DYNAMICS OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN MANIPURI MEITEI POETRY IN ENGLISH

This paper will attempt to locate four Manipuri poets in English in the ever-changing volatile landscape of history, politics and society of Manipur. Poetry of the four male poets' concerns will be discussed in terms of their involvement in political culture of Manipur from two perspectives relating to contemporary history of Manipur. First one will be about poets' anxieties associated with problems like tensions of democracy, insurgency, drugs, etc. encountered by them in their own backyard, and the second one will dwell on those poets who are living as migrants in other states and their issues like unemployment and nostalgia for their birthplace. In both ways, the changing faces of Manipur, real or imagined, haunt their poetic outputs.