Dukan tuamtuam 6 mei in kang tum
Lamka, Dec 28: New Bazar Thangzam Road a T. Dongzakai Gangte Cinema Hall kim vel a kibawl dawr tuamtuam zan nitak zanlai dak 12:30 vel in mei in kang a, Thangzam Road lampang dukan 6 kang tum hi. Meikang Fire brigade leh a kim a mi omten kidelh huan in nasatak in phelh ua, mun dang peh manlou in phelh mit uhi. Huai a dukan/dawr bawlte bel Lalrempara of Saikot Ladies Shoes, Kamminthang of New Lamka, Variety Store, Hoihnu of Hill Town, Vegetable Godown, Boinu of D. Phailian Vegetable Shop, G. Gouthianlal of New Lamka, Shoes Store leh Roukung Gangte of Bijang Pharmacy ahi.
Fire Brigade apan thutut kingah dan in, hiai dawr kang a van kang se tengteng a sum a hisap in Rs.2,50,000/- vel man pha ding hi’n gen uhi. Meikang kipatna theih hikei mahleh electric hi ding a gintak ahi.
SSPP 60yrs Diamond Jubilee
Lamka, Dec 28: Siamsinpawlpi 60yrs Diamond Yearlong Celebration Grand Final Count Down hong tung ding January 3-13, 2007 sung, CCpur Govt. College a Diamond Hall ah zat hiding hi. Hiai hun zatn sung ah, Pu T.K. Hangzou, IDAS, Dy. Finance Adviser, NEC, Pu Doukhomang Khongsai, MLA, Manipur, Pu PC Lawmkunga, IAS, Principal Secy. Govt. of Manipur, Pu O. Ibobi Singh, IAS, CM Manipur, Pu H. Rouhlun, MLA, Mizoram, Pu Brig. Sarmah, AR, Pu V. Dongzathang, IRS (Rtd), Patron member, Pu V. Hangkhanlian, MLA, Thanlon, V. Thangzasiam, IAS, Pu T. Phungzathang, Minister Power, Manipur, Ambika Soni, Minister of Tourism, Delhi, Pu Vung D. Tombing, SSPP Patron, T. Hangkhanpau, MLA, Singngat, leh Pu Thangtawn, IAS, Director (TD) Govt. of Manipur ten Chief Guest, Guest of Honour, Functional President leh Chief Host hihna toh uap chiat ding uhi.
Ex-Gratia sum Rs.13,90,000/- hawm khia uh
Lamka, Dec 28: Kumlui Dec 21, 2006 ni a Tuila Bus accident a sihna tuak leh liam mi 68 te kiang ah zangna dopna (Ex-Gratia) sum cheque a piak khiakna Hq. Veng IB Road a KKL Complex ah tuni’n nei uhi. Tuni sunnung dak 2:30 in KSO/CCpur saina in Programme sau lou nei ua, huai hun ah Kuki Innpi Manipur, Kuki Innpi CCpur, KKL ban ah Government Official SDO/BDO Henglep CCpur leh Singngat te’n uap ua, DC/CCpur om louh ziak in Thuamkhansuan SDC/Hq in Cheque pekhia hi. Accident a si mi 16 sung kuante kiang ah Rs.50,000- zel pia ua, a liam serious deuh mi 22 te kiang ah Rs.20,000/- zel leh aliam serious lou deuh mi 30te kiang ah Rs. 5000/- pia uhi. Tuila Bus neitu Palmeswor in accident a liamte hospital a ki-etkolna ah Rs. 9 lakh val bang sengta hi’n kigen a, tuni’n aman siat batna dan in Vok khat gou in ankuang um uhi.
T.Ensong Bike in phu liam
Lamka, Dec 28: Tulel a BDO/Kakching T.Ensong(59) s/o (L) Damzachin of New Lamka College veng tuni sunnung dak 1:30 vel in Scooter atai lai Hmar veng Tedim Road ah Bike taiten phu kha in a lulak nasa in amhai a, tun Dist. Hospital lamka ah et kol in om hi.
Meshak L.Sinate luang hong tung
Lamka, Dec 28: Meshak Laltanliena Sinate(26) s/o Dartinhau Sinate of Rengkai Bible Hill, zanhal in New Delhi ah Inn sawng apan kia in si a, a luang postmortem bawl ahih nung in, tuni sunnung dak 2:30 in Rengkai khua puaktung in om hi. Aman New Delhi ah M. Com sinlel hi.
Thutut kingah dan in, Mr. Meshak Laltanlien Sinate bel Christmas lengkhawm pai hak, a omna gate kikalh man ziak a dai fencing tung apan lut sawm lai kia a si hi’n leng thutut kingah hi.
Heipi in akhe pek sat liam kha
Lamka, Dec 28: Nemchin (45) w/o Semmang of Tuingamjang tuni zing lam dak 11:30 vel in gamlak a a sing puakna ah Heipi in a vei lam khe pek sat bal kha in tun Dist Hospital Lamka ah etkol in om hi.
NREGS nasep khawl phot
Lamka, Dec 28: National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(NREGS) nuai a Job Card nei ten veng sung a nasepna a neih uh Christmas leh kum thak kizat ziak in khawl phot ua, January 2008 kha bul apan nasep pat sawm nawn uhi. Christmas ma in nasep tha man sum muta ua, khua khen khat a hausaten bel sum alak khiak zah uh hawm gailou pawl om chih thu kiza hi.
DC Imphal ah omlai
Lamka, Dec 28: Sumant Singh IAS DC/CCpur Official meeting toh kisai a Dec 26, 2007 ni a Imphal apai suk tuni tan Imphal ah om lai a, DC omlouh ziakin office kai tawm mahmah hi.
Congress in Foundation Day zang
IMPHAL DEC 28: Congress Party phuhkhiak nung kum 122 chin hun zatna tuni’n Congress Bhavan B.T. road Imphal ah, MPCC saina in neih in om hi.
Hiai hun ah Chief Minister O.Ibobi Singh, MPCC President Gaikhangam ban ah Minister leh MLA tamkhop leng kihel uhi. Himahleh, Congress sunga dissident MLA te bel, tulel a Delhi a om ahihziakun hiai hun ah kihel khalou uhi.
122 Congress Foundation Day zatna hun a MPCC Chief Gaikhangam in agenna ah, Congress sunga ngaihdan kibanglou leh kitheih siamlouhna bangmah omlou ahihdan gen in, Political party tuamtuam in mahni party buaipih lou a, Congress thu gen leh sak aneih utoh kisai in huchibang ten amau aa kibuaipih le uh hoihzaw dingin leng gen hi. Congress sung buaipih akul leh ami leh sate mah in buaipih zaw ding ahihdan leng genbeh hi. Tuni tan Manipur a Congress mipi gintak na leh muanna kembit toujel a paithei ahihna ah, hichibang om theihna party worker ten mipi muanna sukmang louh ding ahihdan leng MPCC President in gen hi.
Chief Minister O.Ibobi Singh in agenna ah, Congress sunga buaina kigen pen, party lian tak ahihban ah, inkuan lian khat ahihna ah, lungkim lou omthei mah ahihdan gen in, hichibang ngaihdan leh lungsim kibanglou te beisak na dia congress worker kuapeuh in mohpuakna nei ahihdan leng gen hi.
Tunitan Congress makaih sorkal in sepding achih te pichin toujel hidan in leng gen hi. Sorkal nasep tuamtuam khenkhat agenna ah, Pensioner te list leh sum lakna ding computerize vek hita a, huailou in, department tuamtuam a Manipur Govt. Employee’s List (MGEL) bawl khiak ziakin, fake appointment tamtak leng suikhiak ahihdan gen hi. Hichibang diklou tak a nasem te theihsuah ziaka, sorkal in kha tenga Rs 8/9 crores bang save theita ahihdan leng gen hi. Congress MLA te leh Minister te lak a kitheih siamlouhna om leleng huchibang te kihoulem theih ahihdan leng gen hi. Tuni a Congress Foundation day zatna hun ah, Dissident lam a om dan a gen, FCS minister Y.Erabot tel mahleh, Law & LA Minister Th.Debendra Singh bel tellou hi.
Highway Traffic sukbuai in om
IMPHAL, Dec 28: State Education Department a official khat pimang ahihna toh kisai in tuni in Imphal-Moreh Road NH-39 khaktan leh sukbuai in om a, kintak a official pimang a om khahkhe ding in phut uhi. Thusuak in ataklatna ah, December 15 in Education S nuai a Engineering Cell a sem Salam Indrajit Singh Section Officer meltheihlouh pawlkhat in Babupara, Imphal a Education Office gate mai ah pimang uh a, Police khut ah report in om mahleh, tuni tan dong a tanchin suikhiak hilou hi. Singjamei area lak tuni in naktak in sousang a, zingkal dak 6 apan hun sawttak lampi khak bing uhi. Manipur ah tukum sung chauh in Government official tamtak pimang in om ta hi.
Panchayati Raj Institution te a din convention
IMPHAL DEC 27: Manipur Legislalture Forum on HIV/AIDS leh Department of RD & PR kithuah in tunin, Imphal East Porompat a Panchayat Hall ah, Panchayati Raj Institution te adingin one day state level convention on HIV/AIDS neih in om hi. Hiai hun a khuallian Chief Minister O.Ibobi Singh in athugenna ah, kuapeuh in lauhuai asak natna HIV/AIDS kichi Manipur a singtang leh phaizang a kigawm, state dang toh teh a tam mahmah ahihdan gen in, hiai pen Manipur mipi adia vangsiat huai asak dan leng gen hi. Hichibang natna hoihlou Manipur a beisak nadia kuapeuh in mohpuakna neivek ahihdan leh, abiktak a mipi palai dia teelching ten nei uh hidan in gen hi.
MLA kuapeuh in mahni bialsunga hichibang natna in ma asawn louhna dia panla chiat dingin leng chialna bawl hi. Hichibang natna apat kivenna ding khota tuamtuam a Panchayati Raj institution in nei ahihman in, hichibang a sem ten mohpuakna naktak a lathak dingin leng chialna nei hi. President apang, Assembly Speaker Dr.S.Buchichandra Singh in agenna ah, khota te a HIV/AIDS bang hihiam chih leh hiai natna lauhuai ahihlam theilou mi tamtak omlai ahihman in, hichibang te kuapeuh in atheih chia Manipur khangtou theipan ding ahihdan gen hi. Hichibang natna deih huailou omlai teng society nuam hingei lou ding ahihdan leng gen hi. Hiai hun ah RD Minister Md. Alauddin Khan ban ah, Director Y. Neta leh MLA bangzah hiam leng kihel uhi.
Zu zuakna In haltum
IMPHAL DEC 28: Zan nitak dak 8 vel dingin, Sekmai Police Station huamsung Awang Leikinthai makha leikai a K.Kumar in zu azuak vadawn pasal nih lak ah, Ksh.Rajen @ Dhijo (43) s/o (L) Bheigo kichi zu zuakna mun a puksia in sihna tuak hi. Hiai toh kisai in mipi thangpai in Zu zuakna In tuni’n mei in haltum uhi.
Mikhat pimang nungin kaplum
IMPHAL DEC 28: Police apat thutut kingah dan in, zan nitak in meltheihlouh pasal nih in Sekmai PS huamsung Senjam Chirang Mayai Leikai mun a teng H.Boiboi Singh (34) s/o H.Kanhai kichi a In apat vapikhia uhi. Hichibang kal ah, Boiboi sisa in tuzingkal in Senjam Chirang loukon lak a muhsuah in om chih ahi. Hiai siluang tuni’n RIMS morgue a post
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Military formation and ranking system
By Donn Morgan Kipgen
Even after 17 years of CI Ops in Manipur, Military formation, chain of Command and names of tactical weaponries are still unaquianted nor autho- ritively familiar to Media persons, learned citizens and some law enforcement officers. Besides, Military jargons and terms are still Greeks to many citizens, policemen and few local journalists. Without knowing all these things, following the day to day account of CI Ops would be much the harder. Going by the nature of press releases/ statements of the UG outfits, even the UG Militants seem to have been confused; at times, all at sea as they were in this regard. The general public has the right to know the brief but finer points of all these Military-related informations since the lead newsreports are meant for them. The readers are the life-line of the Media and as such the need for detail informations to make their breakfast much more spicy. Hence, both the writer or reporter ought to know each other with their regular readers when it comes to military issue.
Here’s the ranking and recognition structural system of the regular Army formation:
1. General - a Crossed Sword, a Star and Ashok Chakra.
2. Lt. General - a Crossed Sword and Ashok Chakra.
3. Maj General- a Crossed Sword and a Star.
4. Brigadier- 3 Stars and Ashok Chakra.
5. Colonel - 2 Stars and Ashok Chakra.
6. Lt. Colonel - a Star and Ashok Chakra.
7. Major - an Ashok Chakra.
8. Captain - 3 Stars.
9. Lieutenant - a Star (without ribbon).
10. 2nd Lt (JCO) - a Star with ribbon.
11. Sergeant (NCO) - 3 Chevrons /Vs
12. Corporal (NCO) - 2 Chevrons/Vs
13. Lance Corporal - 1 Chevron/V
14. Private/Rifleman.
The US, Russian and Israeli Air Forces use the same ranking system like that of the regular army and designate Brigadier as Brig General.
A regular army’s lowest formation is a Rifle Squad consisting 4 or 5 personnel led by a Corporal. A Section consists of 10 to 12 personnel led by Sargeant, whereas a rifle Platoon (30 to 35 men) is under the command of 2nd Lieut or a Subedar or a 1st Lieutenant. A Company comprising about 80 to 100 combat personnel is commanded by either a Captain or Major. In the US Army, a company has a combat strength of 150 plus personnel. Though a Battallion under the Command of a Lt Col or Colonel is widely viewed as a formation of 1000 men, the actual strength is about 700 combat personnel. A battallion has 5 Combat Commands. The State’s IRB could have no more than 500 jawans and officers despite the official strength of 1000 men per each battallion! Three or more battalions formed a Brigade and a Division has 3 or more brigades under the command of Maj General. An army’s Corps (pr. Core) has 3 or more divisions commanded by a Lt. General. The Indian Army has 5 Combat Commands, viz Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central Commands, each of which has 3 or more Corps and is under the command of a senior Lt. General. A new Strike (Combined) Command is likely to come up in the near future.
For over 30 years, the Indian armed forces combat weapon is the standard NATO’s FN FAL 7.62 mm SLR which is now replaced by 5.56 mm INSAS and AK series assault rifles. The NSG, SPG and para-commandos are armed with Hecklar and Koch 9 mm MP-5 and Uzi sub-machine guns, 9 mm Glock-17, Walther P-5 and .45 Colt semi-automatic pistols, PSG-1 Sniper rifle and Remington M-870 shotgun. The 7.62 mm MMG replaced the 7.79 mm Bren gun. The Army has also acquired 30 mm canon, Milan Surface-to-Surface missiles, 12.17 mm and 23 mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
Some are confused when it comes to number matter. For example, 3/9th Gorkhas were a part of the legendary CHINDITS. Now what’s 3/9? The number 3 means 3rd Bn and the number 9 means 9th Regt, and so they were the 3rd Bn of the 9th Gorkha Regt. However, there are no Regimental numbering system in other army units, save one Regt. For example, 1st Assam means the 1st Bn of Assam Regt. When you comes across a .30 cal rifle, it means .30 of an inch, i.e. 7.62 mm, calibre rifle. What do you make (out) of 800 rpm muzzle velocity? It means the number of rounds (bullets) that could be fired off by a firearm in one minute. Now, what are the main firearms and tactical weapons used by modernised armed forces units/ formations? The US Marines and the Army were issued with M-16 automatic rifles during the height of Vietnam War in 1966/67 which has a 30-round magazine to replace the .30 M-14 automatic rifles. Till now, the US Airborne forces used the .45 Colt pistols. At present, the US armed forces are equipped with a new model 5.56 mm Cal M-16A2 assault rifles, some are fitted with M203 under-barelled hi-ex grenade launchers and their Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) being the 7.62 mm General Purpose Machine guns (GPM). The M-16A2 is also sold to US military allies, like the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Columbia, Israel, etc. The shorter version of all-weather 5.56 mm M-4 US Carbine while the civilian version of M-16 is better known as AR-15. The US special forces, the Israelies and US mercenaries in Iraq (about 15000 Blackwater security guardsmen) are armed with M-4 carbines. The Minimi 5.56 mm SAW 200 rounds machine gun is preferred by most Western nations’ armed forces.
The main infantry weapons of the British and French armed forces are the 5.56 mm SA-80 and Famas F1 assault rifles respectively. The German’s army used the G-5 automatic rifle whereas the Israeli armed forces are equipped with 5.56 mm Galeel assault rifle, UZI SMG, M-4 and M-16A2.
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Even after 17 years of CI Ops in Manipur, Military formation, chain of Command and names of tactical weaponries are still unaquianted nor autho- ritively familiar to Media persons, learned citizens and some law enforcement officers. Besides, Military jargons and terms are still Greeks to many citizens, policemen and few local journalists. Without knowing all these things, following the day to day account of CI Ops would be much the harder. Going by the nature of press releases/ statements of the UG outfits, even the UG Militants seem to have been confused; at times, all at sea as they were in this regard. The general public has the right to know the brief but finer points of all these Military-related informations since the lead newsreports are meant for them. The readers are the life-line of the Media and as such the need for detail informations to make their breakfast much more spicy. Hence, both the writer or reporter ought to know each other with their regular readers when it comes to military issue.
Here’s the ranking and recognition structural system of the regular Army formation:
1. General - a Crossed Sword, a Star and Ashok Chakra.
2. Lt. General - a Crossed Sword and Ashok Chakra.
3. Maj General- a Crossed Sword and a Star.
4. Brigadier- 3 Stars and Ashok Chakra.
5. Colonel - 2 Stars and Ashok Chakra.
6. Lt. Colonel - a Star and Ashok Chakra.
7. Major - an Ashok Chakra.
8. Captain - 3 Stars.
9. Lieutenant - a Star (without ribbon).
10. 2nd Lt (JCO) - a Star with ribbon.
11. Sergeant (NCO) - 3 Chevrons /Vs
12. Corporal (NCO) - 2 Chevrons/Vs
13. Lance Corporal - 1 Chevron/V
14. Private/Rifleman.
The US, Russian and Israeli Air Forces use the same ranking system like that of the regular army and designate Brigadier as Brig General.
A regular army’s lowest formation is a Rifle Squad consisting 4 or 5 personnel led by a Corporal. A Section consists of 10 to 12 personnel led by Sargeant, whereas a rifle Platoon (30 to 35 men) is under the command of 2nd Lieut or a Subedar or a 1st Lieutenant. A Company comprising about 80 to 100 combat personnel is commanded by either a Captain or Major. In the US Army, a company has a combat strength of 150 plus personnel. Though a Battallion under the Command of a Lt Col or Colonel is widely viewed as a formation of 1000 men, the actual strength is about 700 combat personnel. A battallion has 5 Combat Commands. The State’s IRB could have no more than 500 jawans and officers despite the official strength of 1000 men per each battallion! Three or more battalions formed a Brigade and a Division has 3 or more brigades under the command of Maj General. An army’s Corps (pr. Core) has 3 or more divisions commanded by a Lt. General. The Indian Army has 5 Combat Commands, viz Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central Commands, each of which has 3 or more Corps and is under the command of a senior Lt. General. A new Strike (Combined) Command is likely to come up in the near future.
For over 30 years, the Indian armed forces combat weapon is the standard NATO’s FN FAL 7.62 mm SLR which is now replaced by 5.56 mm INSAS and AK series assault rifles. The NSG, SPG and para-commandos are armed with Hecklar and Koch 9 mm MP-5 and Uzi sub-machine guns, 9 mm Glock-17, Walther P-5 and .45 Colt semi-automatic pistols, PSG-1 Sniper rifle and Remington M-870 shotgun. The 7.62 mm MMG replaced the 7.79 mm Bren gun. The Army has also acquired 30 mm canon, Milan Surface-to-Surface missiles, 12.17 mm and 23 mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
Some are confused when it comes to number matter. For example, 3/9th Gorkhas were a part of the legendary CHINDITS. Now what’s 3/9? The number 3 means 3rd Bn and the number 9 means 9th Regt, and so they were the 3rd Bn of the 9th Gorkha Regt. However, there are no Regimental numbering system in other army units, save one Regt. For example, 1st Assam means the 1st Bn of Assam Regt. When you comes across a .30 cal rifle, it means .30 of an inch, i.e. 7.62 mm, calibre rifle. What do you make (out) of 800 rpm muzzle velocity? It means the number of rounds (bullets) that could be fired off by a firearm in one minute. Now, what are the main firearms and tactical weapons used by modernised armed forces units/ formations? The US Marines and the Army were issued with M-16 automatic rifles during the height of Vietnam War in 1966/67 which has a 30-round magazine to replace the .30 M-14 automatic rifles. Till now, the US Airborne forces used the .45 Colt pistols. At present, the US armed forces are equipped with a new model 5.56 mm Cal M-16A2 assault rifles, some are fitted with M203 under-barelled hi-ex grenade launchers and their Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) being the 7.62 mm General Purpose Machine guns (GPM). The M-16A2 is also sold to US military allies, like the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Columbia, Israel, etc. The shorter version of all-weather 5.56 mm M-4 US Carbine while the civilian version of M-16 is better known as AR-15. The US special forces, the Israelies and US mercenaries in Iraq (about 15000 Blackwater security guardsmen) are armed with M-4 carbines. The Minimi 5.56 mm SAW 200 rounds machine gun is preferred by most Western nations’ armed forces.
The main infantry weapons of the British and French armed forces are the 5.56 mm SA-80 and Famas F1 assault rifles respectively. The German’s army used the G-5 automatic rifle whereas the Israeli armed forces are equipped with 5.56 mm Galeel assault rifle, UZI SMG, M-4 and M-16A2.
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Are We “Sick” People?; Painful self- insights as prerequisites for sanity and health
By : A Bimol Akoijam/IFP 12/29/2007 1:57:43 AM
Sickness, as a state of illness or being affected by disease, is not merely a matter of body or individual. It could also be of mental and behavioural kind; and the idea can also be applied to a collective, at least metaphorically. In that usage, a sick society or a people would mean a society or a people who is in a “miserable” state of being and a state of “disorder”, a dysfunctional state characterized by an inability to carry out the normal function with efficiency and effectiveness.
Given our contemporary life, the state of affairs that we are in, and our response (or want of it) to our situation, one wonders whether we are indeed a “sick” people?
But many might take offence to such a suggestion. After all, we are a proud people with 2000 years of history and civilization, and we cannot be called a “sick” society or people. Look at the way our sportspersons or artists are doing? How can we call such a people “sick”? This could be a feeling amongst many.
But for many, there is also a very tangible feeling: that there is no sense of order in Manipur today, and that people are in a miserable state of life, paralyzed by fear, they cannot express feelings and opinions or carry out their normal activities freely. Besides, there is the concreteness of our horrendous environment with the dismal and deplorable infrastructure and amenities. Will one describe such a state of mind and concrete reality of life, a healthy life?
How do we make sense of these conflicting feelings? Whatever be the feeling, we must understand and work through those feelings. This would mean, we must anyway take responsibility for what, why and wherefore of those feelings. Once we do that, it would generate insights into the nature of our “national character”, that is, the ways we have responded to our situation, the patterns of our beliefs, values and choices implicated in those responses. That will be the foundation for a change.
Insights are only for those courageous:
Insights about oneself do not necessarily generate a sense of happiness or comfort. For, insights are likely to debunk false or self-fulfilling beliefs about oneself. And these are usually those that we hold so dearly to retain our sense of who we are, which incidentally could also be aspects that restrict us from growing and evolving further. Therefore, we must take that discomfort; it is a price one has to pay for seeking to refashion one’s life. If we do not take this discomfort, we shall continue to live like the way we do: either we think that we are okay and doing well or that we are in a miserable situation. Both ways, the status quo shall remain.
If we want to live up to the imagery of our “national character” as a heroic people who have existed with certain sense of dignity and agency in history for so many years, we must take this exercise to gain insights into our life. And ready for what gets revealed through the exercise.
Pathos of our “national character” :
One way to start with is to ask, what have we been doing as a response to our economic life? What is the nature of our economy? Isn’t our economy essentially driven by the grant-in-aid from the “Centre”? An economy with a much sought after (and perhaps dominant) tertiary sector (primarily government jobs and other services) with an eroded secondary sector (small or medium scale industrial/manufacturing units) and a stagnant primary sector (particularly, agriculture)? Isn’t it a donor driven economy with almost non-existent state revenue? What is our productive base? Have we achieved meaningful capital formation during the last fifty years or so?
Has there been any sensible economic “planning” for the state? What do the plans have to do with the present state of our economy? Do our educated lots, the intelligentsia, have enough “economic literacy” to be productive “units” of the economic activity in the state?
