Investigative journalism in Manipur

Investigative journalism is very much instrumental in ensuring social justice, and in the overall advancement of a society. In a crime infested place like Manipur there are a lot investigative journalism can do. However, a society has a minimum qualification for investigative journalism to be there in it. The most important qualification is--though there are bad guys, non-bad (though not so good guys, ley's call them extra) guys and the few good guys should outnumber them by a reasonable margin so that there can be at least some excercise of the voice of the freedom of expression. In Manipur, freedom of expression is gaged with a mothful of threats--togetger by the government and the underground outfits. Nearly every crime is part of part of another crime, thus the whole state is a network of crimes, and most chief bureaucrats and almost all elected members are directly or indirectly involved in one or the other crime in the network of crimes. Once high officials are involved, an investigation hits a brick wall, and the blood trails of the crimes seem to abruptly disappear there. No Mo more investigation is possible.

One more step further, you cross the Lakshman rekha, and there is your lord there kindly come to make you rest in peace. That is why Manipur's jouralism is nothing more than crime reporting, when there is no crime stoty with a denouement to be found in Manipuri journalism. Are the Manipuris too smart for whatever crime investigation studies has learnt and seen from experience so far in the history of civilization that nearly every crime in Manipur is an unsolvec mystery?



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