Imphal, July 8 -- In a cramped relief camp inside the Ideal Girls' College in Akampat, Imphal East, cloth partitions hang between families, each thin curtain marking a space of loss, dignity, and resilience. More than 100 families, mostly from the border town of Moreh, nearly 100 kilometres away, have taken refuge here. They are among the tens of thousands displaced after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur on May 3, 2023.

Now, over two years since their lives were upended, the displaced are no longer just surviving. They are dreaming of going home. Khuraijam Khamba, an internally displaced person from Moreh sharing his story said everyone's homes were burned, his business was gone, everything is lost. "Still, we want to live in Moreh, be...