"I think the entire work should be published and that will at once raise the prestige and dignity of Manipuri literature; and an abstract of the poem in English with translations of typical passages, and a critical study of it, will be desideratum in Indian literature bringing home to the rest of India and to the world what important things, important from the point of view of voicing the aspirations, the ideals and the social and cultural milieu of a whole people are being done in this distant corner of India. The position of our Poet is comparable to that of Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali and Modern Indo-Aryan literature."
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Suniti Kumar Chatterji, G. C. Chuckervertty. AKASHVANI: Vol. XL. No. 35 ( 31 AUGUST, 1975 ). (1975). (n.p.): All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi. p. 1582
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