Archive


March 2025
22:  
Existence Pending: The Universe Forgot to Attach the Manual

February 2025
02:  
Paradoxes: The Art of Contradiction and Hidden Truths

January 2025
31:  
serendipity
28:  
Icons of Innovation: 10 Pioneers in Graphic Design
22:  
Power, Politics and the Pentagon: US Invasions Under Post-WWII Presidents
05:  
More Than a Game: Cricket, Identity, and Politics

December 2024
30:  
Poetry, Poverty, and Protest: Thangjam Ibopishak Meets Imphal Talkies

November 2024
16:  
Retro Riso: Who Says Print Has to Stay on Paper?

August 2024
10:  
Happiness Is a Side Effect of Life

July 2024
16:  
The Unspoken Sound of Linguistic Hegemony

June 2024
27:  
Drift Away
26:  
Experiment 1.0: Woke and Worried – The Truth about Trigger Warnings
03:  
Meiteilon Newspapers: A Daily Affair

May 2024
27:  
Is Hodophobia Prevailing in the Town?
07:  
The Unexpected Existential Crisis

April 2024
21:  
Bharot

December 2023
13:  
Goats, Bulls, Pigs, Other Sacrificial Animals and Human Beings
05:  
Films & Fonts: Typography in Hollywood Films
02:  
It’s Hard to Get Back, Man

October 2023
06:  
Alternative Perspectives: A Visual Design Approach

June 2023
21:  
The Indian Connection with Manipur Conflicts
17:  
tarantino, titles & typefaces
15:  
Internet in the Local and General Mediascape
13:  
Koramangala Types
04:  
A Short Note on Ethnonationalism in and Around Manipur

May 2023
12:  
Meiteis, Nagas and Kukis: The 4Ds of Disconnection, Drugs, Demography and Diversions in Manipur

March 2023
28:  
What AI Tells Us about Human Reality
16:  
In Celebration of Nothingness and Nihilism
14:  
the volley of the enemy in a block city
13:  
Kokchao Display: A Sans Serif Slab Meitei Mayek Typeface

November 2022
09:  
Solid Shapes #GuitarBrands
06:  
Human Anatomy in Meitei Mayek Typography

October 2022
07:  
A Local Reimagination of the State of Nature

September 2022
25:  
A Note on the ‘Public’ in Public Sphere
20:  
Sedition: Enemy of the State
05:  
Of Pop Music and All Things Popular

August 2022
25:  
Write First and Always, Miller Says, Painting, Music, Friends, Cinema...All These Come Afterwards
13:  
The Other Side of India at 75
01:  
of/to/for/on my muse: rants and recitations

July 2022
20:  
Judge a Book by Its Typefaces
01:  
The Problem of Mainstream Politics in Manipur

December 2021
05:  
Education Markets and the NEP

November 2021
22:  
Pound Says You Will Find Six Kinds of Writers When You Search for ‘Pure Elements’ in Literature
01:  
‘The Smell of Man’ As an Act of Poetry

September 2021
05:  
Metamorphosis - A Poem

August 2021
27:  
What Vonnegut Says About Saying What You Mean to Say
23:  
He, She, They, It or Ze/Zie/Ey: What Is Your Pronoun?
13:  
Poetry Remake: Poems Squeezed Out from Five Popular Novels
10:  
Be Crazy Dumbsaint of the Mind to Write Like a Pro

July 2021
31:  
What It Takes to Succeed in Writing According to Ogilvy
25:  
The Pegasus Protocol: Government Surveillance, Privacy and Our Lives
20:  
Steinbeck Used Six Things Related to Writing That Kill Mediocrity
16:  
2/2 Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? (A 2021 follow-up)
09:  
July in Lamlai
07:  
Who Are the Scariest People in the World?

June 2021
24:  
Of Nostalgia & Nightmares: The Imphal War Cemetery
20:  
Typography Is Rock n’ Roll
17:  
The Last Day on Earth in Imphal
12:  
In Glorification of Time and Place
05:  
Why #NortheastMatters Does Not Matter
01:  
A Cross to Bear for Mother Teresa

May 2021
19:  
A Sign of the Times
17:  
Headhunting: In the Search for Manipuri “Chirong”

April 2020
30:  
The Summer of Corona 3: Rock n' Roll in the Time of Restrictions
30:  
The Summer of Corona 2: The Days of Pandemic and Pandemonium
25:  
The Summer of Corona 1: The Days of Uncertainty

August 2019
23:  
the picture

June 2019
26:  
the road
19:  
Of National Days

April 2019
20:  
yangon plan
15:  
pre-election excretion

January 2019
12:  
Poetry Redacted, Statements Censored
01:  
Planner and Calendar - the New Year Style

December 2018
30:  
Dear Tattoo, So Cute but You’re Bringing Everyone Into Disrepute
26:  
Media in the Limelight

October 2018
28:  
postulation

September 2018
16:  
On Static Movements

August 2018
03:  
dispassionate departure

July 2018
27:  
When Imphal Rebels

June 2018
24:  
of war
20:  
overdue haiku
12:  
Right to Self-Determination: The Choice Is with People

March 2018
30:  
sizes in real life
13:  
A Billion-Rupee Question
13:  
Realisation
13:  
the poetry of my land
13:  
To the Girl, to the Future

February 2018
05:  
Failure What It Looks Like
04:  
A Brief Encounter with the Hungryalist Movement

January 2018
11:  
Similitude
02:  
Utopia in Christiania
01:  
Bohemian Rhapsody: A Glance into the Art World of the Outcasts

December 2017
04:  
This Is the Story, This Is What We Call Is Real
03:  
Dharma Drama

November 2017
20:  
Germs, Diseases and the Burning of Newspaper
07:  
‘Ani Thokpi’
07:  
heroin hero

