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Amar Yumnam's Narratives

  • Manipur's Draft Bamboo Policy: Timeliness Cluttered By Casualness
    One cannot make out whether this is a Vision Statement or a Statement on Strategy
  • Nobel Economics Prize 2019 : Development economics has come a full circle
    Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Michael Kremer at Harvard University
  • Nirmala Sitharaman's first budget: It is different
    change of attitude of the government on international diplomatic relationships
  • The Ithai Barrage: A Development Decision Gone Awry
    the promised benefits have not been fully realized
  • Where Is Manipur Today: Comparatively Speaking
    compromise with cultural foundations of social ethos and sowing seeds of turbulence of social inequality
  • Critical Mass, Reform Resistant and Patience Fatigue: Manipur on the eve of General Elections
    A successful leader is the one who delivers on promises and those deliverances render lasting value
  • Scapegoating As Culture : A Dangerously Costly Culture in Manipur
    The culture of Manipur today aligns well with that of the precolonial Kuba Kingdom
  • Losing Trust: Government and people in Manipur
    How is BJP endeavouring to restore trust of people on government, and revive the social capital strength
  • Parties, Problems Aplenty and No Election Issues: Manipur as usual?
    Are the Elections in Manipur going to be non-issue based as before?
  • Knowledge, Market and Governance in Manipur: Outdated but no renewal efforts
    Manipur is now in this scenario of market failures and governance collapses..
  • Government As The Problem: Manipur's predicament and way out
    statement of the Head of the People of Manipur about the social character of the people..
  • From Policy Paralysis to Performance Orientation: Union Budget 2016-17
    India have a Budget where Economics/ Politics are so healthily combined for strong & inclusive nation...
  • Why Price Tags On Government Jobs: State so unfriendly to livelihood efforts in Manipur
    .. do not force the people to bear the cost of governance incompetence forever...
  • Whatever It Is, It Is Cheat And Looting In Manipur: Telecommunications as an example
    The cellular connection in Manipur is a conundrum of incomplete talks, disturbed voices, unexplained noises...
  • "I object to the language" : In India language is more important than content
    ..But Indians are usually masters in flowery language with very little content if any...
  • Union Budget 2015-16: Bang for India, Regression for the North East
    ..that development challenges in region would be taken care of by generalised approaches applied throughout the country ...
  • Recent Character of Manipur's Provincial Security Forces: Observations of an insect
    violent, irresponsible and haughty behaviour among the Police, IRB and MR of Manipur ...
  • Information Manipulation, Stated Beliefs and Revealed Beliefs: Manipur's current methodology
    dominated by people manipulate information to portray positive images while stealing in every possible way...
  • A Clean City In The North East: Only Agartala and not others
    But if Tripura can do it, why not the others? ...
  • I Am A Manipuri, So I Am A Liar: Globally speaking
    most unreliable and untrustworthy group of people who do not respect time...
  • Contemporary Manipur As Data for Experimental Economics
    Contemporary Manipur is a wonderfully interesting arena for the live examples...
  • New Atmosphere But Old Habits In Manipur: Time to transit to assessment from assumption
    but we need to assess our own markets as well for meaningful participation...
