A Talk show by Monica Ingudam presenting Inspiring, Educative, Empowering and Entertaining Voices. @ISTV Manipur every Tuesday 7 pm IST
Talk Show by Monica Ingudam (2012- till now)
A Talk show by Monica Ingudam presenting voices from different parts of the globe with the vision to promote and spread Inspiring, Educative, Empowering and Entertaining stories in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur.
S02E21: FindingTheVoices Babloo Loitongbam, Manipur based Human Rights Activist.
Guest Speaker : Babloo Loitongbam,
Interview Location: Imphal, Manipur, India
Language: Podcast in English
An interview with Babloo Loitongbam, Manipur based Human Rights Activist. Our studio for this recording is at the my Father’s beautiful mangong (porch) and you could hear our neighbor’s loud crow of a rooster, the barking of the dog. We had our special Guest Speaker sharing his story from his heart, we had audiences listening with rapt attention giving me more meaning to continue FindingTheVoices and sharing the voices which should be heard.
Presenting our very own, Babloo Loitongbam sharing about his journey as a Human Rights Activist in his own words.
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Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.
I welcome you to join me in my journey to finding the voices at Http://FindingTheVoices.com/
S02E20: FindingTheVoices Leishangthem Kumarjit Meitei of Manipur Police Sports Club
Guest Speaker : Leishangthem Kumarjit Meitei of Manipur Police Sports Club
Interview Location: Maryland, USA
Language: Podcast in Meiteilon/Manipuri.
It’s a great opportunity to meet Mr. Leishangthem Kumarjit Meitei of Manipur Police Sports Club. He has come from Manipur to participate in 2015 World Police & Fire Games hosted at Fairfax, VA under the category of Body Building and wrist wrestling. He won a gold and silver medal under the category of wrist wrestling.
He shares his experience and opportunity of pursuing his interest in body building, being a part of the Manipur Police sports club. It was a great learning to learn about the career option and growth in joining the Manipur Police under the sports category.
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Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.
I welcome you to join me in my journey to finding the voices at Http://FindingTheVoices.com/
S02E19 FindingTheVoices: Noopur Singha , Manipuri and Balinese dancer in Maryland, USA
Guest Speaker : Noopur Singha
Interview Location: Maryland, USA
Language: Podcast in English.
Noopur Singha is daughter of Shri Nabaghana Singha and Ms Christel Stevens from Maryland. She is brought up in a perfect atmosphere of dance and music. She shared a very interesting journey and experience learning from the local teachers in Manipur and Bali. She shared about the demand and awareness of Manipuri dance in USA.
Are dancers able to sustain themselves ? A glimpse of the artist life balancing creativity and earning a living. She shares about picking up odd jobs to pay the bills.
Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.
I welcome you to join me in my journey to finding the voices at Http://FindingTheVoices.com/
Sharing a video taken on a very special day, sometime in April of 2013. I was invited to address the students of Little Flower School, the school I studied and grew up. I was honored to get an opportunity to share about myself and share about FindingTheVoices. Thanks to Little Flower School for such a warm welcome and I remain indebted for the education I have received making me who I am today.
Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.
We have had a tremendous positive response from our viewers and listeners. And from the messages received from various age groups, our programs achieved our vision of getting our listeners and viewers inspired, educated, empowered and entertained.
I believe that these stories will bring a change and create a positive image of Manipur and positive thinking to many individuals. I believe that this will definitely contribute to change the scenery of the conflict and violence-torn to peace and progress in our society.
I am seeking out for collaboration to include you. Inviting you to join me in my journey of FindingTheVoices by making this your own.
S02E16: FindingTheVoices Sori Senjam, singer from Manipur
Guest Speaker : Sori Senjam, singer from Manipur
Interview Location: Phone interview with Guest Speaker joining in from Imphal, Manipur.
Language: Podcast in Meiteilon.
