Park around the pivotal site of Chibu Stone Inscription, which is protected under the Manipur Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1976, stems from a willful distortion and manipulation of history. Unless you are really keen and determined to perpetuate this manipulated and distorted history as a proxy to snatch away tribal land, open up a deep historical wound and willfully insult the dignity, self-respect and pride of the tribal people, we request you to immediately abandon this project, de-notify and withdraw the Chibu Stone Inscription under the 1976 Act mentioned above. Please allow us to elaborate.

SSPP COVID-19 INFORMATION BOOKLET (in Paite) - AIIMS, NEW DELHI

SSPP COVID-19 INFORMATION BOOKLET

AIIMS, NEW DELHI

COVID-19

🔹Pilvang inla, mawk lauhthoh ke'n.
🔹Corona Virus toh kisai chetna tak omloute ah kisubuai ke'n.
🔹Thuchian bang hihiam chih zonkhiak sawmin, hiai natna a kipan kiveng in.
🔹Na khuh chiang in na lenuai hiam, romol hiam in kihum gige in.
🔹Khut silsiang gige leh taksa kikep siangthou gige a poimoh.
🔹Kivenna dinga panlaktheihna omte midang kiang hilhsawn in.

TULAI A MINTHANG MAHMAH COVID-19 KICHI BANG AHIA?
COVID-19 kichi tuh, sih theihna mihingte laka natna kilawhsawn theih tunai zek a kimukhe thak novel Corona Virus chihna ahi. A tom a genna in COVID-19 a kichi hi.

BANGCHI DAN A HIAI NATNA MIHINGTE KILAWHSAWM THEI DING AHIA?
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🔹Mi kuahiam akiang a om khat in, tua tuimal neuchikte ana diklut kha henla, or a thil sukkhaksa uh khut in va sukha in, a khut mah in a mit hiam a naak hiam a kam khoih khaleh, hiai natna kaaithei ding.
🔹Hiaibang mite toh meter 1 sanga naizaw a omlouh teitei ding ahi.

MIKHAT IN TUA NATNA VEILEH BANG ACHI DIA LE?

Being a wife of a Navodayan

*Being a wife of a Navodayan*
Veeranna Ingalagi | 8th March 2020 | Women's Day

It's been more than 13 years I have been married... to a Navodayan.... Ufff....क्या बताये... किसको बताये..... कैसे बताये.... How it is to marry a Navodayan.... Many times I told my husband that you all Navodayans should go to another planet... Find out one and whoever comes out of Navodaya should be sent to that planet.... 😜