Loktak Lake’s phumdi islands face a slow death — and a bold plan to save them
On Loktak Lake, the great floating islands of vegetation called phumdi have thinned dramatically in a…
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Manipur’s sangai festival draws record crowds to the floating lake
The Sangai Festival, named for Manipur’s brow-antlered deer, drew 80,000 visitors to the shores of Loktak…
The Manipur sangai’s new hope: a second population in a fenced sanctuary
The sangai — the brow-antlered deer found only on the phumdi of Loktak Lake — has…