All stories by Chitra Ahanthem
BJP to deny Ibobi another term in Manipur
Rediff.com13 Mar 2017The BJP cobbles up the numbers to stake a claim to form a government in Imphal. But ruling the restive state won't be easy, says Chitra Ahanthem.
'I have become more fearless'
Rediff.com29 Aug 2016Iconic rights activist Irom Sharmila on the highs and lows of her long fast, why she gave it up and her plans.
Fast ends, but Sharmila's fight continues
Rediff.com16 Aug 2016Irom Sharmila's decision to end her 16-year-old fast against the AFSPA continues to be hotly debated and contested in Imphal.
Anger in Manipur over Irom Sharmila's decision
Rediff.com10 Aug 2016The woman whose lone fight against the establishment all these long years has only the state machinery to keep her safe from the public whose cause she championed all this while.
How mob justice in Manipur was given a communal tone
Rediff.com10 Nov 2015The incident became grist for media attention for people scanning 'cow' along with a Muslim name, regardless of the fact that in Manipur Muslims occupy a specific socio cultural and political positioning with the community having assimilated with the majority Meiteis, says Chitra Ahanthem.
Manipur faces crisis after floods ravage countryside
Rediff.com6 Aug 2015At these 'relief camps' people had nothing to sleep on except for a piece of cloth and men and women, boys and girls all cramped together. Factor in the fact that Kakching in the 2011 census had a population of 28,746 people and that about 90 per cent of that population has been affected by the floods now, and one can work the math of the crisis at hand.
Not Tibetan, not Chinese, am I Indian?
Rediff.com18 Sep 2014'Would not proudly showing President Xi Jinping that people from India's North-East are as much a part of India as those from anywhere else be like a slap on the face of Chinese aggression?' asks Chitra Ahanthem.