Perhaps, these are not familiar questions amongst the people. Even for the educated lots, these may not even occur during the Budget Session of the Assembly. Unlike advance societies, our newspapers may not even discuss the implications of the annual budget presented in the Assembly.
Contrast this with the possible awareness of the people on the following matters: More funds and projects are coming from the Centre. Or, crores of rupees are being sanctioned for “development” (e.g., Capitol Project, cultural complexes and flyovers)! Or, the other way round, people must be aware of the “percentages” being cut by so and so from the funding doled out by the “Centre” and how the “development” activity gets delayed!
With such kind of awareness, perhaps, many could have an ear-to-ear smile with expectation as they pass through the dilapidated streets or nights without electricity on their way to the new “sign of development” in the state called the B.T Road Flyover for a walk or a ride! Or, condemn the “Centre” or our own politicians and naharols (insurgents) for the percentage-cuts?
Corruption and slavish mindset are produced and sustained by the donor driven economy. But how do we resist the subversion of our life by such an economy? By partaking in it through the seduction of the “percentages”? By justifying as some would preach a slavish truism that, “Manipur can not develop without the help” from some benevolent others!
What do these issues tell us about our “national character”? It points to a lack of character and knowledge and dishonesty of purpose and action. These are aspects of our “national character” that have driven us from one crisis after another. We need to fight such pathos of our “national character”
Indeed, it is time for us to see the three fingers that point towards us as we point one finger to the others, and take responsibility for our life more than what we have done so far.
And may this New Year give us the courage to do so.
The author can be reached at bimol_akoijaml@yahoo.co.in
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Sickness, as a state of illness or being affected by disease, is not merely a matter of body or individual. It could also be of mental and behavioural kind; and the idea can also be applied to a collective, at least metaphorically. In that usage, a sick society or a people would mean a society or a people who is in a “miserable” state of being and a state of “disorder”, a dysfunctional state characterized by an inability to carry out the normal function with efficiency and effectiveness.
Given our contemporary life, the state of affairs that we are in, and our response (or want of it) to our situation, one wonders whether we are indeed a “sick” people?
But many might take offence to such a suggestion. After all, we are a proud people with 2000 years of history and civilization, and we cannot be called a “sick” society or people. Look at the way our sportspersons or artists are doing? How can we call such a people “sick”? This could be a feeling amongst many.
But for many, there is also a very tangible feeling: that there is no sense of order in Manipur today, and that people are in a miserable state of life, paralyzed by fear, they cannot express feelings and opinions or carry out their normal activities freely. Besides, there is the concreteness of our horrendous environment with the dismal and deplorable infrastructure and amenities. Will one describe such a state of mind and concrete reality of life, a healthy life?
How do we make sense of these conflicting feelings? Whatever be the feeling, we must understand and work through those feelings. This would mean, we must anyway take responsibility for what, why and wherefore of those feelings. Once we do that, it would generate insights into the nature of our “national character”, that is, the ways we have responded to our situation, the patterns of our beliefs, values and choices implicated in those responses. That will be the foundation for a change.
Insights are only for those courageous:
Insights about oneself do not necessarily generate a sense of happiness or comfort. For, insights are likely to debunk false or self-fulfilling beliefs about oneself. And these are usually those that we hold so dearly to retain our sense of who we are, which incidentally could also be aspects that restrict us from growing and evolving further. Therefore, we must take that discomfort; it is a price one has to pay for seeking to refashion one’s life. If we do not take this discomfort, we shall continue to live like the way we do: either we think that we are okay and doing well or that we are in a miserable situation. Both ways, the status quo shall remain.
If we want to live up to the imagery of our “national character” as a heroic people who have existed with certain sense of dignity and agency in history for so many years, we must take this exercise to gain insights into our life. And ready for what gets revealed through the exercise.
Pathos of our “national character” :
One way to start with is to ask, what have we been doing as a response to our economic life? What is the nature of our economy? Isn’t our economy essentially driven by the grant-in-aid from the “Centre”? An economy with a much sought after (and perhaps dominant) tertiary sector (primarily government jobs and other services) with an eroded secondary sector (small or medium scale industrial/manufacturing units) and a stagnant primary sector (particularly, agriculture)? Isn’t it a donor driven economy with almost non-existent state revenue? What is our productive base? Have we achieved meaningful capital formation during the last fifty years or so?
Has there been any sensible economic “planning” for the state? What do the plans have to do with the present state of our economy? Do our educated lots, the intelligentsia, have enough “economic literacy” to be productive “units” of the economic activity in the state?
Perhaps, these are not familiar questions amongst the people. Even for the educated lots, these may not even occur during the Budget Session of the Assembly. Unlike advance societies, our newspapers may not even discuss the implications of the annual budget presented in the Assembly.
Contrast this with the possible awareness of the people on the following matters: More funds and projects are coming from the Centre. Or, crores of rupees are being sanctioned for “development” (e.g., Capitol Project, cultural complexes and flyovers)! Or, the other way round, people must be aware of the “percentages” being cut by so and so from the funding doled out by the “Centre” and how the “development” activity gets delayed!
With such kind of awareness, perhaps, many could have an ear-to-ear smile with expectation as they pass through the dilapidated streets or nights without electricity on their way to the new “sign of development” in the state called the B.T Road Flyover for a walk or a ride! Or, condemn the “Centre” or our own politicians and naharols (insurgents) for the percentage-cuts?
Corruption and slavish mindset are produced and sustained by the donor driven economy. But how do we resist the subversion of our life by such an economy? By partaking in it through the seduction of the “percentages”? By justifying as some would preach a slavish truism that, “Manipur can not develop without the help” from some benevolent others!
What do these issues tell us about our “national character”? It points to a lack of character and knowledge and dishonesty of purpose and action. These are aspects of our “national character” that have driven us from one crisis after another. We need to fight such pathos of our “national character”
Indeed, it is time for us to see the three fingers that point towards us as we point one finger to the others, and take responsibility for our life more than what we have done so far.
And may this New Year give us the courage to do so.
The author can be reached at bimol_akoijaml@yahoo.co.in
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Friday, December 28, 2007
State vs People
By H Kham Khan Suan
There is a grain of truth in the new General Officer Commander-in-Chief (Eastern Command), Lt.-Gen. Arvind Sharma’s contention in a press conference that the Army would be reduced to a “reactive force” without the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, better known as AFSPA.
Notwithstanding innumerable odds and misgivings a plausible alternative to this draconian Act, in place in different parts of the region since 1958, is difficult to come by. Evidently, the Indian State in tackling the “durable disorder” – to use Sanjib Baruah’s verbiage – is under tremendous stress, as never before, to help erode its proactive role to enforce “law and order” in this part of the country. This stark reality becomes glaringly evident even as the Review Committee on AFSPA recently concluded a series of confabulations and hearings in the region and in New Delhi between December 2004 and February 2005.
The stand taken by various NGOs and human rights organisations – Apunba Lup, Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights, Zomi Human Rights Foundation, to name a few – that the Act be repealed in toto bespeaks of the enormously complex issues involved.
In essence, the narrative of “law and order” – and the paraphernalia of coercive instruments it employs – in this part of the country is steeped in the discourse on national integration. The project of national integration, with “nationalism without a nation” (to borrow G Aloysius) as its modus operandi, was hit soon after the prospect of Independence became imminent.
Subsequently, the controversy that surrounds incorporation of the north-eastern states, particularly Manipur, into India wherein the minor regent, Boddhichandra, was “coerced” to sign the Merger Agreement in 1949 remains a nagging constitutional conundrum. As a corollary, the presence of any Indian State apparatus becomes a suspect.
It is in this light that what we witnessed in the summer of 2004 may just be seen as a “spark” of a fire (of nationalism or sub-nationalism as some would simplistically have it) brewing up and enveloping most of India’s borderlands. Such a spark may at times prove difficult to bury in the public imagination. It calls for sustained and comprehensive redressal.
No one can forget the events which inspired the naked protest by otherwise conservative Meitei women on 15 July 2004 in front of Kangla Fort – the base of the Assam Rifles and a symbol of “sub-national” pride. The “spark” was the death of Manorama Devi in AR custody following her detention on suspicion of being a cadre of the Peoples Liberation Army. These episodes suggested the extent to which a “patriotic act” by a committed few can weave together seemingly disparate communities into a solidified front of people fighting for rights and dignity. No democratic state can afford to ignore the gravity of such a situation.
It is precisely here that the assiduous efforts of the Review Committee to hold comprehensive consultations have to be appreciated. This assumes greater urgency in a situation marked by pronounced asymmetrical obligations among unequals (armed state vis-à-vis haplessly dispersed communities) where the sanctity and indivisibility of ethno-territorial boundaries attains greater importance. What is at stake is to rethink the whole edifice of national policy on North-East India. In a way, attempts to reconcile the demands to keep the armed forces within the confines of democratic control with the need to utilise them to maintain the unity and integrity of the nation require unpopular decisions which few political elites dare to take.
Therefore, the Review Committee should, inter alia, seriously consider the following issues:
1. Sensitise the existing military training posts in several parts of North-east India on human rights. The extant posts, without extra deployment of Central/paramilitary forces, would suffice the need of any exigency provided they are well equipped and trained.
2. Help evolve core groups within these posts to be readily available on demand. These groups may be drawn from communities which do not have any local allegiance. This is imperative amidst persistent complaints that elements within the armed forces, dispatched to carry out anti-insurgency operations, often have resorted to arson and unwarranted crimes.
3. Evolve means and ways to capitalise upon the fast disappearing mismatch between civil society and the State and help build, strengthen and foster civil societies. Towards this end help evolve innovative, prudent and effective use of mass media to channelise protests.
4. Streamline this mobilisation/consciousness to achieving broad-based participatory democracy. Integrally linked with this is an imperative to involve, engage and strengthen traditional/local institutions so that their time-tested efficacy is harnessed to help manage conflict. This assumes greater urgency in the face of a propensity to disown and marginalise such institutions. Herein lies the significance of having intense intra and inter community involvement and rapprochements.
All this would inevitably demand concerted political efforts and solutions. In effect, the disorder in the North-east desperately needs a holistic approach which privileges discursive democratic practices without necessarily sacrificing the “proactive” role of the armed forces in the process of national integration.
(The author teaches political science at Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi)
[The article had been published in the Statesman (New Delhi), 7 February 2005 and reproduced with the author's consent].
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There is a grain of truth in the new General Officer Commander-in-Chief (Eastern Command), Lt.-Gen. Arvind Sharma’s contention in a press conference that the Army would be reduced to a “reactive force” without the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, better known as AFSPA.
Notwithstanding innumerable odds and misgivings a plausible alternative to this draconian Act, in place in different parts of the region since 1958, is difficult to come by. Evidently, the Indian State in tackling the “durable disorder” – to use Sanjib Baruah’s verbiage – is under tremendous stress, as never before, to help erode its proactive role to enforce “law and order” in this part of the country. This stark reality becomes glaringly evident even as the Review Committee on AFSPA recently concluded a series of confabulations and hearings in the region and in New Delhi between December 2004 and February 2005.
The stand taken by various NGOs and human rights organisations – Apunba Lup, Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights, Zomi Human Rights Foundation, to name a few – that the Act be repealed in toto bespeaks of the enormously complex issues involved.
In essence, the narrative of “law and order” – and the paraphernalia of coercive instruments it employs – in this part of the country is steeped in the discourse on national integration. The project of national integration, with “nationalism without a nation” (to borrow G Aloysius) as its modus operandi, was hit soon after the prospect of Independence became imminent.
Subsequently, the controversy that surrounds incorporation of the north-eastern states, particularly Manipur, into India wherein the minor regent, Boddhichandra, was “coerced” to sign the Merger Agreement in 1949 remains a nagging constitutional conundrum. As a corollary, the presence of any Indian State apparatus becomes a suspect.
It is in this light that what we witnessed in the summer of 2004 may just be seen as a “spark” of a fire (of nationalism or sub-nationalism as some would simplistically have it) brewing up and enveloping most of India’s borderlands. Such a spark may at times prove difficult to bury in the public imagination. It calls for sustained and comprehensive redressal.
No one can forget the events which inspired the naked protest by otherwise conservative Meitei women on 15 July 2004 in front of Kangla Fort – the base of the Assam Rifles and a symbol of “sub-national” pride. The “spark” was the death of Manorama Devi in AR custody following her detention on suspicion of being a cadre of the Peoples Liberation Army. These episodes suggested the extent to which a “patriotic act” by a committed few can weave together seemingly disparate communities into a solidified front of people fighting for rights and dignity. No democratic state can afford to ignore the gravity of such a situation.
It is precisely here that the assiduous efforts of the Review Committee to hold comprehensive consultations have to be appreciated. This assumes greater urgency in a situation marked by pronounced asymmetrical obligations among unequals (armed state vis-à-vis haplessly dispersed communities) where the sanctity and indivisibility of ethno-territorial boundaries attains greater importance. What is at stake is to rethink the whole edifice of national policy on North-East India. In a way, attempts to reconcile the demands to keep the armed forces within the confines of democratic control with the need to utilise them to maintain the unity and integrity of the nation require unpopular decisions which few political elites dare to take.
Therefore, the Review Committee should, inter alia, seriously consider the following issues:
1. Sensitise the existing military training posts in several parts of North-east India on human rights. The extant posts, without extra deployment of Central/paramilitary forces, would suffice the need of any exigency provided they are well equipped and trained.
2. Help evolve core groups within these posts to be readily available on demand. These groups may be drawn from communities which do not have any local allegiance. This is imperative amidst persistent complaints that elements within the armed forces, dispatched to carry out anti-insurgency operations, often have resorted to arson and unwarranted crimes.
3. Evolve means and ways to capitalise upon the fast disappearing mismatch between civil society and the State and help build, strengthen and foster civil societies. Towards this end help evolve innovative, prudent and effective use of mass media to channelise protests.
4. Streamline this mobilisation/consciousness to achieving broad-based participatory democracy. Integrally linked with this is an imperative to involve, engage and strengthen traditional/local institutions so that their time-tested efficacy is harnessed to help manage conflict. This assumes greater urgency in the face of a propensity to disown and marginalise such institutions. Herein lies the significance of having intense intra and inter community involvement and rapprochements.
All this would inevitably demand concerted political efforts and solutions. In effect, the disorder in the North-east desperately needs a holistic approach which privileges discursive democratic practices without necessarily sacrificing the “proactive” role of the armed forces in the process of national integration.
(The author teaches political science at Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi)
[The article had been published in the Statesman (New Delhi), 7 February 2005 and reproduced with the author's consent].
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Indian Christians unite with Civil Society and demand end of Orissa violence against rural Christians
Today's rally in Delhi results in promises from National Commission for Minorities and Union Home Minister, but Christian delegation not satisfied
NEW DELHI - Dec. 27, 2007 - About 1,000 Christians from churches across Delhi rallied today to demand that the Central Government halt escalating anti-Christian violence in Orissa. A memo presented to the Prime Minister resulted in a meeting with the Union Home Minister this evening. Earlier in the day, Christian leaders met with the head of the National Commission for Minorities.
The rally, held in front of the gates of Orissa Bhavan in Delhi from 4-6pm, Dec. 27, 2007, revealed support from across the political and religious spectrum. Protestors were united in their call for an end to the communal violence against Christians in Orissa. The All India Christian Council (aicc) was a key organiser of the rally.
Speakers included: V.P. Singh, former Prime Minister; Binda Karat, CPI(M) spokesperson; Shabnam Hashmi, Director of ANHAD; Swami Agnivesh; and more. India's largest Christian groups were represented including the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), All India Catholic Union (AICU), Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) and more. Church members from many denominations across Delhi participated in the rally.
A memo was presented to the office of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. The PM's office instructed the Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil, to schedule a meeting with a delegation of Christians immediately. The delegation met Shri Patil at 6pm, Dec. 27, 2007, and was told that roadblocks and communication breakdowns are making it difficult to restore security in the villages of Orissa. Shri Patil said he will likely visit Orissa and promised he is doing everything possible to stop the attacks, culprits will be booked, and compensation will be provided to victims.
"Sadly, the delegation was not satisfied with the promises of the Union Home Minister since most violence continues in rural villages and the government didn't give specific plans to halt the violence in villages nor a planned amount for compensation of victims," said Rev. Abraham Sahu, aicc Delhi Chapter President.
Earlier in the day a delegation of Christians met with and received assurances from the head of the National Commission for Minorities, Mohamed Shafi Qureshi, that Christians will be protected in Orissa. He said he plans to visit the state.
"It is clear that the local police and Orissa state government have not been able to protect the Christian minority. While Orissa's leader claim they were prepared and are fully committed to stopping communal violence, we have doubts. For example, why does Orissa not have a state minorities commission? The Central Government must act now." said John Dayal, aicc Secretary-General.
"The VHP and other groups clearly don't believe in freedom of religion nor freedom of speech. They use accusations of forced and fraudulent conversions as an excuse for violence. Has there been a proven case in the courts of a missionary forcing someone to become a Christian recently? No! We are requesting immediate action to protect peaceful Christians and the arrest of miscreants from radical Hindutva groups," said Sam Paul, aicc Secretary of Public Affairs.
Orissa chapter of All India Christian Council met Cheif Minister Neevan Patnaik this evening and gave lame assurance to the delegation to ensure protection to the Christian minorities. Yet, his inability to stop the violence against Christians is seen in Sangh Parivar's organised attacks from the time violence broke out on December 23.
According to media reports, NGO press statements, and calls from aicc leaders on the ground in Orissa, at least 30 churches, Christian schools, and convents have been damaged or destroyed since December 24th, Christmas Eve. Four Christians were reported killed and many roads are blocked by radical Hindutva activists which prevents both police and fact finding teams from reaching victims. Despite a supposed helicopter tour of the affected districts by the Orissa Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik, and his repeated statements in various media channels that everything is under control, reports of attacks on Christians and churches continue to reach aicc and similar groups.
The violence allegedly began when Christians in a village 150 kms from the district headquarters of Phulbani began to celebrate Christmas Eve. Local Hindu fundamentalists opposed the event and a fight ensued. Also, a Hindutva leader, Swami Saraswati, was attacked by unknown assailants -- allegedly Christians -- near Daringbadi while he was travelling. The next day the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) called for a strike and its members began attacking Christians across the state.
The All India Christian Council (www.aiccindia.org), birthed in 1998, exists to protect and serve the Christian community, minorities, and the oppressed castes. The aicc is a coalition of thousands of Indian denominations, organizations, and lay leaders.
Mr. Madhu Chandra,
All India Christian Council,
Regional Secretary
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Indian Christians unite with Civil Society and demand end of Orissa violence against rural Christians
Today's rally in Delhi results in promises from National Commission for Minorities and Union Home Minister, but Christian delegation not satisfied
NEW DELHI - Dec. 27, 2007 - About 1,000 Christians from churches across Delhi rallied today to demand that the Central Government halt escalating anti-Christian violence in Orissa. A memo presented to the Prime Minister resulted in a meeting with the Union Home Minister this evening. Earlier in the day, Christian leaders met with the head of the National Commission for Minorities.
The rally, held in front of the gates of Orissa Bhavan in Delhi from 4-6pm, Dec. 27, 2007, revealed support from across the political and religious spectrum. Protestors were united in their call for an end to the communal violence against Christians in Orissa. The All India Christian Council (aicc) was a key organiser of the rally.
Speakers included: V.P. Singh, former Prime Minister; Binda Karat, CPI(M) spokesperson; Shabnam Hashmi, Director of ANHAD; Swami Agnivesh; and more. India's largest Christian groups were represented including the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), All India Catholic Union (AICU), Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) and more. Church members from many denominations across Delhi participated in the rally.
A memo was presented to the office of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. The PM's office instructed the Union Home Minister, Shivraj V. Patil, to schedule a meeting with a delegation of Christians immediately. The delegation met Shri Patil at 6pm, Dec. 27, 2007, and was told that roadblocks and communication breakdowns are making it difficult to restore security in the villages of Orissa. Shri Patil said he will likely visit Orissa and promised he is doing everything possible to stop the attacks, culprits will be booked, and compensation will be provided to victims.
"Sadly, the delegation was not satisfied with the promises of the Union Home Minister since most violence continues in rural villages and the government didn't give specific plans to halt the violence in villages nor a planned amount for compensation of victims," said Rev. Abraham Sahu, aicc Delhi Chapter President.
Earlier in the day a delegation of Christians met with and received assurances from the head of the National Commission for Minorities, Mohamed Shafi Qureshi, that Christians will be protected in Orissa. He said he plans to visit the state.
"It is clear that the local police and Orissa state government have not been able to protect the Christian minority. While Orissa's leader claim they were prepared and are fully committed to stopping communal violence, we have doubts. For example, why does Orissa not have a state minorities commission? The Central Government must act now." said John Dayal, aicc Secretary-General.
"The VHP and other groups clearly don't believe in freedom of religion nor freedom of speech. They use accusations of forced and fraudulent conversions as an excuse for violence. Has there been a proven case in the courts of a missionary forcing someone to become a Christian recently? No! We are requesting immediate action to protect peaceful Christians and the arrest of miscreants from radical Hindutva groups," said Sam Paul, aicc Secretary of Public Affairs.
Orissa chapter of All India Christian Council met Cheif Minister Neevan Patnaik this evening and gave lame assurance to the delegation to ensure protection to the Christian minorities. Yet, his inability to stop the violence against Christians is seen in Sangh Parivar's organised attacks from the time violence broke out on December 23.
According to media reports, NGO press statements, and calls from aicc leaders on the ground in Orissa, at least 30 churches, Christian schools, and convents have been damaged or destroyed since December 24th, Christmas Eve. Four Christians were reported killed and many roads are blocked by radical Hindutva activists which prevents both police and fact finding teams from reaching victims. Despite a supposed helicopter tour of the affected districts by the Orissa Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik, and his repeated statements in various media channels that everything is under control, reports of attacks on Christians and churches continue to reach aicc and similar groups.
The violence allegedly began when Christians in a village 150 kms from the district headquarters of Phulbani began to celebrate Christmas Eve. Local Hindu fundamentalists opposed the event and a fight ensued. Also, a Hindutva leader, Swami Saraswati, was attacked by unknown assailants -- allegedly Christians -- near Daringbadi while he was travelling. The next day the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) called for a strike and its members began attacking Christians across the state.
The All India Christian Council (www.aiccindia.org), birthed in 1998, exists to protect and serve the Christian community, minorities, and the oppressed castes. The aicc is a coalition of thousands of Indian denominations, organizations, and lay leaders.
Mr. Madhu Chandra,
All India Christian Council,
Regional Secretary
aiccde...@gmail.com
(0) 9868184939
http://groups.google.com/group/nesupportcentre/browse_thread/thread/c5ca092de6b1a9e1?hl=en
ONE WORLD
Lealyan Thawmte
One late Friday afternoon, Larry finished his Big Mac menu with a gulp of an aerated drink at a McDonald close to his home. He'd opted for an orange flavoured drink instead of a Coke, which he felt was for the big boys. He stood up from his table without touching the french-fries.
Dad had told him that french-fries are saturated in oil and that too much fat in your food is bad for health, He'd also encouraged him to eat more greens & fruits. But like all other kids his age, the temptation of cheeseburgers, pizzas, chips and sodas are more like Mission Impossible. He went towards the kids section of the restaurant. Taking off his down jacket, he sat down for a game on Nintendo.
Muamuan got up the next Saturday morning along with his mother and sat by the fireplace. Helping to stoke the firewood as Mama prepares to boil water for tea in a kettle as dark as a charcoal. He knew there would be no milk today. But he knew that Papa had come back from the town with a kilogram of sugar yesterday evening. Papa had gone to the town 15 kilometeres away, taking with him two of their egg-laying hens. They'd needed money to buy medicines for Mama who'd complained of backaches the whole summer.
He blew air into a one-foot rusty iron pipe at the fire. The wood was not dry enough. They had cut it from the nearby forest only a week ago. He stood up, crossed over to his bed, looking for his checked shirt which Mama had bought for him last Christmas.
The games were not good. In fact Larry felt that Playstations and X-Box games are far more superior to Nintendos. Though he had enough games downloaded on the computer and PC Games discs, he preferred Playstation because of the easy handling of the controller and the maximum control and flexibility over your thumbs, unlike the computer keyboards where you have to rely on most of your fingers. He left the restaurant, put on his safety helmet, cycling gloves and pedalled out the street in his 7 geared bicycle.
He screeched to a halt in front of the local library, and went in to see if there are any new PC Games arrivals to borrow.
Muamuan picked up his shirt, which had somehow fallen off the bed frame during the night and put it on. There was a small tear at the shoulder blade caused by a stubborn and thorny branch while chasing a lizard under a hedge at Liansang's place. Liansang is his best friend; although he could stop blaming him for letting go of a parrot they had caught at their cornfield last year. The shirt will do till the coming Christmas. He returned to the fireplace and sat on a low wooden stool as Mama added tea leaves and spoonfuls of sugar into the now boiling water. Later Mama poured tea into his favourite iron mug with floral designs and scratches at the base.
