Some thoughts on Parents’ Day

We are living in a reserved society. We all are way too reserved when it comes to expressing our good feelings to people. Especially towards our family members. Words don’t come easy. You just can’t go to your mom, hug her, kiss her on the cheeks and say, “K’on ngailua, henu!” That’s the thing they do in movies. Not here. Not by us. It sounds like a novel. And I didn’t say those three little sweet words to my parents on Parents’ Day. I should have. But I just couldn’t. I know I love them, but telling them how I love and miss them feels a little too weird. Not for me alone, for everyone; even for my parents. Suppose I say, “I love you” to them, I would be expecting something quite like, “What the hell! What’s wrong with you?” Last Sunday, July 8, 2007, we were celebrating Parents’ Day in our local church.  To tell you the truth, it never really mattered to me what this day is all about.  But something happened the previous night which would change my take on Parents’ Day for years to come. I came to realize that the next day would be Parents’ Day only when a very good friend of mine SMSed me. “Happy Parents Day! As you’re the eldest son, may you be the uplifter(sic), joy and the pride of your parents and family.” After reading the message, I began to give a serious thought on this Parents’ Day.  I began to think about my parents back home. And I whispered Happy Parents’ Day softly. I still remember ten years ago, when during the Kuki-Zomi ethnic clash (1997-98) our village was attacked. It was a cold winter night, and I was just a little kid back then. Gun shots were heard from every corners, people get killed and houses were burnt. We had to run for our lives. That was when I was separated from mom and dad. Dad was on duty that night, mom and kid brother ran to the church, and stayed there. I don’t know how it all came about, but I found myself running towards the army camp. There were crowds of people, some sitting tight clinging to each other. Some were crying, others were praying. I sat in a corner wondering where dad, mom and brother would be. It was so cold and I felt intolerably lonely. The drama dragged on for about three hours. At last when the mayhem came to an end, and the inferno died down, I ran towards the church. I saw my mom there at the entrance searching desperately for someone. When she saw me she ran towards me, embraced me and asked, “Bawi, dammaw?” with tears streaming down her cheeks. “Dammaw” is casually used to greet someone; the literal meaning of which is “are you alive.” The word struck me like lighting. Mom was not greeting me. She was asking me if I were alright. She was asking me I really were alive. It’s a question of survival, of being alive. I replied, “Yes, nunu.” And here I am holding those bittersweet moments in my head, feeling only too sorry that I didn’t tell mom how I missed and loved her all through these years. Sarang hae yo, Umma.*  

*Korean connection here, eh? Been watching loads of Korean movies lately.

Loneliness

Can the NE economy too fly despite Insurgency?

In recent years CMs from the Northeast began to learn the the business of attracting investors. Despite the official tax holiday, insurgency “tax” (extortion) had been a turn off to potential NE investors in the past decades. Now a new North East Industrial and Investment Policy (NEIIP) came into existence since 31 March 2007.

It offers good incentives to investors in the region. This time round, the CMs are hoping that more investors will take the risk as mobile companies (Airtel & Aircel) have been doing currently. What we saw in the mobile business at present could be just a tip of the iceberg. In fact, Minister for Development of NE Region, Mani Shankar Aiyar expects that today  Northeast India is on the threshold of an investment boom — “just as California’s economy boomed with the start of the gold rush in 1849 California of 1848″. Perhaps tourist industry, food processing, hydel power or even retail shops could become the NE gold rush. Of course, all these need massive investment. And we know the Govt. simply do not have enough resources – financial capital or managerial skills.  So, is such a hope justified? Will the investors and entrepreneurs respond to the challenge? This is something to watch out in the years ahead.

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Food Storage work

IMPHAL, Apr 10: As long term pre-emptive measure against shortage of food grains/stocks in Tameng-long and Churachandpur districts, the State Government is all set to construct a godown each in these districts’ headquarters equip-ped with digital weigh-bridge within the current fiscal. The food grain storage facility with a capacity of 2500 metric tonnes each would be taken up at an estimated cost of Rs 2 crore each, informed source said.

The Sangai Express

Manipur CM welcomes new northeast industrial policy

Indo Asian News Service
New Delhi April 10 Manipur Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh said Tuesday that the new North East Industrial and Investment Policy (NEIIP) which came into effect March 31 will provide a fillip to investors looking for opportunities in the northeast.

‘The North East Industrial and Investment Policy 2007 announced by the central government stands to provide a welcome fillip to the investors to play a major role not only in the manufacturing sector but also in the service, energy and technology sectors,’ he said speaking at the Third North East Business Summit here.

‘Tourism related infrastructure, medical and health services, bio-technology, and power generation have now been brought within the ambit of this policy.’

Highlighting the areas of potential investment in his state, the chief minister said infrastructure development was one.

‘Agro and food processing is another potential area of investment,’ he said, adding that a food park is coming up near Manipur’s capital Imphal.’We are making efforts to develop it into a mega food park,’ Ibobi said.He said bamboo also has potential for investment, adding that a bamboo technology park at Jiribam near Silchar in Assam is on the anvil.

‘The future of Manipur lies also in tourism. Projects on various tourism circuits – eco, ethnic, adventure, wildlife have tremendous potential for investment.On the Look East Policy, the chief minister said that, against the backdrop of the flourishing Indo-Myanmar trade through Moreh-Tamuh, the opening up of the Trans-Asian Highway has special relevance for the region.’In this regard greater emphasis on strengthening the surface route via National Highway 39 up to Moreh in Manipur and beyond to Thailand via Myanmar is essential.’

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/50047.html

Northeast on verge of huge economic boom: Aiyar
New Delhi, Delhi, India, 2007-04-10  (IndiaPRwire.com)

The northeastern region of India is today like the California of 1848 – on the edge of a huge economic boom, according to Minister for Development of Northeastern Region Mani Shankar Aiyar.

‘Just as California’s economy boomed with the start of the gold rush in 1849, a similar economic boom is just going to happen in the northeast,’ Aiyar said at the Third Northeast Business Summit, which was inaugurated by Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat here Tuesday.

Inviting investors to invest in the region, which the minister described as a goldmine of multiple resources, he said that law and order problems can no longer be cited as a reason for not investing in the state.

‘The complaints of law and order problems in the Northeast are extremely untrue. Sikkim is completely safe. Mizoram has been having complete peace for 20 years now after the successful peace accord (signed between the central government and the then underground Mizo National Front in 1987). In Tripura, the challenges of insurgency have been met but these have not been reported by the media. ‘Large parts of Arunachal Pradesh are completely peaceful. And so is the whole of Meghalaya,’ he said.

Aiyar also praised Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for successful implementation of the Bodoland accord, which has made this region in western Assam very conducive to investment from outside.

He called upon investors to invest in the state as soon as possible with the new North East Industrial and Investment Policy (NEIIP) coming into effect March 31. ‘The earlier you invest, the more you benefit. You will get lifetime advantages by investing in this region,’ he said, adding that there is exemption of virtually all taxes in almost all sectors of industry except those related with tobacco products.

The summit, organised by the Ministry of Development of Northeastern Region (DoNER) and the Kolkata based trade body Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), is the third in a series that started in 2002.

