Finding the voices

039 FindingTheVoices Dr Khundongbam Palin sharing his vision of making Manipur a Healthcare Hub of SE Asia

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Dr. Palin Khundongbam, Entrepreneur, Chairman and Managing Director of Shija Hospitals sharing his journey and story for the rapid advancement of medical sciences in North-East India sharing about his vision of creating “Manipur a Healthcare Hub of South East ASIA“, He shares about his strategy and steps taken in retaining our own people, improving and upgrading infrastructure & technologies, getting the trust to be treated in Manipur. There are many patients from outside Manipur state including Nagaland, Mizoram, Assam and going international with patients from Myanmar.

Listen to know more about Smile Train Shija Cleft Project. This is a joint initiative of Smile Train Inc., USA and Shija Hospitals and Research Institute, Imphal has set on a journey to render free surgical treatment to cleft lip and palate patients changing many people’s life. Yes absolutely FREE.

Listen to know about latest technologies and equipment’s at Shija Hospitals which will make it a global destination for healthcare, different type of plastic surgery covering both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. We are looking forward to seeing Shija Hospitals develop the Wellness Park which will provide a complete Medical solution and will attract Medical Tourism for people from outside the state go for healthcare solutions and also see the beautiful place in Manipur.

Trailer2 039 FindingTheVoices Dr Khundongbam Palin sharing sharing about Cosmetic Surgery trend in Manipur.

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Sneak peek of upcoming podcast of Dr. Palin Khundongbam, Entrepreneur, MS MCh (Plastic Surgery) FICS, of Shija Hospitals sharing about Cosmetic Surgery trend in Manipur. Trailer1, we heard about his vision of creating “Manipur a Healthcare Hub of South East ASIA“.

At Shija Hospitals, Manipur the most popular procedures are Blepharoplasty (Creating Eyelid Folds or removing eyelid bags), Rhinoplasty (Nose Reshaping), Liposuction, Hair Transplantation. A large number of north-eastern people from outside Manipur are going to Imphal for such surgeries at the hospital. Dr. Palin shares that the rise in the number of cosmetic surgeries also indicates improved economy of the state.

Eyelid fold surgery in Manipur in the last three years is very popular with the influence of Hollywood and Bollywood and blend into more of the Indian Look. Listen to Dr. Palin’s view on “Shouldn’t we be proud of our Manipuri look ?” and at the end, It is all about Improving self esteem and the choice is ours.

Trailer1 039 FindingTheVoices Dr Khundongbam Palin sharing his vision of making Manipur a Healthcare Hub of SE Asia

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Sneak peek of upcoming podcast of Dr. Palin Khundongbam, Entrepreneur, the moving spirit of Shija Hospitals for sharing his journey and story for the rapid advancement of medical sciences in North-East India sharing about his vision of creating “Manipur a Healthcare Hub of South East ASIA“, He shares about his strategy and steps taken in retaining our own people, improving and upgrading infrastructure & technologies, getting the trust to be treated in Manipur. There are many patients from outside Manipur state including Nagaland, Mizoram, Assam and going international with patients from Myanmar.

Episode 038 FindingTheVoices : Sonia Nepram sharing about making of the Manipuri documentary movie Gun and a God

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Presenting the podcast of Sonia Nepram sharing about making of the Manipuri documentary movie Gun and a God. It is interesting to hear the aspects of making documentary movies in getting closer to the subject, living the life and story. I am proud to see woman director coming up making movies from woman’s point of view. Hats off to the wonderful team of “Gun and a God” in bringing out the voice and story of Purnima. This could have happened to anyone of us.

“Gun and a God” is an endeavor to explore a cosmos of conflict through the lives of women.

Purnima is having the best of her evenings with her inmates in a jail room. Yet her every laughs and giggles are concealing a grave conflict. The visiting hours in the jail are dreadful with no one to visit her. These are the times when she finds herself asking who she is.

Tagged as a “disgraced inheritance”, from an unknown father to a mentally unfit mother, her childhood was chastised. The reality of being an illegitimate child haunts during her teens and when she was married, it crucified her.

A “Gun and a God” is the journey a woman, whose will was forged by the structural violence of her existence, who finally finds her voice in a Gun and justice in a God.

Trailer Episode 038 FindingTheVoices : Sonia Nepram sharing about making of the Manipuri documentary movie Gun and a God

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Ready to listen to making movies from a woman’s point of view ? Sneak peak of upcoming Sonia Nepram’s podcast about making of the Manipuri documentary movie Gun and a God.

A “Gun and a God” is the journey a woman, whose will was forged by the structural violence of her existence, who finally finds her voice in a Gun and justice in a God.

Episode 037 FindingTheVoices : Bhumenjoy Konsam sharing about making of the Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba

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This podcast  (in Meitei-Lon/Manipuri language) details the making of Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba (The man who turns into a tiger) which is based on a popular Manipuri folktale by Bhumenjoy Konsam. I watched the movie with my kids. We enjoyed it and loved it. I was amazed that they sat through the whole movies and now they are running all over playing “Thong Handok-o, Thong Handok-o”

This episode is all about the making of the movie Keibu-kei-oiba , Bhumenjoy shares the challenges in making the story as an animated movie, developing, building, designing up each character, each scene creating from a blank frame to creating everything from scratch making the 84 minutes movie. It is amazing to hear about the voice over details for each of the characters.

