Beautiful yellow flowers. Yellow is full of creative and intellectual energy. Do you like yellow flowers ? Collection of Yellow flowers contributed by the family of FindingTheVoices
This Album is dedicated to “Ruby the dog”, all dog lovers as pet and all dogs who went missing in Manipur landing up in people’s plate, without giving a chance to the owner to say Good bye.
STOP stealing people’s pet. STOP eating people’s pet. If you want to eat, buy it, raise your own and eat it but STOP eating by stealing people’s pet.
Ruby The Dog
Such an adorable little dog, With soft black and white fur, And expressive beautiful eyes, Winning everyone’s heart, The minute she walked in our home.
She guarded the house, Welcoming family and friends with her wagging tail, And barking notoriously warning us of strangers, She practically grew up with us, Witnessing every milestones of our life.
She gets older, bony and almost blind, And one fine day she went for a walk never to return back, Words spread that Ruby was hit by a truck, But no trace of her and no body found, And we never got a chance to say goodbye.
It’s a small community, Where you always know who is doing what, But no one will say anything about Ruby’s truck accident, Time went by, Searches continues without any success.
Mr. Mei fully drunk walks by our and his “Leirak” (road leading to home), Swaying and barely able to walk, As though he had the last ounce of guilt left in drunken body, He confessed that he ate one and only “Matum” (piece)of Ruby, As the others are gobbled up by the other drunks.
Thanks everyone for sharing these beautiful pictures of your dog and sharing about your dog.
It must have been during the Eighties,
The rains won’t stop pouring in Imphal,
Day after day flooding everywhere,
People gathered in dry houses for sleeping,
Days went by and there was no food to eat.
The water just won’t go down with continuous non stop rains,
Rafts were made with banana stem to commute,
It was a hard time for everyone,
The old priest who spoke less and observed more sent bags and bags of whole wheat seeing people going hungry,
Emptying his whole go down of food supplies.
There were lines, long lines in Kwakeithel,
People coming from many other nearby leikai (community),
Everyone in the line was given whole wheat until the last grain was over,
Without questioning their religion,
Giving us the extra gift to see humanity and spirit of giving,
Being a rice eater, whole wheat was new to us,
Mother made whole wheat pudding, piping hot and watery with a pinch of sugar and milk added with the remains after scrubbing the canister,
And that was the first and best taste of whole wheat on a very cold day,
Tasted with a dash of kindness, the gift from the old priest,
His deeds never forgotten even when he is no longer with us.
~The End~
An Experimental attempt to put thoughts in writing by Monica Ingudam. This post is dedicated to Late Father Mathew Planthottam, founder of St. Joseph School, Imphal.
Author’s Note: I wrote in 2013 dedicating to Late Father Mathew Planthottam, founder of St. Joseph School, Imphal, Manipur to remind myself and others of the humanity and love beyond ethnicity or religion. On that day, I was very saddened to read a generalizing thrashing comments against religious Institute from the very people who stood in the long lines to get the wheat distributed during such hard times of hunger and flood. At that time, it didn’t stop them from receiving the help, despite the difference in religion or ethnicity but conveniently forgotten the kindness and ganging up with such vicious generalization. I wrote a stanza reflecting the hypocrisy but deleted as I was not brave enough to voice that part.
Dedicating this album to photographers who have shared pictures with findingthevoices and the community of photographers capturing and sharing views through their beautiful capture.
Special thanks to the collaboration with Manipur Photography Club members who actively participate in contributing to picture theme and helping in showing the world pictures of Manipur.
Pass along and share pictures of photographing the photographer as our small way of saying “Thank you”.
Pictures showing and Glimpse of Life in Manipur. Thanks to all members of FindingTheVoices for contributing your best capture of Life in Manipur.
Celebrating 1 Year completion of podcasting with our First Guest Speaker, Manas Maisnam cartoonist from Manipur. His work showing social issues in Manipur in a very humourous way have always brought smiles to many.
I really admire his honesty, keeping time and his word, most importantly his value of raising and educating his kids without any difference of gender. This podcast was recorded on Father’s Day on June 16 2013 where he shares about raising, educating and treating kids equally without any differences based on Gender. And I thank FindingTheVoices for such wonderful special moments with my Father, Ingudam Tomba Singh where we can speak and share his wonderful thoughts. I thank him for raising me with gender equality and giving me the gift of education. Also I have to thank (though hard at that time !!) for the special bamboo stick (LiChei) treatment, which he got specially from Bishenpur in Manipur for all 4 of us. By the time we all passed out our 10th Grade, I must say all these sticks were battered towards the end.
Today is his 81st birthday and we wish him a very Happy Birthday and pray for his good health.
Listen to his previous Episode where he his journey of getting education growing up from his Village Oinam in Manipur. I am proud to present his wonderful story about growing up from a village and how he strived to study against all odds and proving how important EDUCATION is. He wouldn’t care and gave up materialistic items, but made sure that all his 4 children are educated inspite of the financial constraints, treating sons and daughters equally. I believe in EEMUL : Ema Epa Mitna Uba Laini (Parents are living God) and yes he is my living God. I am blessed to have the honour to talk with Ingudam Tomba Singh, retired from Lilong Houreibi College and Vice Principal from Oriental College, Imphal and my Father.
