My Feb column in The New Indian Express which appeared on Feb 6.

My article in EPW yesterday, Feb 1, on Manipur's hill-valley politics of friction, which is sometimes honest but most of the time unfounded and sinister.

My TNIE column this month.

A slightly different version of my column in The Telegraph this month reproduced in IRAP.

This was first carried in The New Indian Express. Reproduced here at IRAP with some minor changes.

This article on how once borders and religions had soft boundaries but now hardened, was first carried in The New Indian Express and then in IRAP.

This boo review was first carries in The Tribune, Chandigarh, then reproduced in IRAP. Link to the original is provided.

My review of Arupjyoti Saikia's new book, "The Quest for Modern Assam" first published in The Telegraph and reproduced in IRAP today.

This was first carried in The New Indian Express as my monthly column and then reproduced in our weekly web journal IRAP.

@MaxFisher895753 I am talking about identity per se, not any particular identity. Indian identity, American identity... all identities, are born out of stories people chose to belong to. Therefore resolving these frictions can be about these stories becoming more accommodative.

My review of IFFI Goa carried by The Hindu today. However, you have to be a subscriber of The Hindu on web to read the full article.

@MoonFaceP Cannot join as speaker

Sea about to erase my footprints at a Goa beach this morning: Recalled my favourite lines: "There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after." Ecclesiastes 1:11

",,,whether or not to impose president’s rule or whether or not to replace the chief minister, N. Biren Singh, have come to be interpreted as victory or defeat for one or the other party and no longer as a means to usher in normalcy.

Never could have imagined such extensive hatred was possible until now. Healing must begin.

ST status holds no special attraction for me nor am I keen to oppose the demand, but I can't understand this paranoia Meiteis will land grab if they become ST. Even now can one ST, say Maram, simply go and set up a village in Ukhrul or Chandel. So how is it different for Meiteis.

"Amid this, it is painful to tolerate the naïve cockiness of many watching the conflict from social media gallery seats with patronising pretensions of foreknowledge of what fair representation of Manipur’s agony should be."