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By Khrieketouzo Pongener
During the recent & first bandh called suddenly on Jan 17th in Nagaland, our ongoing work had to be postponed causing multiple inconveniences for us & our customers.

After experiencing first hand the miseries & inconveniences of the bandh culture, the long suffering people & State Governments of Manipur, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh have been raising their voices and now plan to do away with the bandh through legislative, law, & other means. Finance & economy are wasted due to loss of working hours, wasting time, loss of agri & food products [eg Dimapur loss of several crores in transaction - Nagaland Post, Jan 18], many people become lazier, & develop a negative mentality. Thereby putting ourselves & our slow progress / development in the backward direction instead of forward.

Should the involuntary bandh culture from India & neighboring States hamper & delay our work, cripple our people & economy? This alien culture which has caused untold miseries to innocent public of neighboring States seems to be taking hold even in this State. Hard working citizens and Christians of our land need to have a voice and debate whether this bandh culture has any positive impact for the public at large. A fair society needs freedom to express opinions, & show transparency. Because once this culture takes root in our democratic Naga society, any organization could now claim the right to declare a bandh any time.

Thankfully, we have a modern & forward thinking public in Nagaland, and groups/organizations may lose public support & sympathy if bandhs are being imposed involuntarily. Surely there ought to be better & ‘public friendly’ ways to protest one’s democratic & God given rights other than bandhs?

By Vasundhara Sirnate and Rahul Verma
“Last year, Ibobi and his cabinet decided that they will not allow the Naga Chief Minister to enter the State, but now that the elections have been announced, he no longer has the power to prevent me from coming here and meeting you … But if you let him win again I will not be able to come to Manipur to meet all of you.” That was Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, speaking at an election rally in Manipur’s Tamenglong district on January 19. He was addressing a gathering of Manipuri Nagas while campaigning for candidates of the Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) that is contesting the Assembly elections for the first time in Manipur.

This public shot at the Manipur Chief Minister, Okram Ibobi Singh, has much history. Mr. Rio and Mr. Ibobi are both equally dynamic leaders and have forged serious political reputations. Mr. Rio has been engaged in galvanising support of the Naga population in Manipur and Mr. Ibobi has acquired a reputation for being hard on insurgent groups. Both have become political leaders in their States in challenging times. Nagaland and Manipur are insurgency-hit States and the levels and type of insurgency in both States are deeply connected.

How do we explain Mr. Rio’s curious political commentary that has involved calling Mr. Ibobi, a Manipuri Meitei, “an enemy of the Nagas?” And how do we analyse what the electoral consequences of such polarising speech might be.

Manipur has nine districts and 60 Assembly constituencies. Thirty-nine constituencies lie in the Meitei dominated valley, which forms the heart of the Congress’ electoral calculus in the State. In the last two decades, forging a majority in the Assembly has proved tough for any political party. And Mr. Ibobi’s two terms as Chief Minister have provided some political stability in the State that saw seven governments between 1990 and 2002. Mr. Rio’s provocative speeches are intended to break Mr. Ibobi’s popularity by polarising the Meitei and Naga voters. His calculation rests on attempting to position some of the 12 NPF candidates in the Manipur Assembly, in a bid to further the demand for Greater Nagalim within the Manipur Assembly. However, the Meiteis who live in the small Manipur Valley are 60 per cent of the population. The Manipuri Nagas cohabit with Kuki tribes in four hill districts of Manipur — Tamenglong, Ukhrul, Senapati and Chandel.

The divide between hill tribes (Kuki, Naga) and the Valley people (Meitei) has been a prominent political division in Manipur. Within the hill districts, Kuki and Naga militia have been at loggerheads since the 1990s, with Kuki groups asking for the establishment of an Autonomous District Council (ADC) in Senapati, and Naga groups, backed by the NPF and the Naga Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN I-M), demanding that large chunks of the four hill districts be part of Greater Nagalim since these areas were inhabited by Tangkhul Nagas.