After Mama cooled down the tea, he heartily drank the mug's content with a lump of leftover rice which he scooped from a pockmarked aluminium bowl with his bare fingers.
There were no new arrivals at the local library. So Larry headed home. Some of his classmates may call, or even drop by. Besides he would like to download some new games from the Internet. One of his friends had just told him about a site where you can download really cool games. He hated downloading games for free. It takes time and wished that Dad would just bought him the Cds/DVDS. But he'd always maintained that its too costly and not worth it since he gets bored with it in a matter of days. Even then, he'd managed to cajole and plead Dad into buying him some of the latest games.
He reached home to a message from Daryll - his classmate, to call her back. Daryll had called to invite him for a visit to an aquarium during the weekend with her family. He thinks Daryll fancies him. He returned the call to accept the invitation. With Mom & Dad's permission.
Finishing his tea and wiping off the rice morsels that stuck to his palm and shorts, Muamuan stood up and told Mama that he would be going over to Liansang's place to have a look at their new puppies. He had always wanted a dog and when Liansang's she-dog became pregnant, he had asked Papa to buy him one of the puppies. He'll remind him again. Papa must still have some money left from selling those hens. He wasn't sure though. He'd heard that medicines are costly and that was also why he never tried to get sick. He doesn't want to get sick like the village school teacher's son did last time.
They had to carry him all the way to a dispensary 4 villages away and even then he had not gotten well. Maybe they did not give him a proper injection with medicine. They say that you should get an injection when you are sick. It also hurts, they'd said.
Munching on a bar of Tobelerone he'd taken from the fridge during a commercial break, Larry sat on the couch in front of Cartoon Network, giggling himself silly at how Jerry can make a fool of Tom everytime. Dad had come home from work and was online. E-mails. Then Mom yelled out, reminding him to get on with his homework. She also duly rebuked him for the untidy state of his room. Larry grudgingly got up from the couch as Tom tumbled down some hole. Mom&Dad always insisted that he finished all home works or projects from school before dinner. Damn parents.
But this time, his homework was about 'How he spent the week-end'. And it will be much more interesting to write about it after a visit to the aquarium. He wished he kew more of the names and types of fish and aquatic animals. Something exotic. The sharks, dolphins and octopusses are too common.
Liansang was already out on their porch. Smoothening the edges of the handle of his sling - catapult - with a small kitchen knife. At one corner, huddled over two worn-out jute bags were eight puppies of different colours, making tiny gurgling noises as they scrambled for mothers milk. Muamuan instantly decided that he'd want to have the one with the black and white stripe as it looked to be the most active one. Besides the colour, what would you do with a lazy dog? He would teach the dog to understand certain commands; take him to the fields and teach him how to burrow after rats. And maybe he'll give him an English name. He quickly settled on 'JOHNNY' - the first name he can come up with.
After testing the smoothness of Liansang's sling handle and pulling off a shot at a dragonfly precarioulsy balancing atop a distant fence, Muamuan returned home. For the morning meal - as he and Mama set out to clear the weeds and grasses that had grown thick amongst the pumpkins and cucumbers vines in their cornfield.
Ever since watching the Dinosaurus movies, Larry had wanted to become a palaeontologist. The Dinosaurs and some theories that they have probably evolved into birds fascinated him. Or maybe he'd become a writer. Write poems and songs. Stories with happy endings. His teachers had all commended him on his writing skills. But frankly he is undecided. Why, only last Christmas he discovered that Santa Claus never existed. And who knows, dinosaurs may not be as exciting as you grow up.
Muamuan wants to become an officer one day. He wants to live in a big town, in a nice brick house and have motorcycle and nice shoes and jackets that he can also wear in the rain. But people said that you have to go to a nice school, be very brilliant in studies and also know English to become an officer. He had often overheard Papa talking to Mama of moving to the town far away. Maybe then he can go to a school. Learn English. Maybe someday they will.
Larry & Muamuan are both 8 years old. Larry lives in one of the richest country in the world. Muamuan lives in the NE fringes of the world's biggest developing nation. Despite stark contrasts and glaring differences in their environments and lifestyles, they have and share many things in common. As with any child of and for- in their age.
Muamuan exalts with joy and gladness on the occasional hard boiled sugar Papa would bring home as much as Larry does with a chocolate shake or a candy. Larry prized as much his computer and Playstation games as Muamuan prides on his collection of marble sling pellets. Larry is thrilled as much at the prospect of a trip to the zoo or an amusement park as Muamuan cannot wait for the harvest season and the coming Christmas when he will get a new shirt.
Yet, for all their innocences and naivetes, dreams and aspirations, the differences in their lives and the world they lived in would hardly nudge towards similarity or equality or merge. Not even in the near future.
Two children. Two unequal lives. Two child no different from the other. In this, but ONE WORLD.
The awning gap between 'the rich & poor', 'wealth & poverty', 'haves & have nots', 'first world and third world', 'developed & developing', still getting wider as I wrote. Efforts to bridge that embarrassingly wide gap often lost in the intrigues and quagmires of political innuendos or diplomatic manouevres. And the phrases and coinages termed thereof are as common as it is cold. Words as divisive and sharp as the razor's edge. Words that have silently crept into our lives and vocabularies and like it or not - words that will determine our future. Our destiny. As humankind.
** 25% of the US population spend more that 50 cents (Rs.20+) on soft drinks whereas 25% of the world's population lives on less than 50 cents a day.
** The wealth of the 3 most well-to-do individuals exceeds the combined GDP of 48 least developing countries.
** The world's 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of more that 1 trillion dollars - equalling the annual income of the world's 2.5 billion poorest people.
PS: Let us feed our people now. Support the Mautaam initiatives. Let us feed the hungry. Let us give till it hurts. To save lives. As a certain saying goes - 'We come into this world NAKED, so will we leave this world - NAKED'.
www.zogam.com
One late Friday afternoon, Larry finished his Big Mac menu with a gulp of an aerated drink at a McDonald close to his home. He'd opted for an orange flavoured drink instead of a Coke, which he felt was for the big boys. He stood up from his table without touching the french-fries.
Dad had told him that french-fries are saturated in oil and that too much fat in your food is bad for health, He'd also encouraged him to eat more greens & fruits. But like all other kids his age, the temptation of cheeseburgers, pizzas, chips and sodas are more like Mission Impossible. He went towards the kids section of the restaurant. Taking off his down jacket, he sat down for a game on Nintendo.
Muamuan got up the next Saturday morning along with his mother and sat by the fireplace. Helping to stoke the firewood as Mama prepares to boil water for tea in a kettle as dark as a charcoal. He knew there would be no milk today. But he knew that Papa had come back from the town with a kilogram of sugar yesterday evening. Papa had gone to the town 15 kilometeres away, taking with him two of their egg-laying hens. They'd needed money to buy medicines for Mama who'd complained of backaches the whole summer.
He blew air into a one-foot rusty iron pipe at the fire. The wood was not dry enough. They had cut it from the nearby forest only a week ago. He stood up, crossed over to his bed, looking for his checked shirt which Mama had bought for him last Christmas.
The games were not good. In fact Larry felt that Playstations and X-Box games are far more superior to Nintendos. Though he had enough games downloaded on the computer and PC Games discs, he preferred Playstation because of the easy handling of the controller and the maximum control and flexibility over your thumbs, unlike the computer keyboards where you have to rely on most of your fingers. He left the restaurant, put on his safety helmet, cycling gloves and pedalled out the street in his 7 geared bicycle.
He screeched to a halt in front of the local library, and went in to see if there are any new PC Games arrivals to borrow.
Muamuan picked up his shirt, which had somehow fallen off the bed frame during the night and put it on. There was a small tear at the shoulder blade caused by a stubborn and thorny branch while chasing a lizard under a hedge at Liansang's place. Liansang is his best friend; although he could stop blaming him for letting go of a parrot they had caught at their cornfield last year. The shirt will do till the coming Christmas. He returned to the fireplace and sat on a low wooden stool as Mama added tea leaves and spoonfuls of sugar into the now boiling water. Later Mama poured tea into his favourite iron mug with floral designs and scratches at the base.
After Mama cooled down the tea, he heartily drank the mug's content with a lump of leftover rice which he scooped from a pockmarked aluminium bowl with his bare fingers.
There were no new arrivals at the local library. So Larry headed home. Some of his classmates may call, or even drop by. Besides he would like to download some new games from the Internet. One of his friends had just told him about a site where you can download really cool games. He hated downloading games for free. It takes time and wished that Dad would just bought him the Cds/DVDS. But he'd always maintained that its too costly and not worth it since he gets bored with it in a matter of days. Even then, he'd managed to cajole and plead Dad into buying him some of the latest games.
He reached home to a message from Daryll - his classmate, to call her back. Daryll had called to invite him for a visit to an aquarium during the weekend with her family. He thinks Daryll fancies him. He returned the call to accept the invitation. With Mom & Dad's permission.
Finishing his tea and wiping off the rice morsels that stuck to his palm and shorts, Muamuan stood up and told Mama that he would be going over to Liansang's place to have a look at their new puppies. He had always wanted a dog and when Liansang's she-dog became pregnant, he had asked Papa to buy him one of the puppies. He'll remind him again. Papa must still have some money left from selling those hens. He wasn't sure though. He'd heard that medicines are costly and that was also why he never tried to get sick. He doesn't want to get sick like the village school teacher's son did last time.
They had to carry him all the way to a dispensary 4 villages away and even then he had not gotten well. Maybe they did not give him a proper injection with medicine. They say that you should get an injection when you are sick. It also hurts, they'd said.
Munching on a bar of Tobelerone he'd taken from the fridge during a commercial break, Larry sat on the couch in front of Cartoon Network, giggling himself silly at how Jerry can make a fool of Tom everytime. Dad had come home from work and was online. E-mails. Then Mom yelled out, reminding him to get on with his homework. She also duly rebuked him for the untidy state of his room. Larry grudgingly got up from the couch as Tom tumbled down some hole. Mom&Dad always insisted that he finished all home works or projects from school before dinner. Damn parents.
But this time, his homework was about 'How he spent the week-end'. And it will be much more interesting to write about it after a visit to the aquarium. He wished he kew more of the names and types of fish and aquatic animals. Something exotic. The sharks, dolphins and octopusses are too common.
Liansang was already out on their porch. Smoothening the edges of the handle of his sling - catapult - with a small kitchen knife. At one corner, huddled over two worn-out jute bags were eight puppies of different colours, making tiny gurgling noises as they scrambled for mothers milk. Muamuan instantly decided that he'd want to have the one with the black and white stripe as it looked to be the most active one. Besides the colour, what would you do with a lazy dog? He would teach the dog to understand certain commands; take him to the fields and teach him how to burrow after rats. And maybe he'll give him an English name. He quickly settled on 'JOHNNY' - the first name he can come up with.
After testing the smoothness of Liansang's sling handle and pulling off a shot at a dragonfly precarioulsy balancing atop a distant fence, Muamuan returned home. For the morning meal - as he and Mama set out to clear the weeds and grasses that had grown thick amongst the pumpkins and cucumbers vines in their cornfield.
Ever since watching the Dinosaurus movies, Larry had wanted to become a palaeontologist. The Dinosaurs and some theories that they have probably evolved into birds fascinated him. Or maybe he'd become a writer. Write poems and songs. Stories with happy endings. His teachers had all commended him on his writing skills. But frankly he is undecided. Why, only last Christmas he discovered that Santa Claus never existed. And who knows, dinosaurs may not be as exciting as you grow up.
Muamuan wants to become an officer one day. He wants to live in a big town, in a nice brick house and have motorcycle and nice shoes and jackets that he can also wear in the rain. But people said that you have to go to a nice school, be very brilliant in studies and also know English to become an officer. He had often overheard Papa talking to Mama of moving to the town far away. Maybe then he can go to a school. Learn English. Maybe someday they will.
Larry & Muamuan are both 8 years old. Larry lives in one of the richest country in the world. Muamuan lives in the NE fringes of the world's biggest developing nation. Despite stark contrasts and glaring differences in their environments and lifestyles, they have and share many things in common. As with any child of and for- in their age.
Muamuan exalts with joy and gladness on the occasional hard boiled sugar Papa would bring home as much as Larry does with a chocolate shake or a candy. Larry prized as much his computer and Playstation games as Muamuan prides on his collection of marble sling pellets. Larry is thrilled as much at the prospect of a trip to the zoo or an amusement park as Muamuan cannot wait for the harvest season and the coming Christmas when he will get a new shirt.
Yet, for all their innocences and naivetes, dreams and aspirations, the differences in their lives and the world they lived in would hardly nudge towards similarity or equality or merge. Not even in the near future.
Two children. Two unequal lives. Two child no different from the other. In this, but ONE WORLD.
The awning gap between 'the rich & poor', 'wealth & poverty', 'haves & have nots', 'first world and third world', 'developed & developing', still getting wider as I wrote. Efforts to bridge that embarrassingly wide gap often lost in the intrigues and quagmires of political innuendos or diplomatic manouevres. And the phrases and coinages termed thereof are as common as it is cold. Words as divisive and sharp as the razor's edge. Words that have silently crept into our lives and vocabularies and like it or not - words that will determine our future. Our destiny. As humankind.
** 25% of the US population spend more that 50 cents (Rs.20+) on soft drinks whereas 25% of the world's population lives on less than 50 cents a day.
** The wealth of the 3 most well-to-do individuals exceeds the combined GDP of 48 least developing countries.
** The world's 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of more that 1 trillion dollars - equalling the annual income of the world's 2.5 billion poorest people.
PS: Let us feed our people now. Support the Mautaam initiatives. Let us feed the hungry. Let us give till it hurts. To save lives. As a certain saying goes - 'We come into this world NAKED, so will we leave this world - NAKED'.
www.zogam.com
SOS: Mautaam Kialpi
By Joyful Tonsing
In a small hamlet in the interiors of Lamka (Churachandpur) District, Manipur, a family of five is having lunch, sharing among themselves whatever meager amount of food they had. The smallest among the three siblings, aged four who was obviously unaware of the hardships they are going through, utters, “Papa, why haven’t you get me any Christmas gifts this year?”
He looks at his wife and three children, wipes a silent tear and mutters to himself, “How long will our meager stock of rice last?”. He thinks about his better-off relatives who had migrated to Lamka. Deep down, he silently hopes for help to arrive from them.
In Lamka, a daily wage earner glances through the morning paper, Lamka Post, before setting off for another gruelling day at work when a headline catches his eye, “Help Your Fellow Zomis in Need, Contribute in Cash or Kind” . He opens his “savings box”, counts the meager savings he made for the purchase of the much-needed inverter (you all know without my telling you the quantity of power supply we get in Lamka) and heads towards the Mautaam Relief office. The inverter can wait for another year, the plight of his fellow Zomis in the villages is much more acute.
In New Delhi, a government servant is woken up by an early morning telephone call from a Mautaam Relief representative entreating him to contribute towards helping the victims of Mautaam Kialpi. He heads towards the bank, transferred his savings meant to buy a computer to the Mautaam Relief Fund and heads towards his office at North Block. The computer can wait, however necessary it may have become in today’s world, he couldn’t turn a deaf ear to the cries of his brethren back home.
In Bangalore, a call centre executive is about to sleep for the day after her shift ended at 5:00 am in the morning when her Nokia N73 makes a beeping sound. She grabs her mobile and reads the SMS on Mautaam forwarded by her call center friend in Gurgaon. She calls up her broker, instructs him that she wants to redeem/sell her mutual fund units and dozes off to sleep. When the money is credited to her account, she will contribute towards the Mautaam Relief Fund. What does it matter if she can’t go for her weekly shopping and hangout with her friends at the most happening joints in the city. What better way of unwinding than helping those who are in distress.
In Mumbai, an executive working in a reputed multinational checks his e-mail on his laptop before setting off for another hectic day at work. He quickly glances through the mass e-mail seeking monetary contributions towards Mautaam Kialpi. He logs on to his internet banking account, and clicks on the ‘Transact’ button to contribute towards the cause. He had slogged during his IIM days, landed his dream job at this large multinational and saved diligently to buy that dream home. But that can wait for some time, God has put him in this position today to help his fellow Zomis in their hour of need.
Reams of paper and bits and bytes of web space have been used to write about the dreaded Mautaam, which rears its ugly head on Lamka District and the neighbouring Mizoram state. The Mizos have their own state, a government run by their own people and they are ready to face the challenges posed by the threat. We, the Zomis, cannot afford that luxury. We are in a much more depressing situation. Should we wait for the government to bail us out of our predicament? I don’t think so. We can no longer remain a mere spectator to this. We must do whatever is in our power to help our fellow brethren while the government is doing its bid. Will we turn a blind eye to the sufferings of our people, or a deaf ear to their cries of the innocent and helpless children in hunger?
This is a conscience call to all Zomis, whether living in Lamka or London, from a government servant to a call centre executive to help their fellow Zomis in this time of need. It may be a small amount, the price of a bottle of beer or a movie ticket, your contribution today can save the life of a fellow Zomi, dying of hunger, just for another day. You all know the saying, “Little drops of water, little drops of sand, make the mighty ocean and the beauteous land.”
For those of you who want to contribute, whatever be the amount, towards Mautaam Relief, a website www.mautaam.org has already been set up by like-minded individuals with a view to helping their fellow Zomis in their times of need. The recommended mode of contribution is by bank transfer to:
Account No.11343809077, State Bank of India
Churachandpur Branch - 6182
Operated by Shri H.Pauchinlian
Dorcas Veng, New Lamka, Manipur.
For people living in and around Delhi donation in cash can be made to the following persons:
1) Shri T Kamzalian, NABARD (Cell: 9910982456)
2) Shri Kamkhenthang Guite, M/o DONER (Cell: 9868934337)
3) Shri Kamsuanthang, MHA (Cell: 9968270231)
4) Shri Haumuanlun Samte (Cell: 9891418402)
5) Shri N.T.Khankhup (Cell: 9958340949)
6) Shri L.T.Ngaihte, MEA (Cell: 9811211941)
Email: mautaam@googlegroups.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
(www.joytonsing.blogspot.com)
In a small hamlet in the interiors of Lamka (Churachandpur) District, Manipur, a family of five is having lunch, sharing among themselves whatever meager amount of food they had. The smallest among the three siblings, aged four who was obviously unaware of the hardships they are going through, utters, “Papa, why haven’t you get me any Christmas gifts this year?”
He looks at his wife and three children, wipes a silent tear and mutters to himself, “How long will our meager stock of rice last?”. He thinks about his better-off relatives who had migrated to Lamka. Deep down, he silently hopes for help to arrive from them.
In Lamka, a daily wage earner glances through the morning paper, Lamka Post, before setting off for another gruelling day at work when a headline catches his eye, “Help Your Fellow Zomis in Need, Contribute in Cash or Kind” . He opens his “savings box”, counts the meager savings he made for the purchase of the much-needed inverter (you all know without my telling you the quantity of power supply we get in Lamka) and heads towards the Mautaam Relief office. The inverter can wait for another year, the plight of his fellow Zomis in the villages is much more acute.
In New Delhi, a government servant is woken up by an early morning telephone call from a Mautaam Relief representative entreating him to contribute towards helping the victims of Mautaam Kialpi. He heads towards the bank, transferred his savings meant to buy a computer to the Mautaam Relief Fund and heads towards his office at North Block. The computer can wait, however necessary it may have become in today’s world, he couldn’t turn a deaf ear to the cries of his brethren back home.
In Bangalore, a call centre executive is about to sleep for the day after her shift ended at 5:00 am in the morning when her Nokia N73 makes a beeping sound. She grabs her mobile and reads the SMS on Mautaam forwarded by her call center friend in Gurgaon. She calls up her broker, instructs him that she wants to redeem/sell her mutual fund units and dozes off to sleep. When the money is credited to her account, she will contribute towards the Mautaam Relief Fund. What does it matter if she can’t go for her weekly shopping and hangout with her friends at the most happening joints in the city. What better way of unwinding than helping those who are in distress.
In Mumbai, an executive working in a reputed multinational checks his e-mail on his laptop before setting off for another hectic day at work. He quickly glances through the mass e-mail seeking monetary contributions towards Mautaam Kialpi. He logs on to his internet banking account, and clicks on the ‘Transact’ button to contribute towards the cause. He had slogged during his IIM days, landed his dream job at this large multinational and saved diligently to buy that dream home. But that can wait for some time, God has put him in this position today to help his fellow Zomis in their hour of need.
Reams of paper and bits and bytes of web space have been used to write about the dreaded Mautaam, which rears its ugly head on Lamka District and the neighbouring Mizoram state. The Mizos have their own state, a government run by their own people and they are ready to face the challenges posed by the threat. We, the Zomis, cannot afford that luxury. We are in a much more depressing situation. Should we wait for the government to bail us out of our predicament? I don’t think so. We can no longer remain a mere spectator to this. We must do whatever is in our power to help our fellow brethren while the government is doing its bid. Will we turn a blind eye to the sufferings of our people, or a deaf ear to their cries of the innocent and helpless children in hunger?
This is a conscience call to all Zomis, whether living in Lamka or London, from a government servant to a call centre executive to help their fellow Zomis in this time of need. It may be a small amount, the price of a bottle of beer or a movie ticket, your contribution today can save the life of a fellow Zomi, dying of hunger, just for another day. You all know the saying, “Little drops of water, little drops of sand, make the mighty ocean and the beauteous land.”
For those of you who want to contribute, whatever be the amount, towards Mautaam Relief, a website www.mautaam.org has already been set up by like-minded individuals with a view to helping their fellow Zomis in their times of need. The recommended mode of contribution is by bank transfer to:
Account No.11343809077, State Bank of India
Churachandpur Branch - 6182
Operated by Shri H.Pauchinlian
Dorcas Veng, New Lamka, Manipur.
For people living in and around Delhi donation in cash can be made to the following persons:
1) Shri T Kamzalian, NABARD (Cell: 9910982456)
2) Shri Kamkhenthang Guite, M/o DONER (Cell: 9868934337)
3) Shri Kamsuanthang, MHA (Cell: 9968270231)
4) Shri Haumuanlun Samte (Cell: 9891418402)
5) Shri N.T.Khankhup (Cell: 9958340949)
6) Shri L.T.Ngaihte, MEA (Cell: 9811211941)
Email: mautaam@googlegroups.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
(www.joytonsing.blogspot.com)
KIKUM LAI LAI LE MAW
Lealyan Thawmte
Lamka khahsuahta..' chihthu ah ngaihdan tamtak SSPPNET member tamtak ten isuah khia ua. Kum 2 bang paita in. A 'skeptic' pawl bang, a 'optimist' bang, a 'hardline' deuh bang - a 'subject' manchiah lou leh 'defeatist' leh 'resigned' bang i om nual a. Ahoih a, ngaihdan kikuum ihi. Amun a omlou, 'active' lou, thil omdan leh 'ground reality' theilou etc., ahon chi pawl le I om maithei uh. Ka theisiam. Himahleh amun a ka omlouh jiakin ka nam leh Paite hihna leh Lamka mi kahihna beituan lou hi.
Dawnga Hauzel' n ka ngaihdan leh gentup (between the lines) ana sim a, a hon gen/gelhsuah kha sim tham hi'n kathei a. Dawnga leh J.M.Pau thugelhte khenkhat pansanin leh, lawm Nang Suan hon thusuah thu ah tamlou hon kup beh leng.Tu a, Dawnga accident a tuah thu simkhak tawh kitawnin - a hong damsuah pah ka lam et pih natawh - thukikup leh ngaihdan luui lua om lou ahi chih pansanin.
Eite a diin.
Amasa in, Lamka leh a sehvel petmah ah,'Terrorist' ichih ut mawkten, mun bangzah kibuk/kingat leh pansan nadi a nei ua le? Khumujamba? Thengra Leirak.? Zo Colony/Zoveng? Phailian? Tuiboung? etc. Mun neuchikchik hi'n ka thei hi. Tup (if we try) a 'infiltrate' theih gige. Talpaak pau siam khop lou bang omlai ihih tel uleh unau Vaiphei cadres lakah, siamtak tak tamding uh. I lawhsapna te, leitung mun khenkhat a thiltung te khong tawh tehsun hun nailou deuh hi in kathei hi. Religous conflict, anti-semitism, international, national leh regional chilouh ethnic le hilou, intra-tribal/sect gaal doulel lel chauh ihi.
Amasa in daak khia ni in, I kiim lel a Ukhrul leh Senapati, Chandel, Tamenglong etc., lam nga le, huaimun te apan bang sin theih I nei a? Ukhrul, Chandel leh Senapati bang a Talpaakte omlou hiloupi. Awle, amaute tawh ikibangkei maithei - a movement uh kum 50 valta in - a dinmun uh kip ta mahmah ahi. Ngaihdan khat ah.