Sori Senjam joining us from Imphal, Manipur sharing about his journey as a singer and composer for Meiteilon songs and music. Listen to him sharing his visions to grow, detailing out the limitations of applying his creativity to meet the market’s demand. He shares interesting behind the scenes of performing live in Imphal. Find out how Sori feels about our culture of giving money by listeners to artist during a live show. He must have sung more than 40 songs so far and he says that his best is yet to come, this is just the starting. We wish him good luck and looking forward for more of his work.
A Special thanks to all the volunteers and team of FindingTheVoices in trying a new approach for this episode. This was a challenging episode in recording timing to capture the daylight shooting in the early morning at Washington DC and in the afternoon in Imphal, and finally synching up the 2 streams of phone interview. We recognized the need for improvement in audio and video quality, but I know our young team tried our best and we will get better in future episodes. Thanks to each and everyone of you.
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Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.
I welcome you to join me in my journey to finding the voices at Http://FindingTheVoices.com/
S02E15: Blooming Manipur, an initiative encouraging ownership of where we live and beautifying Manipur
Guest Speaker : Satyajit Elangbam of Blooming Manipur
Interview Location: Imphal, Manipur, India.
Language: Podcast in English.
‘Blooming Manipur’ is a community based project where it seeks to transform our public places and spaces as our pride and create a sense of belongingness. It is presently being implemented at Ema Keithel, the 300 years old traditional and ingenious women only market in Manipur. ‘Blooming Manipur’ is inspired by the ‘Britain in Bloom’ concept which has made Britain one of the beautiful island nation. Beyond the flowers and gardens of Britain, the campaign has done wonders for community cohesion and managed to get communities to participate in keeping the towns and cities beautiful, increasing civic sense of pride and truly creating a sense of belongingness to their streets and neighbourhoods.
It is run by a Blooming Manipur Team consisting of many volunteers who wish to transform Manipur’s leiraks/streets, kondhongs/gate , communal places , keithels/markets and our valued places of heritages into places of pride through community participation and promotion of civic responsibility.
We have Satyajit Elangbam representing Blooming Manipur sharing the story of Blooming Manipur. This initiative has inspired many people in Manipur and it’s very encouraging to see many people stepping up in the effort to beautify Manipur. An initiative by the people of Manipur, even inspiring the government body in this effort. Listen to the challenges of maintenance and about the people behind the scene which is making this happen. This project is not only about planting but instilling the values amongst all of us.
Let’s participate in this effort of beautification and keeping Manipur clean and beautiful. It’s easy to criticize and point fingers to organization and officials for not doing their duty in keeping Manipur clean and beautiful. But the question each of us need to ask is “What are we doing to contribute? Are we littering ?”. If we all start having the values, starting at your own home, gate, locality, schools wherever we can, it will add into the vision of Blooming Manipur, in creating a clean and beautiful Manipur. I invite everyone to be a part of this change. Let’s take the ownership in beautifying Manipur. Let’s bring a change together.
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Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.
I welcome you to join me in my journey to finding the voices at Http://FindingTheVoices.com/
S02E14 FindingTheVoices: Naba Shamurailatpam sharing his journey as a singer in Manipur.
Guest Speaker: Naba Shamurailatpam (Volcano), popular singer of Manipur.
Interview Location: Imphal, Manipur, India.
Language: Podcast in Manipuri/Meiteilon.
Naba Shamurailatpam, popular singer of Manipur, popularly known as Naba Volcano amongst his music fan sharing his journey, the world of singing. He shares very interesting stories of his growing up phase, his fascination and inspiration growing up very close to the beauty of nature at Sekmai, Manipur. He shares about his initial failure, love and passion for songs and his different and interesting experiences of his journey and performances traveling to places all over India. Watch his interview to hear his special message to his fans, followers and supporters.
We have heard and played many of the songs back to back going through different moods, escaping to his songs enjoying or lamenting. Many of us grew up listening to “Sekmai Chameli” “Ukhrul da eigee thawai leihoure” “Matam Kuirabagi Tungda” “Chingi Echal” and many other songs. And it’s such a wonderful moment to meet him in person, hear his story and ever hear a song from him. What more can a fan ask for.
