"Nagas have short memory but this short memory gets even shorter with Money around" ::::: That's a googly ..... Nagas have perhaps stopped asking ::::: "... how much longer do Nagas want to remain in egoistic little pond, croaking about Sovereignty" -- quizzes ex-IAS officer Khekiye Sema

A candid observer and a prolific writer; when they come together - we can have Khekiye K. Sema; IAS (Retd) :::: 

Like always in the past, he has yet again a few pertinent questions - his community people have stopped asking for long. 

"Have we ever given a thought to this?," he says in an elaborate article and concludes in his inimitable style -- 

"... it is about time that the Nagas climb out of this corrupted pit of stagnation and proudly join the rest of the International Community in a march towards a brighter future with dignity". 

 

If someone poses a typical - a Naga way of questioning -- "keneka (How)".

The former Babu is crystal clear :::  - "... rather than clamouring for “Flag” and the “Yehzabo” (Naga Constitution), Nagas should perhaps be concentrating more on an indelible feature in the Indian Constitution that would discourage any arbitrary efforts of removal of Article 371(A) by India without the expressed will of the Nagas". 

He is a candid analyst and has been displeasing his critics ... time and again.

I know his politician cousin - who was concerned about his 'life' and ad told Khekiye -- "Go little slow, go little cautious".

Khekiye's response was a typical of a Sumi Naga - "Let them kill me". 

In his article, he touches a few emotive but relevant subject matters -----

"Remember how a whole staunchly animistic ancestral Naga community converted to Christianity within decades once they were introduced to the gospel? 

Maybe the Good Lord wants Nagas to sincerely and honestly believe in Him to become the conquerors rather than be the conquered?" 

He again has sensible words of wisdom to offer:  

"Naga identity and rights finds safe heaven under SECULARISM and Article 371(A) within the Indian Constitution thus far. 

The so-called “Yehzabo” as a separate chapter IN the Constitution of India being demanded by NSCN (IM) is a status which is basically an elaborated version of Article 371(A). 

Therefore the new amended Article 371(A) should inclusively enshrine all the agreed upon competency Clauses within the Framework agreement and the Agreed position over and above the already existing provisions." 

In other words, he is explaining and arguing in certain details - how urgently, the Nagas need to sign a Solution pact based on the Framework Agreement of 2015 and the Agreed Position of 2017. 

Khekiye points out in his article:

"Also remember, several decades ago the white American majority scoffed at the very seemingly impossible idea that a day may come when a Black American minority could become the President of the United States of America over a predominantly white majority…and then Obama happened! Nothing is impossible in the Hand of our Good Lord…”

What He’s done for others…He’ll do for you”…if we only believe!"  

"... shorter ... at the sight MONEY" :::

Now comes a meaty part of the article and this refers to human instincts and money inflence.

Khekiye notes:

"We have an “opposition-less Government” hypocritically proclaiming a role as a facilitator for “speedy solution” to this vexed Indo-Naga dialogue! They have set up “Political Affair Committee” purely as a window dressing but with a diabolically opposite intention of short-circuiting the already concluded “Framework Agreement” of 2015 and “Agreed Position” of 2017 instead. 

"Nagas seems to suffer from short memory but this short memory span gets even shorter at the sight MONEY". 

He goes further. 

"The State of Nagaland enjoys a very unique but questionable status of an “Opposition-less Government” applauded by the opportunistic money focused minority while the ignorant and indifferent majority silently flounder in the dark tunnels of democratic wilderness, weathering the burden of a corrupted Government without transparency or accountability". 

He then sounds the words of cautioning and in quite a serious proportion especially with regard to his own native tribe.  

"No single country on earth has ever suffered a bizarre experience of nurturing 32 Presidents and 32 Prime Ministers at one go except in our Naga ‘country’… 

and the sad unfortunate picture is that the Sumis are visibly omnipresent in almost all these Factions. 

"And yet the Sumi Apex Hoho has had no courage to address this worrisome subject…even as all the other brother tribes look at us, the Sumis, with disgust! 

"Beyond this immediate awful scenario, the common majority may presently be cowed down by fear of the guns but a time will eventually come, and come it will, when Factions can no longer hide behind their guns".  

Khekiye underlines that the D-Day is not far when ....

"... each ‘Big Shot National Worker’ will be answerable to the common man that they are contemptuously trampling upon today. 

"Mark my word…this day will come as unquestionably as God made the little apples! 

The sooner they all realise this inescapable truth and rectify their despicable misdemeanours the better it will be for their future reckoning. 

"The time is rife for all Factions to realise that their respective personal future wellbeing lies in getting their acts together and unite for a final settlement," he noted.  

ends