Recently, I came across an interesting article in Tehelka magazine which outlined how the Mizoram Presbyterian Church has taken the responsibility to ensure that the assembly polls in Mizoram are free and fair.
Following are excerpts from the article:
- A powerful moral watchdog, the Mizoram Peoples’ Forum (MPF) – sponsored by the Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod will set up offices in every village to monitor the elections.
- “Our main aim is to ensure that free and fair elections are held. We’re working very hard to convince people not to accept gifts from candidates” – Rev. Lalbikmawia, Executive Secretary of the Synod Read the rest of this entry »
It is always a joy to communicate with Nagas who have achieved through hard work and determination. Over the years, I’ve interviewed many such Nagas for Kuknalim.com. We can learn so much from them. They inspire us to do more in life.
One such person I interviewed lately was Amongla Aier, the first Indian Police Service (IPS) officer among Naga women.
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“Were I to claim that I am not a Naga, what will be the criteria to decide my identity?” I once asked this question to a fellow Naga friend who was then working on Naga nationalism for her university degree.
Her immediate reaction was “How can you say that you are not a Naga?” She was politically right in her retort though my hypothetical question was not dismissed there and then. It did pick up some discussion, but only to put us and also our audience into a very unsettling and disturbing situation. I was grappling with the issue of my Naga Identity then. Not that I doubted my Naga identity but that I was struggling to find some grounds on the basis of which various Naga tribal groups have come together to assert our unique identity and our rights to freedom of self-determination. Read the rest of this entry »
