Organ Trafficking in Manipur: Between Fiction and Reality

Organ Trafficking in Manipur: Between Fiction and Reality exposes one of the darkest undercurrents of the modern insecurity economy. Beginning with a startling reference in the American TV series White Collar, where Manipur is explicitly mentioned in connection with kidney trafficking, this book explores how fiction mirrors disturbing truths.

From India’s infamous kidney scandals in Gurgaon and Chennai to the whispered rumors of organ harvesting camps after the 2023 violence in Manipur, the book traces how poverty, displacement, drugs, and corruption intertwine to turn human bodies into commodities. It shows how hospitals, NGOs, insurgents, and politicians can become complicit in a trade that feeds wealthy patients in Gulf states, Southeast Asia, and beyond.

With chapters covering the anatomy of organ trafficking, the triad of drugs, women, and organs, and the complicity of power structures, the book reveals how Manipur’s insecurity economy has created fertile ground for exploitation. It also highlights the voices of resistance—journalists, activists, and whistleblowers—who continue to fight against silence and denial.

Urgent, investigative, and unflinching, Organ Trafficking in Manipur is both a warning and a call to action. It asks whether Manipur will be remembered as a land reduced to spare parts for the world, or as a state that confronted its vulnerabilities and reclaimed its dignity.