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2010 Since then, the band has managed to carve a niche for itself through easy and smooth execution of the blues known as the ‘mother of rock and roll’.
Fringes the rock blues band
Despite rare public appearances, the band has been consistent in their approach to blues music. Since, the band released its debut album “Trapped” in 2012, it has been performing whenever all the members get a chance to assemble their craft and skills to showcase the core of blues.
Their lyrical content truly represents the turmoil of the youth in today’s Manipur. No wonder then, they sing about unemployment, poverty, violence in the State.
The band comprised of members who are old school friends and they have been jamming for quite many years now despite pursuing different professions and separated by physical distance.
For instance, the band’s vocalist Haraba Ningthoukhongjam is a doctor by profession while Thingnam Sanjeev is a historian and a qualified archivist working in New Delhi.
The rest of the band members comprised of Shanker Sapam, the bassist who is a full-time sessions musician of repute who also is well acquainted with technical aspects of the craft.
Fringes the rock blues band
Set for a larger audience in home ground, the band had performed at Yaosang Rock during April 2012 at the Yaiskul Range along with popular Delhi based band Parikrama and at Florozone Nongin Music Fest 2013′, besides mega fest like Manipur Sangai Festival.
Gautam Sorokhaibam, who is an IT professional, does the wonders in rhythm. Another seasoned musician and a sound engineer Sunil Loitongbam plays the drums for the band.
The band had represented the State in the Concert of Rock Music Band Bonding hosted by the North Eastern service of All India Radio, and also recorded at DDK Guwahati. The members had performed at Shillong blues and Jazz festival, besides Fringes tour de Delhi, where the band performed at various cafes and popular music stores.
The band was also invited to perform at the North East Business Summit Party at Le’ Meridien Hotel New Delhi in recent past.
Fringes gained popularity as the band has been rooted in rock blues genre.
Manipur is a hotspot in terms of fish production. The famous fresh water lake Loktak supplies most of the fishes for the State and it is also being exported to neighbouring States. Manipuri’s eat lots of fishes and most of the boiled vegetable curries are incomplete without fermented and dry fish. On a single day a family consumes minimum of 50 grams dry fish as side dish or part of a curry. Ima Market and most of the markets in the valley districts sales fresh fishes. Fish curry remains the favorite curry. Several types of local fishes are also eaten for good health at the time of recovering from illness. The State also imports sea fishes from other States of India. Besides several types of fishes also comes from the neighboring country Myanmar.
Let’s us take a look at two of the fish festivals the State Government organizes for two major festivals where fishes are offered to local deity and fishes are served as main course in a cultural feast in every home.
Emoinu Fish Festival 2023
The first Emoinu Fish Festival, 2023 organized by the Department of Fishery at Hapta Kangjeibung on the day of Emoinu Festival registered sale of 51,362 Kgs of different species of fish including 2600 kgs of home grown Meitei Sareng. Fish farmers of Bishnupur district contributed the highest production with 17,709 Kgs followed by Imphal West district with 14,218 Kgs and Thoubal district with 9009 Kgs.
A significant outcome of Emoinu Fish Festival, 2023 is that the total proceeds accrued from the sale of fish accounted for Rs 1.30 crore which is a spectacular achievement for the fish farmers and Fishery Department.
Emoinu Fish Festival witnessed departmental stalls of Agriculture, Horticulture, MOMA, Forest and various start-ups catering to agro and allied products like organic black rice, ginger, turmeric, fresh seasonal vegetables, value added local fruits, beverages, etc which provided a shopping spree and extravaganza to the visitors.
Ningol Chakouba Fish Festival 2022
Around 200 fish farmers from 16 different districts participated in the fish fair. Manipur government arranged 155 stalls for the participants free of cost and the travel allowance for fish farmers were reimbursed. Apart from common fish varieties easily available in the market, indigenous fishes like Pengba/Khabak; Ngaton; Ngahei; Ukabi (Anabus); Porom (Murrel) and Tunghanbi (Tilapia) were on sale during the fish fair.
