August 16th:
Yesterday was Independence Day. Sixty years of celebration of our liberation from colonial rule. Celebration of our freedom! Your freedom, my freedom and everyone else’s.
Ah, but does freedom means anything special to me-someone who, even after sixty years of independence still have to convince fellow citizens that I belong to this country as well. They say I look foreign. Does freedom mean any changes in the lives of those million of Indians who still live homeless, landless and hopeless; and for that matter, to that beggar down the street who begs for a living even after sixty years of our independence from foreign rule?
What does freedom mean to me? At a time when I don’t even have the freedom to be what I am. Does freedom hold any meaning to me when I can’t even feel at home even in my own country?
I was walking across the street, holding a packet of food for my dinner and a can of beer when two guys who are apparently drunk, make some racist remarks on me. I simply ignore them. “It’s our land”, they would have reiterated like they did so many times in the past when I made an attempt to confront them. . I look foreign. And, hence I’m a soft target. Everywhere I go.
I take a cab. I was asked to pay more than the usual fare. Of course, this has become a daily ritual. I always pay more. They always demand it. Everywhere I go to. Reason: I don’t look like one of them. I look foreign.
I go to the discothèque. My friends of the opposite sex always gain unwarranted attention. They look different from the usual crowd and hence, have to take the entire racist and sexists’ remarks that are thrown at their face. They are always soft targets. Reason: they look different. They look foreign.
I remember feeling terrible when I was made to point out the map of my country on my first day at college. Little do they know that I belong to this country as well? Just like any one of them. I might look foreign. But, my heart always beats for this country. Little do they know that I sing the national anthem with much passion as well? That I never failed to feel proud to be a citizen of this country; that even my people went to fight the wars when the nation was attacked!
My nationality has always been questioned. I do not fit into their self constructed symbols of nationality. My food, my dress, my accent have been symbols of ridicule. They were all foreign; I was made to feel that way. At times, I have been so very much convinced. May be I never belonged here, I would say it to myself. And, I began to sympathies with my people back home who have taken to violent means to confront this country. I could so much relate to their anger and frustration.
I take a walk down the busy street. People push you to get their way. They want to move ahead at the expense of others. They just don’t care about others in the street. Everything is a rat race. Be it a queue in the railway ticket booking counter or in the food stall. And they always want to win. They don’t want others to win. They do not realize that it is also possible to win together.
I see a man lying on the pavement in the street. He looks motionless. Perhaps, drunk or may have got an epilepsy attack. People almost walk over him. But no one seems to care. Dos life has any respect or dignity? Is it what freedom has gifted us?
Why do we have so many beggars in the streets? Why do we have people living on the slums and streets without a home to call their own? What have they got by virtue of this so called freedom? Do you still want people like me to feel joyous on this occasion? Or, for that matter that beggar in the street, or the homeless who spend the nights in the streets?
The three of us feel disowned. Perhaps, hordes of other people as well. Freedom is just a meaningless word in our dictionary. Nevertheless, I salute the tricolor and sing the national anthem as passionately as never before. May be things would change for us someday.
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August 17th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Welcome to the darkside of India you will never see in Incredible India! advertisement.
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August 17th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Lovely prose, chakma_punongchan. But please see the glass as half full, not half empty.
The world is not all black and white. Independence Day was important for many people as India marked 58 years of near perfect democracy. I mentioned 58 years because I removed 2 years of Emergency (1975-1977) from the tally since democracy was denied to the people during that time.
Indeed, people from Northeast look like southeast or East Asians. Those countries are light years ahead of India in human resource development and par capita income. If any Indian feels they are superior to them, they are not among 1.5 million tourists who visited SE Asia every year. If they respect East Asians, they will also respect NE people. We are so similar to them. You will notice that the higher social level you interact with, the more respect they have for NE people, Southeast Asians and other human beings. If you are among the rich class, you will not face any discrimination. But most ‘educated’ people who studied at Hindi Universities can be quite brass and ignorant. You must also know that majority middle class in big cities are BJP supporters, but they do not represent India. The present government knows very well. Please do not be daunted by them.
You perhaps have not long time in North India when you expressed your concern for a man lying in the street. Passerby paid no attention since that man is most likely trying to cheat people to give him money. People know his type. If there are really sick people, even North Indians always extend help.
