Manipur started burning in May 2023. A year down the line one continues to read about sporadic episodes of violence, assertions by the Arambai Tenggol at the Kangla Fort, Kuki-Zo’s attempts to prove their citizenship yet again and requests to restore the Free Movement Regime (FMR).
Never-Ending Ethnic Contestations
Malavika Menon
SHOOTING THE SUN: WHY MANIPUR WAS ENGULFED BY VIOLENCE AND THE GOVERNMENT REMAINED SILENT by By Nandita Haksar Speaking Tiger Books, New Delhi, 2023, 269 pp., INR 399.00
May 2024, volume 48, No 5