Himahleh Lamka hi, nam/zaat kichi tuam tuam te'/khosakna ahi. Huchi ahihleh 'alliance' bang i bawl ua, i khua leh tuui chi ihihngal leh, a kalsuan masa di hiloudi ihihiam? Unau Hmar te tawh kitheihsiam louh luatna nei ihi hia? I Kuki unau te'n bangchin a ngai ua? I ma deuh a galthuam ana lente ahi uh. I makaih uut te, Zo, Vaiphei, Sim etc., kialou, Lushei, Gangte etc., te bang le i rawn mahmahdi hilou maw?
'Diplomacy' zang in, talpaak te saang a ikinaihpih zawk te tawh pangkhom le- i 'immediate threat' i zou thei kei dia hia?. I va kidou dia iki thattuah zelzul di chihna hilou aka. Lampi tampi om in - huaite lak a, khat zui in - ei Lamka a Paite te dinmun enmasa in leh, leh Zomi i hong kichi uut leh ngaih/alouh theilouh na ziak te ki ngaihtuah thak ni. A nuihzat huai Pu T.Gougin ahih keh..a 'failure' Pu Thangkhangin te thu tangkoupih ziak hia? Huchi lawm lawm a Paite te hai hi leng..kei bang Denmark a omlou ding kahi.
Lamka khua a ka khantouh laivel in Moirang kha 'imaginary line of control'-chimaile- ahi hi. Hun hong paizel a, Kangvaai a hongtung tou a, tunaizek in Tuiboung ahong hi ta hi. I maban di uh chu New Lamka lak khong a kiphuut supsup nunga, Singhat lam khong tung tou di ibang uh hi. Kum sawm bangzah hiam nung khong a eimi te thu ah 'Lamka, the last frontier' chi a kua hiam khatin Ph.d Thesis khong a hon gelh maimai didan abang ta hi.
Manipur singtang leh mun dangdang a omte adin Lamka - bang a athupi na? ichi ahi maithei. 1970's leh 1980's lai bang a , Imphal, Kakching, Thoubal, Senapati, Ukhrul leh Chandel district a school om ten -'excursion' a a hong veh na mun uh -LAMKA khua ahi. Amin (CCPur hilou,- Lamka) thei mah mah uh hi. Christmas dekkuan a secondhand leidia huai kum a a hawh chihlouh, va pha kha khol lou, omkha/teng kha lou le i om thamdi uh. Lamka a teeng leh khanglian kahih manin -ka PAITE khua, LAMKA, Manipur a khua nuam peen ana hi chih haih lou kahi.
A LAMKA 'essence', leh a poimohna theilou i om leh, enchian thak un. Etsakna neu khah- Siamsinna lamah, changkaana lamah(lifestyle?). Manipur a district daangten a hon ettawn uh ana ki hihi. Kichei na, Fashion. Music bang ah -LAMKA te mahmah ahon chih uh ana kihi ahi. Tu chiang bangin, executive/legislation dinmun ah, State politics, Bureacracy ah, Media&Journalism etc. ah dinmun hoih taktak leen theite piankhiak na khua ahi. India pumpii a, central sorkar a , nasem tampen- vis-a-vis population/tribal district - piankhiakna khua LAMKA ahi. AKA Churachandpur District. Manipur.
Tehkhinna na dang ah, Delhi a office poimoh taktak a Central Sorkar nasem a tuute baak ah , LAMKA khua hi university leh college a siamna delhjui atamzawte hongkipat na ahi. I mabaan heute leh makai diite , a 'secondary years' leh 'graduation years' ua ina seek na mun chile khial louding hi. Mizogam, Kawlgam bangah ah Lamka dinmun phadi eimi ahihkeh tu phiing a ZOMI kichi uut ten hon phaak louh uh LAMKA PAITE te i hi uh.......hmmmm???
Policy leh news apan kana theihdan khenkhat thu ah. Mizo leh Naga movement te i theivek uh ka ging. Talpaak te movement kum 30 pelta ahi chih le i haih kei uh . Khenkhat ten kum 40 vaal achi ding uh. A 'firepower' uh le ithei, ahihjiakin i 'exploit' theih nadi tampi om veve hi. A kua pen sual, ahih keh bang sual ihi hiam chih i theih louh kar in, India sepaih te tawh kinaih le 'Zogam' honpe di uh ahi' chih ngaihdan neipawl bang om I hih inchu, niidang lai a singtang khuate a ZNC heutu kichi khenkhat ten 'Zogam i muh chianga 'helicopter a zawngtah loutadi ihi', avachih uh tawh kibang kha ding hi.
A kuul na ah ikithuahpih ding - ei 'interest' ahihleh. I kithuah ziaka mipi nautang in thuak khathei/zihzeh ahih inchu I 'interest 'hitheilou hi. Kumsawm leh valzek paita a unao Kuki leh sorkar te ana kiheel/kithuah thu i theih uh kaging. INDIA SORKAR in Kuki te KUKILAND ahih keh KUKI GAM deeihsak hilou in - Naga leh NSCN te douna nadia KUKI te zang uh hive aw.
Huchi bang kaal ah, i siahkhon gaalkap ten, mahni nam(tribe? kua? kua?) vengbit nadi lel a 'force' ding ihih leh i va 'revolutionary' pih nadi vak om hia le? Huchi hillou a PAITE te kiven nadia, galvaan te tawi ihih leh - huai tum tinten le himai lou maw? ZRA or ZRO 'armed-wing' a hon chihchiang ua - a theisiam taktak om na hi uh hia? A zahtaak huai gaalkaap te- lai bangtan na sim ua?? Graduates zaw nahi kei hial ding uh. ABC beek ana sim un.
'Paite te kiven nadi mai mai hi' bang min hon chile uh-lah sihngam a Zomi issue taangkoupih utzel. Re-unification I genlat chiang banga,Manipur leh Mizoram chih kia louh Bangladesh leh Myanmar bang a tel keh kimlou bang hilou maw? ZOMI na va kichih ua, AK-47 galvan ahihkeh, mi hinna la thei a na kikoih mawk te uh. Na AK-47 tawi pen ken neilou kahi. Thu nei lua nahi uh. Thu thei a thu nei nahi uh hia?
Hilele, tamtak ten a khuak uh hon zang di un - a Pen te bang hon zang di un. MI-ZO vs.ZO-MI kidanglam dan hilh leh gen/theichian hetlou le tam a tam ding lah, ahihjiakia Greater Mizoram bang kalh a kalh pawl tam a ki tam ahi. Lushei pau hua ihi hia..ahih keh MIZORAM - Paite kampau a 'R' zang lou te adia MIZOGAM. I gaalkap te kiangah - thiltup nei a, sorkar in daan lou a galvan i neihte hon phalsak dan a ngai ihih leh, India Arms Act nuai ah mi bangzah suangkul ah I omta ua le?
I mii, i saa te humbiit leh veeng ni. I hinna le pe ni. Kei bang a mansa te kahi. Hilele, India NDA joukhia sepaih Capt./Major/Col. etc., I gam a hong luut te, 'counter-insurgency' course zousa diam a hong lut ahi uh chihte bang thei in. Eilak ah huchi bang theih leh pilna neite, 'counter' thei din sinna nei bangzah I om ua le? Khuak neite adi in, thagum eh thautang louin zawng helpawl khat betdaih haksa louhi.
Movement omloupi, a omdan a ana ngaikha kahi ahihkeh IHI uh hiale?
Movement a omna san di le omlou hive aw maw?? Autonomous, 6th schedule ahihkeh..UT ka deih uh..chi a galvaan tawite pan thuzaak le omlou.Tup leh ngiim nei taktak na I hi uh hia? Ahihkeh, post '97 a, galvan tamlou ina tawikhak ve tei maimai te tungtang khong gelh gelh dan ihi uh hia?? I unau te pan kiveng nadia galvaan te tawi i hi uh hiam? I tawi uh ngai hikha hiam? Hikha hi ding ahi.
Huchi ahih taak vanglak leh, Sorkar pan sual leh thil tup ahihkeh thil nget mumal i neihlouh kialou, tutung Manipur singtanggam a, na mii leh saa te Mautaam Kial in a meeklup tup lai a..daai dide zawzen lah..na thautang leh na galvan tawite te un - hinna khat le a humbit theilouh hi thil mak hilou maw?. Bangziaka, i gam leh khuate a, i MLA/ Minister leh Contractors - a Crore a sim sum neiten - a mi leh saa, giil kial leh neek di neiloute adia nasem lou uh hiam?
No.4 ahihkeh Relipen tang sawm 40-50 zuak leh a ching zawngsang, Rs. 100-200 zawngte te khong na mat leh na sawisak theih lai ua , bang ziaka a - LAMKA khua sung a NEEKGUUK na lianpen leh a lakh kia lou - a crore a sim a chiingte- Contractors, AE/EE, leh MAHAJON kichi leh a sum muh naate uh diklou lua, NOU kialou, khotaang in a theihte tung a khut liik lou nahi ua?
Galvaan tawi te aw...kidawng thak mahdi uh. Na nam leh miipi min a na thau/galvan tawite uhi sumdawnna .. nekzawn na a zang lel nahi kei uh maw?
(Hiai thilchiin hi Burma (Myanmar) te hon puak luut uh ahikha diam?)
Ahihkeh....??
Thei hileng hiai ten hon gelh lou ding kahi.
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Lamka khahsuahta..' chihthu ah ngaihdan tamtak SSPPNET member tamtak ten isuah khia ua. Kum 2 bang paita in. A 'skeptic' pawl bang, a 'optimist' bang, a 'hardline' deuh bang - a 'subject' manchiah lou leh 'defeatist' leh 'resigned' bang i om nual a. Ahoih a, ngaihdan kikuum ihi. Amun a omlou, 'active' lou, thil omdan leh 'ground reality' theilou etc., ahon chi pawl le I om maithei uh. Ka theisiam. Himahleh amun a ka omlouh jiakin ka nam leh Paite hihna leh Lamka mi kahihna beituan lou hi.
Dawnga Hauzel' n ka ngaihdan leh gentup (between the lines) ana sim a, a hon gen/gelhsuah kha sim tham hi'n kathei a. Dawnga leh J.M.Pau thugelhte khenkhat pansanin leh, lawm Nang Suan hon thusuah thu ah tamlou hon kup beh leng.Tu a, Dawnga accident a tuah thu simkhak tawh kitawnin - a hong damsuah pah ka lam et pih natawh - thukikup leh ngaihdan luui lua om lou ahi chih pansanin.
Eite a diin.
Amasa in, Lamka leh a sehvel petmah ah,'Terrorist' ichih ut mawkten, mun bangzah kibuk/kingat leh pansan nadi a nei ua le? Khumujamba? Thengra Leirak.? Zo Colony/Zoveng? Phailian? Tuiboung? etc. Mun neuchikchik hi'n ka thei hi. Tup (if we try) a 'infiltrate' theih gige. Talpaak pau siam khop lou bang omlai ihih tel uleh unau Vaiphei cadres lakah, siamtak tak tamding uh. I lawhsapna te, leitung mun khenkhat a thiltung te khong tawh tehsun hun nailou deuh hi in kathei hi. Religous conflict, anti-semitism, international, national leh regional chilouh ethnic le hilou, intra-tribal/sect gaal doulel lel chauh ihi.
Amasa in daak khia ni in, I kiim lel a Ukhrul leh Senapati, Chandel, Tamenglong etc., lam nga le, huaimun te apan bang sin theih I nei a? Ukhrul, Chandel leh Senapati bang a Talpaakte omlou hiloupi. Awle, amaute tawh ikibangkei maithei - a movement uh kum 50 valta in - a dinmun uh kip ta mahmah ahi. Ngaihdan khat ah.
Himahleh Lamka hi, nam/zaat kichi tuam tuam te'/khosakna ahi. Huchi ahihleh 'alliance' bang i bawl ua, i khua leh tuui chi ihihngal leh, a kalsuan masa di hiloudi ihihiam? Unau Hmar te tawh kitheihsiam louh luatna nei ihi hia? I Kuki unau te'n bangchin a ngai ua? I ma deuh a galthuam ana lente ahi uh. I makaih uut te, Zo, Vaiphei, Sim etc., kialou, Lushei, Gangte etc., te bang le i rawn mahmahdi hilou maw?
'Diplomacy' zang in, talpaak te saang a ikinaihpih zawk te tawh pangkhom le- i 'immediate threat' i zou thei kei dia hia?. I va kidou dia iki thattuah zelzul di chihna hilou aka. Lampi tampi om in - huaite lak a, khat zui in - ei Lamka a Paite te dinmun enmasa in leh, leh Zomi i hong kichi uut leh ngaih/alouh theilouh na ziak te ki ngaihtuah thak ni. A nuihzat huai Pu T.Gougin ahih keh..a 'failure' Pu Thangkhangin te thu tangkoupih ziak hia? Huchi lawm lawm a Paite te hai hi leng..kei bang Denmark a omlou ding kahi.
Lamka khua a ka khantouh laivel in Moirang kha 'imaginary line of control'-chimaile- ahi hi. Hun hong paizel a, Kangvaai a hongtung tou a, tunaizek in Tuiboung ahong hi ta hi. I maban di uh chu New Lamka lak khong a kiphuut supsup nunga, Singhat lam khong tung tou di ibang uh hi. Kum sawm bangzah hiam nung khong a eimi te thu ah 'Lamka, the last frontier' chi a kua hiam khatin Ph.d Thesis khong a hon gelh maimai didan abang ta hi.
Manipur singtang leh mun dangdang a omte adin Lamka - bang a athupi na? ichi ahi maithei. 1970's leh 1980's lai bang a , Imphal, Kakching, Thoubal, Senapati, Ukhrul leh Chandel district a school om ten -'excursion' a a hong veh na mun uh -LAMKA khua ahi. Amin (CCPur hilou,- Lamka) thei mah mah uh hi. Christmas dekkuan a secondhand leidia huai kum a a hawh chihlouh, va pha kha khol lou, omkha/teng kha lou le i om thamdi uh. Lamka a teeng leh khanglian kahih manin -ka PAITE khua, LAMKA, Manipur a khua nuam peen ana hi chih haih lou kahi.
A LAMKA 'essence', leh a poimohna theilou i om leh, enchian thak un. Etsakna neu khah- Siamsinna lamah, changkaana lamah(lifestyle?). Manipur a district daangten a hon ettawn uh ana ki hihi. Kichei na, Fashion. Music bang ah -LAMKA te mahmah ahon chih uh ana kihi ahi. Tu chiang bangin, executive/legislation dinmun ah, State politics, Bureacracy ah, Media&Journalism etc. ah dinmun hoih taktak leen theite piankhiak na khua ahi. India pumpii a, central sorkar a , nasem tampen- vis-a-vis population/tribal district - piankhiakna khua LAMKA ahi. AKA Churachandpur District. Manipur.
Tehkhinna na dang ah, Delhi a office poimoh taktak a Central Sorkar nasem a tuute baak ah , LAMKA khua hi university leh college a siamna delhjui atamzawte hongkipat na ahi. I mabaan heute leh makai diite , a 'secondary years' leh 'graduation years' ua ina seek na mun chile khial louding hi. Mizogam, Kawlgam bangah ah Lamka dinmun phadi eimi ahihkeh tu phiing a ZOMI kichi uut ten hon phaak louh uh LAMKA PAITE te i hi uh.......hmmmm???
Policy leh news apan kana theihdan khenkhat thu ah. Mizo leh Naga movement te i theivek uh ka ging. Talpaak te movement kum 30 pelta ahi chih le i haih kei uh . Khenkhat ten kum 40 vaal achi ding uh. A 'firepower' uh le ithei, ahihjiakin i 'exploit' theih nadi tampi om veve hi. A kua pen sual, ahih keh bang sual ihi hiam chih i theih louh kar in, India sepaih te tawh kinaih le 'Zogam' honpe di uh ahi' chih ngaihdan neipawl bang om I hih inchu, niidang lai a singtang khuate a ZNC heutu kichi khenkhat ten 'Zogam i muh chianga 'helicopter a zawngtah loutadi ihi', avachih uh tawh kibang kha ding hi.
A kuul na ah ikithuahpih ding - ei 'interest' ahihleh. I kithuah ziaka mipi nautang in thuak khathei/zihzeh ahih inchu I 'interest 'hitheilou hi. Kumsawm leh valzek paita a unao Kuki leh sorkar te ana kiheel/kithuah thu i theih uh kaging. INDIA SORKAR in Kuki te KUKILAND ahih keh KUKI GAM deeihsak hilou in - Naga leh NSCN te douna nadia KUKI te zang uh hive aw.
Huchi bang kaal ah, i siahkhon gaalkap ten, mahni nam(tribe? kua? kua?) vengbit nadi lel a 'force' ding ihih leh i va 'revolutionary' pih nadi vak om hia le? Huchi hillou a PAITE te kiven nadia, galvaan te tawi ihih leh - huai tum tinten le himai lou maw? ZRA or ZRO 'armed-wing' a hon chihchiang ua - a theisiam taktak om na hi uh hia? A zahtaak huai gaalkaap te- lai bangtan na sim ua?? Graduates zaw nahi kei hial ding uh. ABC beek ana sim un.
'Paite te kiven nadi mai mai hi' bang min hon chile uh-lah sihngam a Zomi issue taangkoupih utzel. Re-unification I genlat chiang banga,Manipur leh Mizoram chih kia louh Bangladesh leh Myanmar bang a tel keh kimlou bang hilou maw? ZOMI na va kichih ua, AK-47 galvan ahihkeh, mi hinna la thei a na kikoih mawk te uh. Na AK-47 tawi pen ken neilou kahi. Thu nei lua nahi uh. Thu thei a thu nei nahi uh hia?
Hilele, tamtak ten a khuak uh hon zang di un - a Pen te bang hon zang di un. MI-ZO vs.ZO-MI kidanglam dan hilh leh gen/theichian hetlou le tam a tam ding lah, ahihjiakia Greater Mizoram bang kalh a kalh pawl tam a ki tam ahi. Lushei pau hua ihi hia..ahih keh MIZORAM - Paite kampau a 'R' zang lou te adia MIZOGAM. I gaalkap te kiangah - thiltup nei a, sorkar in daan lou a galvan i neihte hon phalsak dan a ngai ihih leh, India Arms Act nuai ah mi bangzah suangkul ah I omta ua le?
I mii, i saa te humbiit leh veeng ni. I hinna le pe ni. Kei bang a mansa te kahi. Hilele, India NDA joukhia sepaih Capt./Major/Col. etc., I gam a hong luut te, 'counter-insurgency' course zousa diam a hong lut ahi uh chihte bang thei in. Eilak ah huchi bang theih leh pilna neite, 'counter' thei din sinna nei bangzah I om ua le? Khuak neite adi in, thagum eh thautang louin zawng helpawl khat betdaih haksa louhi.
Movement omloupi, a omdan a ana ngaikha kahi ahihkeh IHI uh hiale?
Movement a omna san di le omlou hive aw maw?? Autonomous, 6th schedule ahihkeh..UT ka deih uh..chi a galvaan tawite pan thuzaak le omlou.Tup leh ngiim nei taktak na I hi uh hia? Ahihkeh, post '97 a, galvan tamlou ina tawikhak ve tei maimai te tungtang khong gelh gelh dan ihi uh hia?? I unau te pan kiveng nadia galvaan te tawi i hi uh hiam? I tawi uh ngai hikha hiam? Hikha hi ding ahi.
Huchi ahih taak vanglak leh, Sorkar pan sual leh thil tup ahihkeh thil nget mumal i neihlouh kialou, tutung Manipur singtanggam a, na mii leh saa te Mautaam Kial in a meeklup tup lai a..daai dide zawzen lah..na thautang leh na galvan tawite te un - hinna khat le a humbit theilouh hi thil mak hilou maw?. Bangziaka, i gam leh khuate a, i MLA/ Minister leh Contractors - a Crore a sim sum neiten - a mi leh saa, giil kial leh neek di neiloute adia nasem lou uh hiam?
No.4 ahihkeh Relipen tang sawm 40-50 zuak leh a ching zawngsang, Rs. 100-200 zawngte te khong na mat leh na sawisak theih lai ua , bang ziaka a - LAMKA khua sung a NEEKGUUK na lianpen leh a lakh kia lou - a crore a sim a chiingte- Contractors, AE/EE, leh MAHAJON kichi leh a sum muh naate uh diklou lua, NOU kialou, khotaang in a theihte tung a khut liik lou nahi ua?
Galvaan tawi te aw...kidawng thak mahdi uh. Na nam leh miipi min a na thau/galvan tawite uhi sumdawnna .. nekzawn na a zang lel nahi kei uh maw?
(Hiai thilchiin hi Burma (Myanmar) te hon puak luut uh ahikha diam?)
Ahihkeh....??
Thei hileng hiai ten hon gelh lou ding kahi.
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MAUTAAM KIALPI–Suahtaakna Lampi
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Khatchin Langel, New Delhi
Kum 24 val Ministry of Defence a kasep nung in, August 1, 2007 apan in Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperation, Krishi Bhavan ah kana kisuan khia a, huai building mah a om Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Civil Supplies te office apan in, Govt. of India in Village Grain Bank (VGB=Antang Kholkhawmna Inn) policy pai lel-lel dungjui a VGB 93 bawlkhiakna dinga Commissioner(FCS), Manipur Government Notification No.6/10/2002-FCS(II) dated 7.9.2007 leh Manipur Sectt. Order No.6/10/2002-FCS(II) dated 15.9.2007 kava mukhe zenzen hi.
Hiai order ah Manipur Hill District 5 te aom vek ua, Churachandpur Sub-Division tel khakei mah leh, Singngat, Thanlon, Tipaimukh leh Henglep Sub-Division te ah hiai anuaia bang in VGB 93 bawlkhiakna thupiak ana omta hi:-
CHURACHANDPUR DISTRICT
(1) Tipaimukh Sub-Division
Village Population
1 Parvachom 1378
2 Rovakot 984
3 Leisen 1423
4 Tinsuong 1873
5 H. Moulien 378
6 Tuolbung 1220
7 Patpuimun 772
TOTAL 8028
(2) Thanlon Sub-Division
8 Gamhui 675
9 Bungpilon 455
10 Songtal 1090
11 Singjawl 1285
12 Bukpi 1624
13 Leizangphai 1396
TOTAL 6525
(3) Singngat Sub-Division
14 Allusingtom 228
15 Hianglam(K) 408
16 Ngaljang 338
17 Tonglon 322
18 Tuikamualum 471
TOTAL 1764
(4) Henglep Sub-Division
19 Aina 328
20 Santing (l) 737
21 Teijang 404
22 Monghen 372
23 Phiran 252
24 Henglep 6421
25 Chingphei 207
TOTAL 8721
GRAND TOTAL 25,038
# Khomin leh population te sanction order a kigelhdan ahi.
$ Tipaimukh Sub-Division list ah Vangaitanga Zomite’ tenna khomin 1 leng atel kei a, unau Hmarte kia anduh hilou ahih man in, a khasiat huaisim mah mah hi.
* CCPur Sub-Division atel kha kei sese. Poimohlou ahi diam?
2. Hiai VBG 25 te’n atawmpen in Kha khat in antang qtl 5007.60 lak vel amu thei gige ding uhi (BPL Family 1 mi 5 jel hitaleh).
3. Village Grain Bank Policy thiltup tomkim, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Civil Supplies Order No.6-1/2005-BP-II dated 21.2.2006 dungjui in, hiai anuaia bang ahi:-
* BPL family 40 omna ah VGB khat omsak theih.
* BPL family khat mi 4/5 jela hisap ahi a, BPL family 1 in antang quintal 1 a muthei ding.
* Antang, neih hun-huna a ditkiik ding un, VBG saitu dia kisepte’n a leitawisak ding uh.
* Antang masapen (initial) Central Govt FCI tawn in athawn/grant in State Govt. a pe ding.
* State Govt. in ‘Certificate of actual off-take of food grain’ a piaklut bang in FCI a pezom jel ding.
4. Senna lamah mimal leh Vaipawte’ tunggikna ding bangmah aom kha kei. Central leh State Government in apiak ding hiai anuai bang in ahi ding hi:-
a) Cost of food grains @ 1 quintal per family for average 40 families 40 qtls.@ Rs.11,500 per MT (based on present cost) =Rs.46,000
b) Transportation cost @ Rs.90/- per qtl. Rs.90 x 40 =Rs.3,600 (to be equally shared by Central & State Govts.)
c) Training expenses Rs.1400/- per bank
d) Storage/weights/scales etc. Rs.6000/- per bank
e) Monitoring & administrative expenses Rs.3000/- per bank
TOTAL Rs.60,000/- per bank
5. Ana om gige khinsa PDS antang hawmkhiakna Fair Price Shop - BPL/AAY/ABPL card neite’n a rate diktak a amuh ding zah uh leitheihna mun ahi. DC CCPur gendan local newspaper a kasim khak dan in ‘Polling Station omna khua tenga FPS koih ding’ chih ahi. Hiai hial jaw leng ahithei khol kei dinga, himahleh, insak-inkhang, meithai, tagah leh gentheite ihehpiha, ipanpih theihna ding ua sepkhiak ding a poimoh kasakte hiaite ahi uh: -
(i) FPS mun bangzah ah aom a, antang, chini leh K-Oil atung ding zah, ahun bangjel in a tung hia?
