First Manipur Podcast by Washington DC Based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace : Interview with Binalakshmi Nepram

Posted on June 14, 2020 0 Comments8,217

14 June 2020, Imphal : The story of Manipur is hardly known within India and even to the outside world. The history books and mass media in the world’s largest democracy, India has blanked out the rich history of this once Asiatic indigenous nation-state that fought wars with the Chinese and the Burmese and many other neighbouring nations including the British colonial rule. Every few know that Manipur has its own script and its own Manipur Constitution Act 1947.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie is a foreign-policy think tank that has centres in Washington D.C., Moscow, Beirut, Beijing, Brussels, and New Delhi.On 2 June 2020, CEIP’s South Asia Director, Dr Milan Vaishnav interviewed Manipur-born, Ms Binalakshmi Nepram who is a nationally and internationally acclaimed scholar-activist and founder of Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network for their first ever podcast on Manipur & the Northeast Region that was done in collaboration with the Indian media house, The Hindustan Times.

Ms Nepram spoke about the origin of conflict in Manipur & Northeast India, the continuing militarisation and marginalisation, the Citizenship Amendment Act, the work of Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and also the impact of the corona-virus pandemic on the peoples of Manipur and Northeast India. The podcast has garnered interest in thousands of listeners evoking interest in the state known as “Land of Jewels” and as Bina read out from her book, Meckley, based on Manipur’s history where she asks, “Meckley -Land of a thousand wars. When will you ever wrap yourself in. In pristine yards of peace ever again? ”

Link to the podcast on Manipur and Northeast India done by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace can be found here.
 
https://grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/binalakshmi-nepram-on-the-realities-of-indias-oft-forgotten-northeast

Photo: Taken at Capitol Hill with many of the world’s dedicated peace-builders at Peace Conclave last year organised by Alliance for Peace-Building.  

Issued by the office of :

Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network
Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace
Langthabal, Mantrikhong
Old Palace Road, Imphal, Manipur
www.womensurvivorsnetwork.org

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