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.

Episode 019 FindingTheVoices : Hemanta Khuman, Director/Assistant Director of Manipuri Musical Videos and Movies

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019 FindingTheVoices Hemanta Khuman Director and Assistant Director of Manipuri Musical Videos and Movies, featuring Kaina Peerang

HemantaKhuman (11)I am proud to present the voice of a very young Director of Manipuri Musical Video and Movies, Hemanta Khuman. Recently I saw this beautiful Manipuri Music Video “Kaina Peerang” and I was Zapped, in less than 6 minutes there is a beautiful passionate tragic love story with a perfect blend of manipuri ethnic wears with the modern look, beautiful star cast, beautiful scenic location with a beautiful song… it’s awesome, Congratulations to Hemanta Khuman and your team. Great Work !!! Hemanta Khuman worked as Assistant director for Phijigee Mani, the movie received Best Regional Film Award in Manipuri language at the 59th National Film awards for the year . Hemanta works very closely under the guidance of Director Oinam Gautam

FindingTheVoices is proud to feature Kaina Peerang , the video musical which caught my eye and lead me to search for the person behind this. We see all these wonderful work and never get to hear the voice of people behind the scene, and one of the goal for FindingTheVoices is to hear the voices of people behind the scenes to create such wonderful work. This podcast episode covers his experience in making of this video from the young 23 year old Director. Hemanta promised that he will come up with strong Character woman in future where the woman is strong and don’t end up dying 🙂

Thanks to all the Team members of Kaina Peerang in making this wonderful Manipuri Video musical.

  • Cast: Soma n Dekey
  • Singer: Pratima n Suren
  • Lyrics: Abung  wai
  • Music: Rahul
  • Make up: Jenny Khurai n Russia
  • Costume: Galif Pa
  • Camera: Mohon Kangla
  • Asst Camera: Danao
  • Director: Hemanta Khuman

Episode 018 FindingTheVoices : Part 2 Vik Sorensangbam 3D Character Artist at Montreal, Canada

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018 FindingTheVoices Part 2 Vik Sorensangbam 3D Character Artist at Montreal Canada

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This podcast episode is dedicated to all my student listeners, this is a great story of taking up the career option as a 3D Character Artist. How would it be to design 3D Characters for games, even better play games to test it out, watch movies and play more games to keep up with technologies & strategy. What an amazing career option !! How many of us come back from work and play games for fun and Vik does it for work and he gets PAID 🙂 How cool is that ? And it is a lovely story of romance finally settled with his Girl friend and blessed with a beautiful daughter. It is important to remember the struggles and hardship a person goes through to achieve success. Also what you do and like as a child plays a very important role in shaping your career and moving towards what you like in future.

Part 1 focuses in the beginning & struggles of Vic in shaping up his career covering many aspect of life from being a Body Builder, not knowing anything about Computer to becoming a 3D Character Artist in Montreal all the way from Manipur, struggles in getting loans for his education, experiencing lay off, running around for getting visa….. Please listen to this episode if you haven’t yet !!!

This episode covers the details of his career discussing about very interesting technologies like 3D printing etc and details of his interesting career aspect going deeper into how he comes up with his design and aspirations …

Please check out his website at Vik3D.com and his Facebook page. Also check out VFS featuring his journey and E-PAO featuring brief overview of our lovely state Manipur to the west world.

Episode 017 FindingTheVoices : Part 1 Vik Sorensangbam 3D Character Artist at Montreal, Canada

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017 FindingTheVoices Part 1 Vik Sorensangbam 3D Character Artist at Montreal Canada

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I am proud to present the voice of Vik Sorensangbam 3D Character Artist Montreal, Canada.

This podcast episode is dedicated to all my student listeners, this is a great story of taking up the career option as a 3D Character Artist. How would it be to design 3D Characters for games, even better play games to test it out, watch movies and play more games to keep up with technologies & strategy. What an amazing career option !! How many of us come back from work and play games for fun and Vik does it for work and he gets PAID 🙂 How cool is that ? And it is a lovely story of romance finally settled with his Girl friend and blessed with a beautiful daughter.

This episode focuses in the beginning & struggles of Vic in shaping up his career covering many aspect of life from being a Body Builder, not knowing anything about Computer to becoming a 3D Character Artist in Montreal all the way from Manipur, struggles in getting loans for his education, experiencing lay off, running around for getting visa…..

It is important to remember the struggles and hardship a person goes through to achieve success. Also what you do and like as a child plays a very important role in shaping your career and moving towards what you like in future.

Please watch out for the next episode to continue listening to Vik’s journey and details of his career discussing about very interesting technologies like 3D printing etc. Part 2 will focus on details of his interesting career aspect …

Please check out his website at Vik3D.com and his Facebook page. Also check out VFS featuring his journey.

