Bishnupriya Manipuri Online

By RK Rishikesh Sinha Guwahati has seen sudden surge in its population. It has undergone a complete change in a decade or so, the observation is very visible for those who have witnessed Guwahati in 90s. The impression of Guwahati on me in the mid-90s is very different than it is today. It has somewhere got lost in the flat culture. However , I have noticed one thing that the population of Bishnupriya Manipuris in the capital city has seen a sudden increase. Today, the state of affair is that : You are a Bishnupriya Manipuri, you cannot ignore your brethren in the lanes of Guwahati. You jostle to board a bus from ABC bus stop, you will find there are co-passengers who are also struggling with the same spirit to board the bus! You are sitting in a rickety tracker at Ganeshguri, listen carefully, a mother is talking in Bishnupriya Manipuri with her daughter. You distract your attention to their conversation, and you fix your eyes towards a person who is standin...

By RK Rishikesh Sinha We all have some sweet and sour relationship with banks. With banks offering many services, the complexities to understand and appreciate it has gone above the board. The simple looking saving account brings alongwith it a hell lot of activities for a customer that it sometimes become headache for them. And my association with SBI Bank, Guwahati University is one such. I opened my saving account a decade ago, today I fill the account has come under my complete electronic control. A great relief and yahoo moment! The biggest problem that I encountered with the SBI bank, was to make ritualistic visit to the home branch every time I visit Guwahati for many simple change like -- change of address, nominee change, new ATM, mobile change, internet banking and mobile banking. This simple looking services being offered by the bank, and to avail them has brought unseen scar in my mind. And of course, it has enriched my approach and understanding about banks parti...

By RK Rishikesh Sinha The whole country is reeling under AAP effect ever since the party grabbed seats and made their government in Delhi.  I personally never thought or has a slightest hint that the party will bring a renaissance in the political thought of the Indians.  I failed to read the writings on the walls of purani dilli. However, my wife was quick to sense the AAP tsunami! She not only forcefully persuaded me to become the member of the party. But she tortured me to download the nomination form and print the 10 page application form so that she can place her candidature. Alas! There was a point in the application, that 100 members of the constituency must sign and put their mobile number in the form to support the candidature. There she backtracked (I knew), it is Delhi, nobody know us. Our building people don’t know us. The rest is history. In a lighter note, nobody understands women, so is with politics. Those days were really painful. After all I hav...

Jatir Janak Dr KP Sinha was remembered on his 78 th birth day at Divyashram, West Kachudharam on January 3, 2014 with a daylong programme including cultural shows. Poet Brojendra Sinha and fiction writer Prof. Smriti Kumar mesmerized the capacity crowd with their skilful arguments based only on reasons on linguistics relating to the Bishnupriya Manipuri language. While the poet questioned the rationale behind the campaign against the honour “Jatir Janak” given to Dr Sinha by as many as many as five organizations, the fiction writer dared Prof. Birendra Sinha to come clear on his stand that the Bishnupriya Manipuri language has come from Sanskrit via Shouroshreni prakrit and that the people who had accompanied Brabrubahana on his homecoming from Hastina. Prof. Sinha is of the view that the time scale never backs both the stands of the scholar (Prof. Birendra Sinha). He clearly spells out that either any of the two standpoints of the scholar is wrong, or both are wrong. What, ...

Dr. Krishnadas Sinha Sastri, a senior civil service officer of Tripura holding the post of Commissioner of Departmental Inquiries under General Administration (Administration Reforms) Department , Govt. of Tripura has been awarded Dr. Ambedkar Fellowship National Award-2013 on 12th Dec, 2013 in Delhi by the Bharatiya Dalit Sahitya Akademi in 29th National Conference of Dalit Writers. The said conference was held at Panchsheel Ashram, Jharoda village near Burari by pass, Ring Road, Delhi-84, where writers, scholars and social workers were honoured by Dr. Ambedkar National/ International Awards for their upliftment work of downtrodden . Dr. Sinha was awarded the aforesaid National Fellowship Award in recognition of his research type of literary work and promoting social and cultural empathetic services of the backward people like Bishnupriya Manipuri and other downtrodden community. He was selected for such national award in 2012 but he could not attend on account of his pre-occupied a...