  • Honouring Yangmaso Shaiza: The legacy and the contemporary compulsions
    he was forever seized with the need to understand the socio-economic dynamics of Manipur
  • TataSky's : Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
    DTH Policy: Manipur's Chronic and acute disease of pretence as social principle
  • Taking The People Along, Firing The Imagination Of The People And Leading Social Change
    We are waiting for Manipur's own Dr. Lueger and connectivity between senses and knowledge as Cicero
  • Visible Changes of Two Types: Manipur's and Rest of India's
    Manipur is sick and what ever we hear and see here is sickening
  • Culture Beyond A Quest For the Useful Past
    Manipur's imperative for a contemporary culture for a meaningful future
  • If This Is Application Of Mind: Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad
    greatest tragedy...provincial govt has all along been under spell that fire-brigade approaches to social issues
  • North East In India's Agenda: Transition from pretensions to real actions
    Tokyo Declaration for India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership on 1 Sep 2014
  • Issue of Position of Women: Need for contextualised rethink
    Researchers have been pointing out for some years and raising the issues of paradoxical status of women in Manipur
  • Union Budget 2012-2013 : Tit-bits as budget of the First Year of a New Plan
    Overall, we would say that new budget is the dullest one we can have in the first year of a new plan period
  • Doles for Voting: Contextual appreciation
    The challenge before us is revival of the Cicerian Virtue of Patriotism
  • The Moral of Policy and Programme Universe : The Biggest Cheating Sector in Manipur
    We have so many questions from the players in the moral of policy and programme universe
  • All-Round Institutional Collapse: Hence absence of effective thinking
    We seem to be observing fairly widespread criticism as lack of thinking
  • Democracy, People and Elections : Further debates
    People have been left with no choice
  • Incomplete Nation, Central Arrogance and Communal Politicking
    Muivah at the receiving end
  • Indian Economic Compulsions and The NE
    India is committing a major blunder by looking only at "national security"
  • "Spiral Of Silence": Silence or been silenced
    Let us all look at the culture, politics and institutions of Finland
  • Conflict Discussions
    Hypocrisy, opportunism or plain stupidity
  • Killing of Women and Trafficking of Children
    The seen and the unseen
  • A Layman's Guide to Policy Focus for 2010-2020
    Includes "From Valley-Centric to Mountain-Centric" , "A Qualitative Focus"
  • An equation by any name is an equation
    Social cost is a social cost
  • Manipur, a Tired World
    A chance to free themselves (actors in Manipur) from the clutches of lies.
  • Failures of policy design and Manipur's tragedy
    Endogenising the Exogenous political system
  • India's unwarranted China phobia
    Elation at being one of twenty while the other Is one of two
  • Development and its political economy
    Manipur has consistently devalued and derided the role and position of specialists
  • Who Is Really in Charge
    Manipur Govt should accept the present mess as a socio-political issue
  • Disorganized organisation as Democracy
    Authoritarianism is a rule rather than exception
  • Everybody is a loser
    The only gain is systemic decline
  • Blunting of democratic culture and rise of authoritarianism
    All have become reactionary and authoritarian.
  • Violence without accountability
    Manipur in deep social crisis
  • Weapons of Last Resort
    Demise of Institutions in Manipur
  • Half a league, half a league towards a banana republic
    Manipur's recent trajectory
  • Bringing children to the centre of social articulation
    Manipur's one need
  • Neither here nor there
    Manipur's predicament
  • The Ongoing as Seminar
    Need for collective learning
  • Running a state without media : Manipur case
    Media management has utterly failed with issues concerning people
  • From Conflict Situation to Absolute Chaos
    Manipur's recent trajectory
  • Democracy the God that failed
    The character of the political class in Manipur
  • Brutal Killing and Cruel Lockout
    Blatant lack of accountability over the years
  • Unique decline and meaningful inroads
    Double squeeze on the people
  • Force and Violence Killing Accountability
    Manipur's repeated indulgence
  • We Are Not All Fools
    Pains on the death of a pregnant mother
  • Manipur's Impasse
    Resource people relationships
  • Bright spots of human capital enhancement
    Two stories- S.K. Womens College & Shija Hospitals
  • Outsize Violence and Politics
    Thinking outside the box
  • Who represents people
    An acute shortage of trust in Manipur
  • The New Government and Manipur
    Shape of things to come
  • "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world"
    Lives are getting lost without accountability
  • Manipur, Democracy & the Fractionalisation
    The emerging convergence
  • Then Two Actors, Now So Many Splinters
    Manipur in articulo mortis
  • Lovely But Increasingly Unequal
    Contemporary Manipur society
  • Climate Change
    Vulnerability and needed flows in Manipur
  • When politics has finished both State & Society
    Time to evolve way out
  • Anything Goes in Modernity
    Heterogeneity in India's East and North East
  • Time for An Academic State
    Manipur's need of the hour
  • The Space for Whistle Blowers
    Time for deep articulation in Manipur
  • Money Grows on Trees
    How not to choose social collapse
  • A State is much more than political governance
    The absence of economic governance in Manipur
  • Violence of the other kind
    Violence of a development principle
  • Borders are Safe Because of the People
    They do care for us but do we reciprocate?