Episode 016 FindingTheVoices : Jamuna Devi Advani, writer of the book “Land of the Dancing Deer”, deer referring to Sangai found in Manipur

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016 FindingTheVoices Jamuna Devi Advani writer of the book Land of the Dancing Deer, deer referring to Sangai found in Manipur

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I am proud to present the interview with Jamuna Devi Advani, originally from Manipur, currently located in California, USA and writer of the book “Land of the Dancing Deer”, deer referring to Sangai found in Manipur. She has created a beautiful family history in poetry and her book begins with reflections about her memories, beliefs and stories of her life’s journey particularly in Manipur.

I am honoured to receive an autograph copy of her book “Land of The Dancing Deer”, I really enjoyed her book, it took me back to Manipur as I was reading the book and seeing it from her eyes at that era in Manipur and her pictures/paintings added to my imagination in seeing her grandmother and other incidents which she had mentioned in the book. Her book is available at Amazon , Lulu and Ebook. Also you can follow her Blog with interesting story and writings.

She has very interesting thoughts and advice to share on raising kids, inter marriage between different communities sharing her own experience having married out of the community.

I really admire her strong positive attitude, giving out so much positive energy and openness in trying different things, keeping up with modern technologies and times after suffering a great lost when her husband passed away. And she plays golf too 🙂

Episode 015 FindingTheVoices : 015 FindingTheVoices Sameeta Angom founder of Sameeta’s Spa & Salon and Sameeta’s Nails & Pedispa at Texas, USA

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015 FindingTheVoices Sameeta Angom founder of Sameeta’s Spa & Salon and Sameeta’s Nails & Pedispa at Texas, USA

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Presenting Sameeta Angom originally from Manipur, a mother of 2 wonderful kids, started Sameeta’s Spa and Salon and Sameeta’s Nails & Pedispa at Houston, Texas, USA. She has many people working for her and she plans to expand her business adding more location in future. We had a very interesting talk which shows the importance of partnership, support and teamwork from your better half, balancing work and family life, glimpse of life running a Salon finding different strategy of marketing, employee management, customer services etc. a wonderful journey going through interesting turns in life from being a stay at home mom to starting a business of her own. Who would know a Botony Major would end up being a Cosmetologist?

Her Salon offers very reasonable prices for many different Spa, Salon, Nails and Pedispa services and has very interesting deals always, check out the price at her website.

Episode 014 FindingTheVoices : Assault of Manipuri film actress Momoco Khangembam by NSCN-IM cadre Livingstone Anal

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014 FindingTheVoices Assault of Manipuri film actress Momoco by NSCN-IM cadre Livingstone

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Today I am with Khangembam Rosnia, popularly known as Momoco, Manipuri Film Actress. She is only 21 years old now but had to step up taking responsibility of helping out financially at a very young age when she was in 11th Grade  after her father became sick.  It is very important to note that Artists in Manipur are not paid very well, it cannot be compared with Bollywood or Hollywood at all. The meager income she gets from acting in movies, Video musical songs and hosting helps in running her family supporting her father who is struggling back and forth from Hospital.

The best thing I like about her is that , in spite of all these heavy responsibilities at a young age, she continued  juggling with Studies and Acting and has graduated BSc(BioChemistry & Botany) from DM college, Manipur and plan to continue with Her Masters. I strongly believe in education and I am glad to see that she is pursuing her education.

Momoco was hosting as programme announcer for a fund raising musical concert at Chandel district by Mahamani Women’s Society. NSCN-IM cadre Livingstone Anal pulled her down from the chair and started kicking her continuously towards her face.  Livingstone tried to kill another two artistes (Singer Prakash Soraisham & Actor Guna who came running to rescue her). Livingstone fired at point blank range but they escaped unhurt.  All this because Momoco didn’t encourage his behaviour of talking, touching her hair and body. Momoco went there to do her work to support her livelihood and not to sell her body. What is chilling to hear is that when these terrible incident happened there were police personnel and more than 100 people were present but nobody came to help except some womenfolks. All the men were standing like a statue.

We strongly condemned the brutal act of Livingstone and want necessary legal actions is taken against him.

Today Momoca shares with us the incident in detail …

Episode 013 FindingTheVoices : Dr. Sohini Ray, Lecturer in Anthropology at Santa Monica College and Founder/Artistic Director of Manipuri Dance Visions located in California, USA.

