Manipur, March 12 -- In no sphere of life is Manipur failing more than in higher studies. Without giving the urgency this failure deserves, all seem to have come to treat this too as just another abnormal situation Manipur has come to normalise. Nothing can spell the doom of the society more than this. Today higher study has come to mean merely the acquisition of degrees, and not the skill or knowledge these degrees are meant to certify. Consequently, most of our colleges have become ghost institutions with teachers and students existent only on the registers and payrolls. Life on their campuses which should have overflowed with pictures of unquenchable thirst and yearnings for knowledge has come to be completely dead. In most colleges, tea...