This podcast is in Meitei Lon (Manipuri) Language.
Submitted by: James Mayengbam (For details of the event call 8794555290)
First Red Carpet Event in Imphal, Manipur
For the first time in Manipur, WOL Media will be hosting the first ever Red Carpet event in Manipur, Premiering the new movie Beragee Bomb on the 31st of Aug, 2013 at MFDC.
This will be the onset of a Red Carpet trend in the movie industry of Manipur, aiming to glamorize the trade and the art of movie making. This idea was aimed to promote and globalize the concept of Red Carpet with a traditional touch, which will provide a fertile ground for our fashion industry to take shape, for new artists to promote themselves and give the existing ones a tint of glamour. Not only this, it will give a chance to understand more about the artist’s personality and give chance to public specially the fan or we can say the audience to interact with the film stars and many celebrities.
And in the Red Carpet event, the media person or simply the journalist play an important role, without them there will be no success for the evening. The media person will reflect the significance of the evening, for example the new design worn by the celebrities will be reflected to the general public and encourage the economy of the state. And the media report that celebrities or the film artist will express his idea of the film world, fashion and for the new work or the new film. It will also give chance to new artists to showcase his upcoming film and his or her desire to express to enter in the film world. And encourage the artists to learn the basic ideas from the senior artists and it will show them how to dedicate, sacrifice and honor the film world.
It will also give chance to singers and fashion designers because playback singers plays an important role in the film industry, without them there will be a hollow everywhere, simply we can say the singers makes the audience or fans enjoy the taste of the songs in the film. The singer can promote his or her upcoming songs in the Red carpet event. And for the fashion designer, we can say for them the evening will make the bomb blast. The designer will try to show his/her new design worn by the celebrities and it will make them success in the fashion world. It will also promote his/her new design, bringing good economy to the state.
For the clear understanding for the people of Manipur, what does Red Carpet mean we can simply say, a Red Carpet is traditionally used to mark the route taken by the Heads of the State on ceremonial and formal occasions, and in recent decades been extended to use by VIPs and celebrities in formal events. A Red Carpet is also used in Gala celebrity events such as the Academy Awards, Met Ball and BAFTA. While the awards takes place inside, much of the publicity and excitement takes place outside with journalists discussing the Red Carpet fashions, what designers are being worn by which Stars and photographers taking pictures. This is now a spectacular international product placement arena of great importance to the fashion industry. Red Carpets are often coupled with publicity backdrops which contain brand logos or emblems for photographic purposes. Carpeting in other colors may replace Red in some instances to honor a certain cause or for a sponsored event, the sponsor’s logo colors such as “Green Carpet” to promote environmental awareness, or for the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards, an orange Carpet is used instead to go with the network’s primary imaging color. Red carpets are now also used at non-royalty or celebrity events such as weddings. More generally “Red Carpet treatment” and “rolling out the Red Carpet” , prefer to any special efforts laid in the interest of hospitality.
And in brief history of Red Carpet, the earliest known reference to walking a Red Carpet in literature is in the play “Agamennon” by Aeschylus, written in 458B.C. when the title character returns from Troy, he is greeted by his vengeful wife Clytemnestra who offers him a Red path to walk upon.
Oriental carpets in renaissance paintings often show rugs and carpets, patterned but with Red often the main background color, laid on the steps to a throne, or on a dais where rulers or sacred figures are placed.
A Red Carpet was rolled out to a river to welcome the arrival of United States’ President James Madison in 1821. In 1902, the New York Central Railroad used plush crimson carpets to direct people as they boarded for 20th cent. Lmt. Passenger Train. This is believed to be the origin of the phrase “Red Carpet treatment”. Film premieres are often laid down with Red Carpets.
Unrolled carpets can be potentially hazardous. In 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI arrived at airport, in strong winds for a state visit to Britain, the Red Carpet was removed on health and safety grounds.
We have interviewed many film stars of Manipur for this event and they have told us that such event is rare in Manipur and filled with surprise for organizing this event for the first time in Imphal. Some of the male actors like Kaiku, Sadananda, Bonny, Gokul etc has expressed their views for this event and they feel like they are touching the limitless sky and feel great and surprised. And they have told us that the carpet event will make them feel honored to walk on the carpet.
The interesting statement by the renowned film star of Yaiskul Pakhang Angaoba Yo Sanatombi aka Bonny has expressed that in his 5yrs career in the Film industry, his “unfortunate” legs has never walked on any Red Carpet (event) but this time he feels lucky that he is getting such an opportunity to walk on the Red Carpet which is organized by WOL Media with a premiere show on Beragee Bomb at MFDC.
And on the other hand, we met female actors of Manipur like Soma, Abenao, Tonthoi etc and they also expressed their eagerness to walk on the Red Carpet for the first time in Manipur and promised to be present and grace the occasion. They further expressed their different views about the event. So organizing such an event will surely bring about new changes in the Manipur Film Industry and also give a great economic boost.
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