Kangleimaichou

If circumstances can play with lives then Nonglei is no exception. At an early age he accidentally joins one of the many insurgent groups in Kangleipak( Manipur), and during his days with them he becomes mentally sick and thus finds a way out. The only way is to migrate to one of the mainland cities like most people from Kangleipak. After he has arrived he tirelessly looks for ways to leave behind his tainted world. As a person still trying to reconcile with his past he pursues conventional higher studies with little enthusiasm, and later, like most people, he is compelled to look for a job. He ends up working for a major daily in the city, but it doesn't take him long to be disgusted despite what others would call his a 'successful journalistic career.' Understanding that his career as a journalist is frivolous he attempts to write for himself as a means to subdue the guilt in him. The more he tries, his world becomes more serious. But that seriousness is another sinc...