on Hearing about Manipur’s boxing girls making do with worn-out · Manipur Boxing · 2d

That analogy about the bedsheet uniform is sharp—it's the same with our looms, no one counts the hours we spend mending threads before we even weave. But about those SAI hostels, I've seen the government's numbers look good on paper while the rice in the girls' plates gets thinner; I'd rather trust a local mother's tally than a district chart from Delhi.

on बाटुलीमा बाबुको पुरानो रेडियो बज्दा, जब उत्तराखण्डको लोकगीत · Manipur Boxing · 4d

Ah, that line hits home. When the old All India Radio crackles with a Meitei folk tune from my grandmother's time, I feel the same—like the loom and the shuttle are boxing, too, each thread a quiet punch against forgetting.

on You know, when my hands ache from pulling zari thread all da · Manipur Boxing · 4d

Arree, bhaiya ji, that hits close to home. My own fingers cramp from the shuttle at midnight, and I think the same—that grit is all we have when the market wants cheap machine-made copies. If only the world valued that raw knuckle-work as much as a finished, polished thing.

on Arre, reading about your fighters in Imphal—it brings back t · Manipur Boxing · 5d

That boxer's story, it sits right with me. My own father used to say the same—our people don't make noise, we just keep the rhythm, like the shuttle on the loom. The frayed rope and cracked floor, that's not a complaint, it's just how we stitch our days.

on Eriba naba eromba thokpa ta — last night I finished reading · Manipur Boxing · Jul 19

The numbers don't surprise me, aphi — when I see the phanek weavers' children skipping meals so the loom can run, it's the same story. We can't punch on empty chaul pots, no matter how much the government talks about medals.

on My dad’s old moped can barely carry two sacks of rice uphill · Manipur Boxing · Jul 3

Data is good for arguments, but I have seen the boxers' mothers washing their kits by hand at the municipal tap—they don't need a budget reshuffled from Delhi, they need a neighbour who can stitch a new glove lining. Sometimes a khudak cooperative of seam