The whole team put a lot of effort in making this movie, consulting and researching so that it is presented very authentic in terms of music, even the musical instrument and script used. Hats off to the whole team. Thanks for this wonderful gift to the Manipuri community.

In the previous Episode 36 Bhumenjoy Konsam, shared about himself, about how his career shaped from studying from Chemistry to Multimedia, choosing career between a low paying Multimedia job of Rs 2500 versus a Govt. Job as Army officer of Rs 8000. Even though it was a tough path to follow and choose his passion, despite raising eyebrows from people in leaving the traditional path, Bhumenjoy followed his passion.

Episode 036 FindingTheVoices : Bhumenjoy Konsam sharing about following his passion in his choice of career

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I am proud to present the voice of Bhumenjoy Konsam, Director of Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba (The man who turns into a tiger). This is a podcast  (in Meitei-Lon/Manipuri language) and in this episode Bhumenjoy shares about himself, about how his career shaped from studying from Chemistry to Multimedia, choosing career between a low paying Multimedia job versus a Govt. Job in the Indian Army. Even though it was a difficult path to follow, choosing his passion, despite raising eyebrows from friends and relatives in leaving the traditional path, Bhumenjoy followed his passion with his Father’s support.

Bhumenjoy shares interesting details about the multimedia course, his experience in his work and his thought process on choosing his passion or doing a JOB !! He left his job in between to pursue what he wants which lead him to making the movie  Keibu-kei-oiba with his friends. He shares details about career prospect in Multimedia.

This is a very inspiring story to follow your dream career path, despite all odds, a path which you are passionate about and which you like rather than being pressured into following the expected traditional path which you don’t like.

Please continue to tune in to listen to Episode 037 FindingTheVoices :  Bhumenjoy Konsam sharing about making of the Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba which covers very interesting details of behind the scene in making the Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba.

Episode 035 FindingTheVoices : Memoirs between a Mother and a Daughter on Mother’s Day

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This is a podcast  (in Meitei-Lon/Manipuri language) sharing memoirs between a Mother and a Daughter on Mother’s Day 2013.

Coming from a background where emotional words are not spoken, love, appreciation, sorry are not explicitly expressed (maybe written in letters), kind of assumed from actions . It is difficult to really speak out emotions!! But seeing how wonderful it is to hear when emotions are spoken out ….. to make an effort to be expressive, for Mother’s Day 2013, FindingTheVoices initiated the exercise to pause and express our words to Mothers thanking and taking a moment to say sorry for any incident …. Many of our Guest Speakers, listeners participated sharing beautiful childhood pictures, beautiful write-up honoring, thanking and saying sorry to Mothers. And I took this opportunity to share my thoughts with my Mother. And yes this was the first time we spoke about this … it was really tough !!! but I felt really great after saying and sharing with my Mother. Yes Madam Saroj Nalini is my mother, my best friend.

Previous Episode 34 covers Madam Saroj Nalini, mother of 4 children, sharing her journey of being a Mother.

She shares interesting incidents as a Mother raising her kids within the economic and financial constraints, mental state she was in.

She lost her Father when she was only 6 months old, after that her birth mother came back to her maternal home, and she was raised by her grandmother and calls her grandmother “Ema” (Mother) and her birth mother “Eche” (Sister).  She always thought her mother is her grandmother but when she grew up and came to know her sister is her birth mother, and the trauma and embarrassment she went through when her birth mother got married when she was a teenager. She had this mental shock and depression, was so embarrassed to mix around with her friends, cried a lot going through that phase.

Growing up, when we asked her about her parents, she told us that she was adopted by her grandmother and that she was found under the big Banyan tree at Kwakeithel Bazaar (this tree is no longer there now, but when I was small I remember seeing that tree) and we all believed it .. until later when we grew up. She shares her memoirs of answering questions from her son on who are her parents, why she is not going for “Ningol Chakouba”, the biggest festival celebrated for daughters/sisters in Manipur ?

HAPPY FATHER’s DAY to (Late) Haitung Pame, Memoirs from Armstrong Pame

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Father’s Name:  (Late) Haitung Pame, worked as primary school teacher cum carpenter.

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He worked for over 28 years as a teacher in a village called taguaram in tousem sub division.

..every thing he did had been a memorable one. Particularly when he said son don’t worry as long as I am alive I am gonna give my everything to make you what you wanna be…while I and my brother was there at shillong in 2001, when many of our frds received their monthly installment from home, we could never get sufficient amount in time, but whichever little money he sends he would say sons utilize this money to buy books, eat good food, take tuition if necessary etc, and would say don’t worry for money..just let me know if u need more there are so many works I can do to earn through carpentry. he would wake up at 3 30 am in the morning and start working and would stop till the sun sets and if there be a moonlit he still would be working…

Submitted by: Armstrong Pame, presently serving as SDO Tousem in Tamenglong district, Manipur, India.

Armstrong Pame IAS officer from Tamenglong sharing the journey in making the 100 KM Road in Manipur without any help or funding from the Government

Listen to his previous interview Part 1 & Part2.

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