‘The two previous summits didn’t produce results. But after this one, I can tell you we are on the verge of a tremendous breakthrough,’ the minister said. Inaugurating the summit, Vice-President Shekhawat called for the development of the panchayati raj system to get the ground situation right.

‘If the panchayati raj system is properly implemented in the Northeast, it will definitely help develop the infrastructure in rural areas. As Mani Shankar Aiyar himself is also the panachayati raj minister, I urge him to look into this,’ he said. ICC president S.K. Bangur and managing director and chief executive of Hero Corporate Service Sunil Kant Munjal also spoke at the inaugural session.

http://www.indiaprwire.com/print/?type=news&id=21876

Why Globalization is Good

Robyn Meredith and Suzanne Hoppough 04.16.07
Miltinationals are trashed as exploiters of the pooret pople on the planet. Wrong, wring , wrong. A ragtag army of save-the-world crusaders has spent years decrying multinational corporations as villains in the wave of globalization overwhelming the Third World. This ominous trend would fatten the rich, further impoverish and oppress the poor and crush local economies.

The business-bashing group Public Citizen argued as much in a proclamation signed by almost 1,500 organizations in 89 countries in 1999. Whereupon hundreds of protesters rioted outside a conference of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, shattering windows, blocking traffic and confronting cops armed with tear gas and pepper spray. Six hundred people were arrested.

Cut to 2007, and the numbers are in: The protesters and do-gooders are just plain wrong. It turns out globalization is good–and not just for the rich, but especially for the poor. The booming economies of India and China–the Elephant and the Dragon–have lifted 200 million people out of abject poverty in the 1990s as globalization took off, the International Monetary Fund says. Tens of millions more have catapulted themselves far ahead into the middle class …

As the Chindia (China + India) revolution spreads, the ranks of the poor get smaller, not larger. In the 1990s, as Vietnam’s economy grew 6% a year, the number of people living in poverty (42 million) fell 7% annually; in Uganda, when GDP growth passed 3%, the number fell 6% per year, says the World Bank.

China unleashed its economy in 1978, seeding capitalism first among farmers newly freed to sell the fruits of their fields instead of handing the produce over to Communist Party collectives. Other reforms let the Chinese create 22 million new businesses that now employ 135 million people who otherwise would have remained peasants like the generations before them.

Foreign direct investment, the very force so virulently opposed by the do-gooders, has helped drive China’s gross domestic product to a more than tenfold increase since 1978. Since the reforms started, $600 billion has flooded into the country, $70 billion of it in the past year. Foreigners built hundreds of thousands of new factories as the Chinese government built the coal mines, power grid, airports and highways to supply them …

Middle-class Chinese families now own TVs, live in new apartments and send their children to private schools. Millions of Chinese have traded in their bicycles for motorcycles or cars. McDonald’s has signed a deal with Sinopec, the huge Chinese gasoline retailer, to build drive-through restaurants attached to gas stations on China’s new roads …

Says one woman, 23, who works for an international cargo shipper in Beijing: “My parents were both teachers when they were my age, and they earned 30 yuan [$3.70] a month. I earn 4,000 yuan ($500) a month, live comfortably and feel I have better opportunities than my parents did.”

Tony Ma, age 51, was an unwilling foot soldier in Mao’s Cultural Revolution. During that dark period from 1966 to 1976 universities were closed, and he was sent at age 16 to work in a steel mill for $2 a month. He cut metal all day long for seven years and feared he might never escape.
When colleges reopened, he landed a spot to study chemistry, transferred to the U.S., got a Ph.D. in biochemistry and signed on with Johnson & Johnson at $45,000 a year. Later he returned to the land he fled and now works for B.F. Goodrich in Hong Kong.

The young college grads in China today wouldn’t bother immigrating to the U.S. for a job that pays $45,000, he says–because now they have better opportunities at home.

Capitalism alone, however, isn’t enough to remake Third World economies–globalism is the key. A big reason India trails behind its bigger neighbor to the northeast in lifting the lower classes is that, even after embracing capitalism, it kept barriers to the flow of capital from abroad.

Thus 77% of Indians live on $2 a day or less, the Asian Development Bank says, down only nine percentage points from 1990. A third of the population is illiterate. In 1980 India had more of its population in urban centers than China did (23% versus 20% for China). But by 2005 China had 41% in cities, where wages are higher; India’s urbanites had grown to only 29%.

Freed of British colonial rule in 1947 and scarred by its paternalistic effects, India initially combined capitalism with economic isolationism. It thwarted foreign companies intent on investing there and hampered Indian firms trying to sell abroad. This hurt Indian consumers and local biz: A $100 Microsoft operating system got slapped with duties that brought the price to $250 in India, putting imported software and computers further from reach for most people and businesses. Meanwhile, the government granted workers lavish job protections and imposed heavy taxes and regulations on employers. Government jobs usually were by rote and paid poorly, but they guaranteed lifetime employment. They also ensured economic stagnation.

Financial crisis struck in 1991. Desperate for cash, India flew a planeload of gold reserves to London and began, grudgingly, to open its economy. Import duties were lowered or eliminated, so India’s consumers and companies could buy modern, foreign-made goods and gear. Overseas firms in many industries were allowed to own their subsidiaries in India for the first time since 1977. India all but banned foreign investment until 1991. Since then foreign companies have come back, but not yet on the scale seen in China. Foreign companies have invested $48 billion in India since 1991–$7.5 billion of that just in the last fiscal year–the same amount dumped into China every six weeks. By the mid-1990s the economy boomed and created millions of jobs.

By the late 1990s U.S. tech companies began turning to India for software design, particularly in the Y2K crunch. The Indians proved capable and cheap, and the much- maligned offshoring boom began. Suddenly Indian software engineers were programming corporate America’s computers. New college graduates were answering America’s customer service phone calls. Builders hired construction workers to erect new high-rise buildings suddenly in demand as American and European firms rushed to hire Indian workers.

The new college hires, whose older siblings had graduated without finding a job, tell of surpassing their parents’ salaries within five years and of buying cell phones, then motorcycles, then cars and even houses by the time they were 30. All of that would have been impossible had India failed to add globalization to capitalism.

Today, despite its still dilapidated airports and pothole-riddled highways, the lumbering Elephant now is in a trot, growing more than 7% annually for the last decade. In 2005, borrowing from the Chinese, India began a five-year, $150 billion plan to update its roads, airports, ports and electric plants. India is creating free trade zones, like those in China, to encourage exports of software, apparel, auto parts and more.

S.B. Kutwal manages the assembly line where Tata Motors builds Safari SUVs. He remembers how, in the 1980s, people waited five years to buy a scooter and cars were only for the rich. “Since we’ve liberated the economy, lots of companies have started coming into India,” says Kutwal. “People couldn’t afford cars then. Now the buying power is coming.”

In Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Delhi, Bangalore and other big cities, shopping malls have sprung up, selling everything from Levi’s jeans to Versace. India still has raggedy street touts, but when they tap on car windows at stoplights, instead of peddling cheap plastic toys, they sell to the new India: copies of Vogue and House & Garden magazines. Western restaurants are moving in, too: Domino’s Pizza and Ruby Tuesday’s have come to India, and 107 McDonald’s have sprung up, serving veggie burgers in the land where cattle are sacred …

While well-off American techies may be worried, it seems doubtful that an engineer in Bangalore who now earns $40,000 a year, and who has just bought his parents’ house, wants to ban foreign investment …

Adapted from The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us , by Robyn Meredith. To be published in July by W.W. Norton & Co.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2007/0416/064.html 8 April 2007

EASTER CONFESSIONS

It is Easter Sunday today. It is a day that marks Jesus’ resurrection from the grave and victory over sin. It is a day of joy and quiet reflection. And I believe it is a good occasion for me to get personal with you–Zomis, Kukis, Mizos. I am going to actually start with a confession.

On March 23, as me and one other thadou-speaking friend hunkered inside a tent set up by some other agitators at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi and watch helplessly as young men and women were dragged out of buses and brutalized in full public view, I was overcome with guilt and self-pity. I really wish there’s something I can do. There was none. The realization assails my ego and self-esteem. It was a humbling experience indeed.  

That feeling of being helpless and, worthless did not go away as day pass. The Delhi Police (whose motto is: ‘With You, For You, Always’) and other paramilitary forces on duty on the day smoked us out of buses, whipped and stomped on us, imprison us and slapped all sorts of charges against us–including for robbery and dacoity. And there is nothing you and I can do about it. How humiliating!! But, it’s a reality check. And it really reminds us where we belong.  

I realized then that I don’t have much of a fight anymore to be always on the losing side. To be the aggrieved party all the time, full of legitimate grudges and just causes; and yet be regarded as a mere nuisance to civil order and treated as such. To be always running after somebody to undo whatever he did. It is just not the stuff great nations are made of.  

If all the landmines still lying in Chandel and Churachandpur district gets deactivated tomorrow and all militants leave (which was what we have been demanding in Delhi on 5th and 23rd March), it will not mean that manna will start landing in our midst from the next morning. It will only restore the status quo ante as far as livelihood is concerned. If all the 480-odd abducted villagers were released and brought back home (there have been so many conflicting rumours that I am no longer sure if they had indeed been abducted the way we were told, or they had been already released or are still in Myanmar), it will not mean better life for them either. Our struggle is not about development or a better life. It is, plainly put, a struggle to just keep alive. 

We are at the end of our tether. And it shows. If there is one official here who take our demands, as highlighted in the placards, seriously, I am not sure if he will be able to make sense of them at all. We want the Ibobi Singh government to be dismissed (the man has just been brought back to power in an open election), We condemn the army for suspending their operations in the area without any tangible results, yet we pray for them to start operation-flush-out again; at the same time, we want the Assam Rifles and err, UNLF out; in the midst of all this, we believe the government also owes us a homeland; and yes, we also burnt the effigy of Manmohan Singh!! It has all the hallmarks of an agitation conducted for its own sake. 

How did landmines got planted in our midst in the first place? Why had we become refugees in our own villages?  

It is all very well to cry ourselves hoarse and demand that the government save us. But there is a reality. In the situation in which the writ of the government simply did not run, what obtains is an anarchic, Hobbesian kind of society. Self-help and self-preservation are the rules. And we are simply not helping ourselves.  

I was reading sometime last week in The Sangai Express   about the KNF giving stern warning to those who organized the Delhi rallies. It sort of sounds amusing, really. I console myself, as I read the news report, that there is at least a KNF (there are so many KNFs, I don’t know which faction is this) which is really concerned about the career of students who took part in the rally and were arrested. Seriously speaking, all these revealed a lot about us and the extent of internal contradiction afflicting us.  

There was also this rivalry between the HPC and HNA which reminds me of some Cowboy movies I watched long time ago. In the latest twist, the HPC urged the HNA to stop playing paper-tiger and come for a fair, man to man, fight. ‘Specify the time and place (preferably outside civilian areas) where we will battle out’ it said. Ignore the pun which is unintended, but I think it’s a good idea actually–guileless and straight– if they are continue fighting and killing each other anyway.  

The point is this. We, as a people-nay a nation, are no nearer to being one and together than we were 10 years ago. It is time we cut this crap about we being ‘one’, ‘born of the same ancestor’, ‘united by culture, tradition, language, geography’, et al. These are all true, but they have a hollow ring to them in our mouth. I have lost count of the number of unity feasts we partake, read enough proclamations of oneness and shared destiny by our militant groups, and had enough of holding-hands-and-singing-we-shall-overcome-someday sessions. It’s not that we don’t try. We did try everything in our power. But it’s just not happening. A Kuki will gladly lay down his life defending his ‘Kuki’ identity from threats coming from Zomi, Hmar etc. Ditto for Hmars and Zomis. Landmines? Forcible occupation by outside usurpers? We have no time for such threats. The Indian army should come and deliver us.  

So, this Easter Sunday, my conclusion as a Christian is this. If we are to really heal our land and survive and prosper as a people, there is nothing other than one left to do. We have tried so hard and exhausted all our cunning and worldly wisdom. We become bitter and frustrated. We look all around for salvation but there is none. Have we ever looked up? The Lord says, ‘If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and heal their land’( II Chronicles 7: 14). This is not just one option we can choose and take. I am convinced it is the only option left for us.

Comments (1)

1  Written by whoami, on 2007-04-09 02:13:16, IP: 164.100.41.34 Well written piece ending with sound conclusion . I ,as one of the above talked unfortunate people , would like to add that we (as Christians) usually or for that matter casually accept Christ as Saviour but failed to accept Him as

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Zing nii nou eng singseng mualdawn ah hong suak nawn in Lianpu thoh zong hong hutta hi. A zi Nempi bel na thou baih in Zing singpi na bawl zoukhin Buh leh mel huan in na buai pha mahmah hi.

 

Lianpu a hong thoh dek chiang a khe hong tanglou mawk in lamdang sak na toh a kam bang ka heuhou kha zawzen hi. A tanu deihnu kiang a nu sam ding in sawl a, Nempi zong hong diang pah hi. A hihding dan thei tuan lou uh a hih man Sianvuan sam uhi. Sawtlou nung in Siavuan pan zong hong tung in Lianpu vel pah thathat hi. Siavuan pan zong a nna a hihzoh chiang,’Lianpu aw, nang pen a zeng den ding hita chia!’ chiin hon gen hi. Lianpu zong khasia ki sa lua in a mittui hong luangkhia hi. Ahizong in ah Nempi in,’U lian aw, khasia mawk kie in, Kei leh deihnu om ung a nang hong kem ding hi ung’ chi in heh nem hi. Nempi zong a lungkhamlou hi tuan lou hi.

 

Hun leh Nite hong thak zel mah leh Lianpu lungkham ki behlap na hi maimah zel hi. A Zi Nempi bel lungkia lou in a pasal kem in ching tou ngitnget a a Ittna zong khang semsem hi. Lianpu in bangding a hibang natna a tung a tung hiam chih kia ngaihsun in theihsiam zong theisiam theilou in heh ki sa mahmah hi. A khen chiang, Pathian kou gawpgawp in ki ngaisia lamet bei bang a ki koih in a mah leh amah bang ki thah sawm pawng mawk hi. Aw Lianpu aw, bangding a hibang thil deihhuailou lawm ding a pathian in hong pia hi hiam? Nang a hoihpen leh a nunnem pen hi lai chin a… nang a ding a ki pahna zingnii suak nawnlou ding hi mai maw! Nang nopsak na ding a Sih mah tel zawk ding hi mai lou hia?

