MSAD Maheiroi 2011 : An Annual Magazine of the Manipur Students' Association Delhi
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FOREWORD FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD
MAHEIROI, the annual magazine of the Manipur Students' Association Delhi, is the result of collective efforts of many people. This volume is another addition to a number of other documents in the archives of MSAD, most of which are related to crucial issues of political and civil rights. We hope this volume would keep alive the literary tradition of MSAD which had witnessed the publication of the first three editions of MAHEIROI in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
The publication of this volume is not as easy as one may expect. We had to face series of tedious formalities, overstretched coordination and many
inconvenient adjustments. Fund raising was another big challenge while coping with many other important activities which actually were overlapping with
the publication work.
Here is a brief revisit of how the idea of rejuvenating MAHEIROI came to be realised. Section II, Article 7, Clause (i), of MSAD Constitution,
says, it is the "responsibility of the Academic and Magazine Secretary to constitute an Academic Committee, which apart from other activities is
supposed to publish an annual magazine". Accordingly the Academic &
Magazine Secretary (2010-2011 Term) had issued a press release on 17
February 2011, inviting students to submit articles, poems, short stories on or
before 31 March 2011. One of the preconditions to carry forward the initiative
was the appointment of an editorial board and a coordinator that would
spearhead the process. However, the matter was temporarily kept on hold for
a period of about 5 months. However, on 11 August 2011, the matter was
again taken up. New notification was circulated requesting for submission of
essays, short stories and poems on or before 30 August 2011. A press release
was also issued asking students to join the editorial board as per the regulations
laid out in the release. Any student may apply for the membership of the
board either on the recommendation of Executive Committee or on voluntary basis.
A JBM was called on 22 August 2011 to decide on the themes and contents of MAHEIROI 2011. Finally, MSAD announced the constitution of
an Editorial Board on 8 October 2011. Since then, Chinglen Khumukcham as the coordinator began collection of essays and poems and short stories from
the students as well as other writers. Regarding the contents of MAHEIROI,
MSAD had decided to collect contributions from a wide range of fields. Some
of the initial ideas that came out were related broadly to the following: MSAD
and its Activities, Statistical Information About Manipur, Poems and Lyrics,
Fiction (Short Stories), Issues of Development and Human Rights, People's
Movement in Manipur, Questions of Territoriality, Women's Politics & Action,
Manipuri Students in Delhi, Issues of Discrimination, Community, Diversity
and Unity in Manipur, Film Industry in Manipur, Letters to Editors and
Responses, and Pictures or Photographs on MSAD and Manipur. The themes
were later unanimously agreed upon. The idea behind choosing of wide ranges
of topics was to encourage plurality of thoughts and writings, experiences
and opinions, and to retain the legacy of MAHEIROI. Whatever literary works
that the Editorial Board received through the Coordinator were thoroughly
studied, edited, crossed checked and sent back to the contributors for their
final response. Except in the case of an article on Film Industry in Manipur
that the author did not reply to the comment of the editorial board, all were
approved finally for publication.
The current volume of MAHEIROI also incorporates essays of the
winners of the Essay Writing Competitions held on 26 July 2009 and 3
September 2011. There is however a clarification particularly about these
essays. These essays may not fulfil the minimum standard of what we generally
expect from the point of view of academic publication. In fact, these essays
were written on the spot on the occasions of academic programmes organised
by MSAD. The purpose was to encourage writing and thinking habits among
the students from Manipur, so that they could exercise their intellectual skill
and capacity to react to the contemporary experiences in Manipur of which
they are part not to deny. We however feel impressed with the kind of response
in terms of participation and enthusiasm among the students. We are proud of
the courage and the interest of these young and talented students who shared
their views on the topics given to them. Except few corrections of grammatical
mistakes, date, name of places, and deletion of repetition, we have strictly
maintained minimum intervention in order to retain their original views.
Also in this volume are reports of various activities of MSAD, list of volunteers, list of meritorious awards and other prizes, list of donations and
contributions, and other information provided to us by the Executive
Committee. We had requested the EC to authenticate the reports and also to
strictly follow appropriate criteria so that there is neither misrepresentation
nor underrepresentation of "facts". The Editorial Board is not however
responsible for any omission or inclusion in respect of what is published in
this volume. Moreover, the literary works carry the views and opinion of the
concerned author and not necessarily those of the editorial board.
We are fully indebted to MSAD for inviting some of us to be in the Editorial Board and giving us the opportunity to participate in the production
of MAHEIROI and contribute to MSAD in general and the large number of students in Delhi in particular.
Apunbana Yaifare
Long Live MSAD
MSAD 2011 Editorial Board:
Malem Ningthouja
Praem Hidam
Nongmaithem Manishwar
Beerjurekha Samom
Khumukcham Chinglen Luwang
E-mail: msad(dot)manipur(at)gmail(dot)com
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