Indian people exercised their franchise every few years, and the government do only what it thinks what the people (voters) want. Indian voters do not like fast economic growth. They prefer rather chaotic reforms and they love their freedom to choose. This is reality in India. You are one of them. Enjoy.
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August 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
India knows her problem, India voted “Hunger” as her greatest shame for I-day Poll, there are the good and the bad in India, more than 70 % of india population go hungry. This is mainly due to the failure of administration, Govt has realised that if private players are welcomed in Agriculture sector may be we will be able to make some changes. It been two years since private players are welcome in this sector, some change may come, Backward region Grant fund are made, Saiha and Lawngtlai are also included in among 280 districts seleced by GOI, every year your dist will get 10 crore for developemnt fund, but I am so afraid that the Burocrats are going to spoil things again. They should include the village councils and the district council in their plan, but as i was told by JS (BRGF) that the mizoram planed were returned because there were no people participation in the plan. so you guys missed out 2006-2007 plan , 10 crore ecah for Saiha & lawngtlai, i hope they don’t mishandled 2007-2008. These well meaning people are mainland India, it is high time for us also we look into our state and try to speak up, particiapte in the developement, utilise the RTI, be active and be proud that you indeed belong to mongoloid race,
We do have beggars in the street, these are all imigrants from UP, Bihar..etc. The state were not utilising Fund properly, not dveloping their people, Tribal Sub-planed were never used as desired, so these landless people flocked to Delhi and beg, Please Please be aware what is going on in your autonomous Council, the realtionship between the state and your Council, be brave and speak out, less your Own people might come to Delhi, Sleep on the RoadSide and Beg.
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August 17th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
@Vladimir
Talking about our similarity you got any idea which ASEAN countries have resemblance of our origin. I feel size and appearance wise we may be close to Vietnamese, Cambodian or Thai. But they are more yellow than us I guess. Any widely travelled within ASEAN amongst misual who has idea??
Pu Tanpuia leh Pu Nghaka (both RIP mihuaisen mihrat) te ho rual khan an thianpa Vietnam a cham hlen ta a awm an tia hrechiang kan awm em?
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August 17th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Ka rin dan mai mai chuan North Indian ho hian Mizo leh Malaysian, naga leh Thais, Khasi leh Cambodians an hre hrang lova. Mizo leh Sikkimese pawh an hriat hran hmel loh. Inchei leh khawsak dan azirin min en hniam in min en sang mai ani. Chuvang chuan chakma_punongchan an “I look foreign. And, hence I’m a soft target. Everywhere I go.” tih hi amah khawngaih deuh nen, a vai (ti mai ang) hmuh te an changkan loh vang ani deuh ber, ka ti deuh ani. Company lianah senior executive niin suit ha thlap la chuan an en dan che a dang daih ang. Chuti lova, T-shirt thawl deuh, kekawrbul leh bathroom sleeper buna kihva thial chunga vai i biak chuan an en dan a dang daih ang. Chu lovah N.India ah chuan Fluent taka Hindi thiam an en hniam ngai lo. When in Rome, do as Indians do. Mizoram culture Haryana ah kan chhuang thei lo.
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August 17th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I really like what ‘htlau’ said in the beginnnig of his post.
” India knows her problem, India voted “Hunger” as her greatest shame for I-day Poll”, : PM Manmohan Singh also admitted poverty as the main challenge.
“there are the good and the bad in India”: How true. But I am happy that PM and Soniaji knows and admitted this, unlike NDA fellas.
“more than 70 % of India population go hungry”: Correct. or nearly correct. 70 percent are malnourished (not neccessarily hungry). In the west, women are malnourishe because they want lo look thin. In India, they are too poor to get fat.
“This is mainly due to the failure of administration” : 100 % correct. The government spend zillions of Rupees for agriculture subsidies and rural development. Most of these money went to corrupt officers and politicians, or wasted due to wrong policies or inefficiency.
