What is left 'shocking' today is -- how little of the mind-blowing dynamism associated with the Naga issue and the movement remains.
The clock hands have come back to the same point where it all started. We are back. The world is back in the old quagmire of ... the profound decision maker - there’s NO POLITICAL WILL to do anything differently.
Governor La Ganesan's address on March 3rd on the floor of the Assembly is a self-defeating statement. It is a proof that the so-called popular Govt in Kohima is not in tune with the most popular demand in the state - a Common Draft !!
(PM needs to wake up vis-a-vis 'Naga Peace Talks' and Solution )
There is inertia and that well known refrain - our system is making us fail yet again.
When 'failure' in real sense appears as a success; the DEEP STATE has won !
Extortion has been glorified !!
We all have been unnerved to find ourselves agreeing with the skeptic who had said -- If you are driving a car and you drive towards a wall and hit it, is that a crash.
Or -- and perhaps more importantly,
Is it the failure of your passengers to anticipate the danger?
There is something more to give a twist in the tale.
The 'Conspiracy culture' may sometime get the facts wrong, but the feeling is often right. And that's not a Paradox either.
Another phrase would help define the paradox better. - “Collective amnesia” is the perhaps the best way. Look around and almost 99.99 per cent response vis-a-vis an early Solution pact is - "Who cares?"
And to others - its the old self-seeking line -- "Will the Solution help my case or help my son?"
The Naga movement also is associated with gun and killings. The bullets often failed to make distinction between right and wrong.
'Killings in crossfire or mistaken identity' have been usual.
In the 1990s, one Sikh gentleman was killed due to 'mistaken identity'. I knew the family and could not show my face to the aunt (wife of the deceased) as she was wailing.
On March 5, 1995, Rashtriya Rifles - while returning from Manipur election duty --bombarded southern part of Kohima town. Eight people died.
AIR, Kohima survived because the bomb lobbed went too far. I too survived. I had a Lotha Naga English news reader Jonas Yanthan, a Keralite clerk Joson and two Kuki translators along side -- all surviving together under a table !
DC, Kohima L V Reddy was shot dead a few days later for giving 'wrong media interview'.
In 1992, Editor-turned-neta Chalie Kevichusa (of 'Ura Mail' and then DLP president) was shot dead. Incidentally, the first DLP legislator in history Sulanthung Lotha is today president of the Naga Hoho.
And the gentleman is trying to argue the case of an early Solution.
Will it be erroneous to say that Sulanthung Lotha is taking a risk?
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| Blogger and Sulanthung : Dreamers |
History repeated as 'Oting' happened in December 2021. Again casualties and bloodshed and injuries.
Meanwhile, if you have survived, it may be still not very easy to look back and more so -- if you are a plain-manu.
There is a constant fear and occasional warning --- why poke your nose !!
Some would still say survival wasn’t that bad. But those who died are not in any seminar or otherwise to 'contribute' their views.
An army captain posted in Meluri area in the 1990s is a senior Lt General today.
One - the then NIDC chairman - is the state Chief Minister. A journo who thought fleeing Nagaland is the best option of life is back again here and there penning his blogs !!
The beloved ones of those deceased are still shedding tears.
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| Roads : Governor's address could mention in details |
Does anyone remember DIPR driver 'Gurung' who lost his life at a Kohima shoot out because his boss was a Kuki official ?
The 'greed' is still currently one of the most concerning diseases as it was decades back. Hence Corruption too is around and it is linked to administration, governance and also power-play in the corridors where things matter (both overground and underground).
The Neta-Babu combo .. still around ... smiling.
Sometime back I met a civil servant at Mon and his interaction with me was classic:
"This place is near international border, if somebody takes you that side... I would not be able to help you," he told this blogger on face.
And someone might call it the Confidence Building Measure.
Another kind of Confidence Building Measure is Bolero vehicle and that's a winning trophy. The silence of civil society is often golden.
But amid all these; somewhere you may hit upon a faceless shopkeeper or the taxi driver and especially a few elderly Naga women.
"Bhoe na paabi... (Nothing to fear)" - she would say.
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| 'ama asey' ... Oting - 2023 |
"No matter how much precaution we may take, all of us have to die one day. Crisis come and go ....we might wish to forget it ever happened, what is important is that we should focus on building resilience for the next challenge....
That is a far better way to honour the legacy of those whom we loved and those who died for the firing from any side," said one of them.
The web series Patal Lok Season 2 shows lot about Naga life and characters. At the end, one character mildly says - "my people will need hope".
Do not worry if Governor Ganesan failed to give 'hope'; someone else will do his part.
The sincere people shall never let a good crisis go to waste !!
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