September 2017
23:  
Tainted Engineer Re-appointed Amidst Pending Cases Against Him
22:  
The Rendezvous on a Road
20:  
‘Bloody Phanek’ All Set for World Premiere in South Korea
15:  
for merely one hour of the universe
07:  
karl marx at keishampat jn
04:  
Be in the News and the Question Is Not Why, But How

August 2017
19:  
Seeking Self-hood
17:  
The Enemy Within Us
13:  
Paari

July 2017
20:  
Indian Sensibilities
11:  
In the Quaint Leikai-Village of Kwatha
11:  
Irregularities Flood Appointment Process in IFCD
11:  
Critical Tomba 6: Investment Inc.
11:  
Critical Tomba 5: Weapon of Mass Development
02:  
Critical Tomba 4: Universal Democracy Day
02:  
Critical Tomba 3: The Great National Social Benefit System of India

June 2017
28:  
Kanglasha Mang-nga: The Dragon as ‘Symbol’ of Symbols
26:  
The Development Delusion
26:  
Critical Tomba 2: Ground Reality
26:  
Critical Tomba 1: General Strikes
22:  
In Search of Sugarcane Juice
13:  
A José Martí Translation: ‘Malemsibu Thadokpagi Eigi Aningba’
08:  
‘Allow Independent Body to Investigate ₹100-crore Khuman Lampak Scam’

May 2017
11:  
on reopening a school autograph book
01:  
Issues and Challenges: A Closer Look into the Politics of Manipur

April 2017
30:  
Garfield: 10 Life Lessons from the Most Famous Cat of the Universe
30:  
What Kind of Society Do We Want?
27:  
Design 101
26:  
The Bitter Bile of ‘Juvenile’: The Khurai Gang Rape Case
23:  
Meiteiron Calendar: The Origami Style 2017–18
20:  
How Now, Brown Cow?
15:  
The Problem of Periphery
15:  
1/2 1891
15:  
2/2 1891
13:  
S- and L-Size in Anglo-Manipuri Monotone
05:  
The Flood of Identities: Who Am I? (Asking for a Friend)
04:  
Talking Is Directly Proportional to Not Talking
03:  
1/4 Left-Aligned Order of Authority in the World of Anarchism
03:  
3/4 Left-Aligned Order of Authority in the World of Anarchism
03:  
2/4 Left-Aligned Order of Authority in the World of Anarchism
03:  
4/4: Left-Aligned Order of Authority in the World of Anarchism
01:  
Yelhoumee Pictures Launches Official Website
01:  
Simple Finance and Economics in Our Backyard

March 2017
20:  
Non-Governmental Inc.
19:  
If You Believe Election Will Bring Social Change, Here’s an Idea Why That Is Quite a Misconception
15:  
The Government Mandate & Nearly a Dozen of Haiku
14:  
23 Words for Emotions That We All Feel, But Can’t Explain
09:  
In Pictures: “Rainin’ in Paradize” by Manu Chao
05:  
A Rant on the Promises of the Election Month
04:  
Typographical Reflection on the Biggest Circus of the Largest Democracy
02:  
PCRM Appeals for Issue-Based Poll in the Manipur Assembly Election 2017

February 2017
26:  
A Political Gimmick to Seek the Details of Framework Agreement
24:  
The Tragedy of Democracy in Manipur

February 2017
24:  
From The High Ground of Compulsion
19:  
1/3 The Role of the Revolutionary Organisation
18:  
2/3 The Role of the Revolutionary Organisation
18:  
3/3 The Role of the Revolutionary Organisation
18:  
Slaves Spotted
10:  
On the Roads to the Palace and the Crematorium
08:  
The Mechanical Man
07:  
Design in the Time of War 3.0
07:  
Poverty of Ideologies: Is Our Long March Going to Be Very Long?

January 2017
26:  
A Reflection on Election
24:  
12 Ways to Approach Design Scientifically
22:  
Post-Truth in the Neighbourhood
22:  
phantom/s
22:  
Fanon 101
15:  
A Contemporary Vocabulary of Mutiny
13:  
full-bath blues
13:  
Sonia Bags the 2017 Young Achiever’s Award
11:  
The Others
11:  
Out on the Town

December 2016
16:  
Ascii-tic Christmas Wishes
11:  
Band-Aids, Bandages and Bastards
11:  
Thoibi & Khamba
05:  
set four/four: the pussy calendar
05:  
set three/four: the manipuri motif
05:  
set two/four: new news
05:  
set one/four: the film connoisseur
01:  
For the Love of the Government
01:  
An Abridged Naga Saga

November 2016
24:  
haiku in the time of long winding queues
24:  
The National Interest
20:  
Master, Tell Me
20:  
Book 1/5: The Book of Five Rings
20:  
Book 2/5: The Book of Five Rings
20:  
Book 3/5: The Book of Five Rings
20:  
Book 4/5: The Book of Five Rings
20:  
Book 5/5: The Book of Five Rings
14:  
Khwairakpam Chaoba’s ‘Lamgi Chekla Amada’
13:  
Blockades of the Beasts
13:  
In Pursuit of Colours
11:  
On the Road: A Translation
08:  
How to Turn Bad Photography Into Abstract Art in Four Easy Steps
08:  
At the Frisking Point
06:  
Eight Einstein’s Epigrams
05:  
Meitei Mayek Typography: Geometreeyek
01:  
From a College Diary
01:  
Money for Jam

October 2016
31:  
Robert Green’s ‘The 48 Laws of Power’
30:  
Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’
29:  
True Colours
28:  
On Those Who Will Be Questioned

May 2016
08:  
Star Obsessions
06:  
The Death of Indian Subaltern Studies
05:  
A Perspective on Benedict Anderson’s Concept of ‘Imagined Communities’
05:  
Inspirational Work-related One Liners
01:  
Workers of the World, Work!