When the Centre decided to hold ADC elections in Manipur, the All Naga Students Association of Manipur and the Naga Students Federation began a blockade of NH-39 in April 2010 to protest the decision. In May 2010, the crisis took a bitter turn when the State government disallowed NSCN (I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah from visiting his village in Ukhrul. During the four-month long blockade, Manipur was strapped for severely needed resources like petrol, LPG and basic food commodities.

As Kuki-Naga tensions worsened, the NSCN (I-M) was accused of trying to stall the democratic process in Manipur where nearly 200,000 voters would vote. A year later, in 2011, Kuki groups from Manipur started a 122-day blockade to draw attention to their demand — declare Sarda in Senapati district an autonomous district for Kukis. Both blockades crippled the State economically and losses ran to the tune of Rs. 250 crore.

The upcoming Assembly elections are of key significance because they have the potential to mainstream the demands by the NPF and the Kuki groups and bring them under the purview of political discussion conducted by elected representatives. However, Manipuri Nagas have often resisted attempts by the NSCN (I-M) to incorporate them. For the Central government, negotiating with the Naga insurgent leadership has become a standard policy, evinced by two ceasefires. With the Naga insurgency in its 65th year, Kuki groups fear that Greater Nagalim may come about sooner than expected, if only to put an end to the persistent NSCN (I-M) demand and their insurgent activities.

Regardless of the political outcome in Manipur, Mr. Rio’s speech allows him to appear committed to the Nagalim cause, especially to voters in Nagaland. This will help him politically in the 2013 Assembly elections in Nagaland. For the NPF, Mr. Rio’s speeches could help forge electoral coalitions that benefit the party in Manipur. However, a Congress leader has noted that Mr. Rio’s efforts will only consolidate the non-Naga voters, which include the Meiteis and the Kukis. Mr. Ibobi has also expressed the doubt that Manipuri Nagas will be drawn in by Mr. Rio’s rhetoric. This boomerang effect may end up favouring Mr. Ibobi and the Congress (I).

Before this, Mr. Ibobi was contesting a tough election as five Opposition parties had united under the banner of People’s Democratic Front. The Front currently includes the Manipur’s People Party (MPP), the Nationalist Congress Party, the CPI (M), the Janata Dal (United), and the Rashtriya Janta Dal. Mr. Rio’s speech has unintentionally made Mr. Ibobi appear the one person who can effectively block the demand for Greater Nagalim.

Naga leaders have claimed that Greater Nagalim includes Naga-inhabited territories in Myanmar, China and India. Nagaland was created in 1963. Yet, in what seemed to be a politically motivated strategy to divide and disable the Naga insurgency, many Naga inhabited areas were placed in the State of Manipur when it was created in 1971. Today, Nagalim in theory comprises the Nagaland state, adjoining areas of Assam (Karbi Anglong, North Cachar), areas of Arunachal Pradesh (Tirap and Changlang), and significant parts of the hill districts of Manipur. With the NSCN (I-M) leadership in Tangkhul hands, the commitment to wrest the four Manipuri hill districts has become stronger.

So when Manipur goes to the polls on January 28, there is much for mainland Indians to pay attention to. The State has the largest number of active insurgent groups over time, 39 , operating in an area the size of Silicon Valley (8000 sq. miles). It also has an average voter turnout of 85 per cent in spite of insurgent group threats (higher than most other Indian States). Anna Hazare’s hunger strike pales in comparison with that of a lone Manipuri woman, Irom Sharmila, which is now in its 11th year. Her fast is against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act which has been used in Manipur, almost uninterrupted, since 1980.

This election is a testing ground to assess the payoffs involved in trying to mobilise the Naga votes outside Nagaland, with Arunachal Pradesh being the NPF’s next electoral target. The NPF is clearly interested in becoming a true regional player in the northeast and Mr. Rio’s current campaign is part of a new history of Greater Nagalim, where the demand is articulated through an over ground party driven political process.

(Vasundhara Sirnate and Rahul Verma are Ph.D students at the Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.)

For those who are yet to explore Twitter – www.twitter.com is a popular website where one can let people know what they are up to. It was started in the year 2006 by an American named Jack Dorsey. It is called a micro-blogging tool because a person cannot write more than 140 alphabets at one time. Each time someone writes – the message is called a “Tweet”.

