Manipur and Burma belong to a world the cameras rarely find, places that burn quietly, outside the intersection of great powers, strategic anxieties, and media visibility that keeps other conflicts permanently in view. Some wars end. Some are negotiated away. Manipur and Burma remind us that others simply continue unseen, unreported and unremarked, until silence itself becomes the story. There are places in the world that command attention the moment violence erupts. Each one of them occupies a permanent place in global imagination because they sit at the intersection of great powers, strategic anxieties, and media visibility. Then there are places that burn quietly. Manipur and Burma aka Myanmar belong to this second category. The irony is geographic. Zoom out from Manipur and Burma is not some distant frontier but is literally next door. Together they occupy a critical hinge between South Asia and Southeast Asia , straddling trade corridors, migration routes, narcotics networks, an...