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By Santosh Kumar Singha, Mangalore We have been experiencing various struggles and sacrifices that our people have given for the sake of getting identity, acceptance and ultimately the development of our community. We can never forget the immortal personalities like Late Bimal Sinha, Late Sudeshna Sinha, Late Gitiswami and many more. These many more are none but all the people who contributed a lot for our community in different ways in the field they excelled.  Many stories of unexplored Bishnupriya Manipuris are there who contributed a lot to the community but their contributions are still unknown and unappreciated. Stories about these personalities we can hear in the mouths of Epus and Aaboks . Time demands studies on these personalities and documenting it, otherwise their efforts and contributions will remain unexplored forever with the death of our Epus and Aaboks.  As for example, a personality is there in Kailashahar district of North Tripura called Bhairav Sinha, an old man of ...

By Santosh Kumar Singha, Mangalore Under the banner of Assam-based Chandrakanti Production, a new video album "Purnimar Junak" is soon going to hit the market. The Bishnupriya Manipuri video album is directed by Subhendu Sinha from Guwahati, Assam.  Shoot in picturesque location of North-eastern part of India, with its high-quality cinematic standard, melodious song, Preeti Sinha has rendered her voice, and lyrics by Chandrakanti Sinha (Dulobchara, Assam), the video is believed will sync well with the Bishnupriya Manipuri masses.  Choreographed by Sunny Raj and Joli Bora, other members in the team includes - Kamal Sinha (Kailashahar), Biki ( Karimganj), Kishor Mukharjee (DulobChara) and Rahul Sinha (Garorband) as actors; and Rubi (Shillong), Konika ( Kailashahar ), Jeshmin (Guwahati), Rinki (Garorband) , Pinki Sharma & Anita (Dulobchara) as actresses.  For more information, contact +91-9859181457, +91-9435377384 Please subscribe to the blog: receive email. Get Free aler...

By Santosh Kumar Singha,Manipal For the last few weeks, the topic ' JINGTA KORO IMAR THAR ' has been a burning issue in this blog. Many people have contributed their thoughts, ideas, and beliefs in the discussion. It has been considered as one of the biggest issue of Bishnupriya Manipuri people in today's world. With the intention to contribute at least a drop in the ocean of this discussion by providing some of the real experiences faced by a Bishnupriya Manipuri young guy hailing from a remote village to some metro cities. Boy, called Munna after finishing his 4th standard from a Govt. L.P. school in a remote Bishnupriya Manipuri village, when came out in town found himself from a pond to a river. His grandfather has been acting as a storehouse of inspiration in his life, inspiring him, stimulating him to do something 'big' in life.  His grandfather gave him examples of many successful Bishnupriya Manipuri personalities. He used to always hear from his grandfa...

By Santosh Kumar Singh, Manipal Upliftment of Bishnupriya Manipuri community without women empowerment is like daydreaming which can never be fulfilled as no reality is involved. Eminent personalities viz. Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda understood women's importance in the development of a whole system. Westerners understood this mantra because of which they are far ahead. There are many more problems Bishnupriya Manipuri women are facing, which decelerates the pace of its overall development. Some of the problems faced by Bishnupriya Manipuri community in its women upliftment are: 1.Girls are not motivated to have higher studies as people think the investment in their studies is useless as no return is involved. One can experience this problem mostly in villages. Gaange manuye khalkortara, ningolore niyaam lerik taamkoruweiya kita kaana, maanur ghore jitaigaago, haante khaani maani taamkoruweiya toraakore biya denaai baala. 2. Girls and newly married women face lots of oppo...

By Santosh Kumar Singh, Manipal BISHNUPRIYA MANIPURI: CASE STUDY……..DARE TO GIVE SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEMS Case study is a process of learning practically which provides somebody the capability to find options of solutions of the problems one may face in his daily life or in future by discussing various past and current cases. Case is discussed among a group of members, asked to have a brainstorming session and come out with some innovative solutions individually. It has been a great success of capability building in learning process, accepted and used by many premier business schools, business corporates. It enables to get a pool of innovative ideas out of which one can choose the best option based on the current circumstances. While going through many company's case studies, suddenly an idea clicked. Idea is about making case studies on various currently happening issues of Bishnupriya Manipuri people living in remote villages, towns, cities and abroad. So, a small effort is m...

By Santosh Kumar Singha, Mangalore Maadoi Gaang, Rajar Gaang….segmentation of Bishnupriya Manipuri……Why? I have always been proud of being a Bishnupriya Manipuri and never been hesitating to tell people belonging to other community about the greatness of our culture, beliefs etc. I keep my chest expanded informing other communities that (1) We don't have segmentation of people in different classes in our community, everybody is given equal status that we don't see in other communities like Bengali and many more. (2) We don't have dowry system in our culture which signifies how much we give respect to women which we find in Bengali, Marwari, Keralite, hindi bhasis and other communities. There is other greatness in our culture. But I realized some discrimination among us, made by Rajargaang people on Maadoi's. Large populations of Maadoi’s are living in Tripura and Bangladesh. Their accent in speaking 'EMAR THAR' is bit different than Rajargaang and some of their ...

While introducing ourselves as Bishnupriya Manipuri to others, most of us feel proud except some so-called status concerned people and we have lot of reasons to be proud of being Bishnupriya Manipuri. By Santosh Kumar Singha, Manipal So, while informing Punjabis, Hindi-speaking people, Kannadians, Tamilians, Telegus, Malyalis and people belonging to other states, about the greatness and faith of our culture, we do it with enthusiasm. But while doing that it is realised that there are some drawbacks in our culture which dilute its greatness. It is expected that our intellectual and community concerned people have to find some solutions and take initiatives in minimising these drawbacks and make our culture spotless as least as possible. Some of these issues are 1. We, bishnupriya manipuri people call ourselves as 'Vaishnavites' who are the devotees of lord Vishnu but the questions comes 'Do we really follow the etiquettes of Vaishnav Dharma and can honestly call ourselves as...

By Santosh Kumar Singha, Manipal The Bishnupriyas are also a branch of Manipuri people.However, the Meiteis object the Bishnupriyas' claim to calling themselves as Manipuris. A great debate had been raging on the subject. No final decision has been arrived at. The Manipuris ( Meiteis ) base their arguments on linguistic and anthropology and theoretically speaking, they have many valid reasons to establish their view points. But the Bishnupriyas argumentation rests on culture and the contribution of Bishnupriyas' in propagating the Manipuri culture is significant to boot. Rajarshi Bhagyachandra who is reported to have married a maiden of this community, thereby leading to birth of his son who later on became to be known as Kalaraja. The Rajkumar families in Ningthoukhong trace their origin to kalaraja. In due course of time, the community left Manipur in large numbers during the time of mass evacuation into Cachar, tripura and sylhet during Manipur-Burma wars in the first phase ...