On Twitter, you can follow some of the world’s most respected persons and know about their thoughts and day-to-day activities. You can also follow Newspapers and keep yourself updated. Twitter had 300 million users in 2011 and the number is ever increasing.

Around the world, people and politicians have used Twitter to express their views. Recently, U.S president Barack Obama appealed to the public to support the American Job bill through Twitter. In India, personalities like politician Sashi Tharoor and actor Amitabh Bachchan use Twitter on a daily basis.

Twitter is yet to make its impact in Nagaland but the number of users is growing slowly. Media houses like Nagaland Post updates news daily on Twitter. Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) tweets about Job and exam information. Hornbillfestival.com gives latest updates on the popular Hornbill festival to tourists.

Nagas with Most Number of Followers on Twitter.com:
Casuyi Lohe (862), Dr. Yan Murry (655), Ayicha Muivah (469) Aola Longkumer (425), Lesly Lobeni (365). Source: Twitter.com; as on January 18 , 2012.

If utilized by the Government departments properly, Twitter can be very useful for the general public. Local organizations can make an impact by using the micro-blogging website. It just takes 2 minutes to start a Twitter account and it is Free. A person just needs to spend 5 minutes daily to update their activities on Twitter.

Written by K. Zeliang

Atsen Murry releases his second music video ‘O love that will not let me go’ – a duet with his friend Heather. Atsen is a music student at Moody, Chicago.

Lyrics:
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

1. O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.

2. O light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.

3. O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be.

4. O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be

By Tarun Vijay
Looking at Nagaland from a mainland Indian’s eyes… This article was written for the Outlook magazine on October 22, 2007. Presently, Mr. Vijay is a Member of Parliament & National Spokesperson BJP.

The Inner Line Permit
Kohima is a beautiful city, the scenic hilly terrain resembling the famous Kangra paintings with slanting roofs kissed by the clouds and silhouettes in lazy sunsets. The silent evenings, deadly dark, express both Kohima’s time zone predicament and its fear of the gun. An enchanting place full of pineapples and anxieties, different poles living so closely as to leave the outsider with an eerie feeling. Walking a Kohima street is like poetry woven from a war-torn rice field still smelling of gunpowder. The people are articulate, extremely hospitable and take pride in their history of valour and courage. But a mist of uncertainty and debates about the future dot the social landscape. It would have become a signpost of a different India had the Japanese not been defeated by allied troops at a fierce battle in 1944, which left eleven thousand dead on both sides. The Kohima War Cemetery has a famous epitaph: “When You Go Home, Tell Them of Us and Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.”

Presently, it’s the Bangladeshi Muslim infiltration which has Nagas concerned. Nagaland’s Home minister was quoted as saying, “If we remain unmindful of this silent invasion, one day we may have to work under them…. ” Mias, as the unwelcome guests are known here, have spread out in rural areas and many have married local Naga girls. Their children have even been given mixed monikers like the Semias, children of a Sema Naga girl and Mia husband. How do they enter the state in such large numbers when every legitimate visitor has to procure an Inner Line Permit to ‘check’ into Nagaland?

Delhi Sends It
Every second vehicle in Kohima is an SUV. Where does the money come from, I asked. “Delhi sends it,” was the answer, pointing to the siphoning off of the grants that central ministries sanction. A seminar participant gave me his mobile number which was a Grameen one, a Bangladesh success story. Why a Bangladeshi network here? Because in border villages none of the famous Indian mobile services work!

The Long Battle
The business enterprises here are mostly run by Biharis and Marwaris, the temples function normally and they were getting ready to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami. (Celebrating Gandhi Jayanti or any other national icon is ‘banned’ though.) Dr Chishi runs an indigenous faith society and questions why westernisation is essentially tagged to ‘Christianisation’. The Nagas have a deep sense of self-pride, a feeling sought to be subdued by zealous Britishers who portrayed them as ‘headhunters’. Perhaps why Nagas in the past felt embarrassed about their glorious histories.