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013 FindingTheVoices Dr. Sohini Ray Lecturer in Anthropology at Santa Monica College ,Founder and Artistic Director of Manipuri Dance Visions located in California, USA

Today I have a very special Guest, Dr. Sohini Ray, Lecturer in Anthropology at Santa Monica College and Founder/Artistic Director of Manipuri Dance Visions, training center of classical Manipuri dance in Los Angeles, California, USA. When I saw that we have a training center to learn Manipur Dance in California, I got very excited and had to hear the voice of the person behind it. And I found more interesting details, In addition to promoting Manipuri Dance, She has written a dissertation essay on the Meetei Mayek script (also Meitei Mayek, Manipuri script). Yes, she is a Bengali, a non-Manipuri promoting Manipuri dance and Manipur through her research work. I really admire her work and am so proud to present her voice.

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Dr. Ray, a rare combination of an outstanding performer and a prolific scholar, has won the prestigious Lestor Horton award in 2008 for her production “Gita Govinda”.  (Lestor Horton award is the equivalent of the Grammy. It is given for live concert dance.) And, has received two more Horton nominations in 2007 and 2011.  She won the Los Angeles Treasures award in 2007, and numerous other grants and fellowships. A Ph. D. in anthropology from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Ray has held fellowships in Harvard University and has taught both academic and practical dance classes in several American Universities.

Her research on Manipuri dance won the prestigious J.B. Donne prize in anthropology of art from the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK in 2009; she being the first dance-researcher in the world ever to have achieved this rare accolade, also the first Asian and the first woman.

Dr. Ray was identified as a child prodigy by the legendary Manipuri dance maestero late Guru Bipin Singh at age seven and was trained by him and his senior disciples, the Jhaveri sisters for more than twenty-five years. She received the prestigious national scholarship in Manipuri dance from the Government of India at age fourteen and numerous prizes and awards as a young performer in India, and was a lead dancer in Jhaveri sisters dance troupe for several years. Concurrently, while dancing professionally full-time through her college and university careers she stood first class first in Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in anthropology from University of Calcutta. In 1992 she chose to move to United States to pursue an MA in dance in University of California at Los Angeles, and has lived and worked there since.

Dr. Ray has travelled and researched in remote regions of Manipur for the past twenty years and has one of the finest collection of audio-visual materials on Manipuri dance in the world.

Dr. Sohini Ray, the world-renowned master-artiste of classical Manipuri dance will be touring India from Dec 27 to Jan 12. Please find the details of the schedule at https://findingthevoices.com/2012/12/12/sohiniraysolodancetourindia/

This podcast was featured by Manipur Times.

We have a surprise host, Please welcome Monindro Ingudam.

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We have a surprise host for this week, Please welcome Monindro Ingudam, Architect by profession, core board member and adviser for FindingTheVoices. Tamo, Thank you, Thank you for all your support. We love your humorous and unique style of podcasting.

It is indeed an honour for FindingTheVoices to present Episode 12 from 2 special and great personalities.

Khagemba Sanabam

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Episode 012 FindingTheVoices : Khagemba Sanabam, Entrepreneur starting Manipur’s own production of packaged drinking water and oxygen.

012 FindingTheVoices Khagemba Sanabam, Entrepreneur starting Manipur’s own production of packaged drinking water and oxygen

We have a special Guest Speaker Khagemba Sanabam, Entrepreneur, who have started Manipur’s own production of packaged drinking water and oxygen. Yes, production in Manipur.

Khagemba shares his journey of his struggles and experiences in starting Reliable Hydrotech and Oxygen Plant in Manipur. I am so proud to see such initiatives which will help people in Manipur and we don’t have to depend to get these items from other states in India. He shares his struggles, challenges in getting finance (Loan only if you have Assets !!! No room for innovation without money !!!), lack of basic infrastructure (Electricity, Roads/Transportation, experienced Human Resources) to support production plant in Manipur. And most importantly the experience in doing business in Manipur where the market is mostly dominated by non manipuri.

Thanks to Khagemba Sanabam for sharing your story. Tamo, I am so proud to hear about the products manufactured by your company right there in Manipur and that We don’t have to import packaged bottled water and oxygen from other states of India. Please support such wonderful initiatives by buying products produced in Manipur.

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Marina Spring is the brand name of the packaged drinking water produced by Reliable Hydrotech, a proprietorship firm at Joypur Khunou , Bishnupur District in Manipur.

Oxygen plant has completed installation and awaiting finishing touch for trial run. This plant will fulfill all the requirements for both clinical and industrial oxygen at a very cheap cost. This will really help people in Manipur.

Hosting today’s Show is Monindro Ingudam, Architect by profession, core board member and adviser for FindingTheVoices. Tamo, Thank you, Thank you for all your support. We love your humorous and unique style of podcasting.

It is indeed an honour for FindingTheVoices to present today’s show from 2 special and great personalities.