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What's common to Yorkshire and Manipur?
Anant Rangaswami | FirstPost | Aug 9, 2012
"London 2012 may forever change the image of the north-eastern state of Manipur, from a state beset by problems past the past glory of its sporting heritage into an Olympic field of achievers," one could paraphrase. After all, Manipur gave India one medal winner in Mary Kom and another super performer in Laishram Devendro Singh, who went down fighting vainly in his attempt to make to the medal rounds last night.
In Manipur, it must be something about the sporting heritage. Manipur boasts 7 indigenous outdoor games: Mukna, Mukna Kangjei (Khong Kangjei), Sagol Kangjei, Yubi lakpi, Oo-Laobi, Hiyang-Tannaba and Arambai Hunba.
'There’s something about Mary,' has been a favoured status update on social media in the past few days. Maybe it should also say, 'There's something about Manipur'.
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