April 2016
29:  
Sri Sri and the Art of Revolution
27:  
When Mary Kom Throws Her Hat into the Ring
23:  
Masters & Slaves
22:  
riot lines
20:  
Are You the ‘Stay’ or the ‘Stray’ Type?
19:  
Bertolt Brecht 101
17:  
Inside Book Covers (Fronstispiece): Arambam Somorendro’s Plays
16:  
Saturday Scheme 2: The Sixth Column
16:  
Saturday Scheme 1: How to Yell ‘Hoirong’ in Different Fonts
14:  
The Tyranny of Technology
14:  
How to Describe ‘Nonsense’ in Graphs
10:  
The Ghosts of 1962
07:  
Southeast Asia: Fighting the Bad Fight?
06:  
Behind the Scenes: All Manipur Cameramen Association
03:  
1/2 No Borders, No Nations, Just People
03:  
2/2 No Borders, No Nations, Just People
01:  
Burmese Way to Socialism in the Context of Manipur
01:  
Manipur Government Doesn’t Deserve to Exist Anymore

March 2016
31:  
You Can Live To Be 150 But What You Should Do Is Shocking
31:  
1/2 ROFLMAO (Rendition Of the Frigging, Loathsome and Misunderstood Acronyms Online)
31:  
2/2 ROFLMAO (Rendition Of the Frigging, Loathsome and Misunderstood Acronyms Online)
29:  
Of Hindu Hullabaloo
27:  
On Social Development: Part 1
27:  
On Social Development: Part 2
26:  
Below The Lady and the Military
25:  
Quote Design: Wailing of a Mountain Man Lost in a Concrete Jungle
24:  
All Chicken, No Egg
22:  
Identity Scarred
22:  
Rules for Radicals (Tactics in Graphics)
20:  
Band Name Inspiration: Moreh Rocket Martini & Others
19:  
Development: Discourses and Dissatisfaction
18:  
Gandhi in the Time of AFSPA
17:  
Face/Off
14:  
A Curious Case of the Country
13:  
An Anarchist Manifesto
11:  
Of the Newborn Baby
06:  
From the House of a Church Mouse
06:  
2/2 Playing Card Design: Headhunter & Co and Others
06:  
1/2 Playing Card Design: Crimemaster Collection

February 2016
27:  
Made in Yunnan
26:  
In the Name of Holy Ejaculation
26:  
The Patriot
26:  
A Tribute to the Teachers
26:  
Li Hao Chu
20:  
You’ve Got Punctuated! Stories in Strokes and Dashes
20:  
The Indian Winter Blues
17:  
Us and Them: Minorities within Minorities
17:  
The Essential Saul Bass
15:  
All Rise! Here Comes the Hindutva Junta!
14:  
Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles of Good Design
13:  
Meira Paibi: A Brief Story of the Women Torchbearers from Manipur
12:  
Nationhood: A Reflection on Ethnic Hostility in Manipur
10:  
Fab Five - Rock & Roll in My Town
07:  
A Brief Story of Rebellion
07:  
The Essential George Carlin
07:  
1/3 Of Duality and Conflict
07:  
2/3 Of Duality and Conflict
07:  
3/3 Of Duality and Conflict
03:  
A Brief Story of Political Conflicts in Modern Manipur
03:  
a request to ayano tsukimi
03:  
Ads for Appreciation
01:  
Between Rock and a Hard Place

January 2016
31:  
An Open Letter to KSO, ANSAM and Other Highway Blockade Sponsors
28:  
The Ultimate Sacrilege
26:  
The Land of Ghost
26:  
For All the World
25:  
16 Words to Learn in 2016
24:  
The Generation of Contradictions
24:  
Change
22:  
‘Khu-hing-laak-hing’
20:  
A Fart of Gold and the Science of Flatulence
18:  
The Menace of Overt Military Occupation in Northeast India
18:  
The Silent Politics of Oppression
17:  
Ancient Civilisations and Contemporary Lives with Reference to Manipur
17:  
gprs blues
09:  
Working, Living and Nothingness
09:  
Typography: A New Meitei Mayek Font, ‘Cheitekkotpee’
09:  
The Indian Story of the Northeast
01:  
Fashion of the Fascists
01:  
Quip! Quip! Appy Ew Ear!
01:  
16 Things to Do in 2016

December 2015
27:  
The Essential Kerouac
27:  
ginsberg-gi amerika
25:  
Of, On and From the Dude: Top 5 Retro Design
25:  
Of the Break Dancers, Cross Dressers, Drunkards, Exhibitionists, Shy Donors, Rose-givers and the Clowns
25:  
The Rebel’s Recitation
25:  
Head On!
21:  
Zero Gravity Haiku
21:  
i/iii 15 Days of Fiction: The Minimal Stream of Consciousness
21:  
ii/iii 15 Days of Fiction: The Minimal Stream of Consciousness
21:  
iii/iii 15 Days of Fiction: The Minimal Stream of Consciousness
21:  
From Mandalay to Manipur

November 2015
23:  
State and Violence
22:  
10 Causes of Poverty and Remedies Through Sustainable Development
20:  
With Love, To Paris
20:  
Cash of the Jitters
20:  
Mum’s Not the Word: Our Story for the Sake of Growth and Development
20:  
keep refrigerated and serve chilled
12:  
The Story of Laughter: What’s Funny About It?
12:  
‘Nungairol’: the Religion of Happiness
07:  
1/2 Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?
05:  
What Is the Perfect Age to Die?
05:  
The Kautilyan Statecraft for Combating Insurgency in Northeast India
01:  
The Scourge of Geography
01:  
Untitled

