Hospitality at the time of adversity
Residents visit the ‘Wall of Remembrance’ in Churachandpur erected to honour lives lost during the ongoing conflict in Manipur. File
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Sharad Leishangtham, 46, lost everything — from his home to his livelihood — in the ethnic violence that ravaged Manipur on May 3, 2023. Forced to live at a relief camp in Bishnupur, several kilometres away from his now-flattened home at Churachandpur, Leishangtham sells sugar cane juice by the roadside.More than 250 people have been killed in the violence that erupted between the tribal Kuki Zo and the Meitei people in the north-eastern State in 2023. During a recent visit to Manipur after President’s Rule was imposed on February 13, I met Leishangtham while h...