Guns, extortion attempts and ‘independence’ are the three topics discussed constantly. Previously, there were regular skirmishes between the insurgents and security forces. Now it’s between the various Naga tribes. No end to a long, bloody battle, and for something people don’t even understand completely. Meanwhile, an indifferent India looks on.

Cross Connection
The church here, first established in 1872, is divided into various denominations (and there is a different church for each tribe) and remains the real centre of power here. Its support to the insurgency and the main separatist group, NSCN(IM), is open and it is well established in Camp Hebron. The church had Nagaland declared a dry state and a morality code is getting stricter by the day, citing the increase in drug abuse and HIV cases, and the rampant corruption all around. It was a Sunday when I visited an Ao church. A rehearsal of Naga carols was on. It was wonderful and the aroma of faith pervaded all around.

Who Knows The Rani?
When I wanted to go out for a stroll, Khukithu Zeliang said, “Nothing to worry, just be careful of the drug addicts. And no sermons please. Most of you come as preachers and write a book after a 24-hour visit describing how Nagas have been deculturised and that there’s only one culture here—gun culture. If that’s so, where have you been all these years?” Khukithu is a charming girl who works among the youth and is greatly concerned about protecting Naga values. She wanted to raise a memorial to Rani Gaidinliu but has received little help. I met a Naga scholar who has been relentlessly advocating a Devanagari script for all Naga dialects. A seminar I attended began with ‘Vande Mataram’ sung by Angami girls and the audience cheered when I declared my Indianness was incomplete without Nagaland.

How many schools in the so-called patriotic mainland teach lessons about the Northeast’s heroes, or know about Rani Gaidinliu, who was conferred the title ‘Rani’ by Jawaharlal Nehru when he visited the 16-year-old guerrilla warrior in a Kohima jail in pre-independent India. At the time, she was serving a life sentence awarded by a British kangaroo court. Later, Indira Gandhi honoured her with a Padma Bhushan. The Kargil heroes of Nagaland, Capt Kengrutse and Sepoy Gangching, too remain unknown figures.

By James Kikon
There are many people who are not satisfied with many things in their life. Some are stuck in unsatisfying jobs. I am one of them too. Many of these people know they need to move on and find their comfortable niche in life, but are stuck due to many reasons –need to earn, can’t leave the current job, lack of opportunities, lack of specific skill, but the lack of time and money to train and move out etc. I am one of them because of some of these reasons. So, I am really envious of few people who seem content (or not?) and those who really like what they do.

I have thought about my career after I graduated from an engineering college. I didn’t get a college placement and the year 2008 was terrible for job hunters due to the economic meltdown. So my friend and I got ourselves into a tech support job in an IT MNC. I know it’s a terrible job for a computer engineering graduate to be in. But I wasn’t alone. There were many graduates from different engineering backgrounds working there. I thought I would be the only few in a shitty job. There is so much job scarcity (in terms of getting the job you want) that people are ready to work or start with anything they can get. I know I did that too. I knew I would be stuck here so I started to look. Luckily I got a break in a renowned IT company as a Software Engineer. On my last working day, a colleague told me he envy me and said “your life is set”. “Really??” I thought, and I also wished them all the best too.

I was glad to move out after just 8 months in that job and gladly moved to the new company and had hopes that things would be great from here on. I haven’t realized yet again that “the grass is always greener on the other side”. We will never be satisfied with how much we earn or have. The more we have, the more we spend. Our needs just grow along with it. When I was in the previous job I wished if I was earning a certain package. Now that I am earning more than that, I wish for more. And frankly the bar has risen, and also because I have people I envy too. There are people in my category who have moved further in life. May be they were more privileged. Some are going further in higher education doing PHDs, some are working in foreign countries, some are holding bigger positions earning huge packages in big corporations, some having the benefit of good employment at home and some are settled with families. There are still others who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth that they don’t even have to struggle to find a job, instead they try out different business ventures. They got money to run their life. So there is a huge circle of people I envy right now, though I am pretty sure most of them also envy someone’s greener side.