 

Suun-nung ni nem lak hun in Lianpu zong huihsiang diik ding in a inntual uah a ki tholhsuk hi. Hun sawtlou a vialvak nung in a lungsim ngaihtuah na hong vakpuap bang sa hial in zang hong ki sa mahmah hi. A hon ngaihtuah a, hi bang natna ka tung a Pathian in hong tunsak leh a ma deihdan mah hi ding hi. Ki ngaisia leh lamet bei a ka ki ngaihsut lai a zong hon taisan ngeilou hong ompih a hong kem den! Tua kia leng hi lou lai, a hong Itt semsem ka Zii leh ka Tanu zong omlai. Toupa pen thil bangkim geelsiam leh a hoihding bek hih mah ahi chi in hong ki hehnem ta hi….

 

Hih a tung a tangthu sung ah bang I mu thei a le, Lianpu bang a na nuntakna zang na hi hiam? I leitung hinkhua pen ei deihdan bang in I na paipih sawm khanak uhi. I mailam hun ding I geel a, hiai ka hih dia ka huchi ding chia I gen sa hi na pi, a hun hong tun tak chiang ei deih louh dan ngen a thil hong paita, thangpai ki sa in lamet bei bang a kikoih,i kiim I kiang phawkpha nawn lou.

 

 

 

 

 

I gam I nam mah I chi nawn dia…kum tamtak pai sa a I pi I pa ten ka gam ka leitang chia sihngam a a na hum uh tuni tan a ei gam leh lei mah a I ten theih uh ki pah huai hina tel e. Na ngaihtuah ngeilouh uh ka gingkei , tunlah mi dang ten kei gam kei lou a hi bang hon chih khum ta mai ua, pil leh siam I ki sak kal ua sum in hon guuk nek vek ahi ta ve. I pu I pa’n, ka tu ka ta khang a ding chia lametna toh sisan naisan kai hial a gam na hum ua, en tua vai dangka deihtak na ziak lel a man tawm chik a khong khe hiauhiau mai! Ei a tu sawm khang sawn ten I pu I pa lung gim sak lel zaw ihi ve ua maw, bang chik chiang a a lemet na uh hi zou ding I hi ua? Ka gam ka itt chi in khovel kil chih ah I ki theh dalh ta ua, pil I ki sa hun tawk vek lai ua, lah I kiim I kiang a om theilou I bang zel uh. I Zogam kah aw leh mau ging ki theih mawh bawl I tam mah mah uh. Zomi te bang in hon lawi a hi ding? I gam I innmun loumun a I om chia hon sia om ahi hia leh…theihhak mahmah maw..a hoih deih vek a gen ten lah gen bei thei ngei lou.

 

Hoih leh siam ki tuh in eileh ei I ki nawk tuah ua, chi leh sa ki bang, unau khat lah hi si ki gawmlouh theih ding dan kia ngaihtuah daih, a hi lou lam kia siam. Ki lung liap sak vek!

A tek in lamet neinawn lou, a khang te’n lah za mialmial, ‘ka Zogam, ka Zogam’ chia au lala. A ki ha suan tuah ding omlou. Huai in hiai a thei kha ding chi mah bang vek.

 

Na pu na pan nang nopsak na ding deih leh lamentak a gam na hum a nang na tu sawn na ta sawn te khual lou a na gilpi kia vakvak ding na hiam? Aihkeh Na tup lohching lou a Lianpu bang a lamet bei a om na hi hiam? Na mit mial lah hi lou na kiim na kiang a mi mu lou na hih leh na muh hut lota hi.

 

Lam et bei leh ki ngai sia a ka zogam zaw hi chi mai ding a hi ta ve chi lou in LAM-ETNA om lia chi zaw ni ei hun a thil teng bei ding hi lou hi ei sih nung a kum bang zah ki vei lai ding ahia chih thei I om kei . Lianpu in a Zi leh a tanu a phawk louh dan a nang leng om kha na hi mai ding e. Na kiim na kiang vel thak le chin nang hon huh ding leh nang hon panpih ding mi tam mahmah hi.

 

A lui lak ah a zat theih te kem in a thak lak ah a hoih hoih teng leng hih khelh om ding in gin huai lou hi. Tua ahih man in I Tuunnu kah leh mauging zak hun lota hi. Pupa sakmin lohsa I Zogam kum sang zatam pai zong a min mang lou ding a hi zong a nah vuai bang a tulkhak ding lauhuai zaw hi.

 

Tua ahihman in kua mah ki lungliap sak lou in, kamkei dungsun ten I gial shuahin ki maitak sak tuah in, khut ki len kawm in LAM-ETNA omlai a hi chih phawk thak thak in Kal suanthak leng denchiang I tu I ta te a ding bek a phatuam hong suak kha ding hi.

 

 

 

P.S- A conclusion lam ka hon edit sak in la a sentence a hoih zaw a na bulh theih l;eh a na khek lamdang le chin a hoih ding e. Ka gen nop tak pen tuh, tu khong a I hoihlouhna te uh gengen mailam ding en ngeilou in lampi ding omlou banga ki koih. Huchi hilou in I khangthak leh tusawn tasawn te I lamet hi leh I mit mial uh vaak ngei ding in gin huai hi, a mau zaw naupang chilou in a mau a om bang hi ding hiam chi iin nou ding mah na hi uh chih sawm in a nuai lut ding ki tuh hun hi ta hi .Chih……..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reception for freed Kuki students held in New Delhi

