Volcano Eruption Thangjam Ibopishak Singh is one among the leading and most popular poets of the Northeast of India. Based on Imphal, he writes in Manipuri language, which is the language of the indigenous Meitei community. He has published six volumes of poetry, three of which have earned him some of the most prestigious awards in the state. Ibopishak also has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for poetry in 1997. The poem “Volcano, You Cannot Erupt” has been translated into English by the noted poet, Robin Ngangom. Ibopishak is known for his Swiftian Satire and Ironical poems such as “I would like to be killed with an Indian Bullet” and “Bird of Peace”. The vision is obviously dark throughout the poems; Ibopishak predominantly writes about the complications of the region, which is obsessed by insurgency, terrorism, ethnic conflict and state brutality. There is nature and death certainly, but over and above all, there is Manipur, with the violence, fear, moral desiccation a
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