October 2015
25:  
Moral Lessons from Mellei’s Life
23:  
How to Torture a Man and Loot Him
22:  
Revolution in the Time of War
22:  
Need of the Hour: Two Time Zones in India
22:  
Media as the Message
18:  
Zou Yaanfam XXXV: Around the World with 35 Bottles of Beer
18:  
Fait Accompli: Dilemmas Visualised in Minimal Design
17:  
The Politics of Culture
17:  
Louis Althusser’s Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus in Graphics
17:  
Human Evolution 101
04:  
Family Time: The Arambam Triumvirate
02:  
Hospital Blues

September 2015
28:  
of a problem child
28:  
86 Wacky Ways to Say ‘Strange’
22:  
Play Fair
14:  
Of Sit-in Protests
12:  
Eternal Lovebirds
10:  
India and I: Relationship Status — Complex
07:  
Lit Titbit: A Poster Series on Old Literary Works in Manipuri
06:  
my tribesmen’s tale 4: with love from paris
06:  
my tribesmen’s tale 3: déjà vu
06:  
my tribesmen’s tale 2: ‘puya’ blues
06:  
my tribesmen’s tale 1: the time-machine project
06:  
‘Name Calling’ in Rock & Roll!
06:  
Break Free, Kid

August 2015
28:  
Babyland
27:  
The Politics of Special Category
27:  
where would you end?
24:  
broken
22:  
Saolin Sam Koi Kakter Is Back: 56 ‘Types’ of Moustache
20:  
Haiku Laobiyu: A Series of Haiku Squeezed Out from Popular Rock & Roll Songs
20:  
on becoming objects
14:  
Around My Hometown in an Alphabetical Order
12:  
Type Freedom
10:  
The Origin of Polo (Sagol Kangjei) from Manipur - With Infographics
09:  
A Shortened Version of the Memorandum on the Inner Line Permit System Submitted by JCILPS to the Chief Minister
08:  
Design in the Time of War: Abstract Heart
03:  
1/2 Uninvited Design: Manipuri Digital Films
03:  
2/2 Uninvited Design: Manipuri Digital Films

July 2015
30:  
From the Journal of a Jurist

July 2015
30:  
From the Almanac of an Activist
27:  
Existentialism 101: A Graphical Design of ‘Meaninglessness’
24:  
1/3: 80 Manipuri Proverbs (Paorou) Based on Animals, Birds and Insects
24:  
2/3: 80 Manipuri Proverbs Based on Animals, Birds and Insects
24:  
3/3: 80 Manipuri Proverbs Based on Animals, Birds and Insects
20:  
on the great mission of saving the mankind and my upcoming great fix for the evening while travelling on the great asshole express
18:  
Police Protocol in Pictures
16:  
Blame Game People Play
15:  
In Praise of the Manipur Police Commando
15:  
Cutouts: Lai Haraoba In Six Steps
15:  
Headmasters in Halftones
15:  
12 Greatest Scientific Questions of the 21st Century
11:  
Indigenous Labour Pain
09:  
A Freebird Solo in Five Parts
09:  
The Celebration of a Band of Thinking Men
07:  
Lock-up Blues
07:  
Rock n’ Roll Design: A Poster Series on Concept Albums
04:  
July Alteration 1.0: Of Humans and War
04:  
July Alteration 2.0: Kerosene
04:  
July Alteration 3.0: No Time
03:  
The Essential Nietzsche
03:  
An Open Letter to AMMIK

June 2015
29:  
self-identification
29:  
The Flying Soul — Apaiba Thawai
27:  
Shout Loud. Aloud
26:  
The Essential Albert Camus
25:  
Leon: The Essential
24:  
The Essential Groucho Marx
22:  
Home In
22:  
weekday blues: interlude 1.0
22:  
weekday blues: interlude 2.0
21:  
a summer evening of haiku
20:  
It’s Not What It Looks Like
19:  
2/2 Types of Poems
19:  
1/2 Types of Poems
19:  
Delhi via Imphal
15:  
On Nationalism & Others
13:  
Follow You: The Stream of Breaking Rules and Beyond
13:  
7 Reasons Why You Should Support AFSPA
11:  
2/2 Home Is Where the Hill Is
11:  
1/2 Home Is Where the Hill Is
08:  
2/2 Posters on Peace and Prosperity
08:  
1/2 Posters on Peace and Prosperity
08:  
Evening News Alert
06:  
Top 10 Most Racist Countries in the World (2015)
05:  
A Life of Poverty Is the Life of Misery
05:  
Jibber-Jabber June
04:  
Uninvited Design: Ten Popular Banned Books of All Time
02:  
Political Ideologies 101

May 2015
31:  
Mien & Meaning
31:  
Pictures in Words
30:  
Irony in May
28:  
Too Much Love Will Kill You
27:  
Nungsijao Haiku
25:  
2/2 Monday Motivational Images
25:  
1/2 Monday Motivational Images
24:  
Aye Sunday! Top 5 James Bonds on the Basis of Salary
24:  
On Revolt and Rebellion
23:  
2/2 Uninvited Design: Popular Book Covers
23:  
1/2 Uninvited Design: Popular Book Covers
22:  
Of Half Stories & Half Characters
22:  
Alternative Iconoclasm: The Essence of Revolution in the Revolution
19:  
High Proverbs: Version 2.0
19:  
High Proverbs: Version 1.0
19:  
Mahmoud Darwish: “Identity Card”
17:  
2/2 Pun-filled Sunday!
17:  
1/2 Pun-filled Sunday!
17:  
What Makes What?
16:  
Illustrated Apologia for the Anti-social Folk
16:  
m/s dark generation & co.
14:  
Kaalen Haiku Kandrang Haiku
13:  
On the Last Day of the Earth in Imphal
12:  
to whom it may concern 3
12:  
to whom it may concern 2
10:  
Amateur Philately
08:  
on the new kingdom of ants
06:  
The State Chief Information Commissioner: The Interview That Wasn’t
05:  
Xtra-Large
05:  
Anarchism: A Brief Timeline
03:  
The State of Nation: A Perspective from Conflict Zones
02:  
minimalism: 20 essential quotes & ideas
01:  
dictionary blues