Written by Luntinsat Kipgen

Friday, 30 March 2007

Homecoming from Tihar jail, reception at JNU; gave high morale  It was 12 O’clock Tuesday when people began to assemble in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) office waiting for the auspicious welcome reception. With our hopes high and down, we waited till 6:00 pm when the two buses carrying the released Kuki student heroes from Tihar jail were arriving with their white bandages on their wounds; on the heads, hands, legs, necks, etc. Their faces looked pale probably due to complete denial of food and water during the first two days, and feeding on roti instead of our staple food i.e. rice during the other two days of detention. But, behind the facade of their simple smile, we did not fail to notice their high morale and resolution to fight till victory.   As they stepped out of the buses and moved towards the reception hall, there were sounds of applause, joy and excitement that filled the air.  Mr. David Buhril moderating the program then called upon honorable Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Mani Charenamai (Outer Manipur) to have a welcome speech in which he congratulated the students by calling them ‘brave young boys and girls fighting for the just cause’. It was followed by a short break during which the bailed out students were served food as they were very hungry then.   After the dinner break, the reception program continued at around 6:30 pm. In the front were seated the two Lok Sabha MPs – Dr. Th. Meinya (Inner Manipur) and Pu Mani Charenamai (Outer Manipur), Ex MP Pu Holkhomang, Our Lawyer – Pu Sandeep, Supreme Court Lawyer – Pi Nandita Haksar, Kuki Worship Service Delhi (KWSD) Chaplain – Pu Rev. Dino, JNUSU president – Dhananjoy and vice-president – William Tyler and other distinguished persons.   At the very outset of the program, David Buhril, the moderator, for the second time, invited Pu Mani Charenamai to deliver his speech. He called the student protesters, “heroes” and thanked them for the sacrifices they have made in doing the right thing. He congratulated those students who broke down the barricades and also those who voluntarily surrendered themselves for the love of their fellow students who had already been arrested. “I wished to be with you the moment you were struggling for the just cause,” said Pu Charenamai. He also expressed that he felt sorry for the students who stood for just cause being treated like criminals in Tihar jail and told them not to be ashamed of it.   He condemned the brutality of Delhi police and Rapid Action Force. About the problem back home in Manipur he lamented, “Last year, there was abduction of 20 odd people from Churachandpur district by Burmese army and now 400 taken captives from Chandel district.”  He also accused the state government being responsible for the victims of landmine in Chandel for not taking any measure so far to address the issue. He assured that he would do whatever he can at his capacity, both at the centre and state for the safe return of the 400 captives.   The next speaker was MP Dr. Th Meinya who said he wanted to be identified as a human being and not as a Meitei. “I live in Manipur which is part of India, which is part of Asia, of the world, of the solar system, of the milky galaxy, and of the universe. “When you fight for human dignity, I am with you because we are one,” said the MP. To express his universality, he also said he would not object any one who wishes to marry his young daughter and son on the basis of ethnicity because to him, “we all belong to the same race.” Like the other MP, he assured the students for the safe return of 400 captives by consulting with the military junta of Burma.  The turn for our lawyer Sandeep came then. He expressed his happiness to see the jailed students being bailed out to be graced in such delightful manner. He thanked the Kuki young boys and girls for their bravery as he quoted Mr. Benjamin Mate who said to him, Kukis are lion hearted. “Students said you look like a Kuki, so I am Kuki,” said Sandeep, and he continued, the legal fight for the charge labeled against us is yet to be over and the fight for your cause back home may still take along way. So, you need to be stronger on all fronts, particularly on the legal side. He also asked apology for not being able to bail out Mr. Thangboi, the secretary of Kuki Students’ Organisation, Delhi (KSOD), due to clerical mistake, which, he assured, would duly be corrected the next day. (However, at the time of writing this report, at 5:00 pm Mr. Thangboi has, as was told to me, been released.) He also stressed the need for law experts from the Kuki community itself for any legal battle in future. After Pu Sandeep was seated back, Mr David Buhril, in reply to his word ‘Lion hearted’ praised him saying, “You are much more lion hearted than we the Kukis are and that implies you are one of us.”  Madam Nandita Haksar, a Supreme Court lawyer followed. She said, “I thank you all the Kuki students for making a democratic space in Manipur, in India and in JNU campus. She also said, “It was the happiest moment for a lawyer to see the release of the jailed people for whom the former had been fighting and it must be one of the happiest moments for Sandeep.”  Now, JNUSU president Dhananjoy was called upon. Thanking the brave students, he said the release was not out of mercy by the authority, but they were compelled to do so. Pointing out the failure of state and central governments in protecting the lives of 400 Kuki captives, he said, “It is the responsibility of the state to grantee security to its citizens.” He also said, “JNUSU is with you and will always be for you whenever you need us, and we’re ready to extend all possible helps.” Regarding the jailed students who missed their exams, he said, “We have spoken to the vice chancellor of Delhi University and that your exams would be taken.” Good news for students who are very serious about their education.  A strong and assertive young man from the United States of America, Mr. William Tyler, the vice-president of JNUSU said that the map of India keeps changing; different maps in terms of security, economic development, religion, politics, etc. He also strongly criticized the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for having close ties, giving military hardware, providing economic aid, having trade relationship, etc, with the barbaric military regime of Burma, which is responsible for the kidnapping of 400 Kukis. India must review its Burma policy, said Tyler. He also assured, if the need be, to help the Kuki students in mobilizing more people to come up on the streets of Delhi, to compel the UPA government to act upon the demands for protection, security, safety for the captives, deactivation of landmines and compensations for the victims.  Mr. Muanpuia Punte Hmar, who is the vice-president of the North East Students’ Organisation (NESO), asserted that we Chin – Kuki – Mizo are one and the same people who come from the same origin. “I am a Kuki as much as I’m a Mizo or a Chin, and so feel comfortable with any one of these names,” said Muanpuia. He also appealed to the audience to feel the same way as he does and be united.   Then, Pu Holkhomang, ex-MP’s turn came. He narrated about his past friendship with the former prime minister of India, AB Vajpayee and the former home minister LK Advani to whom he also talked about the multiple hardships faced by the people of Manipur, particularly the Kukis. Though I was badly defeated in the last MP election, he said, “I don’t harbour any ill feeling against Mani Charenamai.” To highlight the ethnic affinity of the people living along the Indo-Burma border, he mentioned that he shared the same clan with the Burmese MP Pu Thangme from Tamu district. Having talked on variety of issues which could not be properly heard from the back seat as he did not care much about the microphone, he concluded his speech by saying “This time it is the Kukis who are the victims, but tomorrow it may be the Paites, the Hmars, the Zous, the Lushais, the Nagas, so let us unite and fight together.”  Immediately, Pu David the moderator stood up and commented on what Pu Holkhomang had just said. “Pu Holkhomang’s concluding line is as bad as anything because in it he has put a partition.” (If I should comment on it, let me say, Pu Holkhomang, by virtue of his character, is not serious about issues of this kind and that we should take it lightly as one by an ordinary person.)  Then the KSO’s fraternity organization leaders all spoke one after another. Each leader in his turn, in one tone, stressed the need to unity as inevitable for protection of our existence and of our land, security. One of the impressive statements from a leader was, “Though the state and the centre have the constitutional obligation to ensure protection and security, we can guarantee ourselves these things if we stand united.” Some of them went to the extent of criticizing our armed groups for their constant factional clash using both newspapers and bullets, instead of collectively fighting for the common cause.    Two representatives from the jailed students, one each from the male and female students were also called upon to narrate their experiences from the moment they were caught to the time they were released on bail.  Elizabeth Haokip, M. Phil student from Jawaharlal Nehru University began her story. While narrating the stories of policemen manhandling and molesting the girl students inside the buses, on the street and also in the police custody, she was a bit hesitant to publicly tell some of the indecent incidents. She also said that some girls got their shirts or dress being pulled apart and then got hit at the chess. In spite of all these odds and brutalities, she said, “Our morale were high because we knew the leaders were there still fighting for us.” We do not deserve the kind of honour and reception we receive tonight because you who were not arrested and continued fighting for us deserve greater honour, she added. Meeting rights activists like Medha Patkar and others who were also detained in the same cell, she said, those experiences would continue to inspire her to fight for our rights.   Mr. Thangjamang Haokip, representative from KSO general headquarters and is a resident of Chandel district, spoke on behalf of the male students in Tihar jail. One of the best good news from him was that seventy students who shared the same cell had resolved to spread, on being released, the message of unity and fraternity among the Kuki brethren tribes back at home and abroad in all possible ways. He also appealed to all the Kuki tribe leaders to shun idiosyncratic way of playing divisive politics, vested interest and instead come to a common platform.   After all the speeches were over, the KSOD president – Mr. Limminthang Chongloi – expressed his thanks to all the distinguished persons, student organization leaders, rights activists, individual supporters, the Kuki heroes and all those who participated in any manner during the time from the 23rd March demonstration to the last reception program.  Pu Rev. Dino, then once again, thanked all the people big or small who joined in the fight for just cause of the Kuki people back at home and then thanked the almighty God – Jesus who during his life on earth worked hard for the marginalized and down-trodden people – for the given victory that was achieved. With the benediction prayer said by Pu Rev. Dino Touthang, the reception program came to an end.  We owe inexpressible thanks to Mr David Buhril, who is also the assistant editor of the Northeast Sun magazine, utilizing his multiple talent of versatility, eloquence, wit, etc, etc, has moderated the program not only this one but also the one which was held at ITO during the silent protest on 26th March. We are very much proud of him.   Conclusion: Another challenge I would like to pose to the readers and to all the Kuki students is – I am convinced that we are moving forward to reunification, which means we are closer to attaining higher administration. So, we need self-reliance on human resources such as teachers, doctors, engineers, lawyers, economists, environmentalists, writers, rights activists, and so on. Do we have enough number of these resources? If so they will guarantee us security of food and water, dignity of life, peace, perhaps everything one can imagine. If not so, choose one for you now.

