Language: Podcast in English.
Interview Location : Manipur and New Delhi in India.
“Tattooed with Taboos” is an anthology that records a specific angst of the times developed within the consciousness of the poets. Circumscribed by the construct of womanhood; enveloped within the halo of love, betrayal and breathing, these poems are located in the setting of a conflict torn society. The poets use the personal as a tool to document the changing frames of the society and practices which seems to be “set in stone” through the metamorphosis of their moods, anxiety, hysteria and melancholy. The poems are experiential as well as reflexive.
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.
Special thanks to Akee Sorokhaibam and my sweet sisters of M4 Girls who have been a part in the making of this Episode.
When a girl expresses her love directly to person it is considered bold and even looked down. Talking about falling in “Love” seems very awkward in our society. Watch what the young poetess from #Manipur have to say about this. What are your thoughts ?
Behind the scenes for Findingthevoices : We thought Nehru Park at #Delhi will be perfect location and we even found a perfect spot. As we are ready for “Action”, we were told that shooting inside the park is not allowed. Lesson#2 learnt. We ended up shooting just outside near the entrance of Nehru Park with the 2 beautiful young poetess from #Manipur Chaoba Phuritshabam and Haripriya Soibam.
Shreema Ningombam, Author of the book “Tattooed with Taboos” shared an incident where this book was suggested to be a part of the “Chagumba” spread (the first feeding ceremony for a child where a book is a part) but this book was rejected because of the “Phanek” picture in the cover which is considered not auspicious. FindingTheVoices is honored to start our very first Episode for Season #2 making this book a very special and auspicious book for us.
always carry a book in my bag and this is my current book. Watch the interview of the authors of this book at Findingthevoices.
Have you read the book “Tattooed with Taboos” ?
Untamed (A poem by Shreema Ningombam)
Meet Kapil Arambam, the man who did the cover design for the book “Tattooed with taboos” , the design we are all raving about, the design which said it all.
Sharing a cartoon by our special Guest speaker Manas Maisnam for our featured Guest Speakers, authors of the book “Tattooed with Taboos”
Season of Love ( A poem by Chaoba Phuritshabam)
The book has a phanek for its cover is very significant in many ways. We were asked why a meitei phanek, why not any other ethnic community. But it is the meitei phanek which is tattooed with taboos. The phanek of other communities I believe, is not embedded with such stark ideas of impurity. Choosing the phanek mapanaiba as the cover was a very conscious decision. Firstly, it is untouchable, meitei men do not touch the phanek, and putting that on the cover of course will have many men touching the phanek unconsciously. Secondly, it is considered inauspicious. Of course this is strange because I am sure there is not a single man who has not yet touched a phanek. Thoughts?
Where do you read a book ? I always carry a book in my bag and read it when I find time, mostly my waiting time. It’s interesting that you will always find pockets of time, time where you are waiting, and we are always waiting for something. This was when I was waiting for my son near the bus stop.
To the Researcher (A poem by Soibam Haripriya)
There is so much room to promote the work and talents from #Manipur . The book “Tattooed with taboos” was released in 2011 and yet many of us didn’t know about this. Please share and spread the promotions if you like the book and effort by these young writers.
Proud to present 3rd part of Robert Naorem’s podcast where we talk in details about his journey as a Fashion Designer and details about his career. Listen to the podcast to hear the details of his career choice detailing about being a make-up artist and aspiration to being a designer, an established designer. He currently employs 15 people, all from Manipur giving them training, grooming them and offering a different life and live with dignity and respect. His belief echos with my belief on Education. He shares about his own experience and struggle with his own parents on his choice of career path. Mostly parent’s don’t consider a career path based on the child’s interest. It’s time for parents to change their mindset and widen their support on career choice other than the traditional acceptable career. Any parents listening to our show ?
You can catch up the 1st part of his podcast where he shared about his conflicting childhood and 2nd part of his podcast where he shared about his first show, Manipur Fashion Extravaganza 2013.
Picture Courtesy : Tiken Thockchom (Tiken Photography) Pictures of the 2nd show of Robert Naorem ‘s Manipur Fashion Extravaganza 2014
Presenting the 2nd part of Swar Thounaojam’s podcast where she shares details about her plays. In this podcast, she talks in details of each of her plays. She shared details about ” Bogey Systems” “Fake Palindromes” “Lucky Lobster“. I loved listening to her sharing about her inspiration for each of this play and how she imbibes and connect Manipur in some way to each of her plays. Is theatre a sustainable career option ? Listen to her sharing about the finance part in the theatre world. It was great learning and seeing a glimpse of the theater world from our very own Swar Thounaojam.
Full play is available online and you can read Fake Palindromes.
Catch up the first part of her podcast where she talks about her journey of being a Playwright and Theatre Director. Swar Thounaojam worked in Delhi, Mumbai, and Munich, and currently runs a Bengaluru-based theater company named FewerEmergencies.
Presenting a podcast with Swar Thounaojam originally from Manipur, sharing about being a Playwright and Theatre Director. Swar Thounaojam worked in Delhi, Mumbai, and Munich, and currently runs a Bengaluru-based theater company named FewerEmergencies. Listen to her sharing about her first play “Turel”. It was great learning and seeing a glimpse of the theater world from our very own Swar Thounaojam.
Proud to present 2nd part of Robert Naorem’s podcast where we talk in details about his journey as a Fashion Designer and details about Manipur Fashion Extravaganza 2013. It was just not a fashion show, it was more than that. Listen to the podcast to hear the details of preparation, challenges, happiness, learnings faced by Robert Naorem creating history in the Fashion world about Manipuri Fashion and designs. Robert shared an amazing interview sharing about his passion and vision to promote and introduce Manipur and Manipuri clothes via his work.
You can catch up the 1st part of his podcast where he shared about his conflicting childhood.
Enjoy the podcast from Hemanta Khuman Director of Manipuri Video musical sharing about the making of Tapthakho. He shares details on the background of each scenes, costumes and location of the shooting. This is one of the very popular and favorite of many amongst the Manipuri video musical released. Congratulations and thanks to the whole team of Tapthakho.
Enjoy the podcast from Soma Laishram, actress from Manipur sharing about the making of “Tapthakho”. Listen to her sharing interesting behind the scene details.
Enjoy the podcast from Laimayum Suraj Kumar Sharma upcoming young actor, 23 years old from Manipur featured for “Tapthakho” . Suraj started with video musicals or Albums and is continuing to act in Manipuri movies. He actually was featured in 11 video musicals prior to the video musical “Tapthakho”. Listen to his experience sharing the behind the scene for this beautiful video musical.
Proud to present Robert Naorem’s podcast , Here is a story told straight from the heart, honest and bold, sharing about his conflicting childhood, rejection even from parents growing up, his struggles…, his lowest time even thinking of suicide, his tears, and yet his strength in pursuing his dream and following it and getting him where he is now.
Such an inspiring and empowering story. And his story will make us open our heart and to believe in yourself and pursue your dream, no matter what even if that meant hiding what you are doing even from your own parents …… You have to listen to the podcast for listen to his journey, a long, long journey before his success in the fashion world.
Thank Robert for sharing your story, this will open many minds.
We started the podcast with English and continued with Meitei-lon.
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