April 2015
28:  
hip hop in midlife’s backdrop
27:  
The Home Minister Inc
24:  
On Seeking Self-hood
23:  
2/2 Western Literary Movements: In Pixels!
23:  
1/2 Western Literary Movements: In Pixels!
22:  
Prayers in the Time of Unrest
21:  
Design in the Time of War
21:  
Modern Tabloid Front-Page Design Project
19:  
From Pomelos and Primroses
17:  
Fridee
15:  
Silent Chaos
15:  
Net Neutrality: Save the Internet
13:  
“Chaaikhre Ngasi Nangi Loubukta” (Translation)
13:  
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
08:  
Down & Out: Beat Generation 101
06:  
Pop Nonstop
05:  
The King’s Command
05:  
In the Land of Half-People
04:  
Ibopishak’s Hayingkhongyambi: Of the Housefly
03:  
Death and Me
03:  
3/3 Mass Communication Theories in Brief - Set 3
03:  
2/3 Mass Communication Theories in Brief - Set 2
03:  
1/3 Mass Communication Theories in Brief - Set 1

March 2015
29:  
Anaphoric Movies: Repetition Is the Key
28:  
Of Kondoom Chicken Centre and My Hometown
27:  
In Brief: Best One Liners
25:  
gutter-gab
23:  
On Perspectives
22:  
An Ode to the Family
22:  
diseased
22:  
Addiction 101 (Part 2)
18:  
Jantar Mantar Blues
15:  
Slaughterhouse Blues
15:  
Build Up: Less Is More
14:  
Elephant Test
13:  
Manipuri Proverbs (Paorou) in English Pictures!
10:  
The Politics of Food—From the Perspectives of Fundamental Flavours
08:  
What Kind of Personality Are You?
08:  
Addiction 101
06:  
A Brief History of Manipuri Literature
06:  
Ginsberg’s America in PNG Format
04:  
More Robotic Weekday Flowcharts
03:  
Robotic Weekday Flowcharts
02:  
Epiphany on a Rainy Day in March
02:  
Top Grossing Hollywood Movies in 2014
01:  
Top Selling Albums of All Time
01:  
‘The Cops Are Happy in Delhi’

February 2015
28:  
Thangja 2/2: Colours Can Change Your Life!
28:  
Thangja 1/2: The Heart Has Its Reason the Balls Know Not!
27:  
For the Dogs
25:  
for the sake of love & living
24:  
Mid-week Life, Graceless: In Letters and Words
23:  
Timeline Blues: Fading Lines Between Real and Unreal
23:  
Old Wine, New Bottle: Armed Movements and Counter-insurgency
22:  
Proverbs: ‘Praman Panthei’ Expanded in Minimal Pictures
21:  
‘Chinglon Maapan’: Melodies from the Mountains
20:  
Old Men Never Die
18:  
We’re in the News: Media Values with the Rise of the World Wide Web
16:  
Join Magazine Secy
15:  
Bricks & Bouquets for the Look East Policy in Northeast India
14:  
Classical Elements 101
10:  
Fall
09:  
Art for Fart’s Sake
07:  
Ideological Bankruptcy: The Manipur Case
06:  
friday face-off (canvas painting inspiration)
05:  
the a-z of emotions
01:  
Fruits by Months; Haiku by the Bamboos

January 2015
31:  
Saturday Minimally

January 2015
29:  
7:45 Morning
27:  
homeland
27:  
From a Kilometre Away from Outer Space
26:  
Keep Calm and Well... I Eat Eel While You Peel Eel and Keep Calm
24:  
Between the Past and the Present
24:  
Midnoon Preaching: Make This Not That
24:  
Triumph of Labour
22:  
Evening Preaching: Make This Not That
22:  
Midnight Preaching: Make This Not That
20:  
Tales of the New Death
18:  
Nongmaijing 3/3: Khottipost Collection
18:  
Nongmaijing 2/3: Shapes and Shades
18:  
Nongmaijing 1/3: F******* for Peace?
17:  
of peace and all things good... and bad
15:  
images of an outcast
14:  
To My Dearest Friend
14:  
Eeyek Mayek
14:  
Who Am I?
10:  
Once an Animal, Always an Animal
08:  
Uninvited Design: Hollywood in Meiteilon
06:  
Blackout! (in Colours) 2.0

December 2014
30:  
With Badass Buddies in the Bazaar
25:  
Uninvited Design: Popular Film Characters’ Visiting Cards
23:  
Out in the Cold
20:  
A Personal Statement About Tradition
17:  
New Year Wishes, More Wishes
15:  
It Matters No More
11:  
On the Road

November 2014
21:  
One Evening
17:  
A Hymn to Love
13:  
India vs China — Graphically
11:  
An Account on the Present Status of ILP Movement in Manipur
08:  
When the Stuff Gets Scarce
07:  
Payoff: Top Manipuri Role Models
04:  
Hit
04:  
Capitol Complex Calling
01:  
Big Shots, Big Shits
01:  
Quote Lo! 3/3
01:  
Quote Lo! 2/3
01:  
Quote Lo! 1/3

October 2014
30:  
For DND Flyway
28:  
Wired Statements
26:  
Illustrated: 24 Thought Experiments in Pictures
20:  
People’s Campaign for Resurgent Manipur Observes Third Anniversary
18:  
Burma Border Blues
14:  
If Looks Could Kill
13:  
October Logo
12:  
Straight from the Chimp’s Mouth
07:  
nobody’s wrong
05:  
Blackout! (in Colours)
03:  
The Week
01:  
Daydream Blues