Be Very Afraid:The New Generation Is Here

by TKL

Last Sunday, I made a passing reference in these columns about one dilemma that the electorate faces every election: the problem of spurious choices. If there are four candidates contesting and you want none of them to be your representative, what do you do? Should it be the clean shaven guy or the one with a moustache? Or should it be the tallest of the lot? Or should you simply stay home and not vote?

 

This is a real problem especially in our region where people vote mainly on the basis of personalities and not on party lines. Many apathetic voters simply did not turn up to vote because they don’t know who to choose. They are thirsting for fresh water but are offered only Pepsis and Coca Colas. In the first-past-the-post system we have, though, the low voter turnouts hardly bothers the thick-skinned candidates and the parties. The one who got the largest number of votes (never mind if only 20 percent of the electorate voted for him) gets elected. Campaigns to introduce ‘none of the above’ option on the ballot paper are yet to be implemented. Isn’t there a way to register people’s disillusionment more robustly? 

I am delighted to report, though, that this dilemma will not be there this time, at least in the constituency I came from. 

In the Foreword I wrote for a tiny book on reforming education a friend of mine compiled last year, I said that the time is ripe for the new generation to take the mantle from the present, graying generation. And that education reforms will come about only when a new political culture–rooted in honesty and accountability– takes root. I am fascinated by the contest being witnessed in the Churachandpur constituency. It is nothing less than a test case–whether we are ready for the new generation to take over. And should it happen in Churachandpur, I believe there will be a cascading effect which will spread to other constituencies the next time. 

I happen to know a little bit about Langkhanpau, the NPP candidate. I know what a hard life he lived while in school and college. I can vividly recall the times we passionately discuss the ills afflicting our society and how we tried, in our own small ways, to arrest unfair-means practices in College examinations in Lamka. If he is still the person I know him to be, he’s just the right guy who can initiate the process of reforming, nay, transforming the education system in particular and the society in general. 

I don’t believe this is delusional thinking. After finishing his graduation from Churachandpur College, Langkhanpau joined the St. Paul’s Institute, one of the best schools in Lamka where he earned a name for himself as a disciplinarian and reformer. From there, he went to Rayburn High School as Headmaster. That’s where he really came to be noticed. In about three or four years flat, Rayburn was transformed into one of the most sought-after schools in the district. His capacities to discipline and influence are legendary. He never hesitates to innovate and improvise. When he left the school last year to contest this election, his students organize a mass-prayer service, beseeching on him not to leave. 

All these while, and in the midst of all his social engagements, he pursues and finished his B. Ed and MA courses from IGNOU. That’s something for someone who works full time in a private school. I myself had some experience as a private school teacher and know what hard life it is. 

Yes, he is a political green-horn. He exudes a kind of rustic charm so different from the kind of make-believe sophistication you see in typical politicians. He is something of an idealist. I believe his critics when they said he may not even know how the DRDA funds are distributed. But I don’t agree with them when they said he should learn all that before entering into active politics. 

I believe we had had enough of sleek, cynical, too-clever-by-half politicians who buy up people during elections and squeeze them dry for the rest of the term. I am totally fed up of politicians who tell you lies straight under your nose and believe they can get away with it, all the time. It is time we elect someone we can relate to, and someone we can trust. 

I put the question to him when I was home last Christmas. His answer was that there are officials like the DC whose job it is to do these works. And that, it was rather the undue interference of elected MLAs in these routine matters that creates problems. 

Langkhanpau has a way of defying conventional wisdom. When he got married, he vowed that the expenses should not cross the Rs. 2000 mark. To that, his friends reportedly joked that he will have to add another ‘0’. Well, the man rented out the New Lamka YPA Hall for Rs 300 and bought Rs 600 worth of sweets for the celebrations!! The total expenses incurred on his part, he told me, amounted to all of Rs 18000. He is a guy who experience and know our society from the bottom up. He rightly believes that the first priority is to revitalize the defunct government-run schools. I am not sure how much he can do. But I know he believes he can. 

His critics never tired of saying that he doesn’t know the trade of today’s politics, will be an embarrassment for a prestigious constituency like Lamka, and cuts a sorry figure when compared to senior ministers like Phungzathang Tonsing. There is no doubt that Phungzathang is a giant in Manipur politics. But, think? Can we say that we are better in a qualitative sense during the last five years under the Congress’s ‘stable’ rule? Do we remember the times we were braving bullets and tear gases asking for protection against landmines and underground menace? And how our powerful politicians did not care to bother with us or voice our anguish in the state assembly? Do we remember those boycotts we impose on them in exasperation and total helplessness? 

If it is powerful and expert deal-makers that we need, why is it that we still cry out for the most basic services? I believe these people are really the problem. What we really needed is a new start. A fresh beginning. On a clean slate. A politics in which ideals of Christianity are not just the dress, but its core principle. We need not someone who can pull in lots of funds, but one who will make sure that whatever is available is utilized for the right purpose. We need someone who speaks the language we spoke and one amongst us. Not someone we have to look up to, all the time. Someone who have the credibility and determination to bridge the gaping hole between the public and the government. 

My one lingering concern is on the general consensus that money rules and those who have lots of money will only get elected. Is he feeling intimidated? He answered me on a reflective note: ‘There is no doubt that money is a powerful force. But I wouldn’t be here if I believe in money power. Deep down, I feel a yearning to be rid of this level of politics among the people. People have matured. They want to be in control again. They want to own their representatives and not the other way round. And ultimately, it will not be money, but people’s votes that will decide the outcome.’ 

I am keeping my fingers crossed. The verdict will be passed only on February 23.

 

damsung lamsuk-lamtou

Written by LT Ngaihte | Jordan
Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Genesis bung bul I sim leh leitung(universe) in a pianpih omsun ‘mialna’(darkness) ahi.Huai omzia bel mial a om masa a,a khonung in Pathian in vaak a omsak chihna a hi. Vaakna a khonung a hong om pen,a bawltu’n hun asak chia’n a mit nawn dia,mialna in leitung pumpi a tuam nawn ding. Nu gil sung mial tak a kha 9 ngut siambukim a mihing a om khit chiang in,khovak ah hong piangkhia a,a dam sung a zoh hunhun in a hong kipatna ‘mialna’ mah ah a kik nawn bang ahi.

