<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">In this first episode of “People and Places with Bala”, Balagopal Chandrashekar dwells on his long association with the State of Manipur and its people. The conversation highlights the contrast between life in the region in the 1980s and at present. His reminiscences also underscore how the political class have messed up things in the region over a considerable period of time.

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In this first episode of “People and Places with Bala”, Balagopal Chandrashekar dwells on his long association with the State of Manipur and its people.

Manipur, Then and Now

<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">On the eve of August 15, more than 50 non-governmental organisations are launching a nationwide campaign called&nbsp; Mere Ghar Aake To Dekho, which is aimed at promoting communal harmony and the spirit of One India. Individuals and families taking part in this campaign have to welcome to their home a guest, from a religion, caste, class, region, language, or gender different from theirs. Many celebrities, including musician T. M. Krishna, poet Sachidanandan, and actor Nandita Das have already posted videos on social media expressing their solidarity with and participation in the campaign. The cyber-world is abuzz with similar videos and messages.<figure class="image"><img alt="600x600-1-1024x1024.jpg" src="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/600x600_1_1024x1024_99811b328f.jpg" srcset="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/thumbnail_600x600_1_1024x1024_99811b328f.jpg 156w, https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/small_600x600_1_1024x1024_99811b328f.jpg 500w, https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/medium_600x600_1_1024x1024_99811b328f.jpg 750w, https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/large_600x600_1_1024x1024_99811b328f.jpg 1000w" sizes="100vw" width="1000"></figure>

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On the eve of August 15, more than 50 non-governmental organisations are launching a nationwide campaign called  Mere Ghar Aake To Dekho, which is aimed at promoting communal harmony and the spirit of One India.

Visit My Home, Be My Guest; A Campaign to Unite India

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Along with the edited transcription of the first episode of “People and Places with Bala”

How Manipur has Changed since the 1980s

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Ear to the Ground is a special feature by The AIDEM that reports on offbeat field reports on people’s lives and livelihood issues. “Dard”: On the Footsteps of a Poet Who Called Himself Pain” is a ground report by Devangana Rajeev after a photo walk in the Hazrat Khwaja Mir Dard Colony.

“Dard”: On the Footsteps of a Poet Who Called Himself Pain

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Even as a limited ceasefire with Hamas was being finalised on November 22, with a deal to release 50 hostages over a period of four days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that the war in Gaza will not stop with this.

The Gaza War: Changing Journalism, Journalists

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Barely a week is left for the date of polling for the assembly elections in Rajasthan and the campaign is getting more and more intense with heated discussions on several issues related to society and governance.

The Deafening Silence on Minority Muslim Issues in The Rajasthan Elections 

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Monday, January 8 secured a major win for woman survivor Bilkis Bano and her valiant battle for justice for the murder of seven members of her family, including three year old baby

Bilkis Banu Case: Supreme Court strikes down Gujarat High Court Verdict

<img src="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/18th_jan_24_c_770x470_e610b4ecb7.jpg" alt="18th-jan-24-c-770x470.jpg" srcset="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/thumbnail_18th_jan_24_c_770x470_e610b4ecb7.jpg 245w,https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/small_18th_jan_24_c_770x470_e610b4ecb7.jpg 500w,https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/medium_18th_jan_24_c_770x470_e610b4ecb7.jpg 750w," sizes="100vw" width="undefined" height="undefined">Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Editor of The AIDEM has been covering Ayodhya since 1986, the period when the locks of the Babri Masjid were opened and Hindu worship was allowed at Ram Chabuthra, which was adjacent to the veranda of the Masjid. Since then, he has consistently covered the manifold events that have unfolded in the temple town over the past 38 years.<img src="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/The_disputed_premises_of_Ramjanmabhoomi_Babri_1_1024x645_c03f432b14.jpg" alt="The-disputed-premises-of-Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri-1-1024x645.jpg" srcset="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/thumbnail_The_disputed_premises_of_Ramjanmabhoomi_Babri_1_1024x645_c03f432b14.jpg 245w,https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/small_The_disputed_premises_of_Ramjanmabhoomi_Babri_1_1024x645_c03f432b14.jpg 500w,https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/medium_The_disputed_premises_of_Ramjanmabhoomi_Babri_1_1024x645_c03f432b14.jpg 750w,https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/large_The_disputed_premises_of_Ramjanmabhoomi_Babri_1_1024x645_c03f432b14.jpg 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="undefined" height="undefined"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(39, 39, 39);font-family:Manjari;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.7;margin:0px 0px 15px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">As preparations are underway for the consecration of the Ram temple at the very spot Babri Masjid stood till December 6, 1992, the day it was demolished by the karsevaks of the Hindutva combine, The AIDEM presents a three-part series that looks back at the very many stratagems employed by the Sangh Parivar to enforce a Hindutva Hegemony in the temple town.<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);border-width:0px;box-sizing:border-box;clear:both;color:rgb(85, 85, 85);display:block;font-family:Manjari;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;height:auto;letter-spacing:normal;margin:15px auto;max-width:100%;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:middle;white-space:normal;widows:2;width:863px;word-spacing:0px;" id="attachment_18474" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18474"><img src="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/ddff_a216403751.jpg" alt="ddff.jpg" srcset="https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/thumbnail_ddff_a216403751.jpg 245w,https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/small_ddff_a216403751.jpg 500w,https://strapi.bangalore2.com/uploads/medium_ddff_a216403751.jpg 750w," sizes="100vw" width="undefined" height="undefined"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;margin:0px;padding:12px 0px 0px;text-align:center;" id="caption-attachment-18474">Karsewaks on top of Babri Masjid minutes before it was demolished by them on the 6th Dec 1992 in Ayodhya. Credit- T. NARAYAN</figcaption></figure><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(39, 39, 39);font-family:Manjari;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.7;margin:0px 0px 15px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">This is a chronicle marked by many operations that involved the “Chanakya Neethi of Sama-Dhana-Bhed-Dand”, a combination of sedate entreaties, distribution of largesse, blatantly deceitful manoeuvres and physical attacks on people and institutions not just in the temple town, but in many other parts of the country.<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(39, 39, 39);font-family:Manjari;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.7;margin:0px 0px 15px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Read the first part of the series tomorrow on The AIDEM. Stay Tuned.

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