  • Justice: The perennial concern and our worries
    We bear the constant tortures of corruption
  • Security Changeover
    Possible substitution effects
  • Coercion as the Central Force in Manipur
    No way to progresss
  • Our Diaspora
    A strength made unutilized
  • Women Vegetable Vendors
    Cumulative stupidity of policy and impoverishment of Manipur's economy
  • Myxomatosis
    The disease now inflicting Manipur society
  • The Tragedy of the Mountains
    A case of double squeeze
  • Recession Reaches India
    Worse times ahead for the poor
  • Democracy, Govt, Power and Liberty
    Where are we ?
  • Clarity of Developmental Intervention
    China's strength and India's weakness
  • China leaves India far behind
    It is not of competing, but of catching up
  • Little Flower School attains fifty
    Wish there are many Little Flower Schools!
  • Paul Krugman win Nobel in Economics
    On the widely anticipated winner of this year
  • Our Earth is a Planet, Not a World
    Assessing the character of Manipur's development interventions
  • Alertness: The missing element
    In the development administration of the State
  • The tragedy of being landlocked and small
    Monika's maltreatments would be the rule rather than exception
  • Thinking about women
    Youths remaining home are developing dubious characteristics
  • Let us accept It
    We are not serious about "others' children"
  • Are we really cultured people
    A look at the daily irritants in Imphal
  • Criticality of Political Class
    The missing element of policy orientation in Manipur
  • Predicament of Manipur's children
    Negligence by one side and recruitment by the other
  • The Growth Report
    Lesson for Manipur - necessity of learning by doing.
  • Divide, Divide and be Divisive
    Manipur today is characterized by strong divisiveness
  • Saving today's NE for a brighter tomorrow
    Time now to articulate fully a North Eastern Agenda
  • Gaps of the Mental Kind
    Are we missing the bus once again
  • Organisation Multipliers : Whirlpool of anarchy
    Govt has fallen prey to the dictum of "organizations"
  • Heirok and the Future History of Manipur
    Divergence of opinion between Heirok and non-Heirok.
  • Lost in the Transition
    Rising disconnect between original goals & current functioning of Org.
  • Home they brought her warrior dead
    Arming Villagers - Has Govt shown courage?
  • The Indian State: A non-text book version
    Indian economy vis-a-vis Chinese interventions in NE
  • Our Land: Turning against the public in everything
    Enough of scoundrels/scallywags behaving as frontal thinkers .
  • Government is much more than contracts and military expansion
    Problem with Security-based economy as the only expanding sector
  • Civil Services Examination: The age problem
    On demands to raising upper age limit to 35
  • Democracy Topsy-Turvy Which Is Manipur
    Prayer for a responsive and accountable government
  • Thinking Environment Contextually: Manipur's case
    Inability of Govt bureaucrats to think contextually
  • Absence of continuum and the behaviour of State: Manipur's case
    Is Manipur the laboratory for all political testing by the state?
  • Prohibition of all types and the Political Economy of collapse
    The economics of "banning"
  • Doggedness in non-learning
    On Civil administration in Manipur
  • Moreh and Namphalong versus Mae Sot and Myawaddy
    Security based trade never delivers economic benefits
  • India's growth, Northeast and the Dutch economy
    Holland capitalises on India's expansion while NE fails
  • Development, Sinusitis, Headache and Tuberculosis
    Imphal city without an administrator!
  • PPP or P3 can mean more than Public Private Partnerships
    Will Public Private Partnerships work in Manipur?
  • Society and Economy minus Polity
    The increasing disconnect in Manipur
  • Betrayed expectations and incentive reversals
    The case of education scenario in Manipur
  • Non-deliverance as the strategy
    Economic growth theory and non-performance of the Govt
  • People’s response to incentives, Govt and growth
    Imphal-centric approach to development is un-sustainable.
  • Knowledge economy, New York and Manipur
    CM's NY presentation is neither coherence nor convergence
  • Governance once again
    Forget the principles everywhere
  • Law and order
    Whose concern is it?
  • Govt bluffs and Airtel cheats
    Private sectors joins Govt in the game of bluffs & cheats!