Now, I realized that I am also envied by others. It’s almost like the food chain. Someone is looking up at someone, or at least in some areas. Someone might be envying your life, your riches, your looks, your talents, your job, your family background, even your girl-friend/boy-friend (if you’d been that fortunate that is) et al. I guess even a beggar in India watching a beggar in US on a TV in a roadside TV showroom must be envying him saying ‘I wish I was a beggar in US’, or something crazier than that (laughs). I said I don’t really like my job. I wish I could earn more. I wish I was in a job I like. I wish I could do this certification that I want to and get a job I would enjoy. But am I sure I would enjoy that job? I would know only when I get there because it’s just a dream now. Still, then I know friends who envy me. The reason is because I have something that they don’t have or yet have. And my reason of dissatisfaction for now is also the same – I wish to have something I don’t have yet.

No matter what, I know we run our own race in life, at our own pace. My dynamics of my journey in life can never be compared to another person. There is always someone who would envy another no matter in what position they are, but if I am looking ahead I won’t really care about that. Should I? I mean it’s useless. What I would care is forward. I look ahead at others ahead of me –in job, in status, in career, in life… get inspired. But that also would sometimes make me feel I’m lacking behind. I know I need to catch up but I might be bound by many things. There might be some genuine reasons why I might not be where I’m supposed to be. If I think so, I need to work on that. Otherwise, I should always remember that my dynamics is different from others. This ‘wish’ that we have will hardly be satisfied even though you think it would. I guess there won’t be- “Oh. I got all I wanted. Now I am done”. May be for some time, after you attain something you really dreamed of, but eventually new goals and desires will come up.

So from my own lessons in life, I would like to take it this way-

No matter how slow you think your race is, if you are sincere to yourself, your struggles in life, your responsibilities, you will eventually get somewhere. Somewhere you are proud of yourself. You might not always get what you dream of, but you won’t regret when you look back. You will be proud of how you handled your challenges in life. So what if you don’t have the career you always wished, or the expensive car you dreamed of ever since you were young, or had an expensive wedding you desired, or go travel the world. There will always be many you will envy, but remember that there are also many other who do the same about you. The grass will always be greener on the other side. Envy the greener other side, that might even motivate or challenge you to move on, but don’t be too envious that you are discontent with what you already have. If you are taking life sincerely, even if your dynamics is different from others you will get somewhere. As my mother told me when I shared my discontentment “we as humans will never be satisfied, but we will always have something to set our eyes on if we are willing to go on”. I guess the best you can do is to take challenges as opportunities as they come.

From my journal.

Swami (Baba) Ramdev was in Dimapur. 5000 people turned up at the DDSC stadium. We Wonder how he must have felt wearing a Warrior’s dress considering he’s a hardcore Veg!

The political distance between Nagaland and the central Indian government is growing. Many mainstream government schemes, such as ration cards, do not reach Nagas. Basic government services are not reliable. Consistent power shortages go unattended. This neglect of basic services and amenities has contributed to this feeling of alienation on behalf of the Nagas toward the central government.

Naga youth have now started to adapt Korean culture. Korean television channels, programs, movies, and clothes are popular among Naga youth. Korean companies are looking into investing in Nagaland. The Nagaland State Government has even taken steps to embrace Korean culture: it hosts an annual Indian-Korean cultural festival.

However, this wave of Korean culture threatens traditional Naga customs. Elder Nagas fear the gradual disappearance of Naga customs in the face of globalization. As young people turn toward foreign cultural products and entertainment produced in other languages, this threat becomes ever real.

Traditional Naga culture is unique. Nagaland is comprised of sixteen tribes. Each tribe uses a unique language and has its own rich cultural traditions of dance, song, festivals and other key features. Korean culture’s strong pull on young Nagas will make it more difficult to preserve Nagaland’s important tradition and identity.

Renchano belongs to the Lotha tribal community in the Wokha district of Nagaland. She recently completed her BA in English at NEHU-Shillong. Rancheno strives to expose the injustices tribal people face. Through IndiaUnheard, she hopes to give voice to these struggles.

