Waakhal 004: Tampha Oinam Gupta “We need more people like Irom Sharmila for Manipur” #ISupportIromSharmila

August 13, 2016August 13, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / 1 Comment

"You are not alone" a series of FindingTheVoices 
dedicated to Irom Sharmila Chanu of Manipur. 
#ISupportIromSharmila


Tampha Oinam Gupta "We need more people like Irom Sharmila for Manipur"

 Irom Sharmila Chanu says she is misunderstood by the people and she needs voice of moral support.

FindingTheVoices is reaching out to you for your voice, please contact us to participate in this series of  interviews.

About FindingTheVoices: 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/

Waakhal 003: Joyraj Waikhom, Kolkata, India “Understand that there is another group of people who is supporting her” #ISupportIromSharmila

August 13, 2016August 13, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

"You are not alone" a series of FindingTheVoices 
dedicated to Irom Sharmila Chanu of Manipur. 
#ISupportIromSharmila


Joyraj Waikhom, Kolkata, India "Understand that there is another group of people who is supporting her"

 Irom Sharmila Chanu says she is misunderstood by the people and she needs voice of moral support.

FindingTheVoices is reaching out to you for your voice, please contact us to participate in this series of  interviews.

About FindingTheVoices: 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/

Waakhal 002: Chaoba Phuritshabam “We, as people of Manipur should be very shameful” #ISupportIromSharmila

August 13, 2016August 13, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / 2 Comments

"You are not alone" a series of FindingTheVoices 
dedicated to Irom Sharmila Chanu of Manipur. 
#ISupportIromSharmila


Chaoba Phuritshabam, Delhi, India "We, as people of Manipur should be very shameful"

 Irom Sharmila Chanu says she is misunderstood by the people and she needs voice of moral support.

FindingTheVoices is reaching out to you for your voice, please contact us to participate in this series of  interviews.

About FindingTheVoices: 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/

Waakhal 001: Kishalay Bhattacharjee “We all are behind you Sharmila” #ISupportIromSharmila

August 11, 2016August 13, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

"You are not alone" a series of FindingTheVoices 
dedicated to Irom Sharmila Chanu of Manipur. 
#ISupportIromSharmila


Kishalay Bhattacharjee, New Delhi,  India "We all are behind you Sharmila"

 Irom Sharmila Chanu says she is misunderstood by the people and she needs voice of moral support.

FindingTheVoices is reaching out to you for your voice, please contact us to participate in this series of  interviews.

About FindingTheVoices: 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/

S03E15 FindingTheVoices with Dr. Nabakanta Sharma: Family planning, abortion and woman’s heath in Manipur.

July 23, 2016August 17, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / 2 Comments

S03E15 FindingTheVoices with Dr. Nabakanta Sharma: Family planning, abortion and woman’s heath in Manipur.

Guest Speaker :Dr. Nabakanta Sharma, specialist in family planning.
Language: Interview in English

Location: Imphal, Manipur, India

Dr. Nabakanta Sharma is a specialist in family planning and one of the most dedicated doctors today. He was kind enough to share his story and many important facts about family planning. Family planning is the practice of controlling the number of children one has and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of contraception or voluntary sterilization. It reduces the need for unsafe abortion and prevents unintended pregnancy. It even prevents the death of mothers and children.

During the early 70’s, Dr. Nabakanta passed on an opportunity to get enrolled in one of the top medical colleges in India due to financial reasons and instead studied in Manipur Medical College (now RIMS). Commenting on this, he says,

It was my tragedy, but it was my destiny! and he is right, for he became

one of the finest specialists in Manipur. He says that getting selected by

the Manipur Public ServiceCommission and getting blindly posted in the family planning department was the turning point of his career.

In this episode, we discuss about the status of women’s reproductive rights particularly in Manipur and the difference in medical facilities between the hilly areas and the valley. He tells us about the huge disparity between the two and the life threatening difficulties faced by people residing in the remote

areas. Dr. Nabakanta also shares a few facts about some of the options available for birth control and its positive impacts in a family.

About FindingTheVoices:

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/

S03E14 FindingTheVoices with Irom Sharmila Chanu: “I am a human being and I want to live”

July 16, 2016August 5, 2016 / Monica Ingudam / Leave a comment

S03E14 FindingTheVoices with Irom Sharmila Chanu: “I am a human being and I want to live”

Guest Speaker :Irom Sharmila Chanu, a civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. She is on her 16th years of fasting to repeal AFSPA from Manipur.
Language: Interview in Meteilon, subtitled in English

Location: Imphal, Manipur, India

On 2nd November, 2000, ten civilians, including a 62-year-old woman, were killed in an indiscriminate firing by personnel of the 8th Assam Rifles at Malom, Manipur. Having encountered numerous other such incidents where innocent civilians were tortured and executed by the army, Irom Sharmila Chanu

decided that such monstrous acts of the army can only be stopped by taking extreme measures. The Iron Lady of Manipur, who was 28 years old at the time of the Malom Massacre, decided to fast-unto-death until the Armed Forces Special Powers Act gets withdrawn from Manipur. It has already been 16

years of her non-violent protest but the draconian law still exists in the state.

She has been arrested multiple times on the charge of “attempt to commit suicide ” and released after the end of each penalty every year. It is only during this time that she gets the chance to come out and protest in public. But she is deeply saddened because the people have just been mere spectators. What

she really wants is for the people to use their rights and powers, being citizens of a democratic country and step in when something wrong and unjust happens in the society.

Irom Sharmila also shares from her heart about her dreams and aspirations from a personal perspective.

We all know about her cause which is well covered but I have always wanted to know her as a person. We had very less time but lots to talk, and in that short time Eche Sharmila Irom opened her heart and shared her story. We cried and and laughed together and I knew I cannot give up, I have to continue FindingTheVoices and bringing out the voices of Manipur.