  • Panchayat elections (2007)
    Neither democracy nor decentralization
  • Appeal on Bandhs and Public Cynicism
    The intentions and the responses
  • We have been ashamed, should not be ashamed further
    People's fate matters, not the privileges of few
  • Development administration: What are you talking about?
    Urgency for a committed & efficient development admin
  • Governance issues: Typological or incentive related
    Need to examine the governance problems
  • Relative competence of hospitals in Manipur
    Assessing RIMS & Shija Hospitals.
  • Incompetence galore, i.e., the Government of Manipur
    Govt of Manipur refusal to learn from mistakes
  • Indian mind-set and Manipur
    Shukla Commission on bridging psychological gap between NE & rest of India
  • Urbanization, "honourables" and Manipur
    Urbanisation in mountains & grudge for not addressing "honourable"
  • Phumdis down the stream as national event
    Manipur just cannot afford cranky wastage of time
  • Manipur, sports and investment: The fundamental issues now
    Manpower to oversee the Sports facilities
  • Burning down of schools: Bound to happen, really?
    The burning of schools in Maipur's hill districts
  • Universities and transparency vis-ŕ-vis secretive and scandalous
    A secretive university can never aspire to join the academic competition
  • The North-East as foreign affairs
    Distrust on a region had and would never serve the long run national interests.
  • Manipur: The Disconnects and the Tragedy
    The alternative predominance of rational forces and expressive forces.
  • With police administration improving, what is civil administration doing?
    Will civil administration rises to the occasion?
  • Dirt and non-maintenance
    Govt should not play with 'dignity and prestige of our land'
  • Unwarranted and unaddressed tensions: Manipur at present
    Unwarranted & Unaddressed tension in Manipur
  • Two burning issues
    Can Govt comprehend Power Supply & location of NIT?
  • Leader laments as development suffers
    Under-development requires a better leader.
  • Budget as story telling when Manipur shrieks
    A commentary on the Manipur Budget 2007-2008
  • Convergence in Manipur - From Gurgaon to Chandel
    public-private and private-private convergence has to end
  • One, two, three... when will the count end?
    Disturbing trend of kidnapping & murder of innocent children.
  • Churanthaba claims one more child
    Absolute degradation of the Police force
  • Iraq and the changing paradigm
    Changing from welfare to warfare
  • Time for revision of views and Perspectives: Role of Ibobi
    Ibobi's re-election significance.
  • Bandhs: Indeed an issue for serious debate
    Improvement in governance in controlling Bandh
  • Manipur: Time to reinvent the State
    Is there perceptible experience of welfare by the people?
  • The Backward Regions Grant Fund: The Tragedy Repeats Itself
    Let us invest to yield to begin with..
  • Policy stickiness and the elections: VVIPs Galore
    The elections this time are pregnant with implications...
  • Transition gone astray: Manipur's tragjectory
    Grammar of her society has gone wrong in every respect
  • Malom, Manorama, and Manipur
    The Value of a Minority Soul
  • Hills and valley as election issues
    Time for inclusiveness
  • Cost of governance
    Manipur is into Anarchy!
  • Chaos in Manipur
    Neighbours' envy and Owners' headache
  • Inter-Caste Marriage
    Regional Development Policy making is caste-based.
  • Nationalism, violence and state
    Manipur's double tragedy
  • Bound to proximity
    Manipur's time to decide
  • Climate at the Centre
    A relook at the Tipaimukh
  • Concept of Home: How different across countries
    Difference between an American & Manipuri Student.
  • People's democracy: The crux of Manipur's issue
    Manipur's problem in area of endo-geneity and exogeneity.
  • Geography, democracy and development
    Democracy is wrong vis-a-vis the geographic realities of the State
  • BSNL is not AT&T, Idiot!
    Comparing customer service between BSNL & AT&T
  • We have to End the Violence, or the Violence will End Us
    An assessment of situation in Manipur
  • Manipur in the International Curricula
    The world is now watching Manipur!
  • East Asia and Manipur's future growth
    Manipur's Trade vis-a-vis East Asia is discussed.
  • Summit in Mumbai
    Approach and Expectations
  • Indo-Myanmar economic relationships
    on border trade to economic diplomacy with Myanmar
  • Summit in Mumbai
    Approach and Expectations