Manipur is not a bad choice to spend your winter
Monday, 14 November 2011 15:03 Published in Current Affairs
What are things that we love about winter? Foods, winter clothes or winter vacation? The winter is approaching and people have started searching for winter-clothes which they have thrown away last season. Its already mid November and fog have started appearing in the morning. Temperatures have started going down and winter winds have started breezing in the evening, and we are a getting beautiful weather. Our winter is not known to be cruel unlike the case in western countries and other part of India like Delhi etc. in fact winter is one of the best seasons in Manipur. In any case Manipur has fine weather whole through out the year, but in winter we get fine varieties of foods, fish and vegetables, which we loved. As Christmas season is approaching children are looking forward to their winter vacation. In winter Manipur is definitely a good place to be in.
Children always loved one thing about winter, sitting near the fire-side and listening to the stories told by their elders. In fact fire-side is always a favored place in winter both for elders and children. We don’t have snow falls out here in Manipur but we are surrounded by hills and mountains and we always have scenic beauty to boast of. There are many stories and fog- tales associated with winter season. There are also some places where capital is shifted during the winter season like Jammu and Kashmir. During the time of Mughal- rule in India, it was usual for the kings and the emperor to visit and spend time in the places of finer weather, to escape from the extremities of weather. There are many winter tourist destinations in the world where people visited there to enjoy the snow falls and other things. There are many Manipuri origin people residing outside the state and country, they can visit their birth place during the winter. Not only that, people from different parts of the world can visit the state, yes we can be a hot tourist destination during the winter and other seasons. The only thing that is hindering is that we don't have proper infrastructure. We have insurgency and other security related factors which might put a brake to foreign tourist, but Manipuri origin people will always like to come here if we have proper facilities and basic infrastructure.
The atmosphere here is such that hartals and blockades are the major thing that is surrounding our mind. Surging petrol and LPG prices, free run of black-marketer making lives of common people miserable, campaigning for coming election and its associated debate about Manipur a fail state or not is all that we have. Different groups are takings our highways at ransom for quite often. It is very difficult to suppress an ideology or an aspiration of a particular group or to wait for an ideology to die or for that matter the suppression of any kind will bears only the negative results. But Manipur is a plural state where different groups reside side by side. If we can somehow have a common goal for all and everyone, if we can go by taking everyone, we will have a great future. North-east in general and Manipur in particular, there are many small and somewhat bigger groups, definitely all of them have their own rich cultures, aspirations and ideologies but to bring all these groups under one roof is a biggest challenge for everyone of us.
We have already wasted too much of time, people are achieving unbelievable heights. We have seen examples of people achieving utmost heights within short period of time. What is the need of the hour is to exploits our strengths and assessed our weaknesses, and our strengths are our rich cultural heritage and our scenic beauty. Our weaknesses are our security related issues and differences within the different groups of the region.
It is obvious that all these issues cannot be solved overnight but we have already spent some sixty year, since we got independence in 1947, but the problems seems to be remain the same as before. It is not that in other part of India such issue does not arise but the issue out here has its own uniqueness. We have also seen the instances of solving of different such issues in different part of India.
Nevertheless pick your favorite winter clothes from the nearest showrooms and start enjoying your winter! In fact we should also need to have a big and exclusive winter food fair, dedicated only to the delicious Manipuri foods!
Children always loved one thing about winter, sitting near the fire-side and listening to the stories told by their elders. In fact fire-side is always a favored place in winter both for elders and children. We don’t have snow falls out here in Manipur but we are surrounded by hills and mountains and we always have scenic beauty to boast of. There are many stories and fog- tales associated with winter season. There are also some places where capital is shifted during the winter season like Jammu and Kashmir. During the time of Mughal- rule in India, it was usual for the kings and the emperor to visit and spend time in the places of finer weather, to escape from the extremities of weather. There are many winter tourist destinations in the world where people visited there to enjoy the snow falls and other things. There are many Manipuri origin people residing outside the state and country, they can visit their birth place during the winter. Not only that, people from different parts of the world can visit the state, yes we can be a hot tourist destination during the winter and other seasons. The only thing that is hindering is that we don't have proper infrastructure. We have insurgency and other security related factors which might put a brake to foreign tourist, but Manipuri origin people will always like to come here if we have proper facilities and basic infrastructure.
The atmosphere here is such that hartals and blockades are the major thing that is surrounding our mind. Surging petrol and LPG prices, free run of black-marketer making lives of common people miserable, campaigning for coming election and its associated debate about Manipur a fail state or not is all that we have. Different groups are takings our highways at ransom for quite often. It is very difficult to suppress an ideology or an aspiration of a particular group or to wait for an ideology to die or for that matter the suppression of any kind will bears only the negative results. But Manipur is a plural state where different groups reside side by side. If we can somehow have a common goal for all and everyone, if we can go by taking everyone, we will have a great future. North-east in general and Manipur in particular, there are many small and somewhat bigger groups, definitely all of them have their own rich cultures, aspirations and ideologies but to bring all these groups under one roof is a biggest challenge for everyone of us.
We have already wasted too much of time, people are achieving unbelievable heights. We have seen examples of people achieving utmost heights within short period of time. What is the need of the hour is to exploits our strengths and assessed our weaknesses, and our strengths are our rich cultural heritage and our scenic beauty. Our weaknesses are our security related issues and differences within the different groups of the region.
It is obvious that all these issues cannot be solved overnight but we have already spent some sixty year, since we got independence in 1947, but the problems seems to be remain the same as before. It is not that in other part of India such issue does not arise but the issue out here has its own uniqueness. We have also seen the instances of solving of different such issues in different part of India.
Nevertheless pick your favorite winter clothes from the nearest showrooms and start enjoying your winter! In fact we should also need to have a big and exclusive winter food fair, dedicated only to the delicious Manipuri foods!
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