From being a delicacy to serving as a source of livelihood, bamboo can be a game changer for the Northeast. Its flavour also underlines the shared bond among food, ethnicity and community
Imoinu is the goddess of wealth, prosperity and Imoinu Eratpa is a festival of light which is celebrated annually on the 12th of the Wakching month of the Meitei lunar calendar.
After a dark Diwali, Christmas in Manipur will be a sorrowful event this year with a significant number of people having no resources to go to church. Thousands of internally displaced people in Manipur have been in relief camps for almost 8 months.
Two key highways in violence-hit Manipur connecting the state capital Imphal with Mao on the north and Churachandpur on the south have been opened to commuters and commercial traffic under heavy security cover.