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Launch of “Tales of Human Mischief” , a book by Nameirakpam Bobo Meitei On Friday, 28 September 2012 at 10:00 Venue: Manipur Press Club, Imphal, Manipur This volume includes a young writer’s fourteen stories, some of which can be called novellas as well. They are the compelling tales of acute social and psychological insight which clearly depict the lives of insignificant lots and the revelation of what they are subject to in a remote corner of the world. They also depict life caught up amid the conflicts between a virtually defunct system functioning with an absurd mandate and an armed movement which sprouted with far-fetched ideas and now transformed to a mere farce. “The Dying Man”, gives a painted picture of a reduced place where almost every responsible is a victim of fear and is only capable of vices, thus allowing the place to sink further without any light of hope. In ‘A lost Kingdom’ one can see how collective naivety is...