(ii) BPL/AAY/ABPL family ten antang/chini bangzah, bangzah rate in amu ua? Adik hia?
(iii) Mun bangzahte ah FPS koihbeh a kiphamoh a?
(iv) Anei zou lou leh tagah-gentheite tunga lungkhamna leh haksatna omsakte’ tung a FIR/Police report bawla, High Court leh Supreme Court a PIL file ding.
Hiaite isepkhiak ngam mateng bangmah apai dik kei ding chih amuh theih hi. But who will bell the cat? Are we ready for this mission?
6. CCPur leh Delhi ZEPADA hon omkhesaka, nasep hon pankhete pahtakhuai kasa petmah hi. Amaute’ pan lakna jiak in PDS antang leh chinite bangzah hiamte’n ichiam khata ua, a kipahhuai mah mah. Hilehleng, Zodawn singtang khomite’n amu kha nai kei uh. Huan, Mautaam.org hon bawl khetute zahna sangpen ka pia hi. Kuapeuh - sia-leh-pha nei peuhmahte - khe khata dinga, pankhawm isiam leh iloh ching ngei ding uhi.
7. Houlimnate ah VGB leh FPS thute gentheih dan-dan in ana gen khasek mah leng hon lunglutpih tak tak om ngellou kasa sim hi. A khente’n lah thil omdan diktak suikhia a, puangkhia a, Police Report, PIL file chihtan pha pantouh lam igen kha khol kei ua, ‘Manipur Solkal thumlim lou law tel, Minister/MLA te lah hichi mai mah, bangmah hoih ngei tuan lou ding, phatuam lou ding ahi’ chihte houlimna tawpna ahi sek hi. Lauhsim gige khat neia, thudik gen ngamlou ihi uhia? ka chi dek dek hi.
8. Huchi hinapi’n, VGB leh FPS te hoih kasakna te leh Mautaam Kialpi douna dinga galvan hoihpen leh phatuampen hi dinga ka gintak tinten na a lian deuh deuh hi. Thil omdan diktak va suikhe pawl om in, thudik ahi bang banga genkhia in, ivek un, kithutuak in, nna semkhawm lehang lawhchinna hon dal zou ding bangmah a om kei hangsan takin ka chi ngam hi, “Eite lama Pathian pang ahih nung, kua’n hon dou zou peuhmah dia?” chih gingtate ihih jiak un.
9. Kum Thak 2008 tawh kiton in, Mautaam Kialpi jiaka gilkial-dangtakna leh natna tuam tuamte’n hon bunuai petmah ding ahita. I Gam leh Nam, tagah leh gentheite Kumthak 2008 in bang piak isawm ua? Zogam itna jiak in, a omsate puah thaka, aom nailoute semkhe ding in ikiman uhia? Ken jaw suahtakna ding lampi dang ka ngaihtuah khe zo kei hi.
I Gam leh Nam, mipite’ a dinga hiaite’ sanga thil poimoh jaw bang aom a? Sum-leh-pai, ineih dan-dan ua I pankhawmna tuh ihih ding mah ahi. Hiai bangtan ihih zou ding ua? Mautaam Kialpi in bangtan, kum bangzah adaih dia? Antang leitawina ding VGB leh FPS te tampi koihbeh sak theih lai ding eive, Gam leh Nam itna jiaka I pangkhawm diam diam peuh uleh, lawmte ….
I tu’n leh jua lungmawl in,
Pianna gam giabang juun din’
Seen vontawite hon ngak uh
Sin in, seem in, giabang juun.
Dial dial in, diam diam leng lawm (2)
Vualzawhna, I gamlei ding.
Tua bang dinga mimbang piang
Nam chih, mi zatam lai ah
Ki-itna leh kituahna
Khantawn in om gige hen.
“Ka ta deihtakte aw, a thu leltak, ahih kei leh, lei leltakin, ki-it kei ni. Nasep thilhih leh thutakin ki-it zaw ni.” Amen!
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Khatchin Langel, New Delhi
Kum 24 val Ministry of Defence a kasep nung in, August 1, 2007 apan in Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperation, Krishi Bhavan ah kana kisuan khia a, huai building mah a om Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Civil Supplies te office apan in, Govt. of India in Village Grain Bank (VGB=Antang Kholkhawmna Inn) policy pai lel-lel dungjui a VGB 93 bawlkhiakna dinga Commissioner(FCS), Manipur Government Notification No.6/10/2002-FCS(II) dated 7.9.2007 leh Manipur Sectt. Order No.6/10/2002-FCS(II) dated 15.9.2007 kava mukhe zenzen hi.
Hiai order ah Manipur Hill District 5 te aom vek ua, Churachandpur Sub-Division tel khakei mah leh, Singngat, Thanlon, Tipaimukh leh Henglep Sub-Division te ah hiai anuaia bang in VGB 93 bawlkhiakna thupiak ana omta hi:-
CHURACHANDPUR DISTRICT
(1) Tipaimukh Sub-Division
Village Population
1 Parvachom 1378
2 Rovakot 984
3 Leisen 1423
4 Tinsuong 1873
5 H. Moulien 378
6 Tuolbung 1220
7 Patpuimun 772
TOTAL 8028
(2) Thanlon Sub-Division
8 Gamhui 675
9 Bungpilon 455
10 Songtal 1090
11 Singjawl 1285
12 Bukpi 1624
13 Leizangphai 1396
TOTAL 6525
(3) Singngat Sub-Division
14 Allusingtom 228
15 Hianglam(K) 408
16 Ngaljang 338
17 Tonglon 322
18 Tuikamualum 471
TOTAL 1764
(4) Henglep Sub-Division
19 Aina 328
20 Santing (l) 737
21 Teijang 404
22 Monghen 372
23 Phiran 252
24 Henglep 6421
25 Chingphei 207
TOTAL 8721
GRAND TOTAL 25,038
# Khomin leh population te sanction order a kigelhdan ahi.
$ Tipaimukh Sub-Division list ah Vangaitanga Zomite’ tenna khomin 1 leng atel kei a, unau Hmarte kia anduh hilou ahih man in, a khasiat huaisim mah mah hi.
* CCPur Sub-Division atel kha kei sese. Poimohlou ahi diam?
2. Hiai VBG 25 te’n atawmpen in Kha khat in antang qtl 5007.60 lak vel amu thei gige ding uhi (BPL Family 1 mi 5 jel hitaleh).
3. Village Grain Bank Policy thiltup tomkim, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Civil Supplies Order No.6-1/2005-BP-II dated 21.2.2006 dungjui in, hiai anuaia bang ahi:-
* BPL family 40 omna ah VGB khat omsak theih.
* BPL family khat mi 4/5 jela hisap ahi a, BPL family 1 in antang quintal 1 a muthei ding.
* Antang, neih hun-huna a ditkiik ding un, VBG saitu dia kisepte’n a leitawisak ding uh.
* Antang masapen (initial) Central Govt FCI tawn in athawn/grant in State Govt. a pe ding.
* State Govt. in ‘Certificate of actual off-take of food grain’ a piaklut bang in FCI a pezom jel ding.
4. Senna lamah mimal leh Vaipawte’ tunggikna ding bangmah aom kha kei. Central leh State Government in apiak ding hiai anuai bang in ahi ding hi:-
a) Cost of food grains @ 1 quintal per family for average 40 families 40 qtls.@ Rs.11,500 per MT (based on present cost) =Rs.46,000
b) Transportation cost @ Rs.90/- per qtl. Rs.90 x 40 =Rs.3,600 (to be equally shared by Central & State Govts.)
c) Training expenses Rs.1400/- per bank
d) Storage/weights/scales etc. Rs.6000/- per bank
e) Monitoring & administrative expenses Rs.3000/- per bank
TOTAL Rs.60,000/- per bank
5. Ana om gige khinsa PDS antang hawmkhiakna Fair Price Shop - BPL/AAY/ABPL card neite’n a rate diktak a amuh ding zah uh leitheihna mun ahi. DC CCPur gendan local newspaper a kasim khak dan in ‘Polling Station omna khua tenga FPS koih ding’ chih ahi. Hiai hial jaw leng ahithei khol kei dinga, himahleh, insak-inkhang, meithai, tagah leh gentheite ihehpiha, ipanpih theihna ding ua sepkhiak ding a poimoh kasakte hiaite ahi uh: -
(i) FPS mun bangzah ah aom a, antang, chini leh K-Oil atung ding zah, ahun bangjel in a tung hia?
(ii) BPL/AAY/ABPL family ten antang/chini bangzah, bangzah rate in amu ua? Adik hia?
(iii) Mun bangzahte ah FPS koihbeh a kiphamoh a?
(iv) Anei zou lou leh tagah-gentheite tunga lungkhamna leh haksatna omsakte’ tung a FIR/Police report bawla, High Court leh Supreme Court a PIL file ding.
Hiaite isepkhiak ngam mateng bangmah apai dik kei ding chih amuh theih hi. But who will bell the cat? Are we ready for this mission?
6. CCPur leh Delhi ZEPADA hon omkhesaka, nasep hon pankhete pahtakhuai kasa petmah hi. Amaute’ pan lakna jiak in PDS antang leh chinite bangzah hiamte’n ichiam khata ua, a kipahhuai mah mah. Hilehleng, Zodawn singtang khomite’n amu kha nai kei uh. Huan, Mautaam.org hon bawl khetute zahna sangpen ka pia hi. Kuapeuh - sia-leh-pha nei peuhmahte - khe khata dinga, pankhawm isiam leh iloh ching ngei ding uhi.
7. Houlimnate ah VGB leh FPS thute gentheih dan-dan in ana gen khasek mah leng hon lunglutpih tak tak om ngellou kasa sim hi. A khente’n lah thil omdan diktak suikhia a, puangkhia a, Police Report, PIL file chihtan pha pantouh lam igen kha khol kei ua, ‘Manipur Solkal thumlim lou law tel, Minister/MLA te lah hichi mai mah, bangmah hoih ngei tuan lou ding, phatuam lou ding ahi’ chihte houlimna tawpna ahi sek hi. Lauhsim gige khat neia, thudik gen ngamlou ihi uhia? ka chi dek dek hi.
8. Huchi hinapi’n, VGB leh FPS te hoih kasakna te leh Mautaam Kialpi douna dinga galvan hoihpen leh phatuampen hi dinga ka gintak tinten na a lian deuh deuh hi. Thil omdan diktak va suikhe pawl om in, thudik ahi bang banga genkhia in, ivek un, kithutuak in, nna semkhawm lehang lawhchinna hon dal zou ding bangmah a om kei hangsan takin ka chi ngam hi, “Eite lama Pathian pang ahih nung, kua’n hon dou zou peuhmah dia?” chih gingtate ihih jiak un.
9. Kum Thak 2008 tawh kiton in, Mautaam Kialpi jiaka gilkial-dangtakna leh natna tuam tuamte’n hon bunuai petmah ding ahita. I Gam leh Nam, tagah leh gentheite Kumthak 2008 in bang piak isawm ua? Zogam itna jiak in, a omsate puah thaka, aom nailoute semkhe ding in ikiman uhia? Ken jaw suahtakna ding lampi dang ka ngaihtuah khe zo kei hi.
I Gam leh Nam, mipite’ a dinga hiaite’ sanga thil poimoh jaw bang aom a? Sum-leh-pai, ineih dan-dan ua I pankhawmna tuh ihih ding mah ahi. Hiai bangtan ihih zou ding ua? Mautaam Kialpi in bangtan, kum bangzah adaih dia? Antang leitawina ding VGB leh FPS te tampi koihbeh sak theih lai ding eive, Gam leh Nam itna jiaka I pangkhawm diam diam peuh uleh, lawmte ….
I tu’n leh jua lungmawl in,
Pianna gam giabang juun din’
Seen vontawite hon ngak uh
Sin in, seem in, giabang juun.
Dial dial in, diam diam leng lawm (2)
Vualzawhna, I gamlei ding.
Tua bang dinga mimbang piang
Nam chih, mi zatam lai ah
Ki-itna leh kituahna
Khantawn in om gige hen.
“Ka ta deihtakte aw, a thu leltak, ahih kei leh, lei leltakin, ki-it kei ni. Nasep thilhih leh thutakin ki-it zaw ni.” Amen!
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Ann Na Neta Hia Sanggam?
Ching Mangte
Nikhat ka lawmnu toh ka kimu ua, "Ann na neta hia?" chi’n ka dong hi. Aman leng kipaktak in, nekhinta ahih dan hon gen banah ka concern na thupitak ziaka kipak lua ahihdan nasatakin hongen mawk hi. Ka ngaihtuah na ah bang ziaka ka dotna “Ann na neta hia?” ka chih lel pen bang chidan a ngai a de aw? Diklou sim hiam a dongkha ka hi ding chihna nei in ka om a lem hetkei hi. Ka kihou zomzel ua, himahleh ka om a lem khin kei a aziak ka thei chian ut hi. Meh taangpi leh koimun a hong kipan ahia chihvel thu khotaang ka kihou ua, huchi kom in dena ka kihouna masa uh ahon dawn dan mak sasim ka hih dan ka gen khe khong hi.
A hon gen a, tuma kum 20 malam a amau gam leng ana haksa law mahmah uh ahihdan, nitenga ann nekding neizou gige te bang eng law mahmah sam a ana khosa ngei uh ahihdan hon gen hi. Huaiziaka ka kimuh phet ua ka dotna pen huai hunlai a amau a dia leng ana common mahmah ahihdan hon genin, akimuh phetphet chiang ua 'ann na neta hia?' chia kidong un, a nenailou te kia hilou, a nek ding neilou ana hih uleh anei zawdeuh ten ana hawm/kipia uh ana hisam uh ahihdan hon gen hi. Huaiziaka, hiaibang a kidong thei te bel hon ngaihsak lua leh nelou dawnlou a I om ding laua hon deihsak lawte ahi uh chia kipak lua uhi.
Tuhunin hausa lua in nekgaih zohlouh phialphial nei in khosa ta mahle uh, a hunpaisa ua a haksat lai nite uh a thei gige ua, anntang malkhat manphat dan thei biik uh abang ua, annek chiang bang in hawmthoh leh kipaktak in thelthang sak lou hial in nethei uhi.
Hiaibang tanchin ka zak chiang in thupi kasa a, i dinmun uh ka lungsim ah a hong lang hi. I gam khang khe zou nai hetlou in nektawm zong a kitou delh tam mahmah hilai mah lehang nasatak a kialpi’n hon phaman zel. Nidang a I ngaihtuah khak khollouh bang a, “Ann neta maw/Ann na neta uhia?” chih eilak mahmah ah leng nidang deuh khong a kidot masak a ineih sek uh ana hita mahleh, ngaihtuah luat a le neilou a kidong khawng ina hih ngei uh ka lamen a, himahleh tuhun in ngaihtuah thak leh dotna poimoh lua ahong hithak ding chih kagingta hi.
Huchi hitaleh, a nei zodeuh ten a neilou zawte I ngaihtuah un I nekngaih mahmah uh kisam ding hi. I hinkhiak/khankhiak dek geigei chiang ua kiakniamna omzel ade aw chihna bang a om a, a kal a sa leh gal laka I buaina utoh, tua kialpi hong tung zel chih chu kingaihtuah, kinekngaih, ki-iit tuah leh ei-le-ei ki-thatthat leh poisak bei a khosak tawpsan in, kialpi ziaka I mi isate khat leh nih in hinna ana tankha ding uh chih lauh pen leh awlmoh pen in nei chiat thei le deih huai ka sa hi.
Hiaibang kalah, milian milal leh makai muanhuai lou tampi ilak ah om ihih manin mipi ten le hiaibang a migenthei tagah liangvai te tan theih ding hamphatnate na ngawn duhgoh tuntun a khosa mite naktak in dou in, hih chimit in ilak ah hiaibang zulhzauna leh thulim louhna te delh mang vek ding in pangkhom siam le ka chi mahmah hi. Huaiding in I chindan hoihlou apan in I dinmun leh chindan uh kikhek thei chial le ut huai hi.
Niteng a nekding nei a silh le ten teeng a khosak a nop leh manphat dan ngaihtuah thak ni. Ahi ding mah sa a, Pathian apat a bang tang ihia? Hiai tan a khosa thei a I ompen manpha lua ahihdan phawk in a hon petu tung ah kipak in diktatna mahmah I om na chiat uah hinpih in len tentan thei le bel a haksa leng dou khawm le nop ding hi.
A haksat hun leh nopsak hun om gige a, I haksat hun inleng Pathian kiang ah kik hun thei in nopsak hun inleng a hon pe pa phoklou zenin om keile Pathian in tua I dinmun apat hon dopsang ka lamen hi. Kialpi tung mah leh Pathian toh dou le ahaksa om lou ding hi. Amah phawk kei lebel neksenglouh louh nei lele ip tovang a koih bang lel ding a, zankhat inleng bei thei hi. Huaiziakin, I dinmun thei in kivelthak le ahun lai ahi dia, nekguk leh chet theih na tuamtuam ten sawt a daih louh dan thei in, I mi isate dinmun te theihpih in, i gam khantouh na din sem le I gam niam leh neuchik zaw hichin a om dildel nilouh kei ding hi. Migam changkang te leng haksatna pallou a om tuan kei uh chih thei in, tua I dinmun apat potkhiak sawm in panla chiat ni.
Hundang khat ah Saptuam saina in picnic in ka hoh uhi. Gamlak ahia, mual in a tuam mun niam chik ahi. Sing lian pipi a pou in a hing dipdip ua, a nawl ah inn/hall giahtheihna ding a bawl uh lianpi a om a, huai ah kipolh limna leh program tuamtuam ka nei uhi. Hun patma in ka vakvel ua, singteh keu tampi te lawmten a muh un, ka gam uh a haksat mahmah lai in singkhuah leng leizou lou in singteh tam pipi kaikhom in vaimim bul khong toh ann ka huan uh achi uhi. Huai hunlai in tu dinmun ding angaihtuah phak louh dan uleh na naktak a sep leh thumna tampi nei uh chihdan hon gen ua, ka lung a khoih mahmah. Tu in huai huntoh tehvual louh in Pathian in a domkang a, a an huandan uh, a khotang zalen dan uh, a khosak dan te khong uh ka muh chian ka eng thei mahmah a, ei gam leng a hong pallut hun ding ka ngaklah mahmah hi.
Hiai te tanchin tamlou I gen zual mah bang in, khovel a I damsung ni a tom dan thei in, nuam zawdeuh leh baih lam deuh in khosak sawm in, aniam deuhte iitna toh kidom kang siam in, i gam adia na hoih seem a makai te za thuap dan siam kizil in, tua idinmun uh huntawk lou ahihdan thei siam in tha-le-zung seng angaih huna leng seng peih hidin, anuam ahaksa ah Pathian sam ni. Midang te vualzwl a ompih gige Pa ei a din leng a nai in mansa gige ahi chih thei thak ni.
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Nikhat ka lawmnu toh ka kimu ua, "Ann na neta hia?" chi’n ka dong hi. Aman leng kipaktak in, nekhinta ahih dan hon gen banah ka concern na thupitak ziaka kipak lua ahihdan nasatakin hongen mawk hi. Ka ngaihtuah na ah bang ziaka ka dotna “Ann na neta hia?” ka chih lel pen bang chidan a ngai a de aw? Diklou sim hiam a dongkha ka hi ding chihna nei in ka om a lem hetkei hi. Ka kihou zomzel ua, himahleh ka om a lem khin kei a aziak ka thei chian ut hi. Meh taangpi leh koimun a hong kipan ahia chihvel thu khotaang ka kihou ua, huchi kom in dena ka kihouna masa uh ahon dawn dan mak sasim ka hih dan ka gen khe khong hi.
A hon gen a, tuma kum 20 malam a amau gam leng ana haksa law mahmah uh ahihdan, nitenga ann nekding neizou gige te bang eng law mahmah sam a ana khosa ngei uh ahihdan hon gen hi. Huaiziaka ka kimuh phet ua ka dotna pen huai hunlai a amau a dia leng ana common mahmah ahihdan hon genin, akimuh phetphet chiang ua 'ann na neta hia?' chia kidong un, a nenailou te kia hilou, a nek ding neilou ana hih uleh anei zawdeuh ten ana hawm/kipia uh ana hisam uh ahihdan hon gen hi. Huaiziaka, hiaibang a kidong thei te bel hon ngaihsak lua leh nelou dawnlou a I om ding laua hon deihsak lawte ahi uh chia kipak lua uhi.
Tuhunin hausa lua in nekgaih zohlouh phialphial nei in khosa ta mahle uh, a hunpaisa ua a haksat lai nite uh a thei gige ua, anntang malkhat manphat dan thei biik uh abang ua, annek chiang bang in hawmthoh leh kipaktak in thelthang sak lou hial in nethei uhi.
Hiaibang tanchin ka zak chiang in thupi kasa a, i dinmun uh ka lungsim ah a hong lang hi. I gam khang khe zou nai hetlou in nektawm zong a kitou delh tam mahmah hilai mah lehang nasatak a kialpi’n hon phaman zel. Nidang a I ngaihtuah khak khollouh bang a, “Ann neta maw/Ann na neta uhia?” chih eilak mahmah ah leng nidang deuh khong a kidot masak a ineih sek uh ana hita mahleh, ngaihtuah luat a le neilou a kidong khawng ina hih ngei uh ka lamen a, himahleh tuhun in ngaihtuah thak leh dotna poimoh lua ahong hithak ding chih kagingta hi.
Huchi hitaleh, a nei zodeuh ten a neilou zawte I ngaihtuah un I nekngaih mahmah uh kisam ding hi. I hinkhiak/khankhiak dek geigei chiang ua kiakniamna omzel ade aw chihna bang a om a, a kal a sa leh gal laka I buaina utoh, tua kialpi hong tung zel chih chu kingaihtuah, kinekngaih, ki-iit tuah leh ei-le-ei ki-thatthat leh poisak bei a khosak tawpsan in, kialpi ziaka I mi isate khat leh nih in hinna ana tankha ding uh chih lauh pen leh awlmoh pen in nei chiat thei le deih huai ka sa hi.
Hiaibang kalah, milian milal leh makai muanhuai lou tampi ilak ah om ihih manin mipi ten le hiaibang a migenthei tagah liangvai te tan theih ding hamphatnate na ngawn duhgoh tuntun a khosa mite naktak in dou in, hih chimit in ilak ah hiaibang zulhzauna leh thulim louhna te delh mang vek ding in pangkhom siam le ka chi mahmah hi. Huaiding in I chindan hoihlou apan in I dinmun leh chindan uh kikhek thei chial le ut huai hi.
Niteng a nekding nei a silh le ten teeng a khosak a nop leh manphat dan ngaihtuah thak ni. Ahi ding mah sa a, Pathian apat a bang tang ihia? Hiai tan a khosa thei a I ompen manpha lua ahihdan phawk in a hon petu tung ah kipak in diktatna mahmah I om na chiat uah hinpih in len tentan thei le bel a haksa leng dou khawm le nop ding hi.
A haksat hun leh nopsak hun om gige a, I haksat hun inleng Pathian kiang ah kik hun thei in nopsak hun inleng a hon pe pa phoklou zenin om keile Pathian in tua I dinmun apat hon dopsang ka lamen hi. Kialpi tung mah leh Pathian toh dou le ahaksa om lou ding hi. Amah phawk kei lebel neksenglouh louh nei lele ip tovang a koih bang lel ding a, zankhat inleng bei thei hi. Huaiziakin, I dinmun thei in kivelthak le ahun lai ahi dia, nekguk leh chet theih na tuamtuam ten sawt a daih louh dan thei in, I mi isate dinmun te theihpih in, i gam khantouh na din sem le I gam niam leh neuchik zaw hichin a om dildel nilouh kei ding hi. Migam changkang te leng haksatna pallou a om tuan kei uh chih thei in, tua I dinmun apat potkhiak sawm in panla chiat ni.
Hundang khat ah Saptuam saina in picnic in ka hoh uhi. Gamlak ahia, mual in a tuam mun niam chik ahi. Sing lian pipi a pou in a hing dipdip ua, a nawl ah inn/hall giahtheihna ding a bawl uh lianpi a om a, huai ah kipolh limna leh program tuamtuam ka nei uhi. Hun patma in ka vakvel ua, singteh keu tampi te lawmten a muh un, ka gam uh a haksat mahmah lai in singkhuah leng leizou lou in singteh tam pipi kaikhom in vaimim bul khong toh ann ka huan uh achi uhi. Huai hunlai in tu dinmun ding angaihtuah phak louh dan uleh na naktak a sep leh thumna tampi nei uh chihdan hon gen ua, ka lung a khoih mahmah. Tu in huai huntoh tehvual louh in Pathian in a domkang a, a an huandan uh, a khotang zalen dan uh, a khosak dan te khong uh ka muh chian ka eng thei mahmah a, ei gam leng a hong pallut hun ding ka ngaklah mahmah hi.
