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Imphal Times Supplementary issue Page No. 2
Poetry Section Covid-19 Second Wave Entertainment Guide

any countries in the entertainment is a luxury problem. during the first lockdown, Disney+ thing during the lockdown where
Asian region are Many people in India already lost Hotstar recently added a hundred many private people started using
“It’s all due to me” Malready combating or their jobs and many more risk feel-good films to their library to Zoom, a popular video
are facing a second wave of the losing it if we have additional ease the mood during a potential conferencing tool, to organize large
Coronavirus. China, Vietnam and lockdowns. Most people did, forthcoming lockdown in India. get-togethers with family and
Australia have put certain regions however, express concerns of Online casino companies reported friends while they were confined
under lockdown once again to boredom and lack of social and about soaring revenues during the to their homes. This caused a spike
manage spikes of new cases. Hong entertaining activities. Below is a lockdown as people looked to add in Zoom usage and propelled the
Kong is expected to announce a ban list of some past-time activities that some thrill in their everyday lives product to worldwide adoption.
By- Rabin Prasad Kalita on dining in restaurants and a were popular during the previous during the lockdown period by Other tools can also be used,
mandate on wearing facial masks, lockdown. playing live casino games and Skype works well for larger groups
sometime early next week. It would All the knowledge of the world slots. Live casino games, in and then there’s Messenger and
Sowed me on your big green,
Blessed me to use it to the fullest: be the first time Hong Kong puts a is at our fingertips. Even if particular, add a level of social Facetime for one-to-one’s or small
I chanced to play ban on restaurant dining since the someone is not in school anymore, interaction as the player would group calls.
With the intelligent crowd of all animals: Covid-19 epidemic started. Earlier there’s no reason why they should engage with a dealer through live With so much time on our
this month, the state of Victoria in stop their brain from working. There streams as they play Blackjack or hands, this could be a good time
I forgot being a part of this big green, Australia announced new are resources everywhere online, Roulette. A lot of younger people to start a blog to share knowledge
That fed me grow and shine lockdown restrictions and recently from free online courses or topical turned to video gaming to kill time, and insights. Or maybe write a
Could hone my psyche along: informed that they may extend the blogs on almost any subject one particular game called Animal’s fictional story about a long-lost
Started a perverted living lockdown further due to a available to write and read about. Crossing shot to fame during the world? What about painting and
continuous rise of new cases in the So if time was ever an excuse to lockdown. With new updates experimenting with different
Busy played with molecules, region. In the Philippines, the learn a new language or skill, the coming to the Animal’s Crossing materials to create unique art? Each
Spread at large on the veneer. government is considering stricter lockdown is a great opportunity to series, gamers can bet on staying person is their own and getting
Instead seeding on the greens, rules since they relaxed the make time for it. Staying isolated at entertained for many hours if a creative can be a great way to
To grow up plural all over lockdown restrictions on the first home is a great opportunity to second wave of the Coronavirus spend time and get to know
of June, this is because they are educate yourself further and then comes. ourselves better. Maybe knitting
Except to blend them with one another, witnessing a massive surge in new exit lockdown as an even more Stay social while practising some socks and jumper would be
I didn’t do much; cases in the capital city. Even North skilled person. social distancing. Sounds fun? Don’t forget about the digital
But upshot was imperishable trash, Korea recently reported their first Not everyone is interested in contradicting no? Popular video capabilities we have today, if the
‘Cause I played it adverse: official case, which was brought in reading and learning some new conference tools can be used not shops are closed and it’s difficult
from a citizen that had been in skills. Most of us like to watch a only for business meetings, but to get materials to start painting,
Chucked all over your face, South Korea for the past three film or play games as a past-time also for staying in touch with there’s always free software that
The ground turned years. In India, the government is activity and during a lockdown, friends and family, doing quizzes you can use to start animating,
Gray from green, still relaxed about the restrictions there’s plenty of time to do just that. or even having dinner together, painting or maybe editing photos
Got covered with a toxic sheet: despite having the highest number Streaming subscriptions surged digitally. ‘Zoom boom’ became a of family and friends.
of infections at 1,4 million cases,
No new sprout from now on only behind the United States and Dismantled ninth times and safer in the tenth times
Can flash through the deadly turf; Brazil. It’s not unlikely that the
No space for a newborn, Indian government will impose
To withstand and breathe: tougher restrictions again to By: - Mamta Lukram observe the bubbles over the infrastructure constructions have
combat the epidemic.