September 2014
30:  
For the Trendsetters
27:  
Ten Main Brain Haiku
26:  
Grope in the Dark
23:  
The Priestphallus’ Preaching
20:  
Green-Eyed Monster Recites Haiku in Non-chronological Order
19:  
Can We Just be Men and Women...
16:  
Nongthombam Shribiren’s Tangkhul Hui and Ei Laiming Loude
13:  
Ten Haiku During Snafu
13:  
Illustrated: Sage of Wandering Mind
11:  
To Whom It May Concern 1
07:  
Says No One Ever
03:  
of telling about your world

August 2014
31:  
The Son of the Soil
30:  
An Ode to the Great Nation
30:  
In the Name of Freedom
25:  
RNDSP 5: Imphal Amasoong Magi Ising Noongsitki Fibham, Loitongbam Pacha Meitei (1972)
25:  
RNDSP 4: Fear of Flying, Erica Jong (1973)
25:  
RNDSP 3: Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
25:  
RNDSP 2: Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (1993)
25:  
RNDSP* 1: Post Office, Charles Bukowski (1971)
21:  
Mounao Thoibi’s Heartache: On Watching Manipuri Cinema
19:  
Of Leaves / Telegraph (Translations)
16:  
The Poet & the Merchant of Dreams
12:  
Life’s Little Ironies
10:  
The Protest of the Oppressed
10:  
Shoot @ Sight in a Week
03:  
A Day’s Random Statements
03:  
For Mariam

July 2014
26:  
Kill the Kids
25:  
Haiku July
24:  
Should I Be Good...?
24:  
Absurdity She Tells Him
13:  
In Pursuit of a Pattern
11:  
The Enemy’s Manifesto
08:  
Weekdays Blues
04:  
Complaint Box
04:  
Cages
04:  
July Graphically

June 2014
28:  
without
28:  
of laughing
26:  
Junk Blues 2: Relational Mission
25:  
Junk Blues 1: The Cycle of Nothingness
21:  
Nationalism: The Destruction of a Nation
20:  
War/Peace
20:  
Blur/Focus
17:  
For the Sake of the Passing Months
13:  
The Revolution Will Not Be Militarised
12:  
And the Most Prestigious Award Goes to
08:  
King Sagolthingba Sing No More (33 AD to 2014 AD)
07:  
Summer Midnight
07:  
King Kong Kang
02:  
Hallucination in a Slave Nation

May 2014
28:  
Rock n’ Roll, Summarised
28:  
‘Suck’ in Five Parts
25:  
A Personal Statement About History
25:  
for a life better than just being alive
24:  
A Favour Please, Pol Pot
24:  
As a Matter of Fact
20:  
Future Planning:
18:  
Stories
17:  
The Point of Beginning
16:  
Water / Everybody’s Crazy in My Family
11:  
A Summer Week’s Haiku
09:  
On the Fear of Standing Together
08:  
The Traveller’s Tale

April 2014
30:  
similarities: on recalling last season
30:  
At the Headquarter
30:  
In Sathura
30:  
ode to the robot
24:  
seeking/symbols
24:  
monosyllabic wheel and fire
19:  
Rape the Sense and Sensibility: From the New Millennium India
16:  
The Circus Is in Town
13:  
Metropolitan Blues
06:  
from the altar, among the china roses and lotuses
06:  
The Unofficial National Anthem
06:  
Blast Report

March 2014
29:  
Unemployment: Numbers and Nightmares
24:  
What Is
22:  
Fallen
21:  
Democracy in the Theatre of the Absurd — and the Futility of Election
17:  
We Are the Atoms of a Shemale’s Ball
15:  
Diseased, Distressed
13:  
Cremation Nation
12:  
March Audiography
04:  
Have the Tea First
04:  
Them They Know Now
03:  
Giant Leap Records: The Hub of a New Wave of Independent Music
02:  
Parental Advisory: No Rat’s Ass

February 2014
22:  
Bean There, Daikon That
20:  
I’m the Dead Man / Letter Box
16:  
Made in India
16:  
The Head Act
06:  
February Blues
03:  
Uninvited Design: Minimal Film Posters

January 2014
31:  
so I arrive here
30:  
How to Master Karate and Hindi Like a Pro in a Week
27:  
The Politics of Art

May 2013
05:  
Excrement Exchange
01:  
I Have 96 Wives — How Many Can You Get?!
01:  
Long Distance Blues

April 2013
26:  
Localities around the Loktak
14:  
The Unlikely Resistance
13:  
Uninvited design # 1 Imphal Free Press
10:  
Our Private Literature Issue 2: Get Ready this Sunday!
10:  
the kung fu epiphany
08:  
Captain Arroganto Can Tell You You Are Molo
08:  
For Feminism’s Sake: Introducing the Global and the Local
05:  
Come Closer
02:  
Um, the Inutility of Academic Drivel in Diurnal Existence

March 2013
30:  
Moustache Muse
27:  
Atheism Is Justified, Religion Right Aligned
27:  
Somewhere, Right This Very Moment
20:  
Control
17:  
‘I Want to be Killed by an Indian Bullet’
14:  
Home Is Where the Guitar Is
08:  
All in the Family
05:  
The Great Gig in the Sky 3.0
02:  
Unfamiliar Familiarities: The Holywood Effect
01:  
The Secrets of Symmetry

February 2013
26:  
Hapta Haiku
25:  
The Centre of Attention and the Masters of Puppets
21:  
Change the World
16:  
No More Saturdays and Sundays
16:  
Numit Kappa - Missing the Wide Open Shots
16:  
Haiku from Theatre of the Absurd
09:  
From the Land Covered with Gold
05:  
Monkey Talk

