Mangangsana

ena player in Lai-haraoba, AIR and DDK. He have been engaged on many prestigious national and international events in different manners as Director, Composer, Choreographer and Artiste, to be mention a few are, "Dubai Expo 2020" 2022, "Focuss Wales 2022" in UK, "Manipur and Okinawa Cultural Exchange" at Imphal, Okinawa, Ishigaki and Taketomi in 2019, "Cross. Transit" a collaboration of artistes from Manipur (India), Japan, Indonesia and Cambodia at various places in Japan during 2017 to 2019, "Nura Pakhang" a music collaboration of Manipur and Portugal in 2018, "Sakuhachi meets Pena" a music collaboration of Manipur and Japan in 2017, “Esplanade Dan:se Festival” 2015 at Singapore, “ABU Song Festival 2014” at Colombo, “Tapestry of Sacred Music 2013” at Singapore, “United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal Concert 2010” at Purana Quila, Delhi, “Festival of India 2007” at Peter Norton Symphony Space New York, “A Page Out of Order” 2006 to 2008 at different venues in Japan and New York etc. He presented lecture-demonstration on Manipuri Folk Music at “Exploratory Colloquium on the Foothills Culture of Manipur - Mapping a Mountain Path to Top -20 Scholarships” at Kentucky University, USA in 2007 and “ Folk Culture and Identity – the future 2015” organised jointly by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences) and the Manipuri Sahitya Parishad Assam, Kamrup District Committee at TISS, Guwahati, Assam, Shinshu University Nagano Japan in 2018. He also scored music for the national award winning films “Koyad” 2013 and “Phumdi” 2015. He also collaborated with different eminent artistes in India and abroad namely ; Priti Patel of Anjika - Kolkata, Yoshiko Chumma of School of Hard Knocks - New York, H. Kanhailal of Kalakshetra - Manipur, L. Gojendro of Manipur Dramatic Union – Imphal, Akiko Kitamura of Office ALB Tokyo Japan, etc. He was invited to became first ever visiting faculty of Pena music at Music Department of Manipur University of Culture. He was honoured with, National CCRT Child Award in 1985, Ministry of Culture's National Junior Fellowship Award in 2005, National Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar Award in 2008, Ministry of Culture's Senior Fellowship Award in 2017 ....