Mial leh vak hong om a kipan, tunitan in thil ‘ahi’ leh ‘ahilou’ aki zui gige a,huai dinmun pen ‘kingaihna’ hiam ‘kikhentheihlouhna’ (attraction) akichi a,Sir Issac Newton,thilsuimi minthang khat in ‘opposite poles attract’ chih hon gelh khia hi.

Hiai thil nih akilehbulh tuak, lah a kikhentheilou, te ziak in khovel apai ahi.Ngeina dan(natural law) ahih man in,a nih tuak tuak delh in kuapeuh khosa hi.A lang khat ziak a,alang khat om himawk dan ahih man in,ngaihtuah a nei khate a din nuihzat huaipi suak a,Bible a Thugentu chih bang a ‘bang mah lou teng bang mah lou ahi’chih theih ding pi ahi.Etsakna’n,nopsakna ichih bang haksatna om ziak a om thei phet (relative term) ahi. Huaimahbangin,lungkimna ichih bang leng lungngaihna omman a ut huai suak thei phet ahi.Vangam bang I gen chiang un,lungkham mangbat na,kahna leh haksatna himhim omnonlouhna’chi’n I gen sek ua, huaite chauh om ding ahih le bel,a omzia omlou maimah ding hi.Ahih keileh,mihausapa leh Lazar bang a,a haksa thuakte gal muh thei ding ihih lebel,nopsak theihna dan khat a om dia,ahihziakin,mi haksatna muh man a ana kipah maimah leng vangam kaithei zette om dan ding abang kholkei zel.

Abangteng hileh,I gennoppen bel:A gam a lei ziak in,ei tenna lam te nam tuantual leh haksatak a khosa te I hi uhi.Gamlak petmah ah I teng ua,I inmun ding I vat siang a,gamnuai a sa omte toh kimaituah in I om a,I lou a hai piang sunsun te,amau te toh ikituh den hi.Niteng nekkhop muzoulou tam pi I om hi. Dawnding tui toi in gamlapipi kuan a ngai a,kang maimah thei ahih man in zing khang,ihmut gina mumanlou hial a kuan khiak a ngai.Huai leng a siangthou mahmah ahi kei lai.Anhuan nading sing keu leh sing kuangthei zongin,nupite sun nitum tum in a kuan ua,a hon muh sunsun te uleng hoihtak a keu leh anhuan na dia hoih mahmahte a hi kholkei lai uh.Mei I hon toh a,sing kuangtheiloupi toh an ihonhuan a,insungteng meikhu in a dim a,I puan silhte na ngon meikhu gim a nam ngeknguk hi.Electrict chihbang omlou,mial lakpi ah an ihon ne a,buh,meh leh malta mehte a omna ngeina uh itheih sa ahih man a kisawkkha thei phet ahi mai.Taksa a dia hoih chih bang hi nilnel lou in,a omom kine hi mai,I duh kei leh le adang omtuanlou ahihman a,kine ahi.Huchi’n,ihmut hun a hong tung a,thouthak I venna’n puansia peuh I hal a, huih vot lah tuang leh bang vang simsenglouh te apan a hong lut ua,votsa in iki lu tuntunhi.Awle,zing phalvak in duh leh louh in an I hon ne non mualmual a,akin a kin in loulam I delh nawn.I haiinou gah panpan te gamsaten a honna nek sak man kha ding uh chih lau in,eksuak le thaman lou,suang peuh sing peuh a kisui noknok in I hong tung a,buk a leng sawt kholmanlou in,a suk a tou ah I diang vevu hi.

Huchibang a khosa te adin nopsakna tuh I lung gulh ahi gige.Nopsakna I chih chiang in,khawltoldamna, tha-awlna hiam a baihlam zaw a thil hih utna ahi.Inn nuamtak a, tutna nem thit thet tung tut leh puan phah sahtak tung a ihmut chih khong,nektheih duhduh adiak in sa chi tuamtuam,sathau tawktak a kanmin thilte leh singpi khum tak chih khong I lung gulh uh ahi.Lou kuankuan ngai non kei henla, sum tampi nei in,inn a tawldam kawmin,duh duh,deih deih ki lei hen la,kholak ipot sunsun chian car nuamtak ngen in kituang leh nopsa mahmah din I ngaihtuah uhi.I taksa leh damtheihna dia hoih lou law mahmah ahih lam uh theilou in,hiai te muh sawm in,ithum in imau uhi.

Khovel mundang khat ennawn le:America gam akhopi khat Los Angeles ah, a khua a teng mihing sang in car atam zaw chi uhi.In te ah kholum leh vot utdandan a omsak theih ahi a,telephone inteng a aom ban ah mimal in mobile phone anei chiat ua,inkuan a miteng in amau car a ki neih ua,sum tang puakpuak ngailou in card aki neih chiat uhi.Pawt khe sese louin,telephone hiam,TV tungtawn in van a deih deih uh alei thei uhi.Newspaper te in ah a deih deih uh a mu ua,TV in sun leh zan in etnop tuamtuam a en thei ua,khovel mun tuamtuam a mite toh Computer tung tawnin,aki thuzak thei gige uhi.Ahihziakin,hiai khopi a tengte ut leh lungngulh mahmah tuh taksa damtheihna ahi.Taksa damtheihna delh in niteng in a khe un atai ua,gam haksa mun te ah a zin ua,khe a paitheihna mun bang a lunggulh ua,khut a nasep a kho-ul kai sak bang a lung gulh u leh a ut mahmah uh khat ahi.Huai khopi a teng Computer company lian tak a sem khat a sepna apan a kitawp a,Africa gam haksa mahmah mun khat ah a pem hi.Huaipan leitung a a lungngulh pen agenna ah,’gamlak ,lamlian le a tunlouhna,telephone leh electrict bang le omlouhna ah kiteng hen la,gul khong leh gamsa tuamtuam toh kikhosa leh ka utpen’chita zen hi.A thilneih leh a hauhsakna ten subuaisa uhi. Huchibang deuh in,Nam makai Gadhiji lawm khat in jong ‘Gandhi’ jawngtak a kep ahih nadin sum tampi mahmah kiseng hi’chi ngei hi.Haksatna sang in nopsakna a thuak hakzaw na hi mok hi.Hauhsakna sang in haksatna tun haksa a sazaw pawl zong om thei zel.

