Manipuri to English:
ꯄꯥꯔꯤꯕ ꯃꯤꯑꯣꯢꯁꯤꯡ ꯑꯣꯏꯔꯤꯕ ꯑꯩꯈꯣꯏꯕꯨ ꯄꯥꯅꯤꯡꯍꯜꯂꯤꯁꯤ ꯅꯣꯕꯦꯜ ꯑꯗꯨꯅ ꯍꯧꯖꯤꯛꯀꯤ ꯃꯇꯝꯗ ꯄꯤꯕ ꯅꯨꯡꯉꯥꯏꯕ ꯑꯗꯨꯅꯅꯤ, ꯑꯣꯁꯇꯤꯟꯒꯤ ꯍꯤꯔꯣꯏꯅꯤꯁꯤꯡꯒꯤ ꯍꯤꯡꯈꯤꯕ ꯄꯨꯟꯁꯤꯒꯤ ꯇꯥꯡꯀꯛ, ꯅꯠꯇ꯭ꯔꯒ ꯄꯥꯒꯅꯣꯜꯒꯤ ꯑꯃꯗꯤ ꯐꯣꯔꯁꯇꯔꯒꯤ ꯁꯥꯒꯠꯄ ꯁꯛꯇꯝꯁꯤꯡ ꯑꯩꯈꯣꯏꯅ ꯁꯥꯒꯠꯄ ꯍꯧꯈꯤꯕꯁꯤꯡ, ꯍꯥꯏꯔꯤꯕꯁꯤ ꯂꯩꯔꯤꯕ ꯃꯇꯝꯗꯨ ꯍꯣꯡꯕ ꯅꯥꯏꯗꯅ ꯎꯠꯂꯤꯕ ꯑꯁꯦꯡꯕ ꯂꯥꯏꯔꯥꯛꯇꯨꯗꯒꯤ ꯅꯠꯇꯦ꯫
What drives us, the audience, is a nostalgia for the present times of the novel, the lived moment of Austen's heroines, or Pagnol's and Forster's characters, our imagined past, not that of the original text for which that present time represents unwanted change.