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Manipur
Sixty households, 270 people at the last count in 2018, on three-quarters of a square kilometre: that is the whole of Chajing Khunou.
Between five and six thousand women run the stalls here, and no man trades among them, a rule that has made Ima Keithel the largest all-women market in Asia.
Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, famous for its phumdis — floating islands of vegetation that dot the water like a green…
Twenty-three acres on the Heingang hill, ground sacred to Marjing, the Meitei deity of polo and horses, laid out as a complex for Sagol Kangjei.
Manipur says modern polo began here, and this is how the state says it out loud: a colossal equestrian figure of a Sagol Kangjei player on a Manipuri pony…
A Pakhangba shrine, a Hindu temple, a Buddhist temple, a church and a mosque share one garden at Khangabok in Thoubal district, put there deliberately in the…
One church serves the whole village, and that is deliberate: Paldai has kept to a policy of one village, one religious organization since Christianity arrived…
Loktak Lake is carpeted with these floating mats of vegetation, soil and half-decayed organic matter, solid enough to build a fishing hut on, and about 4,000…
Manipur's second lake, and the one that gets none of Loktak's attention.
Christianity in southern Manipur is dated from here. A Welsh missionary, Watkin Roberts, made the first converts among the Hmar and neighbouring tribes at…
A small village of the Thangals, a sub-tribe of the Naga people, in the northern part of Manipur, 22 km south of the district headquarters at Senapati and 42…
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