Speaking at the festival, the fishery minister Dingo opined that fish production has increased considerably when compared to previous years. The department has managed to produce 1.25 lakh kg this year against the previous year’s requirement of 90,000 kgs. The minister also stated that with the increasing number of fish farmers and the adoption of new technologies, the state can become self-sufficient in fish farming by 2005 Director of, department of fisheries, Heisnam Balkrishna Singh said the department fixed reasonable fish prices especially for the fish fair.
For promotion of good yield and to encourage fish production in the State competition are held annually and the first prize winner, second and third prize winners were awarded a cash prize of Rs 1 Lakh, Rs 70,000 and Rs 50,000 respectively.
The highest producer of indigenous fish was awarded a cash prize of Rs 20,000 and 20 consolation prizes worth Rs 10,000 were also given to the fisherman.
Manipur is primarily an agriculture-based economy. Besides rich vegetables varieties found in the State horticulture products like Pienapple, Orange, Lemon and Banana etc are widely cultivated. The general public during the harvest season celebrates certain festivals, which is being taken up as State festival by the government of Manipur. Among the horticulture-based festivals, Kachai Lemon Festival, Orange festival, Pineapple festival are the most prominent festivals. Let us take a look into the latest editions of the fruit festivals.
Orange Festival is celebrated every year in Tamenglong District in the first or second week of December every by the general public of Manipur. The festival has been organized and started since 2001. It was later declared in 2004 as State Level Orange Festival by Manipur Government. The main objective of the festival is to promote the objectives and interests of the orange growers in the district which is the only suitable location to grow in large scale in Manipur.
At the orange festival 2022 edition, altogether 270 orange growers participated in the event. Each participants had to bring a minimum of 1,000 oranges to participate in the grand event. To promote orange grower a competition among orange growers takes place every year. For the year 2022, Gainiliu of Sibilong village under Tousem sub-division was adjudged as the first prize winner in the Orange Festival competition with a cash award of Rs 2 lakh while Tanimliu Kamei of Sibilong village, Tousem sub-division and Gaikhammei of Changdai village, Tamenglong, were adjusted the second and the third berth with a cash award of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 75,000, respectively. In connection with the festival, the State government inaugurated a cold storage to help farmers in storing their products. Mention may also be made that beauty pageant are also being held annually as a part of the festival.
Kachai Lemon Festival, 2022
Kachai Lemon Festival, 2022
The 18th edition of the two days Kachai Lemon Festival took place at the Local Ground of Kachai Village in Ukhrul district.Kachai Lemon of Manipur has been accorded Geographical Indication (GI) registration tag and widely grown in the Kachai Village of Ukhrul district. Unlike the other lemon varieties grown in other parts of the world, Kachai Lemon is considered to be unique in nutritional value.
The Kachai Lemon Festival is organised annually to promote the lemon fruit and lemon farmers. This year, altogether 260 stalls are put up at the festival. While inaugurating the festival, Additional Chief Secretary of Manipur P. Vaiphei stated that the Kachai Lemon product has the potential to lift the socio-economic condition of Kachai Village to a great extent.
This year the festival is being organised under the theme ‘Organic Kachai Lemon for Safe Environment and Rural Transformation’. A training program for lemon farmers was also conducted as part of the festival.
Achievement in Sports by Manipuri players during 2022. picture source Social media
Common Wealth Games 2022
Five of the seven sportspersons from Manipur who represented India in the Commonwealth Games 2022 at Birmingham, England, brought home a medal each, including gold, silver and bronze.
Of the five medal winners from Manipur, weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu delivered the first gold for India in 49 kg category and Sorokhaibam Bindyarani Devi won a silver medal in the 55 kg category. Sushila Devi Likmabam also clinched a silver in Judo, while Nilakanta Sharma won silver in Men’s Hockey and Shushila Chanu Pukhrambam got bronze in Women’s Hockey. India finished 4th at CWG 2022 with Gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze in the Commonwealth Games 2022.
National Games 2022
Manipur ranked 9 th in the medal tally of the 36 th National Games which concluded on 12 th October at Gujarat. Manipur won 20 gold, 10 silver and 20 bronze medals scoring a total 50 medals. Manipur participated in 21 sports discipline.
