In red print under the ‘Latest Headlines’ section of E-Pao, Manipur’s first online news service, a line reads, ‘Due to Demonetisation in Manipur, there is no news update from November 18 2016’. Manipur has not had access to its dozen or more dailies newspapers for three days running now. Newspaper publishers, facing a cash crunch following denomination of the big notes, have decided to suspend publication indefinitely. This shutdown comes in the midst of an economic blockade that was imposed by the United Naga Council on November 1 and is still in force.