We have many similarities with the Mizo people – take into account our religious beliefs, physical features, eating culture and so on. This also means that what their society does can be replicated by Nagas.

Corruption is rampant in our state. An Indian columnist recently wrote about Nagaland describing it as “a toxic mix of corruption and insurgency”.

Some Mizos realized this menace of corruption was destroying their society and beliefs. So they started an organization called PRISM (Peoples’ Right to Information and Development Implementing Society of Mizoram)- that deals exclusively with tackling corruption. Even their former CM Mr Zoramthanga wasn’t spared.

If we still don’t have such an organization in Nagaland, can we replicate this idea? After all, it should not be that tough since our “similar” brothers from Mizoram have done it.

Here is an article written by Sanat K Chakraborty on PRISM.

This is how Mizos fight corruption in Mizoram

A citizens’ action group in Mizoram spearheading an anti-corruption campaign has devised a unique way of tracking down corrupt politicians and Government officials, unearth their wrong doings by using RTI and put them on trial through courts.

It’s a kind of secret public balloting process which they call eiru thlan bawm through which the corrupt individuals are identified. “It’s a pretty simple method,” explains Vanlalruata, president of a prominent civil society organisation, PRISM (Peoples’ Right to Information and Development Implementing Society of Mizoram).

“People are asked to write down on a plain paper the names of individuals who they think are corrupt along with some specific charges against them, and then drop it inside the eiru bawm (corruption ballot box) installed in certain designated places in the State capital,” he said.

After the expiry of the specified date, the boxes are opened in a public meeting. The allegations are scrutinised for their veracity and processed for filing of FIR against the accused individuals. Sometimes, RTI is also used to elicit more information about corrupt individuals accused by people.

In the past three months, PRISM received over 500 cases from public. Most of the allegations have been made against bureaucrats, Government contractors and politicians, who have acquired assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.

Out of the 100 odd cases so far scrutinised, at least 40 cases were found to be ‘fit for investigation’, PRISM president said. All of these cases are against officials who have amassed unaccounted assets, such as houses and farmlands in Mizoram.

PRISM along with other organisations have physically verified questionable assets mentioned in public letters and complaints, and the groups found some ‘basis’ for filing RTI and subsequently FIR against the corrupt officials.

“We will be proceeding against them soon,” Vanlalruata said, as more and more people are demanding action against corrupt politicians and officials.

“Corruption has become a real menace in our State,” said Vanlalruata and many organisations and people have been trying to find various ways to do something about it. He believes that the eiru bawm experiment — an idea which was drawn from the proceedings of an egg-theft case in a Mizo village during the British rule — would have a very deep impact on various Government departments.

The theft case goes like this: In an eastern Mizoram hamlet, villagers often complained of missing eggs from chicken coops of their houses. No one knew who was stealing the eggs. So the village authorities hit upon the idea of distributing ballot papers to each household on which the family members were to write the name of the person who they thought was stealing their eggs.

The ballots were secret and collected by persons appointed by the village authority. It was opened in a public meeting and all the ballots had the same name written on it. The man protested. He went and complained to the British officials but there was hardly anything they could do. No action was taken but after that the eggs stopped disappearing.

Eiru bawm campaign is likely to have similar impact to strengthen RTI process in the State. In fact, the organisations say, there is information that suddenly the empty coffers of certain departments are overflowing with funds again. “This happened because corrupt officials who took the Government money are returning the money before someone raises a finger at them.” Vanlalruata opined.

People are emboldened by the fact that something is happening with their own actions at last. Recently the arrest of a former State police chief and the pressure on former Home Minister Tawnluia, allegedly involved in police modernisation scam, and former Chief Minister Zoramthanga — all these are making people believe that no one can escape the law if people persist in following up cases.

Recently, the Gauhati High Court had ordered the State Anti-Corruption Branch to probe into allegations of disproportionate assets — Rs 18.65 lakh worth Maruti Grand Vitara, a luxurious mansion in Aizawl’s posh Chaltlang area and a huge Aii Puk Farm — owned by the former Chief Minister.