We know from the first surface of a water body defying been the essences of human
Why did you make me so soaring? Tears rolled down the cheeks of the the knowledge of currents and the miseries in this state. At this
So I overlook for bending, lockdown that we won’t be able to women in shabby figure with untidy velocity of the water flowing stance, the feasibility in the
Why did you design me that way? move around, visit cinemas and go attire, high enough was her pitch, underneath the bubble covered implementation part becomes
Not alike other living beings: out for dinner whenever we like. All shaken and broke, as if the heart was surface; I have been listening to highly questionable. Development
of that ends with a lockdown, and
we are confined to spend a lot of about to burst from the blows of her heartfelt stories without much activities without proper
I turned this globe, gray from green deception by the so called ‘power knowledge about what had mitigation measures resulting in
Rusted planet declined for worth living. time inside our homes instead. politics’ and its ‘development happened to her, yet very sure in mass pauperisation will prove
Struggling with what to do for
induced displacement’. She seems my personal understanding that it illogical.
to be a feeble self with monstrous was inhuman and unjust to Impacts of Displacement in the
Local economy to get a huge boost intrinsic strength to defend one’s dismantle a marginalised house lives of Women and children are
self dignity.
without appropriate arrangement,
the first of mankind to be worst
hit during a natural or an artificial
snatch it coercively and make their
“I am from a much marginalised
by Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan background; this fact everyone plight miserable, vulnerable. An catastrophe. They are known to be
naturally inherited with some sort
atmosphere of hatred must have
knows. I used to collect wild
vegetables from the nearby ‘pat’ hovered all around inciting strong of physical weakness or
By: Silhen Oinam daily rituals. In order to fulfill this (wetland) out of which I would senses of distrust, discontent and differences. Documentations have
demands, bamboo is imported from make ‘singju’ (an indigenous untold miseries. revealed that women are doubly
The Covid19 pandemic has posed other countries. Since, the NE states Meitei culinary item equivalent of Gripped by curiosity, I try discriminated during any
a severe threat to the economy of have high yield in bamboo, Govt. ‘salad’) and sold it as my meagre reopening the forbidden pages of aggression or oppression, firstly
the country. In a response to an has started to promote its farming earning to support my family.” development injustice history. I because of the discriminating
extraordinary challenge, Hon’ble and slowly local bamboo (sigh...pause for a moment... realised that the woman was one system, and secondly, because of
PM Shri Narendra Modi came up isreplaceing the imported bamboo. restarting breaking the ice...) I of the ‘Lamphelpat Eviction 2011’ being women. For children their
with “Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Tripura’s bamboo water bottle brought up my grandchildren victim. On June 6, 2011, fourteen implicit meanings are interpreted
Abhiyan” that helps in promoting has become a hit in India. The whose father was no more. Time had (14) houses of Yaipha Leikai as a ‘taken for granted’ part of the
local economy and making the project is the brainchild of IFS been unleashing boundless village, Lamphelpat Wetlands near women. Maybe this due to the
country self-reliant. Linked to this, officer Prasada Rao Vaddarapu, growth in India’s economy. It will miseries in my never failing Employment Exchange, Imphal innate emotional bond that
a special and comprehensive Chairperson of Tripura make the dreams of many come true, attempts to make them attain some West District, Manipur had been develop out of the caring,
economic package of Rs.20 lakh Rehabilitation Plantation and Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan level of formal education.” destroyed by Manipur Police from nurturing facts of the women or
crore, that accounts for 10% of Corporation(TRPC) with the help of will help by providing the required “Nine times, it was nine times that the Lamphel Police Station under else, this bond binds the women
India’s GDP, has been announced. Bamboo & Crafts Development fundings and other essentials. my house was dismantled and safer the orders of the Government of within limit. Though the world has
Under this, the MSME sector, Institute(BCDI) & some other Under the Aatma Nirbhar in the tenth times. We were being Manipur on the pretext of been advocating for gender
farmers and migrant workers, organisations. This project attracted Abhiyan, there will be value instructed that our settlement site construction of drain along mainstreaming and gender
agriculture, animal husbandry, over one lakh orders in a day & addition of the local products and were to be evicted for the Lamphelpat under Jawaharlal equality, gender based
fisheries and industrial enquiry call for bulk order from U.S clustering of the artisans for the construction of drain.” (......trying Nehru National Urban Renewal impositions remains a cultural
infrastructure are provided with & Dubai. It has generated huge upliftment of bamboo local hard to control emotion....stops for Mission (JNNURM). The eviction construct. Compounding the
special funds and important employment potential and livelihood products. This might help to while...resumes the talk with a was carried without any challenges of the women is the
structural reforms have been can be provided for thousands of strengthen the economy of NE heavy heart...) “sara-thugaira, rehabilitation and resettlement children.