January 2013
30:  
Why Is Art Sometimes Like High School Teachers?
27:  
Root Causes
23:  
Messages in Bullets
23:  
Floating in Limitless Space
20:  
Does Destruction Always Have to Precede Development?
18:  
Cultures of Peace — Festival of the Northeast 2013
18:  
Are You a Whimsical Nut?
14:  
AFSPA: A Response from the Theatre of the Absurd
11:  
Winter Haiku
09:  
On Feeling Nationless, On Seeing the Meaninglessness
07:  
Eternal Truth Is Always on the Other Side of the Unreachable River Bank
06:  
Sunday Motion Graphic Premiere: Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan
04:  
New Year Rants

December 2012
30:  
Between the Old and the New Year
30:  
From the Impressions of Meeting Brokers and Landowners While Hunting for an Accommodation on Cold Winter Evenings, After Returning from Work Fucking Tired
27:  
WTF: Gender and Expletives
25:  
Music Is Not Universal: For the Record of Human Vanity
25:  
Black is Back
23:  
Places of Common Interest
22:  
From the Longest Queue of the World
22:  
How to Say ‘Hello, Dumbfuck!’ in Different Fonts
13:  
Five Hundred Years of Porn in One Sentence
04:  
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation
03:  
My Friend and I
03:  
Orwellian Haiku

November 2012
29:  
Compartmental Cosmopolitan
28:  
Frame of Reference
25:  
Past Tense, Present Imperfect
23:  
The Great Gig and the Old Star
22:  
What India Is, What It Is Not
21:  
Height of the Directionless Flight
18:  
On Utopia and Dystopia
18:  
Bop the Cop and Chop
12:  
Hold the Fort
12:  
Bibliophobia Blues
09:  
Imphal War Cemetery Blues
07:  
For the Gentlemen from Imphal
07:  
Beyond Toleration Level

October 2012
29:  
the shortest story of a soul
29:  
Yes Sir!
29:  
What is the Harm in Giving Alternative Arrangement to the Nagas?
25:  
‘Revolution in the Revolution’: A Perspective on Che Guevara’s Writing
25:  
On Feeling and Filling Emptiness
22:  
Diplomacy, Doublespeak and Douchebags
22:  
Reality Bites: The Possibility of Ending Democracy
17:  
Rejected Dialogue of the Scavengers
17:  
OPL Is Out: Grab a Copy!!!
12:  
From the ‘Days of Glory’ to ‘The Battle of Algiers’
09:  
Black Haiku
07:  
unsung, untitled
07:  
Mahadeva: the Greatest God of Penis
06:  
Nonexistence: The Disappearance of Life and the Universe
03:  
Beginning of the End

September 2012
27:  
UFO Sightings in Manipur
25:  
The Triangular Cycle of a Worker
23:  
RGB, CMYK and Other Related Things
14:  
Monkey Business, Serious Happiness
14:  
The Karate Chop of a Comma
12:  
Puff, Powder, Power, People and Puke
08:  
Five Reasons Why I Blog
07:  
Let Me Lay Eggs
07:  
Age No Bar
05:  
school, college and university
04:  
Accuse Me Not

August 2012
31:  
Television Tales
30:  
Is it in Death?
28:  
The Poem-Home
27:  
Outside the Chamber
27:  
Letter to the Editor
24:  
Yours Faithfully
20:  
Work is Worship?
15:  
Liberty Day
13:  
On August 13
11:  
After MA
07:  
The Poet and the Art of Poetry
01:  
Bad Guests Come, Good Guests Leave
01:  
Ten Manipuri Things That Burn My Soul
01:  
Sweet Revenge
01:  
What

July 2012
28:  
My Father’s Pension Fund
28:  
Power Blues
28:  
Crimson
23:  
A Compilation of Works by Laishram Samarendra Released on His 87th Birthday
20:  
Campaign Banners for the Inner Line Permit System in Manipur
19:  
On Building Love
17:  
Manipuri Olympians for the London Olympics
15:  
Let Me Live in this Land
15:  
Condom Conundrum
11:  
Enforce Inner Line Permit System in Manipur
10:  
So We Think We Believe We Live
03:  
Ants Up in Arms
02:  
A Side Glance at the Lai Haraoba

June 2012
28:  
Respect Diversity
26:  
‘Western Sankirtan’ at Cinema Paradiso
25:  
On Reading National Evening Newspapers
24:  
‘Amerikan’ Thinking, Manipuri Living
22:  
Flower Powerlessness
20:  
Mind Your Own Business
19:  
Kekrupat Haiku
17:  
Lambi Thong Amasoong Atei Wathising
03:  
Our Tomorrow Is So Many Days Old

May 2012
31:  
outside, looking at the moon and the stars
29:  
Evening Inventory, 8:57PM
28:  
Bob’s Birthday Bash in Barapani
25:  
America, Gun Salutes, Gold Medals etc
25:  
The Dogs in Dewlahland
20:  
Saolin Saloon — Moustache Mania
19:  
At a Meeting of the Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, Assam
17:  
“We’re Not Prostitutes”
16:  
The Hardworker’s Manifesto
14:  
On Walking Along the Riverbanks
13:  
Beer Blues
10:  
The Drum Man
06:  
Obsession
04:  
Writings on the Wall
04:  
Television Blues

April 2012
20:  
No Poem for Your Country
20:  
On a Passing Thought to Buy a Tie
08:  
Goodbye, Dear Delhi
02:  
We Meet Here Again, Unfortunately

April 2012
02:  
The Report Card of a Failed State

March 2012
30:  
Helicopter Hangover
30:  

