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Imphal as a Pond

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By Mesak Takhelmayum
| SAPIENS Verified
Tonight as I embrace the palms of this city’s sunken face, I feel an orator’s land calling me to listen to its story. Consoling the agony of fires blazing around Imphal, I am holding a child as a sibling would want to, while being unsure if I should answer when an infant calls for its mother because I am not one. I hear each rubble bombarding her as vehicles get torched, buildings collapse, and a child is now an orphan.
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Fishing for Dust

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By Mesak Takhelmayum
| SAPIENS Verified
Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A poet-historian from Manipur, India, shapes tensions between violence and beauty into an allegory, calling residents and readers alike to stay awake. “Fishing for Dust” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here. ✽ They keep knocking, asking her for a ransom for her long hair and the sum of that very gold she lost as a young bride to the fire.
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In a Genocide, Who Are the Morally Upright?

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By Elizabeth Svoboda Verified, Mesak Takhelmayum, Michael Perez, Rick Schulting
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Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A Georgia State anthropologist explores what motivated rescuers during the Rwandan genocide—and what their stories reveal about courage and selflessness in the midst of total destruction. ✽ On April 21, 1994, Felicite Niyitegeka took in a sight many Rwandans had come to dread: a line of minibuses pulling up to her door.
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