announced across these sectors. artisans of the region. From farmers states as well as the country’s. sara-thugaira, (meaning arrangements for the affected (Footnotes)
Agro-based start ups will greatly to artisans to migrant labours - many During the pandemic, Hon’ble PM c o n s t r u c t e d - d i s m a n t l e d , community of the Lamphel Yaipha The intrinsic explanation is not to
benefit from these developments. are benefitting from it now. has took the initiatives to announce constructed-dismantled), it was Leikai. It is described that the instigate against the development
One of the beneficiaries will be the For bamboo water bottle project, the special schemes for bamboo nine times that they (blaming the properties of the affected families moves sloganeering anti-
bamboo linked industries. In our bamboo is the most important input. related industries and start ups in authorities) dismantled my house were confiscated during the development stands.
modern society, there has been a rise Cultivated bamboo needs to be NE states. To mention a few, Shri along with those of my neighbours. eviction rendering the already Development optimally should be
in the demand of the bamboo shifted from the farm site to the Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s It was the tenth time of constructing impoverished families to more welfare oriented taking into account
products as bamboo is a versatile industry, so the local transporter first bio-fuel refinary in Assam, that my house as a challenge to the physical and mental anxieties. 1 the possible uncertainties; affected
material which is also very fast & will benefit in the process.Then, the will primarily use bamboo and authority that we can settle. I have Lamphelpat Eviction stories, have communities would be facing. It
easy to grow. Earlier, even though local artisans will induce their labour also,the first ever bamboo industrial no problem as of now” long years back, been wrapped up shouldn’t be a deemed mechanism
there were numbers of bamboo for making the bottles after which Park in NE region has been set up in She seems to be a woman ageing beyond cognizance from the for aggressively oppressing an
artisans and cultivators, they the packaging sector takes up the Assam. In his Man ki Baat faster than the chronological reality, state’s timeline. However, the already marginalised group. It should
struggled to meet the demands of process of packaging the finished programme, he highlighted the over burdened by the struggles recurrent exposure to prolong pay a heed to the effective
their customers. products. From here, it will be Bamboo tiffin boxes of Manipur. shouldered solely for existence. She trauma engulf with a sense of insult, plementation of the alternative
There are number of ways that transported to the market which will It is now the responsibility of the had been sharing her bitter life galore with disrespect to the dignity arrangements.
recognition of this sector to be reach the customers. Those who states to take the further steps for experiences mocked by of lives makes the victims still pass Twisting the fate of the welfare
promoted makes sense. Let us take can export it will add value to the promoting their local products. development induced displacement on with deep scar in their hearts. oriented programmes into profit
a small example to understand its chain and generate foreign Taking the opportunities granted by in the ‘Public Consultation on Psychological instability reeled seeking, business oriented assertion
potential. In India, there is a huge exchange for the country. Thus, the the schemes, the youths of the Tipaimukh Dam and Indigenous through the everyday lives of these will propagate endless
demand for incense sticks, which are project of making bamboo bottles country can also innovate with new Peoples Rights,’ jointly organised people. disorientation, disorganisation and
used in almost every household for can give a helping hand for the ideas and establish their own by Citizens’ concern for Dam and Forced migration has been the fatal conflicts in the society. Internal
industries instead of relying on the development, North East dialogue blow to the pursuit of happiness. displacement arising out of the
Government jobs and instead Forum and Centre for Research & Eviction drives like the Lamphelpat various development projects in the
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