28:  
Animal Transformation
27:  
The Great Gig in the Sky 1.0
23:  
Matchbox Magic: Light My Fire
22:  
Old Man and Whisky
20:  
In the Market Where We Sell Our Soul
14:  
After the King’s Coronation
14:  
José Martí - I Wish to Leave the World
11:  
A Cocktail of Tragedy, Rules and Revolution
08:  
From Gods to Guns, We Have Come a Long Way
04:  
Sunday Matinée
01:  
Shits of March

February 2012
28:  
Ramkinkar’s Take on MK Binodini
26:  
The Housefly’s Eyes
23:  
Kings, Teachers, Rebels and Wise Folks
18:  
Natural Selection?
17:  
Change Is Uncertain on Insomniac Nights
12:  
What’s In a Name?
11:  
Thank You for Smoking
06:  
Mirror, Mirror
05:  
Active Evil
02:  
A Life Rolled in Haiku
01:  
To a Scarlet Amaryllis

January 2012
28:  
Biri Blues
25:  
On Solitude
22:  
Today’s Morning News
21:  
Of a Calendar Hanging Listlessly on the Wall
20:  
Arrival and Departure — Poetry in 2011
19:  
English Poetry in a Bamboo Bush
19:  
God is not Dead
15:  
Get Power Cut or Black Out
13:  
Awfully January
11:  
My Buddy, Mr Bush
10:  
Good Taste and Bad Times
08:  
Tattooed with Taboos: ‘Quietely and Unexpectedly Poetry Came and Woke Us Up’
07:  
On the National Death Day
05:  
Sitting by the River Last Night
04:  
The Sparrow’s Story
03:  
rocket gabble: shoot them away to uranus

December 2011
31:  
As the Year Draws Towards Its End
29:  
Election Justification
26:  
Hospital Haiku
25:  
Sunset Blues
22:  
India, I See Blood in Your Hands
19:  
Heirang Leirang in the Write Direction
18:  
Slam Normal
14:  
Firan Haiku
12:  
An Ode to the ‘Fucklong’
07:  
7 December 2011
04:  
On Sunday Becoming Sunday Suddenly
01:  
The Cover Story
01:  
Scream

November 2011
24:  
Futilesquera
23:  
Facts and Fabrications
18:  
Now in November
16:  
Cosmic Motorboat Ride
15:  
Words: Action and Perception
13:  
The Empty Set
09:  
Blockade Blues: the 100th Day
08:  
Drink Positive
04:  
The Message of Peace

October 2011
30:  
Good Old Days No More!
28:  
Beyond the Aspen Groves
27:  
Propaganda Foursquare
21:  
Treading Between the Lines
16:  
October Fifteen
16:  
You Got the Things
11:  
Mellow, Mellow, Lazy Fellow
06:  
Deadly Alive
06:  
Pics Ad Lib
02:  
Easily Mistakable Solace

September 2011
27:  
On Freedom
16:  
In Defence of the New
16:  
Short Stories’ Propaganda
16:  
Inside the Big Picture
15:  
A Rendition of Dreams and Reality
11:  
After the First Fag After a Fix
08:  
Silent Sounds of Sorrow
03:  
To Leimakhong, With Love
01:  
Please Don’t Include Me

August 2011
26:  
Howling for a Radical Literary Landscape
23:  
Mondays’ Moaning and Blues
20:  
India, Anna, Army and Insurgency
18:  
Written on the Mountain Highway
17:  
Written on the Plain Highway
15:  
An Ode to the Independence Day
13:  
Thawan Haiku: An August 13 Tribute
11:  
Fear Psychosis
09:  
That Common Thing
05:  
Seasonal Affective Disorders
03:  
On Feeling Homeless, Yet Again
01:  
Made in Yunnan

July 2011
29:  
Take for a ride to nowhere
28:  
A free verse and some smell from last night
25:  
Maikhansigi marumsida
23:  
On dreaming in colours and light
19:  
When I’m high
18:  
Roots under boots
14:  
Monsoon blues
11:  
The tale of two settings
07:  
On the Road
06:  
Detergent power
04:  
Cut, don’t fry

June 2011
23:  
Baby, buy me a buy
21:  
Meaningless meanings
19:  
Leibak Macha, Ei
17:  
New Delhi, mid-2011
13:  
We belong together
10:  
Capital protest pain and rambles
10:  
Obey
09:  
On solitude
07:  
Milgram Experiment | Pale Blue Dot
07:  
No big deal
04:  
Maladjusted — The midnight madness
01:  
Yong choirol

May 2011
31:  
New countries at every street corner
26:  
A sentence on the state of affairs
25:  
A short monologue on the rational motives for owning a land
24:  
Interrogation points
23:  
On Telling the Tales of Tattoos
20:  
your love makes me
19:  
From a flying fish
18:  
An ode to the marionettes
17:  
The Special Contractor
14:  
Glorification of revolution
12:  
Waiting for the solstice
12:  
Divine life
10:  
A thousand years
07:  
On flowers and their surroundings
06:  
Rants on a social tragedy
05:  
Everyone for counter-condemnation
03:  
Written in the country of Chin and Chang

April 2011
30:  
Into the wild
26:  
Disorientation of the lost boy
22:  
On a fear, the world will not agree
21:  
April passes by the shop
16:  
Platform poetry
13:  
After the day the night was killed
08:  
The thread of mess
06:  
Koiba Chatpa / Kurak Langtaiba
03:  
The Zookeeper’s Tale
01:  
The Sleepwalkers
01:  
Dynamic Views—Blogger Just Got Better and Here’s How [Updated]

March 2011
30:  
Meitei uchi / Lai marakta mee
29:  
Run
22:  
An accidental acronym
16:  
Ebullition
15:  
Kom / Mannaba-manadaba...

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