Leitung a buaina a omgige namun Middle east leh Muslim gamte hideuh hi.Huaiziakmah le hin teh,agam mite a kimuh teng ua,a ki wish na uh‘Salaam Aleikum’ Lemna na kiang ah om hen chih na ahi. Lemna,Lemna zing teng a achih chih hang un Buaina sang deuh deuh zel mok hi.Pathian thu I gen chia Setan thu le gen louh theih louh zel mawk.A hoih a lat theihna dia,ahoihlou gen ngai zel.Leitung a migilou pen hidia a gintakhuai Osima bin Laden bang khovel sual galdou dan a kingai,A melma America te President Bush bang lah Setan dou a ki ngai zel. I etna lamlam a dia gen diktheih vek dan in thil a pai hi.Human bomb a kipete bang in a sih nungchiang ua vangam a lallukhu setheilou mu dia kigingta uh hi thethup.A kipiakzoh dan uh Stephan suang a denlup ahih sang a leng thupi zaw bang thei mok. Delhi a eimi omten ahihtheih tawp ua inlam meh nek khak teitei sawm.In lam ten leng huchibang bok a,Delhi lam ate nek khak tei sawm zel.Thu leh la bang leng Delhi a om zenpi a Lamka lam thu te a thei a theinuam.Lamka lamte le huchi bok.Vengkhang tangvalten vengsak te nungak te hong hel ua,vengsak ten vengkhangte a.Pasal ching mahmah in atangpi a numei ching khollou zi a nei kha.Pasal chinglou hial ten numei chingtak zi a nei kha zel.Huchibangin,khat a let leh khat neu,khat thau,khat gawng.Khat pil,khat hai.Kisit tuah vek thei dan a omziak a,inkuan humbit kha thethup chibang le om thei mok.Munsang a pan munniam manoh pa dia lamsuk lua sa,a niam apan asang manoh pa dia huai lampi mah toulua hi zel.Khat vei tou,khat vei suk.Mial leh vaak.vaak leh mial.I neih louh louh ki lung gulh.I neih hial chia kingaihsak non louin,adang khat deih zel.I ut ut ‘hilou’,I ut louhlouh ‘hi’ vachih hial dia lah hideuh lou.Eilamten nungak lasa siam te melhoihlou dia a koih u zaw,mi ana mutam naikei deuh ua ahih chu ka chi hi,enve Maria Cariah te khawng.Hiai bangle khenkhat ngaih a siamloulua bang le hithei,a mel bang le khenkhat ngaih a selua bang hithei zel.I zi hiam I pasal hiam a ingaih te bang le,a hon theihpih bang zah hiamte ziak a ‘huchi’ dan a om ihi a,amau tang a midang lak a aom chiang ua,huai zi,huai pasal chih theihna lampi om tuan lou hi.

Huchibang a I neihlouhte delh a hahpan apang,I duh ngenta nekha thei a ki omlou,bang hiam lungngulh nei gige a I omte vangsiatna hilouin vangphatna ana hi zaw.I duhte ne thei in,I utut hih thei in om lehang kumkhat zong kidam zou lou di’n ka gingta hi. Sawltak Paula in ‘ka hatlouhna te ka hatna ahi’ ana chih bangin,singtang dawna haksatak a khangkhia ka hih ziak in,nopsak bang ka hau a,kipahna bang leng mu pahpah hi’n ka kingai. Huaikia chikei ve,haksa sakluat lawmlawm ka nei kei zomah. Mikhenkhatin ‘mundang a omom a,lunglengtak a damsung zangbei mai di zaw na hi ve ua’ hon chipawl a om na ua,kei ngaihdan in zaw,lunglenna hi vangsiatna ahi kei a,nopsakna thupi tak leh Pathian vualzawlna ahi zaw.

La phuaktu khat in ‘Damsung lamsuk, lamtou a paiin,
Hun tampi I pai kheng ta;
Dahna,nopna zong I tuak a,
Maitaini,maigumni zong’ ana chi.

Leitung hinkhua zaw huchi vel maimai hi,ut thu a tawpsan theih lah hih chipi kei, ut tantan va omtheih na le lah hih chi tuan kei!#

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1 Written by whoami, on 2007-01-30 23:42:20, IP: 164.100.41.34
Nuamsa den a omna leh deih teng kimna khovel ana hitaleh sihna bang omlou hita mawkleh mite’n Pathian kua hi tuan hiam ? a chi ding ua , hehpihna i tangkha kei ding . Haksatna leh mangbatna te’n tongkhotna hon tun a, mi tongkhong leh panpihbeite’n Panpihtu a zong ua amu zel mai uh . Lamsuk -lamtou i paina ding om a, i tangtawnin lam zuanin i pai naihnaih gouh ua, hiai temporal world chu paisan chiat dingdan i hi ve ua .
‘Na lam vaak a , ka paitheihna din, ka lampi ah na vaak hong tan in;
Mittaw bang , khua mulou a zan mial bang ka pai laiin,
Hong lenin ka puklouh na’ng hong len in’ chi chiat leng maw .
2 Written by thanghming, on 2007-01-31 02:47:47, IP: 203.190.159.3
hiai khovelzo mo . . . . lingpi lakah rose hoihtak hong paak khia hiveh . . . chihsuk mai ding hiin kathei.

thangthuam

Upa T Thangthuam IPS – Patron Member

Pa min: T Lutpau
Nu min: Ngaisiam
Pian kum: March 1, 1953
Pianna Khua: Vaikhawtlang (Mizoram)

Zi min: Lalremkung
Ta neihzah: 6 (Numei 3 & pasal 3)

Siamsinna :
Examination Class Year Insitution/Board
1. HSLC (Assam Board) II 1968 Vimala Raina
2. PUC (Arts) II 1969 Sielmat Christian College
3. BA (Arts) Distinction 1972 Churachandpur College
4. MA(English) II 1974 Gauhati UniversityNote: NCC ah ‘C’ Certificate holder ahi.

Siamsinna inn a sepkhakte:
1. Teacher, Children’s Training School, Lamka
2. Headmaster, Hill Model School, Singngat
3. Lecturer & Head of English Deptt, Maharaja Bodhachandra College, Imphal

SSPP a hihkhaknate:
1. Secretary, Khuga Valley Block (1969-70, 70-71)
2. President, Khuga Valley Block (1971-72)
3. General Secretary, SSPP GHQ (1972-73)
4. President, Imphal Block (1975-76)
5. Life Member, SSPP GHQ (1972)

6. Patron Member, SSPP GHQ (2005)

Saptuam/Organisation a pankhaknate : (a) Patron Member in SSPP,GBC, BSI.

(b) Secretary (Moral & Religion), Rostad Memorial H/School -1967-1968

(c) Local Upa Committee Member – EBCC Lamphelpat

(d) DWC Member – Imphal Division

(e) Upa Ordination – 9^{th December, 2001 – EBC Kumsim khawmpi lian 53 na.(f) BOT Member – 2005 EBC Khawmpilian 57 na.}

(g) Sr. Adviser, YPA Imphal Block.

(h) Editor/Mag. Secretary, CCpur. College-1971-72

(i) Secretary, Horse Riding Club, National Police Academy -1979-80

(j) Captain, Volleyball Team, National Police Academy – 1979- 80

Award/Pahtawina tuamtuam a saan khakte :
1. Best Student Prize, Teikhang ME School, 1963.
2. Award for 2nd Position in Class VI Exam in Mizoram, 1964.
3. SSPP Award for BA Distinction, 1972

Medals:

1. Special Duty Medal, 04/06/1991

2. Bar to Special Duty Medal

3. Manipur Police Centenary Medal, 1992

4. Presidents’ Police Medal for Meritorious Service, 15/08/1996

5. Indian Independence Day Golden Jubilee Medal, 1997

Note: 1979 Batch IPS Training te Passing out Parade (PoP) ah Commander in ana pang pha hi.