2022 in Meitei culture

This article is about 2022 in Meitei culture, including but not limited to Meitei architecture, Meitei cinema, Meitei cuisine, Meitei dances, Meitei festivals, Meitei language, Meitei literature, Meitei music, Meitei religion, Meitei script, etc.

A statue of Meitei king Meidingu Nara Singh (1844-1850 A.D.) in front of the Kangla Sanathong, the Western Entrance to the Kangla Fort, was inaugurated by the Government of Manipur in 2022.

Classical Manipuri dancer Savita's collection of 8mm films (‘home movies’) of her dance performances was made a rare additional part of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) in February 2022.

Events

• 27 January: The 44th annual remembering program of "Puya Mei Thaba" was observed as the historic event completed 293 years.
• 28 January - A unanimous resolution was passed by the "Meetei Erol Eyek Loinasillol Apunba Lup" (MEELAL), "All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union" (AMWJU) and "Editors' Guild Manipur" (EGM) in Imphal that all the newspapers in Meitei language (officially called Manipuri language) will be using the Meitei script (Meitei: Meetei Mayek) instead of the Bengali script from 15 January 2023 (2023-01-15).
• 21 February: The Meetei Erol Eyek Loinasillon Apunba Lup (MEELAL) and the Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) together organised the "International Mother Language Day", with special focus on the development of Meitei language and Meitei script.
• 10 April: In Dimapur, Nagaland, the Dimapur Meetei Council launched a new ‘Meetei waistcoat’ to prevent wrong identification of the community in Nagaland.
• 11 May - Google Translate added Meitei language (under the name "Meiteilon (Manipuri)") during its addition of 24 new languages to the machine translation tool. The writing system used for Meitei language in this tool is Meitei script.
• 15 June - The Statue of Meidingu Nara Singh was unveiled in the Kangla Sanathong (Western Kangla Gate) by Nongthombam Biren Singh, the then Chief Minister of Manipur.
• 31 July: The Meetei Erol Eyek Loinasillol Apunba Lup (MEELAL) organised a national convention on Meetei Mayek script, adopting three resolutions.
• 5 August - The Manipur State Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to record the Sanamahi religion (Sanamahism) in the Indian census data with a separate unique code as an officially recognised minority religion of India.
• 18 August: All Meitei language newspapers published in Bengali script were requested to publish a page of Meetei Mayek script for morning papers and half page for evening papers from August 20th.
• 20 August - The 31st anniversary to the Meitei Language Day was celebrated.
• 27, 28, 29 September: In Assam, people demanded to include Meitei language as official language of the state.
• 26 October: A ceremony of a 15 day workshop on Rite-de-Passage of Sanamahism religion was inaugurated in the temple of Lainingthou Sanamahi of Haying Khongbal, Imphal.
• 10 November: A ceremony of a month-long Meetei Mayek script training programme organised by the MEELAL and Manipur People's Party (MPP) was concluded.
• 11 November: A 15-day workshop on 'Rite-De- Passage of Sanamahism' organised at the temple of Lainingthou Sanamahi by the Lainingthou Sanamahi Temple Board (LSTB) and Manipur University of Culture, was concluded.
• 16 December: 6 student organisations - AMSU, MSF, DESAM, KSA, SUK and AIMS - requested to the authorities concerned to include the Meetei Mayek script in the UPSC Mains examination, along with the formation of a transliteration committee and a language commission.