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FindingTheVoices brings voices and story that Inspire, Empower, Educate & Entertain us from people all over the world. It is a talk show presented by Monica Ingudam with the vision to promote and spread positive, hopeful, inspiring & entertaining stories in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur.
This is your show to promote your talents & work, share your experiences and voice what you stand for, what you believe in, what you want people to know & talk about.
Taking the special occasion of us celebrating 2 years of podcasting, I want to share the interview covered by ISTV Network Imphal, Manipur featuring FindingTheVoices during my visit in Manipur. It was a great honor to be interviewed by Tamo Kh. Bishwamittra, in the TV channel I watched growing up and follow regularly now getting the News update about Manipur.
As always I thank everyone for your support and participation in making our talk show possible.
Episode 1 : We spoke about me, my career path, experiences and story. We covered the challenges and choices I faced as a woman changing jobs, taking breaks to keep up the balancing role of career and being a mother. Also we spoke about keeping up with education, technology trend to keep up with the job market trend.
Episode 2 : We spoke about students, role model and talked about FindingTheVoices and I got an opportunity to thanks all the family of FindingTheVoices through ISTV, the TV channel in Manipur. Also I got to ask a question to the host, Tamo Kh. Bishwamittra which is a treat to watch for this show.
Thanks to everyone, to each and every team member of ISTV. This means a lot to me, to FindingTheVoices.
FindingTheVoices brings voices and story that Inspire, Empower, Educate & Entertain us from people all over the world. It is a talk show presented by Monica Ingudam with the vision to promote and spread positive, hopeful, inspiring & entertaining stories in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur.
This is your show to promote your talents & work, share your experiences and voice what you stand for, what you believe in, what you want people to know & talk about.
Guest Speakers : Photographers of Manipur Photography Club.
Interview Location: Ema Keithel, Imphal, Manipur, India.
Language: Podcast in English & Manipuri/Meiteilon.
I had the opportunity to cover a Photo walk event organized by Manipur Photography Club at Ema Keithel in Imphal, Manipur and meet many of the photographers whose work we have featured. Manipur Photography Club inspired me to add the photography section of FindingTheVoices. Most of our photographs are sponsored by members of Manipur Photography club. We have received very good feedback and messages from many, on these photographs. These are pictures which shows the beauty of Manipur, educating us of places we haven’t seen, of people and many aspects of Manipur. These are pictures, pictures that talks to you and many a times requires no words for description.
Manipur Photography club has created a very positive international platform bringing together members from all over the world. We appreciate the work and events (Photo walks, competitions, support for social events) organized by MPC in encouraging participation from all members. It is encouraging to see the positivity created amongst the youth in Manipur in adopting photography as a hobby, learning and sharing from each other and also giving opportunity for covering photo events in many events for the professional members.
For many of us we start our day in the morning, looking at the beautiful uploads at Manipur Photography Club, looking forward for more everyday. We look forward for a continuous collaboration with FindingTheVoices.
This episode is very special episode as I got to meet in person many of the photographers and family of FindingTheVoices, and got to hear their story, comments, feedback about FindingTheVoices too. Thanks everyone for taking the time to share about Manipur Photography Club and FindingTheVoices. Watch this episode to learn how MPC was formed, voices of MPC members.
FindingTheVoices brings voices and story that Inspire, Empower, Educate & Entertain us from people all over the world. It is a talk show presented by Monica Ingudam with the vision to promote and spread positive, hopeful, inspiring & entertaining stories in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur.
This is your show to promote your talents & work, share your experiences and voice what you stand for, what you believe in, what you want people to know & talk about.
Born and raised in the violence-torn landscape of Manipur, I have a vision to promote and spread inspiring, empowering, educative & entertaining stories. I believe that we can create contents bringing the positive side of Manipur. I believe we can do this together by finding the voices, voices which needs to be heard and shared, voices of our own people, people of Manipur and well-wishers of Manipur. I believe that these voices will bring a change and connect all of us.
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