Arambam Somorendra

{{Short description|Founder of UNLF}}

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix = Tamohal

| name = Arambam Somorendra

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|07|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sagolband Meino Leirak

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2000|06|10|1935|07|12}}

| occupation = Founder of UNLF

| organization = UNLF

| spouse = Arambam Ongbi Memchoubi{{Cite news |date=22 July 2017 |title=Memchoubi’s literary works celebrated |url=https://www.manipur.org/news/2017/07/22/memchoubis-literary-works-celebrated-2/ |work=Imphal Free Press}}

| mother =

| father = Arambam Dorendrajit

| education = M.A

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}}

Arambam Somorendra{{Cite journal |last=Arambam |first=Lokendra |date=2000 |title=Arambam Somorendra (12 July 1935—10 June 2000) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23343284 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=44 |issue=4 (198) |pages=102–105 |issn=0019-5804}} (12 July 1935 - 10 June 2000), also known as Arambam Samarendra,{{Cite journal |last=Bharucha |first=Rustom |title=The Indigenous Theatre of Kanhailal |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00006278 |journal=New Theatre Quarterly |volume=8 |issue=29 |pages=10–22 |doi=10.1017/s0266464x00006278 |issn=0266-464X |access-date=2024-01-12|url-access=subscription }}{{Citation |last=Trivedi |first=Poonam |title=‘It is the bloody business which informs thus … ’: Local politics and performative praxis, Macbeth in India |date=2005 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203356944-14/bloody-business-informs-thus-local-politics-performative-praxis-macbeth-india-poonam-trivedi |work=World-Wide Shakespeares |access-date=2024-01-12 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780203356944-14/bloody-business-informs-thus-local-politics-performative-praxis-macbeth-india-poonam-trivedi |isbn=978-0-203-35694-4}} was a writer dramatist and socialist. He formed the Amateur Artist Association in 1956. He is also one of the founding member of "Pan-Manipuri Youth League" which was an active youth organization for unifying the Manipuris in Manipur, Cachar, Myanmar and Bangladesh. He along with some followers of Hijam Irabot and some tribal activist formed the United National Liberation Front in 1964. He worked as Chairman of UNLF until 1975.{{Citation |title=Alexander, Andrew Clive, (12 May 1935–5 July 2015), columnist; City Editor, Daily Mail, 1984–2000 |date=2007-12-01 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u5204 |work=Who Was Who |access-date=2024-01-12 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}{{Cite web |title=Arambam Samarendra remembered on his 22nd death anniversary |url=https://www.ifp.co.in/manipur/arambam-samarendra-remembered-on-his-22nd-death-anniversary |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Imphal Free Press |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Arambam Samarendra remembered |url=https://www.thesangaiexpress.com/Encyc/2023/6/11/By-Our-Staff-ReporterImphal-Jun-10-Patriotic-Writers-Forum-PAWF-Manipur-today-observed-the.html |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=www.thesangaiexpress.com |language=en}}