Hiai te tanchin tamlou I gen zual mah bang in, khovel a I damsung ni a tom dan thei in, nuam zawdeuh leh baih lam deuh in khosak sawm in, aniam deuhte iitna toh kidom kang siam in, i gam adia na hoih seem a makai te za thuap dan siam kizil in, tua idinmun uh huntawk lou ahihdan thei siam in tha-le-zung seng angaih huna leng seng peih hidin, anuam ahaksa ah Pathian sam ni. Midang te vualzwl a ompih gige Pa ei a din leng a nai in mansa gige ahi chih thei thak ni.
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Lamka Post | December 28, 2007
PTC (Hq) in veh
Lamka, Dec 27: Mizoram Paite Tribe Council(PTC) President Ph. Laldongliana (37) s/o Pastor PH Rothuam apaisa Dec 22, 2007 nitak a Aizawl ah accident a liam serious ziak a Imphal Shija Hospital a ki-enkol zan in Paite Tribe Council (PTC)/Hq apan in T. Singneng President PTC/Hq makaih in vehna va nei ua, PTC/Hq. min in Rs. 5000/- pia uhi. Thutut kingah dan in, a liam nakluat ziak in tunitan in khophawklou in ICU ah om lel hi.
MHA/ZRO in thusuah bawl
Lamka, Dec 27: Zomi Re-Unification Organisation (ZRO) nuai a Ministry of Home Affairs Secretary Kenneth in thusuah a bawl Press a kimu in ataklatdan in, khopi sung ah zu zuakna himhim nitak dak 6 nung kham bikbek ahihdan puang a, nitak dak 6 nung a customer te tutpih hiam zu pekhia hiam a om leh, atung ah pawlpi’n action la ding ahihdan puang hi. Tuabanah, Christmas leh Kumthak lopna hun pailel sung in, kuaman cracker leh bazaar bomb zuak phallouh ahihdan puang in, kuaman leng kimawlpih lou ding in theihsakna bawl hi. Kangvai lam atai passenger gari neu (Jeep leh adang dang te) kingakna mun ding Tipaimukh Road leh Mata, Lamjang lam a taite ading Hmuiva Veng ahihdan gen in, hiai Dan bohse lou ding in Passenger Jeep te zasak hi. Khopi sung ah gari tai te himhim 30 Km/hr kheng a tailou ding in Home Secretary/ZRO in theisak a, zu kham ziak hiam, thil dangdang kham ziak a kuaman mipi buai theihna ding a nna semlou ding in theihsakna bawl a, a tung a Dan tuamtuam kikhung bohse te tung ah Pawlpi nasem ding ahihdan leng puang hi.
Suanlal leh Diki kiteng ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Mr. Pausuanlal @ Suanlal s/o Khaizasong Guite of Elim Veng New Lamka leh Miss Lalbiakdik d/o L. Chinkhannang of Bungmual, zingchiang December 28, 2007 zinglam dak 10 in New Lamka Baptist Church Elim Veng ah kiteng ding uhi.
Mang leh Mawi kiteng ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Thanglianmang S/o (L) Thongkhanneng of Bungmual leh Kimthianmawi D/o T Dongzathang of Langgol te zingchiang (December 28) suun dak 12 in EBC Bungmual Biakinn ah Saptuam Dan siangthou in kiteng ding uhi. Hiai hun uap chiat ding in Mouneite’n news tungtawn in chialna bawl uhi.
Lamka Driver Union in Corrigendum bawl dia theisak kawm in vau
Lamka, Dec 27: Lamka leh Aizawl kikal a Tata Sumo passenger pua a service te lamkal a omdan toh kisai a lungkimlouh thu passenger te’n press a thutut a bawl uh toh kisai in tuni’n Lamka Driver’s Union in thusuah bawl hi.
Thusuak in a taklatna ah, tulai a Lamka leh Aizawl a gairi a kidaihlouhluat ziakin Lamka apan Dec 21 a khawllou a paisuak in zinglam dak 6 in Aizawl tung suak ua, gari bawl ding neuhneuh om ziakin sunnung dak 2.10 in Aizawl apan Lamka zuan a kipankhe thei nawn pan ahihdan uh taklang uhi. Nitak dak 12 vel in Khawdungsei tung a, hiai hun a Driver te zudawn buai ziaka Khodungsei tangval khat leh Driver te kisubuai chih leh hiai suveng ding in KDS VC te kigolh chih leng thu mumal neilou ahihdan taklang kawm in VC te toh amau pawl kimulou himhim uh ahihdan uh taklang uhi.
Thusuak in a taklatna ah, zinglam dak 7 in Khodungsei apan kipankhe nawn in sunnung dak 3:30 in Tuima tung ua, hiai apan nitak a pai phallouh chih banah, Muallum Army Check Post zan nung a pelh phallouh himahleh passenger te lak a Army Officer khat in ken a moh teng ka paw ding a chih dungzui in Tuima apan kipankhia in nitak dak 7:30 in Suangdoh apan kipankhe nawn in nitak dak 10 a Singngat tung ahihdan uh taklang uhi.
Thusuakin a taklatzelna ah, Lamka manoh in ma sawn zel ua, nitak dak 10:50 in Muallum Army Check post tung ua, tua ah passenger te lak a Army Officer khat leh midang khat in paisuak thei ding a, a nget sung uh kingak lel himahleh passenger te lak a khat in Zu dawn a passenger te kingak sak a chih pen thu mumal neilou leh kisuk minsiat nawpna lel hi’n LDU in ngai ahihdan taklang kawm in driver khat in passenger te vuak nang singkhuah gari a koih chihleng thu bulbal neilou leh chiamnuihna maimai lel hi’n taklang hi. Tuabanah, numei naupang tuang ngam nawnlou kichi leng driver ihmut suaklua driver khat ihmu zual passenger ten thakhat a a phon uh leh lamkhang a electric khuam kikoih gawikhak ziak a Dinglian te inkuan tuangngam nawnlou uh hizaw hi’n leng taklang uhi.
Thusuakin a taklat zelna ah, driver te omdan ahiloupi a kisuahpen driver te nekzonna suksiat sak sawmna leh muhsitna lel hi a, thusuah bawltu in driver te leh passenger dangte ngaihtuahlou a amah mimal tunbaih ding deihna a press a thutut a bawlpen ngaisiamlou uh ahihdan uh taklang hi. Hiai thu press a thutut bawltu in December 31, 2007 tan a Corrigendum (bawldikna) a suah kei a, a tung a thiltung a omleh LDU in mohpawlou ding hi’n taklang hi.
Safari Ka zuak nuam
Ka gari hoih mahmah lai Safari ka zuak nuam a a deihte’n J&J Fast Food, Lamka Post Building ah thuchian ngah theih ding hi.
Prop: J&J Fast Food
Youth Congress pawl in Press meet sam; DYCC in helna neih di’n vau
Lamka, Dec 27: CCpur Dist. Youth Congress Committee (CDYCC) in hun paisa bangtan hiam apan Khuga Project ah Contact Work khenkhat Khuga Spill way leh Intake division leh Khuga Head Work Division nuai ah nasep tuamtuam nei in gen ua, nasem tuten leng deih bang a nasep a zoh nung uh tuni tan Govt in apaiak louh ziak in tuni sunnung dak 2:30 in DYCC Office ah Press meet sam hi.
DYCC President in agenna ah kum paisa 2003 apan 2006 sung a, DYCC member te nasepna KSID leh KHD nuai a Protection wall leh Site drain kibawlte zohsiang nung nasan ua, Finance Dept in tam veipi fund khah (released) mahleh tan khak neilou uh ahihdan gen hi. Nasepna ding Fund om hun teng in Dist MLA apat Chief Minister tanpha kiang ah recommendation lasek mahle uh Congress mi-le-sate a ding in bangmah phatuamna omlou ahihdan gen hi. Hiai hun a president in a genna ah, recommendation pen kikhemna maimai ahihdan theichian ua, zumhuai leh khasiathuai a sakdan taklang a, CDYCC neglect a om pen lamdang sa lungkimlouh thu puang ua, kikhemna maimai pen pawm thei nawnlou uh ahihziak in Dec 27 apan Jan.10, 2008 tan a Bill pending teng Chief Minister leh IFCD Minister in apiak kei leh helna chikhat (agitation) pat sawm uhi. Banghiam thil tung om leh Govt. in a mohpaw hi’n gen uhi.
Liamte kiang ah Ex-gratia pe ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Kumlui 2006 a Tuila Bus accident a liam mi 68 te kiang ah zangna dopna (Ex-gratia) sum phiak khiakna zingchiang zinglam dak 11:00 in DC/CCpur Office Conference Hall ah om ding hi. Huai hun ah next of kin teng hawh ding in SDO/CCpur in theisak a, NOK hoh loute kiang ah sum piak khiak hilou ding hi.
Bike tai lai apan kia in liam
Lamka, Dec 27: Mrs. Kikim (38) w/o Manglen of Jalenphai zan sunnung dak 3:00 vel in Khengjang ah Bike nung a tuang kia in, a lu lak nasa in tun Dist Hospital Lamka ah etkol in om hi.
Local Pastor in hong
Lamka, Dec 27: Baptist Youth fellowship (BYF) Dorca’s veng in “Kahatna Topa” motion picture CD album abawl uh tuni tak dak 6:00 in Dorca’s veng EBCC biak inn ah Pastor V. Songkhothang Local pastor Dorcas veng EBCC in hong hi. Huai CD album deihten zingchiang apan lei theih ding hi.
Commander in X-mas leh kumthak thu chah bawl
Lamka, Dec 27: Brig. BC Sharma Commander 27 Sector Assam Rifle leh huai a SM leh Rank nei tengteng in Manipur a Christian te kiang ah X-mas leh Kumthak 2008 thu chah bawl in tua ah mipite laka kilemna muanna leh kipahna a tun deih thu puang uhi.
Computerised Reservation System leh Bus Parking hong ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Director of Transport Govt. of Manipur saina in hong tung ding December 29, 2007 zinglam dak 10:30 leh 11:30 in Lamka khopi a dia a masapen ding in Tuibuang a om Transport office ah Computerised Passenger Reservation System leh New Bazar a Bus Parking kibawl thak honkhiakna om ding hi.
Hiai hun honkhiakna Shri L. Jayenta Kumar singh, Minister (Tpt/Edn/Seri), in Chief Guest hikawm in hongkhe ding a, PHED Minister Shri T.N. Haokip leh Works Minister Shri K. Ranjit singh ten Functional President leh Guest of Honour hihna toh uap ding uhi.
Christmas sung in buaina omlou
Lamka, Dec-27: Lamka area a tutung Christmas zatna veng tuamtuam ah om a, khenkhat in ni khat khen khat in ni 2 zang ua, huai hun sung in bangmah buaina om lou in kizou siang hi. Join Philanthropic organization leh pawlpi khenkhatte panlakna ziakin puak thei tuamtuam leng zak in om lou hi.
Office kai tom mahmah
Lamka, Dec- 27: Govt office tuamtuamte tuni apan office kai nawn mahle uh office tamzaw ah office kai tawm mahmah ua, a kai om sunte leng pai bei pah uhi. Thutut kingah dan in, office kai khen khat Christmas sung a mun dang a zin leh programmed tuamtuam neih ziak ua Christmas leh kum thak kikal office kai gina lou zel uh hi’n leng thutut kingah hi.
Ccpur to Singhat lampi bawlna Rs 10 Crores sanction
IMPHAL DEC 27: North Eastern Council nuai a Ccpur apat Singngat kikal Tedim Road bawlna Rs 10 crores Manipur govt. kianga piak dia sanction hidan in apaisa November 27, 2007 in NEC thusuak om hi. Hiai sum pen NEC Plan Schemes 2007-08 a 2nd installment hidan inleng thusuak in taklang hi.
Hiai lak a 10% loan component pen 12th Finance Commission nuai a State govt. in NEC apat Grant-in-aid a ngah apat leng hiding hi. NEC thusuak dan in, hiai fund release pen lampi bawlna item tuamtuam a zat ding chih leh, state govt. in divert bawl theilou ding chih leng ahi. Nasepna toh kisai in implementing line department leh State govt. nuai a Nodal Officer in zoh hun dia target hunsung ngei a nasep zoh ding thu leng taklang hi.
15th Annual Function show
IMPHAL DEC 27: The Meitei Traditional Dance Teaching School & Performance Centre, Imphal in, December 31, 2007 chiangin, J.N. Manipur Dance Academy Hall, Khuyathong, Imphal ah 15th Annual Function show nei ding uhi.
Hiai hun ah khuallian leh President dingin, P.Bhorot Singh Commissioner Art & Culture leh Padmashri N. Khelchandra (Pandit) te ban ah guest of honour dingin, Yambem Laba Director, J.N. Manipur Dance Academy te hiding uhi. Hiai function show thupi ding bel, ‘One family, One Nation, The World’ chih hiding hi.
Bharat Nirman Lamka ah om ding
IMPHAL DEC 27: Ministry of I & B, Govt. of India nuai a PIB Imphal saina
in, hun paisa a district tuamtuam a neih ahihbangin kumthak January 8 – 11, 2008 sung Synod Hall, Ccpur ah Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign hun zatna om ding hi. Hiai hun ah central govt. nuai a programme tuamtuam, RTI, NRHM, NREGS, ICDS, SSA, Mid-Day-Meal, JNNURM leh Bharat Nirman packages te toh kisai in awareness leh campaign om ding hi.
Application form SP office ah leng piaklut theih
IMPHAL DEC 27: Manipur Police nuai a ASI/SI/Jemadar lakna dia application form te employment exchange tungtawn sese lou a, mahni district SP office chiat leh IGP (Adm) PHQ a leng piaklut theih ding hidan in DGP thusuak om hi.
State Level convention om ding
IMPHAL DEC 27: Manipur Legislature Forum on HIV/AIDS leh department of RD & PR kithuah in December 28, 2007 zinglam dak 9.30 in Porompat a panchayat Bhavan ah, One day State Level convention on HIV/AIDS hun zatna om ding hi. Hiai hun ah khuallian in Chief Minister O.Ibobi Singh leh President dingin, Assembly Speaker Dr.S.Budhichandra Singh te pang ding uhi.
SO mat khah din ngen
IMPHAL DEC 27: Apaisa December 15, 2007 a meltheihlouh ten Education (S) department a Engineering Cell a Section Officer, Salam Indrajit amat uh tunitan khah ahihlouhna toh kisai in, tuni’n HHAU ground ah mipi kikhopna om hi.
Hiai hun ah JAC for immediate & unconditional release of S. Indrajit kichi bawlkhiak ahihban ah, JAC in kintak a khah dia ngen kawm in, lungkim louh etsakna dia Singjamei apat Yumnam leikai tan NH 39 zingchiang Dec 28, 2007 zinglam dak 6 apat nitaklam dak 6 tan bandh bawl hidingin leng thupuan bawl uhi. Hiai mimatna toh kisai in, JAC ten tuni’n CM kiang ah leng memorandum khat pelut uhi.
NRHM nuai a result tuamtuam kipuang
IMPHAL DEC 27: National Rural Health Mission nuai a, Manipur State heath
Mission society in, post tuamtuam lakna dia interview/DPC a neih uh result puang kheta hi.
Assistance Finance Manager: IE 8, IW 7, Thoubal 6, CCpur 4, Tamenglong 2, Ukhrul 1 leh Senapati ah 6 ahi. Ccpur apat lochinna ngahte bel, John B. Thomte, H. Chingngaihkim, Pauchinthang Hangluah, P.G.Gangmeidun R. Naga; Senapati apat eimite bel, Paogoulen Misao, Lalgoulen Khongsai, T.Yangkhopao Haokip, Seikhomang Kipgen leh Seigoumang Lhouvum ahi.
Tuabanah, Block Data Manager ah, CCpur 2, Ukhrul 2 leh Senapati 1 hi a, Ccpur apat Sasang Hauzel telkha hi. Block Health Programme Manager, IE 3, IW 3, Thoubal 3, Bishnupur 3, Chandel 4, Ccpur 5, Ukhrul 5, Senapati 6 leh Tamenglong ah 4 ahi. Ccpur ah T. Lalboi, K. Lamsanglian, G. Thangthianmuang ban ah, Senapati ah, Thangjamang Chongloi chihte telkha uhi.
Amau consolidated honorarium dan in kha khat in, Rs 6000/- ban ah, contractual compensatory allowance Rs 1500/- zel ngah ding ua, a sep hun ding uh bel, kha 11 sung hiding chih ahi.
BSEM in hologram tellou laibu kham
IMPHAL DEC 27: BSEM thusuak dan in, Class I – VIII tan te text book ah Board in hologram belh vek hi. Hichibang kibelh loute student leh guardian ten leilou dingin leng BSEM in theihsakna bawl kawm in, huchibang laibu tuakkhaten BSEM a theisak dingin leng ngetna bawl uhi.
Huailou in, Board recognized louh school khenkhat in 2008-09 academic session adia Class IX leh X a admission bawl om chih thu ah, huchibang student ten HSLC exam board nuai a tel theilou ding hidan in Board thusuak om hi.
Tent Pegging Championship kipan
IMPHAL DEC 27: Manipur Equestrian association zintunna nuai ah, Manipur
a dia amasa pen dingin, tuni apat December 31, 2007 tan daih ding National Tent Pegging Championship, 2008 Pologround, Imphal ah patkhiak hita hi. Hiai hun ah khuallian in Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh leh President in N. Biren Minister YAS te pang uhi.
Hiai Championship adingin Manipur tel in state polam apat team 8 toh team 9 kimawl ding ua, mun dang apat hongkuante bel, ITBP, Haryana, ASC, North Gava, Assam Rifle, Jorhat, UP Police, ASC Bangalore, West Bengal Police, Kolkata Police, Eastern Command te ahi.
Hiai championship honkhiakna hun a, khuallian apang CM in agenna ah, Manipur kichi gam neuchik himahleh, kimawlna lam a national leh International level a mi theihphak hita ahihna ah, kimawl mite phat huai asak dan taklang hi. Manipur govt. in sakol kimawlna lam leng puahna ding ngimna a, Lamphelpat area a gam 30 acres alian bikhiah leh hiai mun
Rs 19 lakh vel lut a puah hiding ahihdan leng gen hi.
Hiai Tent Pegging championship zoh nung, kumthak 2008 January kal masa in Manipur Equestrian Associaiton leh Manipur police zin tunna nuai ah, All India Police Equestrian Championship leng Imphal ah om nawn ding hi.
Pakistan Prime Minister lui Benazir Bhutto kaplup in om
US leh Russia tel in gam tuamtuam in mohpaihthu puang
Islamabad, Dec 27: Pakistan charismatic leader chih hial a om Prime Minister lui Benazir Bhutto tu nitaklam in election rally aneihna ah kaplup in om hi. Thusuak kingah dan in, tu nitaklam in Bhutto in Rawalpindi ah election rally nei a, huai mun ah helpawl hidia gintak te’n a gari thau in ana kap uh a, huai zoh in sihchilh bomb puahzaak sak in om a, midang 20 val in leng sihloh uhi. Thusuak in ataklatna ah, thau tang 5 kapkhiak a om te lak ah thautang khat a ngawng ah lut a, kintak in Rawalpindi General Hospital tut in om mahleh, damzoulou hi. Kum 54 a upa Benazir ahihleh, Pakistan mipi tamzaw in ngaina mahmah uh hi’n kigen hi. Rahman Malik, PPP chairperson's security advisor in agenna ah, Bhutto gari mi bangzah hiam in thau in kikap huan ua, tuazoh in sihchilh bomb khat puakzaak ahihdan gen hi.
PPP Member poimoh mahmah Wasif Ali Khan in agenna ah, nitaklam dak 6:16 geih in Bhutto hinna abeita chi’n puang a, huai toh kiton in Pakistan gamsung sousang mahmah hi. Bhutto in ahihleh, a pasal Asif Ali Zardari leh a tate nih nawsia hi. Pakistan gamsung a sousang mahmah ziak in tu nitak in President Pervez Musharraf in a mimuan deuhdeuh sam khawm in emergency meeting sam ngal hi. PPP hatna bial Karachi, Lyari leh Jecobabad ngial ah Security leh mipite ki honsual zaak uhi. Pakistan's Interior ministry in leng Bhutto sihthu puangkhe ngal a, Bhutto mi muan mahmah Sherry Rehman leh Naheed Khan te leng liam uh ahihdan puang hi.
Mipi thangpai te’n damdawi inn kim ah "Dog, Musharraf, dog," chi in kikou uh a, Damdawi inn Emergency unit glass teng khetsiat ahih banah, damdawi inn building nasan leng halsiat sawm pawl om man a, mipi sang tamtak khitui naptui toh om uhi.
Bhutto sihna toh kisai in, Russia leh US tel in gam tuamtuam in mohpaih thu puang uh a, Pakistan Opposition leader sihna a mawk mai a koih hilou ding in thupuan bawl tuaktuak uhi. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin in agenna ah, Bhutto nasep khiak te khovel in thei a, mi poimoh leh manpha sihna tung ah Pakistan thuneitute a daihdide ua leh thil mak tak hiding ahi chi uhi. US Deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey in agenna ah, Rawalpindi a Bhutto sihna US in suichian ding ahihdan puang in Pakistan mipite sunpih thu puang hi. Benazir Bhutto ahihleh, 1953 kum in piang a, Muslim gam Pakistan ading in numei Prime Minister len masapen ahi hi. Aman 1988 - 1990 leh 1993 – 1996 sung Prime Minister hihna len a, southeastern Sindh province ah piang in US a Harvard's Radcliffe College ah khanglian in, Asia apan Oxford Union a President len masapen leng hidanin kigen hi. A pianna pa Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1971-1977 sung Pakistan PM hihna ana len hi.
Awards leh Honorary Degree alak khakte:
Bruno Kreisky Award of Merit in human Rights, 1988.
Honorary Phi Beta Kappa Award (1989), presented by Radcliffe College.
Highest Moroccan Award "Grand Cordon de Wissam Alaoui"
Highest French Award "Grand-croix de la Legion Honneur" (1989)
The Noel Foundation Award, 1990 (UNIFEM).
The Gakushuin Honorary Award, Tokyo (1996)
Award by the Turkish Independent Industries and Businessmen Association (MUSAID) on account of providing assistance to the people of Bosnia.
Golden medal Dragon of Bosnia awarded by President of Bosnia (1996)
Key to the city of Los Angeles, presented by the Mayor of Los Angeles (1995)
Presidential Medal, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Science (1995)
Medal by University of California at Los Angeles (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, L.L.D Harvard University (1989)
Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa), University of Sindh (1994)
Honorary Doctorate from Mendanao State University, Philippines (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa), Peshawar University (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Economics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo (1996)
Honorary Fellowship by Lady Margaret Hall, University Oxford, (1989)
Honorary Fellowship by St. Catherine College, University of Oxford, (1989)
Honorary Professor of the Kyrghyz State National University (1995) Kyrghyzstan.
Honorary Professor of Yassavi Kazakh Turkish University, Kazakh-Turkish International Language University, Kazakhstan, 1995.
Honorable Member of OHYUKAI, Alumni Association of Gakushuin, conferred by OHYUKAI Tokyo (1996).
Awarded the 2000 Millennium Medal of Honor by American Biographical Institute, Inc. in November 1998.
Awarded American Academy Award of Achievement in London, October 28, 2000
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Lamka, Dec 27: Mizoram Paite Tribe Council(PTC) President Ph. Laldongliana (37) s/o Pastor PH Rothuam apaisa Dec 22, 2007 nitak a Aizawl ah accident a liam serious ziak a Imphal Shija Hospital a ki-enkol zan in Paite Tribe Council (PTC)/Hq apan in T. Singneng President PTC/Hq makaih in vehna va nei ua, PTC/Hq. min in Rs. 5000/- pia uhi. Thutut kingah dan in, a liam nakluat ziak in tunitan in khophawklou in ICU ah om lel hi.
MHA/ZRO in thusuah bawl
Lamka, Dec 27: Zomi Re-Unification Organisation (ZRO) nuai a Ministry of Home Affairs Secretary Kenneth in thusuah a bawl Press a kimu in ataklatdan in, khopi sung ah zu zuakna himhim nitak dak 6 nung kham bikbek ahihdan puang a, nitak dak 6 nung a customer te tutpih hiam zu pekhia hiam a om leh, atung ah pawlpi’n action la ding ahihdan puang hi. Tuabanah, Christmas leh Kumthak lopna hun pailel sung in, kuaman cracker leh bazaar bomb zuak phallouh ahihdan puang in, kuaman leng kimawlpih lou ding in theihsakna bawl hi. Kangvai lam atai passenger gari neu (Jeep leh adang dang te) kingakna mun ding Tipaimukh Road leh Mata, Lamjang lam a taite ading Hmuiva Veng ahihdan gen in, hiai Dan bohse lou ding in Passenger Jeep te zasak hi. Khopi sung ah gari tai te himhim 30 Km/hr kheng a tailou ding in Home Secretary/ZRO in theisak a, zu kham ziak hiam, thil dangdang kham ziak a kuaman mipi buai theihna ding a nna semlou ding in theihsakna bawl a, a tung a Dan tuamtuam kikhung bohse te tung ah Pawlpi nasem ding ahihdan leng puang hi.
