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=== Statue of Maharaja Bhagyachandra===
The name Maisnam Be(tombi) Singh might not really ring a bell in your mind. But if you had seen Imphal city’s landmark statue of Maharaja Bhagyachandra taming the wild elephant installed at the southern side helm of ‘Nupi Keithen’ (Women’s Market), then you would know. He is the one who made it. Betombi Singh is perhaps the only living student of legendary Bhadra and R.K. Yumjaosana (father of RKCS). “I don’t understand why I have been left alone. Many of my students even have died” said he. 
 
Even at age Eighty three (in 1991) Singh was in the pink of health. “I have a good eye sight and my hands are still firm. I pedal to my work.” [author’s note: Long after this interview, just about a year before his death in 2002 at the age of ninety-four, he still could ride a bicycle and his eyesight was still strong and did not used spectacles. As he said, his hand was still firm when using brush.] He says “I take two baths every day. One early in the morning and another at evening and never think ill about others. In fact, he choose not to venture out of his home during the period which astrologers say as bad days for him so that, according to him, others who see him will not gets his bad luck!!!