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Please Don't Blame Imphal: A tribute to the three who radicalised Manipuri poetry
North East Blog | Akhu Chingangbam | May 21, 2012 at 14 : 55
It was in 1974 when Yumlembam Ibomcha, Thangjam Ibopishak and Ranjit W, three young poets in their mid-twenties, published an anthology of poems in Imphal; it was titled Shingnaba (Challenge).
The two volumes of the anthology, which were out in the successive months of September and October, marked a radical departure from the romanticism espoused by earlier writers like Hijam Anganghal, Khwairakpam Chaoba, Dr Lamabam Kamal. It was a time of rupture.
The realities of Manipur - the changing society, the changing religious mores and the political situation - took centrestage.
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