Suanlal leh Diki kiteng ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Mr. Pausuanlal @ Suanlal s/o Khaizasong Guite of Elim Veng New Lamka leh Miss Lalbiakdik d/o L. Chinkhannang of Bungmual, zingchiang December 28, 2007 zinglam dak 10 in New Lamka Baptist Church Elim Veng ah kiteng ding uhi.
Mang leh Mawi kiteng ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Thanglianmang S/o (L) Thongkhanneng of Bungmual leh Kimthianmawi D/o T Dongzathang of Langgol te zingchiang (December 28) suun dak 12 in EBC Bungmual Biakinn ah Saptuam Dan siangthou in kiteng ding uhi. Hiai hun uap chiat ding in Mouneite’n news tungtawn in chialna bawl uhi.
Lamka Driver Union in Corrigendum bawl dia theisak kawm in vau
Lamka, Dec 27: Lamka leh Aizawl kikal a Tata Sumo passenger pua a service te lamkal a omdan toh kisai a lungkimlouh thu passenger te’n press a thutut a bawl uh toh kisai in tuni’n Lamka Driver’s Union in thusuah bawl hi.
Thusuak in a taklatna ah, tulai a Lamka leh Aizawl a gairi a kidaihlouhluat ziakin Lamka apan Dec 21 a khawllou a paisuak in zinglam dak 6 in Aizawl tung suak ua, gari bawl ding neuhneuh om ziakin sunnung dak 2.10 in Aizawl apan Lamka zuan a kipankhe thei nawn pan ahihdan uh taklang uhi. Nitak dak 12 vel in Khawdungsei tung a, hiai hun a Driver te zudawn buai ziaka Khodungsei tangval khat leh Driver te kisubuai chih leh hiai suveng ding in KDS VC te kigolh chih leng thu mumal neilou ahihdan taklang kawm in VC te toh amau pawl kimulou himhim uh ahihdan uh taklang uhi.
Thusuak in a taklatna ah, zinglam dak 7 in Khodungsei apan kipankhe nawn in sunnung dak 3:30 in Tuima tung ua, hiai apan nitak a pai phallouh chih banah, Muallum Army Check Post zan nung a pelh phallouh himahleh passenger te lak a Army Officer khat in ken a moh teng ka paw ding a chih dungzui in Tuima apan kipankhia in nitak dak 7:30 in Suangdoh apan kipankhe nawn in nitak dak 10 a Singngat tung ahihdan uh taklang uhi.
Thusuakin a taklatzelna ah, Lamka manoh in ma sawn zel ua, nitak dak 10:50 in Muallum Army Check post tung ua, tua ah passenger te lak a Army Officer khat leh midang khat in paisuak thei ding a, a nget sung uh kingak lel himahleh passenger te lak a khat in Zu dawn a passenger te kingak sak a chih pen thu mumal neilou leh kisuk minsiat nawpna lel hi’n LDU in ngai ahihdan taklang kawm in driver khat in passenger te vuak nang singkhuah gari a koih chihleng thu bulbal neilou leh chiamnuihna maimai lel hi’n taklang hi. Tuabanah, numei naupang tuang ngam nawnlou kichi leng driver ihmut suaklua driver khat ihmu zual passenger ten thakhat a a phon uh leh lamkhang a electric khuam kikoih gawikhak ziak a Dinglian te inkuan tuangngam nawnlou uh hizaw hi’n leng taklang uhi.
Thusuakin a taklat zelna ah, driver te omdan ahiloupi a kisuahpen driver te nekzonna suksiat sak sawmna leh muhsitna lel hi a, thusuah bawltu in driver te leh passenger dangte ngaihtuahlou a amah mimal tunbaih ding deihna a press a thutut a bawlpen ngaisiamlou uh ahihdan uh taklang hi. Hiai thu press a thutut bawltu in December 31, 2007 tan a Corrigendum (bawldikna) a suah kei a, a tung a thiltung a omleh LDU in mohpawlou ding hi’n taklang hi.
Safari Ka zuak nuam
Ka gari hoih mahmah lai Safari ka zuak nuam a a deihte’n J&J Fast Food, Lamka Post Building ah thuchian ngah theih ding hi.
Prop: J&J Fast Food
Youth Congress pawl in Press meet sam; DYCC in helna neih di’n vau
Lamka, Dec 27: CCpur Dist. Youth Congress Committee (CDYCC) in hun paisa bangtan hiam apan Khuga Project ah Contact Work khenkhat Khuga Spill way leh Intake division leh Khuga Head Work Division nuai ah nasep tuamtuam nei in gen ua, nasem tuten leng deih bang a nasep a zoh nung uh tuni tan Govt in apaiak louh ziak in tuni sunnung dak 2:30 in DYCC Office ah Press meet sam hi.
DYCC President in agenna ah kum paisa 2003 apan 2006 sung a, DYCC member te nasepna KSID leh KHD nuai a Protection wall leh Site drain kibawlte zohsiang nung nasan ua, Finance Dept in tam veipi fund khah (released) mahleh tan khak neilou uh ahihdan gen hi. Nasepna ding Fund om hun teng in Dist MLA apat Chief Minister tanpha kiang ah recommendation lasek mahle uh Congress mi-le-sate a ding in bangmah phatuamna omlou ahihdan gen hi. Hiai hun a president in a genna ah, recommendation pen kikhemna maimai ahihdan theichian ua, zumhuai leh khasiathuai a sakdan taklang a, CDYCC neglect a om pen lamdang sa lungkimlouh thu puang ua, kikhemna maimai pen pawm thei nawnlou uh ahihziak in Dec 27 apan Jan.10, 2008 tan a Bill pending teng Chief Minister leh IFCD Minister in apiak kei leh helna chikhat (agitation) pat sawm uhi. Banghiam thil tung om leh Govt. in a mohpaw hi’n gen uhi.
Liamte kiang ah Ex-gratia pe ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Kumlui 2006 a Tuila Bus accident a liam mi 68 te kiang ah zangna dopna (Ex-gratia) sum phiak khiakna zingchiang zinglam dak 11:00 in DC/CCpur Office Conference Hall ah om ding hi. Huai hun ah next of kin teng hawh ding in SDO/CCpur in theisak a, NOK hoh loute kiang ah sum piak khiak hilou ding hi.
Bike tai lai apan kia in liam
Lamka, Dec 27: Mrs. Kikim (38) w/o Manglen of Jalenphai zan sunnung dak 3:00 vel in Khengjang ah Bike nung a tuang kia in, a lu lak nasa in tun Dist Hospital Lamka ah etkol in om hi.
Local Pastor in hong
Lamka, Dec 27: Baptist Youth fellowship (BYF) Dorca’s veng in “Kahatna Topa” motion picture CD album abawl uh tuni tak dak 6:00 in Dorca’s veng EBCC biak inn ah Pastor V. Songkhothang Local pastor Dorcas veng EBCC in hong hi. Huai CD album deihten zingchiang apan lei theih ding hi.
Commander in X-mas leh kumthak thu chah bawl
Lamka, Dec 27: Brig. BC Sharma Commander 27 Sector Assam Rifle leh huai a SM leh Rank nei tengteng in Manipur a Christian te kiang ah X-mas leh Kumthak 2008 thu chah bawl in tua ah mipite laka kilemna muanna leh kipahna a tun deih thu puang uhi.
Computerised Reservation System leh Bus Parking hong ding
Lamka, Dec 27: Director of Transport Govt. of Manipur saina in hong tung ding December 29, 2007 zinglam dak 10:30 leh 11:30 in Lamka khopi a dia a masapen ding in Tuibuang a om Transport office ah Computerised Passenger Reservation System leh New Bazar a Bus Parking kibawl thak honkhiakna om ding hi.
Hiai hun honkhiakna Shri L. Jayenta Kumar singh, Minister (Tpt/Edn/Seri), in Chief Guest hikawm in hongkhe ding a, PHED Minister Shri T.N. Haokip leh Works Minister Shri K. Ranjit singh ten Functional President leh Guest of Honour hihna toh uap ding uhi.
Christmas sung in buaina omlou
Lamka, Dec-27: Lamka area a tutung Christmas zatna veng tuamtuam ah om a, khenkhat in ni khat khen khat in ni 2 zang ua, huai hun sung in bangmah buaina om lou in kizou siang hi. Join Philanthropic organization leh pawlpi khenkhatte panlakna ziakin puak thei tuamtuam leng zak in om lou hi.
Office kai tom mahmah
Lamka, Dec- 27: Govt office tuamtuamte tuni apan office kai nawn mahle uh office tamzaw ah office kai tawm mahmah ua, a kai om sunte leng pai bei pah uhi. Thutut kingah dan in, office kai khen khat Christmas sung a mun dang a zin leh programmed tuamtuam neih ziak ua Christmas leh kum thak kikal office kai gina lou zel uh hi’n leng thutut kingah hi.
Ccpur to Singhat lampi bawlna Rs 10 Crores sanction
IMPHAL DEC 27: North Eastern Council nuai a Ccpur apat Singngat kikal Tedim Road bawlna Rs 10 crores Manipur govt. kianga piak dia sanction hidan in apaisa November 27, 2007 in NEC thusuak om hi. Hiai sum pen NEC Plan Schemes 2007-08 a 2nd installment hidan inleng thusuak in taklang hi.
Hiai lak a 10% loan component pen 12th Finance Commission nuai a State govt. in NEC apat Grant-in-aid a ngah apat leng hiding hi. NEC thusuak dan in, hiai fund release pen lampi bawlna item tuamtuam a zat ding chih leh, state govt. in divert bawl theilou ding chih leng ahi. Nasepna toh kisai in implementing line department leh State govt. nuai a Nodal Officer in zoh hun dia target hunsung ngei a nasep zoh ding thu leng taklang hi.
15th Annual Function show
IMPHAL DEC 27: The Meitei Traditional Dance Teaching School & Performance Centre, Imphal in, December 31, 2007 chiangin, J.N. Manipur Dance Academy Hall, Khuyathong, Imphal ah 15th Annual Function show nei ding uhi.
Hiai hun ah khuallian leh President dingin, P.Bhorot Singh Commissioner Art & Culture leh Padmashri N. Khelchandra (Pandit) te ban ah guest of honour dingin, Yambem Laba Director, J.N. Manipur Dance Academy te hiding uhi. Hiai function show thupi ding bel, ‘One family, One Nation, The World’ chih hiding hi.
Bharat Nirman Lamka ah om ding
IMPHAL DEC 27: Ministry of I & B, Govt. of India nuai a PIB Imphal saina
in, hun paisa a district tuamtuam a neih ahihbangin kumthak January 8 – 11, 2008 sung Synod Hall, Ccpur ah Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign hun zatna om ding hi. Hiai hun ah central govt. nuai a programme tuamtuam, RTI, NRHM, NREGS, ICDS, SSA, Mid-Day-Meal, JNNURM leh Bharat Nirman packages te toh kisai in awareness leh campaign om ding hi.
Application form SP office ah leng piaklut theih
IMPHAL DEC 27: Manipur Police nuai a ASI/SI/Jemadar lakna dia application form te employment exchange tungtawn sese lou a, mahni district SP office chiat leh IGP (Adm) PHQ a leng piaklut theih ding hidan in DGP thusuak om hi.
State Level convention om ding
IMPHAL DEC 27: Manipur Legislature Forum on HIV/AIDS leh department of RD & PR kithuah in December 28, 2007 zinglam dak 9.30 in Porompat a panchayat Bhavan ah, One day State Level convention on HIV/AIDS hun zatna om ding hi. Hiai hun ah khuallian in Chief Minister O.Ibobi Singh leh President dingin, Assembly Speaker Dr.S.Budhichandra Singh te pang ding uhi.
SO mat khah din ngen
IMPHAL DEC 27: Apaisa December 15, 2007 a meltheihlouh ten Education (S) department a Engineering Cell a Section Officer, Salam Indrajit amat uh tunitan khah ahihlouhna toh kisai in, tuni’n HHAU ground ah mipi kikhopna om hi.
Hiai hun ah JAC for immediate & unconditional release of S. Indrajit kichi bawlkhiak ahihban ah, JAC in kintak a khah dia ngen kawm in, lungkim louh etsakna dia Singjamei apat Yumnam leikai tan NH 39 zingchiang Dec 28, 2007 zinglam dak 6 apat nitaklam dak 6 tan bandh bawl hidingin leng thupuan bawl uhi. Hiai mimatna toh kisai in, JAC ten tuni’n CM kiang ah leng memorandum khat pelut uhi.
NRHM nuai a result tuamtuam kipuang
IMPHAL DEC 27: National Rural Health Mission nuai a, Manipur State heath
Mission society in, post tuamtuam lakna dia interview/DPC a neih uh result puang kheta hi.
Assistance Finance Manager: IE 8, IW 7, Thoubal 6, CCpur 4, Tamenglong 2, Ukhrul 1 leh Senapati ah 6 ahi. Ccpur apat lochinna ngahte bel, John B. Thomte, H. Chingngaihkim, Pauchinthang Hangluah, P.G.Gangmeidun R. Naga; Senapati apat eimite bel, Paogoulen Misao, Lalgoulen Khongsai, T.Yangkhopao Haokip, Seikhomang Kipgen leh Seigoumang Lhouvum ahi.
Tuabanah, Block Data Manager ah, CCpur 2, Ukhrul 2 leh Senapati 1 hi a, Ccpur apat Sasang Hauzel telkha hi. Block Health Programme Manager, IE 3, IW 3, Thoubal 3, Bishnupur 3, Chandel 4, Ccpur 5, Ukhrul 5, Senapati 6 leh Tamenglong ah 4 ahi. Ccpur ah T. Lalboi, K. Lamsanglian, G. Thangthianmuang ban ah, Senapati ah, Thangjamang Chongloi chihte telkha uhi.
Amau consolidated honorarium dan in kha khat in, Rs 6000/- ban ah, contractual compensatory allowance Rs 1500/- zel ngah ding ua, a sep hun ding uh bel, kha 11 sung hiding chih ahi.
BSEM in hologram tellou laibu kham
IMPHAL DEC 27: BSEM thusuak dan in, Class I – VIII tan te text book ah Board in hologram belh vek hi. Hichibang kibelh loute student leh guardian ten leilou dingin leng BSEM in theihsakna bawl kawm in, huchibang laibu tuakkhaten BSEM a theisak dingin leng ngetna bawl uhi.
Huailou in, Board recognized louh school khenkhat in 2008-09 academic session adia Class IX leh X a admission bawl om chih thu ah, huchibang student ten HSLC exam board nuai a tel theilou ding hidan in Board thusuak om hi.
Tent Pegging Championship kipan
IMPHAL DEC 27: Manipur Equestrian association zintunna nuai ah, Manipur
a dia amasa pen dingin, tuni apat December 31, 2007 tan daih ding National Tent Pegging Championship, 2008 Pologround, Imphal ah patkhiak hita hi. Hiai hun ah khuallian in Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh leh President in N. Biren Minister YAS te pang uhi.
Hiai Championship adingin Manipur tel in state polam apat team 8 toh team 9 kimawl ding ua, mun dang apat hongkuante bel, ITBP, Haryana, ASC, North Gava, Assam Rifle, Jorhat, UP Police, ASC Bangalore, West Bengal Police, Kolkata Police, Eastern Command te ahi.
Hiai championship honkhiakna hun a, khuallian apang CM in agenna ah, Manipur kichi gam neuchik himahleh, kimawlna lam a national leh International level a mi theihphak hita ahihna ah, kimawl mite phat huai asak dan taklang hi. Manipur govt. in sakol kimawlna lam leng puahna ding ngimna a, Lamphelpat area a gam 30 acres alian bikhiah leh hiai mun
Rs 19 lakh vel lut a puah hiding ahihdan leng gen hi.
Hiai Tent Pegging championship zoh nung, kumthak 2008 January kal masa in Manipur Equestrian Associaiton leh Manipur police zin tunna nuai ah, All India Police Equestrian Championship leng Imphal ah om nawn ding hi.
Pakistan Prime Minister lui Benazir Bhutto kaplup in om
US leh Russia tel in gam tuamtuam in mohpaihthu puang
Islamabad, Dec 27: Pakistan charismatic leader chih hial a om Prime Minister lui Benazir Bhutto tu nitaklam in election rally aneihna ah kaplup in om hi. Thusuak kingah dan in, tu nitaklam in Bhutto in Rawalpindi ah election rally nei a, huai mun ah helpawl hidia gintak te’n a gari thau in ana kap uh a, huai zoh in sihchilh bomb puahzaak sak in om a, midang 20 val in leng sihloh uhi. Thusuak in ataklatna ah, thau tang 5 kapkhiak a om te lak ah thautang khat a ngawng ah lut a, kintak in Rawalpindi General Hospital tut in om mahleh, damzoulou hi. Kum 54 a upa Benazir ahihleh, Pakistan mipi tamzaw in ngaina mahmah uh hi’n kigen hi. Rahman Malik, PPP chairperson's security advisor in agenna ah, Bhutto gari mi bangzah hiam in thau in kikap huan ua, tuazoh in sihchilh bomb khat puakzaak ahihdan gen hi.
PPP Member poimoh mahmah Wasif Ali Khan in agenna ah, nitaklam dak 6:16 geih in Bhutto hinna abeita chi’n puang a, huai toh kiton in Pakistan gamsung sousang mahmah hi. Bhutto in ahihleh, a pasal Asif Ali Zardari leh a tate nih nawsia hi. Pakistan gamsung a sousang mahmah ziak in tu nitak in President Pervez Musharraf in a mimuan deuhdeuh sam khawm in emergency meeting sam ngal hi. PPP hatna bial Karachi, Lyari leh Jecobabad ngial ah Security leh mipite ki honsual zaak uhi. Pakistan's Interior ministry in leng Bhutto sihthu puangkhe ngal a, Bhutto mi muan mahmah Sherry Rehman leh Naheed Khan te leng liam uh ahihdan puang hi.
Mipi thangpai te’n damdawi inn kim ah "Dog, Musharraf, dog," chi in kikou uh a, Damdawi inn Emergency unit glass teng khetsiat ahih banah, damdawi inn building nasan leng halsiat sawm pawl om man a, mipi sang tamtak khitui naptui toh om uhi.
Bhutto sihna toh kisai in, Russia leh US tel in gam tuamtuam in mohpaih thu puang uh a, Pakistan Opposition leader sihna a mawk mai a koih hilou ding in thupuan bawl tuaktuak uhi. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin in agenna ah, Bhutto nasep khiak te khovel in thei a, mi poimoh leh manpha sihna tung ah Pakistan thuneitute a daihdide ua leh thil mak tak hiding ahi chi uhi. US Deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey in agenna ah, Rawalpindi a Bhutto sihna US in suichian ding ahihdan puang in Pakistan mipite sunpih thu puang hi. Benazir Bhutto ahihleh, 1953 kum in piang a, Muslim gam Pakistan ading in numei Prime Minister len masapen ahi hi. Aman 1988 - 1990 leh 1993 – 1996 sung Prime Minister hihna len a, southeastern Sindh province ah piang in US a Harvard's Radcliffe College ah khanglian in, Asia apan Oxford Union a President len masapen leng hidanin kigen hi. A pianna pa Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1971-1977 sung Pakistan PM hihna ana len hi.
Awards leh Honorary Degree alak khakte:
Bruno Kreisky Award of Merit in human Rights, 1988.
Honorary Phi Beta Kappa Award (1989), presented by Radcliffe College.
Highest Moroccan Award "Grand Cordon de Wissam Alaoui"
Highest French Award "Grand-croix de la Legion Honneur" (1989)
The Noel Foundation Award, 1990 (UNIFEM).
The Gakushuin Honorary Award, Tokyo (1996)
Award by the Turkish Independent Industries and Businessmen Association (MUSAID) on account of providing assistance to the people of Bosnia.
Golden medal Dragon of Bosnia awarded by President of Bosnia (1996)
Key to the city of Los Angeles, presented by the Mayor of Los Angeles (1995)
Presidential Medal, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Science (1995)
Medal by University of California at Los Angeles (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, L.L.D Harvard University (1989)
Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa), University of Sindh (1994)
Honorary Doctorate from Mendanao State University, Philippines (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa), Peshawar University (1995)
Honorary Doctorate of Economics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo (1996)
Honorary Fellowship by Lady Margaret Hall, University Oxford, (1989)
Honorary Fellowship by St. Catherine College, University of Oxford, (1989)
Honorary Professor of the Kyrghyz State National University (1995) Kyrghyzstan.
Honorary Professor of Yassavi Kazakh Turkish University, Kazakh-Turkish International Language University, Kazakhstan, 1995.
Honorable Member of OHYUKAI, Alumni Association of Gakushuin, conferred by OHYUKAI Tokyo (1996).
Awarded the 2000 Millennium Medal of Honor by American Biographical Institute, Inc. in November 1998.
Awarded American Academy Award of Achievement in London, October 28, 2000
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Vulnerable Manipur’s Cultural Warming
By Dr DS Sharma
Particularly vulnerable Manipur was the crisp but meaningful reference, Thursday, of prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh during Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security at New Delhi. But it’s certainly not the first occasion that these words have been used for the same Manipur, sort of.
A British legacy:
For, British ethnographers, Thompson & Garrat, used the same word vulnerable while referring to NE Region, and virtually lamented that, ‘except … the vulnerable northeast…’, Britain could leave ‘a permanent mark upon Indian life’. Discernably enough, till date, everything else in the former Indian colony has ‘since been forthcoming’, quoting selfsame historians’ post-modernistic or ex ante view, with the caustic exception of North East region. The prime minister too laments that so far North east has not been able to share in the benefit from our booming economy.
The question was why. Why – despite various Central efforts – couldn’t any sane man kick-start in vocations and become viable, as in mainland? Is it because Delhi has failed to convince and rev-up NE Indians? Or else, are they acting more like unwilling horses led to the trough? One thing is however certain. The polity-formation (NE Reorganization Act) came two and half decades late; and that too not unasked for and/or unagitated. Then came serial political instability and culturally complex conflicts (cultural warming) depriving the region of its fair share in growth all these years – along with all those lagged prospects from joining in the bandwagon of a miraculous Asian economic boom under the still hazy Look East Policy.
On reckoning, it is still unclear if north east has even now become congenial enough for a final polity delineation so that all such polities can render effective administration and, among others, deliver welfare stance and provide infrastructural needs for onward development of individual self (the economic man) and his appurtenance.
Perhaps the colonial vestige (Exclusion, Partial Exclusion and Non-interference) could not have been fully unshackled even during the last six decades. For that matter, even the famously sneering Britishness character couldn’t go scot-free for having embedded in the region the seed of a Christian empire, as since unfolding.
It sounds safest from the analytical standpoint to adopt the occidental standpoint (keeping the global netizen viewpoint) and presume the fundamental difference of an average north east homo sapien from his mainland counterpart in terms of a basic immaturity, where: ‘Immaturity is defined as inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another’, following Immanuel Kant: An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?: Lawrence Cahoone (Ed.) From Modernism to Post-Modernism: An Anthology: Cambridge: 1996: p. 51).
Global/Cultural Warming:
Without doubt, the present humanity has since 1990s faced an increasingly serious problem (glacier melt-down, sea-level rise, global warming, irregular rainfall, unseasonal flood and drought). Concurrently Manipur has itself seen sort of a replica of the global problem by way of complex conflicts among major ethnic groups with unprecedented consequences.
If for global warming the leading superpower US – the world’s largest green house gas emitting nation – has so long blamed China and India but has now at the Bali meet somehow agreed to fall in line and solve the global problem, then for Manipur’s growing inter-ethnic lovelessness and the resultant cultural warming the same Aristotelian logic may well help at arriving at a consensual formula.
In that vein, even prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh cited, although in general terms first, that ‘There are many regional and tribal demands which need to be addressed systematically.’ But his ‘add-on’ runs in as specific as; ‘… each state has its specific nuances and characteristics and we cannot generalize the problems.’ Yours sincerely may add that each of Manipur’s own 36 so-called recognized groups claim their own ethnicity.
A two-fold scientific treatment would thus seem apt for Manipur’s Achilles’ heel. First whether, and to what extent, these 36 existing groups are really 36 or else reducible into a common origin to South China’s Yunan, over its at least two millennia-long history? Second, whether their cultural warming (read rigidity) can now be otherwise sorted out and moral responsibility for past differential growth benefits somehow amicably agreed upon to the satisfaction of one and all, and also a trade-off between harm and benefits be settled?
