Imphal, you amaze me. You’re where modern and traditional blend smoothly, where bandhs and protests occur on one hand and festivals, music concerts, beauty pageants occur on the other. You’re where elopement is still an acceptable tradition, while the younger generation is moving leaps and bounds in terms of their career and ambitions. Where cycle rickshaws still thrive alongside, Audis and Mercedes. Where the young have beautifully embraced the traditional and yet are the fashion icons for the country. Where people are getting richer and more educated yet, poking our nose in others business is still a favorite pastime! You continue to amaze me every day. In the beginning. I felt like a person who had lost her way like the place is a little familiar yet I take time to find where I am. Being from a mixed cultural family ( my father is Meitei and my mother is Maharashtrian) didn’t help. I admit, I had the best of both cultures growing up but I am confused as a grown up. Ha...