Chepal Sherpa

Aug 1, 2024 | countercurrents.org | ABHISH K BOSE |Sandeep Pandey |Makepeace Sitlhou |Chepal Sherpa

Prof. Jangkhongam Doungel finished his graduation with Honours in Political Science at Patkai Christian College, Nagaland in 1993. He obtained his M.A. (Political Science) with First Class, 3’rd Position in Manipur University in 1996. He started his teaching career as Lecturer in Department of Political Science at Bethany Christian College, Lamka (Churachandpur), Manipur with effect from April 1996 to May, 1997.

Jun 18, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Sandeep Pandey |Makepeace Sitlhou |Chepal Sherpa |Ashish Reddy

Over the past one year Manipur has been witness to Meitei-Kuki conflict like nowhere seen even among Hindu-Muslim communities. Even if you may have totally segregated Hindu and Muslim residential areas like in some places in Gujarat, it is possible for a person of one community to pay a courtesy visit to the other community. But not so in Manipur. A Kuki government official cannot work in a Meitei area and vice-versa.

May 3, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Makepeace Sitlhou |Chepal Sherpa |Ashish Reddy |Arun Mitra

On 3rd May 2024, it has been a year since the genocidal violence in Manipur has started, and it has continued to intensify across the year. As of 1st May 2024, there have been 185 people killed in the violence initiated by the ruling BJP-RSS combine with more than 200 villages burnt and more than 41,000 people displaced from Manipur.

Apr 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Makepeace Sitlhou |Chepal Sherpa |Ashish Reddy |Arun Mitra

In March, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, said at an election rally in Arunachal Pradesh that previous governments had not cared for states that sent only two representatives to the country’s Parliament, as Arunachal and several others in the Indian Northeast do. Modi failed to see the irony of his claim given that he has not visited Manipur, which has only two representatives in parliament, since the outbreak of an armed ethnic conflict that has raged on for nearly a year.

Apr 3, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Bharat Dogra |Joydip Ghosal |Chepal Sherpa

Melbourne philosopher Brian Ellis (Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, La Trobe University and former Professorial Fellow, University  of Melbourne) has published “On Civilizing Capitalism” that argues for a pragmatic, humane and science-based approach to economic theory as opposed to the currently dominant neoliberalism that in recent decades has supplanted the post-WW2 Keynesian welfare state models, and socialism that has been supplanted by free market capitalism  in Russia and China.