In particular this magic wand can be used to solve cultural warming problem in Manipur. Initially one can address a few queries squarely to the satisfaction of each ethnic group. Who is responsible for Manipur’s inter-ethnic or cultural warming (growing lovelessness)? Or since when is it consensually deemed valid and hence accountable to which extent? And so on?
Bali summit on global warming:
So long global warming couldn’t have been thrashed out for want of a consensual (carbon-emission responsibility) sharing-in formula. Rather, USA and Canada – two most developed and industrialized countries responsible for emitting huge carbon dioxide CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere – were dissenting since the 1st Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held at Rio in 1992.
Their main plea then was that two developing countries with increasingly CO2 emitting industries viz. China and India be also fixed a higher carbon emission share, and did not therefore sign the on-going Kyoto Protocol. Now at Bali of course, all summiting nations have reached a landmark consensus by morally persuading even economic superpower US and of course exclusivist Australia to agree on a new (post Kyoto-Protocol) global sharing roadmap to 2050.
Due credit for the convergence goes to the Aristotelian logic, as since adapted by Benito Muller and his team towards apportioning moral responsibility for climate change among nations. Coincidentally, India is now adjudged at the very bottom of all other nations while fixing moral responsibility for global warming. The application of the Aristotelian precept to fostering a solution to climate change is no doubt superbly innovating, but can also be extended to solution of yet other problems such as population rise, rural-urban disparity, health care, microcredit administration and whatever.
If at the international level, developed countries need to share greater economic burden, in the same way at home it is the rich and the middle class who have to take energy cuts. In fact, India can be hit hard by climate change as it is densely populated and is affected by energy scarcity, depleting resources and biodiversity. Whereby India need rely more on CFL, public transport, eco-friendly technology and stop mindless consumerism and conserve water and power.
Aristotelian Innovation on climate change:
What merits special mention is of course the analytical framework or the Aristotelian theory underlying the consensual sharing-in of the moral responsibility for climate change or global warming.
For Aristotle recognized that (i) blame and praise for actions with either harmful or beneficial consequences are deserved by only those who are in control of their actions and are aware of the immediate and delayed consequences their actions might have.
Global warming problem is addressed by Muller & colleagues by distinguishing between contributions to climate change from the responsibility thereto.
Tracing to the very ancient (1628 BC) eruption of the Santorini volcano in the Aegian Sea – then causing global cooling by 1.5 degrees for a full hundred years since and literally freezing the Minoan civilization of the bronze period, they argued that in particular that suffering was because of natural calamities (a la modern tsunami). Further, the question of awareness also does not arise as the cause was natural and not caused by human action. Obviously, for present day CO2-pollution problem the moral responsibility can not be so easily detached from its impact and deservingly shared-in among nations.
In the realm of retrospection, the Aristotelian logic next proceeds to enunciate that (ii) delayed consequences involve intervening time and need therefore be discounted as per responsibility attached thereto. This was precisely the crux of the global warming issue hitherto. To sort out tough myopia and its resultant confusion among negotiating nations, the Muller team innovates two basic concepts: (a) basic allowance of harmless emissions and (b) subsistence allowance. So analysed they could facilitate smart negotiations for wider acceptance. One understands what the other seeks to convey in crystal clear terms. Thus they could arrive at the least carbon.
Finally the Aristotle theorem states that (iii) the consequences might not be universally harmful or beneficial. A parallel example – far more commonly experienced – is that of an irregular or a pre-monsoon (March) rainfall, which may immensely benefit jhumias but bring calamity to rabi (winter crop) farmers in the valley. Farmers have only their luck to either praise or blame. If for instance, the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) or the Asian Highway (AH) need pass in the periphery of (and benefit) a settlement, rather than another, it’s all a matter of sheer technological question and viability.
Manipur’s cultural heritage:
To introduce the time factor in the analysis from an empirical angle, one may begin by asking questions relating to the past. Different questions may crop up requiring answers each giving rise to different sets of history. By no means one set could be deemed better than the other, for all such sets are based on similar fundamentals, methods and pri-nciples. Attempting acade-mic answers would follow the natural process of evolving a body of knowledge – such knowledge that has to serve some purpose.
For Manipur’s woes during the colonial (1891-1947) and pre-Statehood (1947-1972) period, the blame can thus be levelled only upon those responsible for those actions – colonial power earlier and afterwards Centre. British exploitation of Manipur valley’s natural bounties or fertility for cheap but quality rice export led to differentiating growth between the hills and valley. If worldly-wise Britishers drained water even out of the (Ganges so also) Im-phal river to the Thames, and if thereafter the Central government were too preoccupied with post-Partition reparation and thence with mainland politics to become aware of Manipur’s yawing hill-valley gap, who will bell the cat?
Of course after 1972 a long chain of Manipur’s own government leaders hailing both from majority and minority groups stand morally responsible for all actions. But then the disabling factor was political instability @ 2/3 years for an average regime (or chief minister) all through with few exceptions (Ri-shang Keishing and O Ibo-bi Singh). Under the circumstances on whom could its moral responsibility be fixed?
Admittedly, China has now become the fastest-growing economy in the globe with an average growth rate between three-four times that of even the US or Japan.
The fact that its population growth has already been controlled over the last two/three decades prior to this spectacular growth has become too commonplace a knowledge. The wherewithal of the miracle on the development front deserves more than a passing reference in this endeavour. What is striking about Li was the way he provided a liberal broadside to the otherwise hierarchical regime – acceptable to the hard-boiled theoreticians of the Communist order. What is still more striking was how he became determined to toughen the grit, steely determination and the esprit de corps of the world’s most populated nation so as to convert even a half-chance into goal, by tactically playing up disadvantage into a vantage point, as say, in a game of football. The point stressed is that, the success story did not come as easy as for anybody just to pick as in the random walk theory, but rather more like a climber up against a gradient having < 90o degree through meticulous planning and assiduous cliff-hanging.
To provide an important historical dimension for his concept, Li analyzes the historical process of the Chinese quest for modernity, which he claims underwent three important interrelated stages between the middle of the nineteenth century and the May Fourth era. The first stage, the Westernization concentrated only on modern western technology and science. The second, the Hundred Days Reform and 1911 Revolution (Wuxu bianfa and Xinhai geming) focused on western political institutions; and the third, the May Fourth Movement, was concerned mainly with cultural tradition, intellectual thought and value systems. But the new quest for modernity in the 1980’s fused all the three previous stages into an integrated process, meaning that Chinese intellectuals were now seeking changes in all three areas.
However Li observes that there is an imbalance, with a strong emphasis on the culturo-psychological aspect and relatively slow progress in the area of politico-economic reform. He warns that more advanced conceptual ideas could cause social tensions and a social reality marked by backwardness. According to Li Zehou, the most crucial dichotomies in the existing Chinese social order are: a) Individual subjectivity versus historical necessity (getixing yu lishi biranxing); b)Human alienation versus progress of modernization (yihusa yu ziandaihuade er li bei fan); and c) Practical subject versus objective laws (shijian zhuti yu keguan guilu).
Rather than go into details of Li’s contemporary Chinese intellectual discourse which helped transform the national economy through reoriented individual character-building, it is sufficient for the present endeavour to quote some highlights, to show the compatibility of his approach, philosophy, precepts, and ideology: a) If people are completely immersed in a universal form, they will become neutral robots…… Accordingly, there will be the rule of bureaucracy; b) Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. c) The motto of Enlightenment is therefore ‘Sapere aude.’[Have courage to use your understanding] Li’s contribution is to be appreciated in the enormity of his task to bring about a consensus in the party as a key component of the party’s legitimacy, after the excesses of not merely the Cultural Revolution but also of the reforms.
Need for deconstructing/reconstructing:
As in the occident, the orientalists have belatedly started phase-wise, area-wise and subarea-wise promotional and objectivity-focused micro-studies based on primary and secondary sources which sound quite erudite. Like applied scientists, such applied historians would concentrate on specific but hitherto difficult topics. At a later stage the desired integration and synthesis would become possible. Inherent in such viewpoint-shifting is the necessary refocusing of analysis in tune to the time-angularity. In the process some reconstructionist approach need be cited which lays stress on why the neutral record (logic) should suddenly declare to become interventionist (rhetoric). Besides, analytical tools get outdated as time-dimension is shifted backward or forward. Whatever problems found relevant today and analyzed with such tools as enunciated and sharpened and hence found compatible in the present time may become irrelevant tomorrow when problems may assume a new metamorphosis. Pretty well-known is the fact that empire-building analysis used to be relevant in colonial history, although in postcolonial period concepts like ‘empire’ have become obsolete and may not find even a place in the futurologist’s tool.
Specific mention may herein be made of yet other analytical tools similarly found obsolete in Western history, like ‘tribal’ or ‘village’ as in a sharp rural-urban framework. In other parts of the world where the urban-rural continuum intermingles, these two concepts do not merely find relevance but therein, even if traced out in extreme environs and sparsely inhabited islands, they would certainly survive with heavy subsidy and State support as living museums hardly posing much of a problem. But in south Asia, southeast Asia or elsewhere the rural continuum is still characterized by feudalism, swidden cultivation etc. but studded by limited islands of urban complexity.
Continuum of tribe-village-complex society:
Much to the chagrin of planners and policy-makers during the last half-century or so, these tribal villages have proved to be the real stumbling block. Hopefully the tribe, if not village, may soon die out after another fifty years or so, if at all the tribal villages would adopt improved technology for greater productivity when they would enjoy average, if not higher standard of life as urbanites. Like ‘empire’ and ‘colony’ becoming obsolete in western world, ‘tribe’, ‘feudalism’ among others, will then become obsolete from this part of the globe too. Already, dispersed tribes have come into being and one would hope to see much more of this emerging category. It goes without saying that use of tribe as an analytical tool will be relevant only in modernity analysis of history in the south Asian or southeast Asian context.
Prima facie, some general traits of Manipur may be laid out. First, it may be stated that past history has typified natives and indigenes to be generally harsh and revengeful upon enemies (whether relatives; or kings of Burma and Cachar; or even the powerful Englishman J.W.Quinton, the Chief Commissioner of Assam, at the peak of the British ascendancy i.e. when the Sun would not set in the British empire), rather than forgiving as generally seen in both occident and the orient. This can be explained away in terms of the constraints and limitations placed on Manipur history by Manipur’s geography (topography) and climate (monsoon and deep jungles).
For instance, any territorial expansionist move under a powerful king through either
marriage, diplomacy or war had perforce to be across the ranges of mountains either eastward or westward. Hardihood and tough attitude thus became the mainstay of Meitei nationalism, at least till 1891. In the lower order of constraints are of course, ethnic propinquity to southeast Asia and linguistic belongingness to Tibeto-Burman group, which of late seem to create problem for integration of Manipur into the national mainstream, particularly after the Partition of India (1947).
[The Sangai Express]
Particularly vulnerable Manipur was the crisp but meaningful reference, Thursday, of prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh during Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security at New Delhi. But it’s certainly not the first occasion that these words have been used for the same Manipur, sort of.
A British legacy:
For, British ethnographers, Thompson & Garrat, used the same word vulnerable while referring to NE Region, and virtually lamented that, ‘except … the vulnerable northeast…’, Britain could leave ‘a permanent mark upon Indian life’. Discernably enough, till date, everything else in the former Indian colony has ‘since been forthcoming’, quoting selfsame historians’ post-modernistic or ex ante view, with the caustic exception of North East region. The prime minister too laments that so far North east has not been able to share in the benefit from our booming economy.
The question was why. Why – despite various Central efforts – couldn’t any sane man kick-start in vocations and become viable, as in mainland? Is it because Delhi has failed to convince and rev-up NE Indians? Or else, are they acting more like unwilling horses led to the trough? One thing is however certain. The polity-formation (NE Reorganization Act) came two and half decades late; and that too not unasked for and/or unagitated. Then came serial political instability and culturally complex conflicts (cultural warming) depriving the region of its fair share in growth all these years – along with all those lagged prospects from joining in the bandwagon of a miraculous Asian economic boom under the still hazy Look East Policy.
On reckoning, it is still unclear if north east has even now become congenial enough for a final polity delineation so that all such polities can render effective administration and, among others, deliver welfare stance and provide infrastructural needs for onward development of individual self (the economic man) and his appurtenance.
Perhaps the colonial vestige (Exclusion, Partial Exclusion and Non-interference) could not have been fully unshackled even during the last six decades. For that matter, even the famously sneering Britishness character couldn’t go scot-free for having embedded in the region the seed of a Christian empire, as since unfolding.
It sounds safest from the analytical standpoint to adopt the occidental standpoint (keeping the global netizen viewpoint) and presume the fundamental difference of an average north east homo sapien from his mainland counterpart in terms of a basic immaturity, where: ‘Immaturity is defined as inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another’, following Immanuel Kant: An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?: Lawrence Cahoone (Ed.) From Modernism to Post-Modernism: An Anthology: Cambridge: 1996: p. 51).
Global/Cultural Warming:
Without doubt, the present humanity has since 1990s faced an increasingly serious problem (glacier melt-down, sea-level rise, global warming, irregular rainfall, unseasonal flood and drought). Concurrently Manipur has itself seen sort of a replica of the global problem by way of complex conflicts among major ethnic groups with unprecedented consequences.
If for global warming the leading superpower US – the world’s largest green house gas emitting nation – has so long blamed China and India but has now at the Bali meet somehow agreed to fall in line and solve the global problem, then for Manipur’s growing inter-ethnic lovelessness and the resultant cultural warming the same Aristotelian logic may well help at arriving at a consensual formula.
In that vein, even prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh cited, although in general terms first, that ‘There are many regional and tribal demands which need to be addressed systematically.’ But his ‘add-on’ runs in as specific as; ‘… each state has its specific nuances and characteristics and we cannot generalize the problems.’ Yours sincerely may add that each of Manipur’s own 36 so-called recognized groups claim their own ethnicity.
A two-fold scientific treatment would thus seem apt for Manipur’s Achilles’ heel. First whether, and to what extent, these 36 existing groups are really 36 or else reducible into a common origin to South China’s Yunan, over its at least two millennia-long history? Second, whether their cultural warming (read rigidity) can now be otherwise sorted out and moral responsibility for past differential growth benefits somehow amicably agreed upon to the satisfaction of one and all, and also a trade-off between harm and benefits be settled?
In particular this magic wand can be used to solve cultural warming problem in Manipur. Initially one can address a few queries squarely to the satisfaction of each ethnic group. Who is responsible for Manipur’s inter-ethnic or cultural warming (growing lovelessness)? Or since when is it consensually deemed valid and hence accountable to which extent? And so on?
Bali summit on global warming:
So long global warming couldn’t have been thrashed out for want of a consensual (carbon-emission responsibility) sharing-in formula. Rather, USA and Canada – two most developed and industrialized countries responsible for emitting huge carbon dioxide CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere – were dissenting since the 1st Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held at Rio in 1992.
Their main plea then was that two developing countries with increasingly CO2 emitting industries viz. China and India be also fixed a higher carbon emission share, and did not therefore sign the on-going Kyoto Protocol. Now at Bali of course, all summiting nations have reached a landmark consensus by morally persuading even economic superpower US and of course exclusivist Australia to agree on a new (post Kyoto-Protocol) global sharing roadmap to 2050.
Due credit for the convergence goes to the Aristotelian logic, as since adapted by Benito Muller and his team towards apportioning moral responsibility for climate change among nations. Coincidentally, India is now adjudged at the very bottom of all other nations while fixing moral responsibility for global warming. The application of the Aristotelian precept to fostering a solution to climate change is no doubt superbly innovating, but can also be extended to solution of yet other problems such as population rise, rural-urban disparity, health care, microcredit administration and whatever.
If at the international level, developed countries need to share greater economic burden, in the same way at home it is the rich and the middle class who have to take energy cuts. In fact, India can be hit hard by climate change as it is densely populated and is affected by energy scarcity, depleting resources and biodiversity. Whereby India need rely more on CFL, public transport, eco-friendly technology and stop mindless consumerism and conserve water and power.
Aristotelian Innovation on climate change:
What merits special mention is of course the analytical framework or the Aristotelian theory underlying the consensual sharing-in of the moral responsibility for climate change or global warming.
For Aristotle recognized that (i) blame and praise for actions with either harmful or beneficial consequences are deserved by only those who are in control of their actions and are aware of the immediate and delayed consequences their actions might have.
Global warming problem is addressed by Muller & colleagues by distinguishing between contributions to climate change from the responsibility thereto.
Tracing to the very ancient (1628 BC) eruption of the Santorini volcano in the Aegian Sea – then causing global cooling by 1.5 degrees for a full hundred years since and literally freezing the Minoan civilization of the bronze period, they argued that in particular that suffering was because of natural calamities (a la modern tsunami). Further, the question of awareness also does not arise as the cause was natural and not caused by human action. Obviously, for present day CO2-pollution problem the moral responsibility can not be so easily detached from its impact and deservingly shared-in among nations.
In the realm of retrospection, the Aristotelian logic next proceeds to enunciate that (ii) delayed consequences involve intervening time and need therefore be discounted as per responsibility attached thereto. This was precisely the crux of the global warming issue hitherto. To sort out tough myopia and its resultant confusion among negotiating nations, the Muller team innovates two basic concepts: (a) basic allowance of harmless emissions and (b) subsistence allowance. So analysed they could facilitate smart negotiations for wider acceptance. One understands what the other seeks to convey in crystal clear terms. Thus they could arrive at the least carbon.
Finally the Aristotle theorem states that (iii) the consequences might not be universally harmful or beneficial. A parallel example – far more commonly experienced – is that of an irregular or a pre-monsoon (March) rainfall, which may immensely benefit jhumias but bring calamity to rabi (winter crop) farmers in the valley. Farmers have only their luck to either praise or blame. If for instance, the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) or the Asian Highway (AH) need pass in the periphery of (and benefit) a settlement, rather than another, it’s all a matter of sheer technological question and viability.
Manipur’s cultural heritage:
To introduce the time factor in the analysis from an empirical angle, one may begin by asking questions relating to the past. Different questions may crop up requiring answers each giving rise to different sets of history. By no means one set could be deemed better than the other, for all such sets are based on similar fundamentals, methods and pri-nciples. Attempting acade-mic answers would follow the natural process of evolving a body of knowledge – such knowledge that has to serve some purpose.
For Manipur’s woes during the colonial (1891-1947) and pre-Statehood (1947-1972) period, the blame can thus be levelled only upon those responsible for those actions – colonial power earlier and afterwards Centre. British exploitation of Manipur valley’s natural bounties or fertility for cheap but quality rice export led to differentiating growth between the hills and valley. If worldly-wise Britishers drained water even out of the (Ganges so also) Im-phal river to the Thames, and if thereafter the Central government were too preoccupied with post-Partition reparation and thence with mainland politics to become aware of Manipur’s yawing hill-valley gap, who will bell the cat?
Of course after 1972 a long chain of Manipur’s own government leaders hailing both from majority and minority groups stand morally responsible for all actions. But then the disabling factor was political instability @ 2/3 years for an average regime (or chief minister) all through with few exceptions (Ri-shang Keishing and O Ibo-bi Singh). Under the circumstances on whom could its moral responsibility be fixed?
Admittedly, China has now become the fastest-growing economy in the globe with an average growth rate between three-four times that of even the US or Japan.
The fact that its population growth has already been controlled over the last two/three decades prior to this spectacular growth has become too commonplace a knowledge. The wherewithal of the miracle on the development front deserves more than a passing reference in this endeavour. What is striking about Li was the way he provided a liberal broadside to the otherwise hierarchical regime – acceptable to the hard-boiled theoreticians of the Communist order. What is still more striking was how he became determined to toughen the grit, steely determination and the esprit de corps of the world’s most populated nation so as to convert even a half-chance into goal, by tactically playing up disadvantage into a vantage point, as say, in a game of football. The point stressed is that, the success story did not come as easy as for anybody just to pick as in the random walk theory, but rather more like a climber up against a gradient having < 90o degree through meticulous planning and assiduous cliff-hanging.
To provide an important historical dimension for his concept, Li analyzes the historical process of the Chinese quest for modernity, which he claims underwent three important interrelated stages between the middle of the nineteenth century and the May Fourth era. The first stage, the Westernization concentrated only on modern western technology and science. The second, the Hundred Days Reform and 1911 Revolution (Wuxu bianfa and Xinhai geming) focused on western political institutions; and the third, the May Fourth Movement, was concerned mainly with cultural tradition, intellectual thought and value systems. But the new quest for modernity in the 1980’s fused all the three previous stages into an integrated process, meaning that Chinese intellectuals were now seeking changes in all three areas.
However Li observes that there is an imbalance, with a strong emphasis on the culturo-psychological aspect and relatively slow progress in the area of politico-economic reform. He warns that more advanced conceptual ideas could cause social tensions and a social reality marked by backwardness. According to Li Zehou, the most crucial dichotomies in the existing Chinese social order are: a) Individual subjectivity versus historical necessity (getixing yu lishi biranxing); b)Human alienation versus progress of modernization (yihusa yu ziandaihuade er li bei fan); and c) Practical subject versus objective laws (shijian zhuti yu keguan guilu).
Rather than go into details of Li’s contemporary Chinese intellectual discourse which helped transform the national economy through reoriented individual character-building, it is sufficient for the present endeavour to quote some highlights, to show the compatibility of his approach, philosophy, precepts, and ideology: a) If people are completely immersed in a universal form, they will become neutral robots…… Accordingly, there will be the rule of bureaucracy; b) Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. c) The motto of Enlightenment is therefore ‘Sapere aude.’[Have courage to use your understanding] Li’s contribution is to be appreciated in the enormity of his task to bring about a consensus in the party as a key component of the party’s legitimacy, after the excesses of not merely the Cultural Revolution but also of the reforms.
Need for deconstructing/reconstructing:
As in the occident, the orientalists have belatedly started phase-wise, area-wise and subarea-wise promotional and objectivity-focused micro-studies based on primary and secondary sources which sound quite erudite. Like applied scientists, such applied historians would concentrate on specific but hitherto difficult topics. At a later stage the desired integration and synthesis would become possible. Inherent in such viewpoint-shifting is the necessary refocusing of analysis in tune to the time-angularity. In the process some reconstructionist approach need be cited which lays stress on why the neutral record (logic) should suddenly declare to become interventionist (rhetoric). Besides, analytical tools get outdated as time-dimension is shifted backward or forward. Whatever problems found relevant today and analyzed with such tools as enunciated and sharpened and hence found compatible in the present time may become irrelevant tomorrow when problems may assume a new metamorphosis. Pretty well-known is the fact that empire-building analysis used to be relevant in colonial history, although in postcolonial period concepts like ‘empire’ have become obsolete and may not find even a place in the futurologist’s tool.
Specific mention may herein be made of yet other analytical tools similarly found obsolete in Western history, like ‘tribal’ or ‘village’ as in a sharp rural-urban framework. In other parts of the world where the urban-rural continuum intermingles, these two concepts do not merely find relevance but therein, even if traced out in extreme environs and sparsely inhabited islands, they would certainly survive with heavy subsidy and State support as living museums hardly posing much of a problem. But in south Asia, southeast Asia or elsewhere the rural continuum is still characterized by feudalism, swidden cultivation etc. but studded by limited islands of urban complexity.
Continuum of tribe-village-complex society:
Much to the chagrin of planners and policy-makers during the last half-century or so, these tribal villages have proved to be the real stumbling block. Hopefully the tribe, if not village, may soon die out after another fifty years or so, if at all the tribal villages would adopt improved technology for greater productivity when they would enjoy average, if not higher standard of life as urbanites. Like ‘empire’ and ‘colony’ becoming obsolete in western world, ‘tribe’, ‘feudalism’ among others, will then become obsolete from this part of the globe too. Already, dispersed tribes have come into being and one would hope to see much more of this emerging category. It goes without saying that use of tribe as an analytical tool will be relevant only in modernity analysis of history in the south Asian or southeast Asian context.
Prima facie, some general traits of Manipur may be laid out. First, it may be stated that past history has typified natives and indigenes to be generally harsh and revengeful upon enemies (whether relatives; or kings of Burma and Cachar; or even the powerful Englishman J.W.Quinton, the Chief Commissioner of Assam, at the peak of the British ascendancy i.e. when the Sun would not set in the British empire), rather than forgiving as generally seen in both occident and the orient. This can be explained away in terms of the constraints and limitations placed on Manipur history by Manipur’s geography (topography) and climate (monsoon and deep jungles).
For instance, any territorial expansionist move under a powerful king through either
marriage, diplomacy or war had perforce to be across the ranges of mountains either eastward or westward. Hardihood and tough attitude thus became the mainstay of Meitei nationalism, at least till 1891. In the lower order of constraints are of course, ethnic propinquity to southeast Asia and linguistic belongingness to Tibeto-Burman group, which of late seem to create problem for integration of Manipur into the national mainstream, particularly after the Partition of India (1947).
[The Sangai Express]
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