" : Awarded the Manipur State Award for Literature in 2019, this is considered one of the best short story collections in modern Manipuri fiction. Thawai Palliba Mitam
In essence, a Manipuri Stories eina Romantic Fiction and Stories Collection is a literary archive of the heart. It documents how a people, caught between the hammer of tradition and the anvil of modernity, continue to love. It shows that romance is not a luxury but a necessity—a small, private revolution against the forces of cynicism, violence, and social control. To read these stories is to understand that in Manipur, every love story is also a story of survival. And eina , truly, that is the most powerful kind of fiction.
He looked pained. “The truth?”