Contents: v. 1. Historicity, ethnicity, bio-resources & environment -- v. 2. Language & literature -- v. 3 Performing arts (Nata music & dance) -- v. 4. Theatre, cinema, fine arts & martial/arts -- v. 5 . Social change (Manipuri Muslims, militancy & diaspora) -- v. 6. Epilogue, images, contributors' profile, index.
To the peoples of pluralistic Manipur, past and present, who make it what it is! Who can still focus on intercultural understanding and cosharing of values; by deconstructing cultural integers and then reassembling them with new 'motifs'; rather than even a throwback into the past or a rehash of the arbitrary recent past; when intergroup happiness used to spill-over from each to another blissfully. Adam Smith's famous example of a tombstone inscription can hardly ...