Back in 2007 and 2011, Manipur won second position in the medal tally of all States. While in 1999, Manipur emerged as the champion. It is also learnt that when there is more participation there is more chances of winning more medals. The fact is reflected when host State perform better in medal tally as number of participants from the host state are comparatively larger.
Manipur Olympic Games 2022
The 2nd Manipur Olympic Games 2022 was held in August 2022. Young sportspersons representing all 16 districts participated in the event. Altogether six thousand sports persons took part in the game. Thirty-four sports discipline including indigenous games Mukna, Kang, etc makes the 2 nd Manipur Olympic Games. The first Manipur Olympic Games was held in 1988 and after 34 years the Olympic Games was revived. Manipur Government after consultation with the Manipur Olympic association had decided to organize the Games every year with separate budget allocation starting next year.
Northeast Olympic Games (2022)
Manipur clinched the top position in the Northeast Olympic Games for the second consecutive time with 237 medals. Manipur scored 85 gold, 76 silver and 77 bronze while Assam took the second position with 201 medals scoring 81 gold, 60 silver and 60 bronze. The Northeast Olympic Games was participated by the eight states of the country’s northeast region. Mention may also be made that, Manipur topped the medal tally when it hosted the inaugural Games in October, 2018.
Biggest Achievements so far by Sportsperson from Manipur.
Manipur has produced 19 Olympians, 1 Padma Bhushan Awardee, 5 Padmashree Awardees, 19 Arjuna Awardees, 3 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardees, 1 Dronacharya Awardee, 1 Dhyanchand Awardee, 24 Asian Games Medalists, 27 Commonwealth Games Medalists.
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CM assures super speciality facilities picture source Social media
Imphal, Jan 22 By James khangembam.
While attending the Tekru-Nge celebration at Jessami village, Ukhrul, the Chief Minister N Biren Singh said that the Government has taken a decision to construct super specialty health-care facilities infra-structure in the four hill districts of Senapati, Ukhrul, Tamenglong and Chandel at the earliest so that patients from far-flung villages do not have to travel to Imphal or other cities for treatment.
The festival is celebratedunder the theme & quot;Walking through the diversity and richness of Jessami & quot;. At the moment, despite the lack of specialist doctors in the hill districts, treatment for diseases requiring specialist doctors is conducted through Tele-ICU in the hill district hospitals the Chief Minister continued. "We are also trying to increase the number of super specialist doctors", the Chief Minister said referring to shortage of doctors in the State.
Biren also highlighted the changes witnessed in the State and said this has been made possible with the support and cooperation of the people.Peace has brought development in the State, the Chief Minister added. The Chief Minister also assured office buildings of Additional SP and Additional Deputy Commissioner at the earliest and to further look into the memorandum submitted by the people including making of SBI branch operational to ease monetary transactions.
The Chief Minister asked the villagers to submit a report with proper geo-tagging and mapping through the DC for the development of a wildlife sanctuary at a nearby forest area which is home to different faunas including Nongin bird.He also appreciated Jessami villagers for preserving and protecting Nongin (State bird).He said that Nongin festival would be incorporated as a part of the Manipur Sangai Festival from the next edition.
CM assures super speciality facilities Senapati, Ukhrul, Tamenglong, Chandel
Biren said that a war museum and four additional rooms of Jessami Higher Secondary School would be constructed at the earliest.The inaugural function was also attended by Ministers Transport Minister Khashim Vashum, Social Welfare Minister H Dingo, MLA Thangjam Arun Kumar, TNL president David K Shimray and TNWL president SA Ramnganing, among others.
As a part of the celebration, the Chief Minister also dedicated the Model Residential School, LM Block, Ukhrul and Cave Tourism Project at Khangkhui Cave to the public and inaugurated display of cultural and WW II related items.Transport Minister Khashim Vashum said that the present Government under N Biren has great concern for the border villages.
Many projects including highway construction, transit camp, school up gradation, drinking water to every household, infrastructural development etc were taken up under his leadership with the primary objective of ensuring development in remote areas and border villages, Khashim Vashum said. Earlier, the villagers dressed in colorful traditional attire escorted the Chief Minister and his team to the local ground. War dance, display of pounding rice by Jessami womenfolk and traditional games were the main attractions of the day.