” Govt has realised that if private players are welcomed in Agriculture sector may be we will be able to make some changes”: True. The agriculture marketing and land owning policies are utterly out of date. Land owners are too poor to introduce new technoloy, and money owners are not permitted to own or even develop lands. But in Punjab, some private, corporate farms are going great. It is also very, very important to abolish mandi laws which benefit only middle men. When farmers can sell their food, vegetables and fruits directly to Wal-Mart-Bharti, Tata or Reliance Supermarkets, they will get better price and consumers will be more happy. But middlemen, mostly BJP voters, will lose out. Why is the UPA government moves so slowly here ? We need supermarket but we are getting shopping malls. This is due to wrong policies only. But in India, there are serious opposition to any good policy. I get not understand why anybody should oppose privatisation or setting up of SEZs. In nearly all countries, people knows what is good for them. But in India, it sometimes looks like people want to remain poor.
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August 17th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Are.. Nirvana ..u are so much Sonia & Manmohan FAN…But what to do with these Extreme..wings.. left..right.. they create so much problem….
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August 17th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Tuna kan PM hi chuan REGS (Soniaji idea) hi a tidik ltk mahse BDO leh politician ho hian an hmang diklo ang tih hi a hlauhawm ber. Mahse rethei kan tam lohnan a ni miau a. Naktuk chhum tur lungngai ho tan hian tihtur kan va ngah em? Am totally pro-anti-hunger
Chuan kan PM tho hian Rural Development a tihdan Bharat Nirman te hi a va tha tak mahse kan hmangtha lo ang tih ber hi a hlauhawm. Chuchauh a la ni lo Urban area atana JNNURM an tite hi khopui changkang siama mirethei program hmaih chuang si lovin.
Kan India ram ropui politician ho hi chu an lo pui takzet a ni. Thiam ila a tidan tur hria ila chu “of the East” hi min tihpui an hreh lo. Kei chu an dinhmun ah hian ding ila an tih ang hian kan ti duh ang em tih hi ka in zawt thin
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August 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
NREGS hi state thenkhat ah a hlawh tling ang reng khawp mai ,mahse state thenkhat ah chuan scheduled of rate anga teh thlap thlap chuan minimum wage act in hlawh a tuk zat ang labour in an hlawh chhuak pha lo. a chhan chu hemi scheme hnuai a thawh tur a duan tam ber hi lei laih te ania, nileng a an laih theih tawk tur ang vel an laih khan minimum wage bi tuk an hlawh phak loh na a tam.
mahse, NREGS state chang kang zawk te leh district chankang zawk te pawh a an thlan na chhan tam tak zawk chu, SGRY Rice hralh a harsat tak vang ani, a chhan chu Rice man a tla hniam tlat a. SGRY scheme a rice man an chhut dan aiin open market a rice man a hniam zawk avang ani pakhat.
NREGS chu strict deuh tak a kal pui theih chuan ‘contractor’ an in rawlh a har a, a chhan chu labour kha in register vek bak ah card an pe thlap a, chu chu computerise vek ani a. hemi pawi mawh na chu tun hma deuh kha chuan india ram ah ‘politician’ an awm a ‘contractor’ an awm hrang bawk a. mahse tunah hi chuan politician te contractor an ni nghal a rural area ah chuan, chuvang in rural development dept hna a tra lo, a muang etc….tih a lo chhuah na hi hei vang hi ani in a lang.local politician check na tra tak ni in a lang tunah hrih chuan.
Bharat Nirman tih scheme ah hian tun ah BT road leh Housing for poor tih bak hi guideline leh implementation a awm tawh em aw??? chu pawh chu paper vek a la awm hrih ani em??
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August 18th, 2007 at 9:54 am
khei he mi chungchang hi ka fim deuh hun ah kan la ti ti chhun zawm dawn ania. We are counted as Indian But we are not Indian family!.. We are MIZO/ZO/Chin….. Not a Vai or Kawl, Bangladishiiiiiiiii…. So we have a right to fight for our own Country….. then we can make the world bigger…
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August 18th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Mr Chakma, i khawngaihthlak hle mai. India ram state dang chu sawi loh mizorama mizo ten chakma ho an huat rapthlakzia te kha kan hria a sin.
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August 18th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
To look down upon a person just because he hails from a particular ethnic background is called RACISM. Mr.Chakma should be seen as a person who has his own strengthsand weaknesses like any Germans, Brazilians or Australians.
I would be very grateful if Admin delete these type of racist remarks friom this website. I am from Mizoram, and I do not hate Chakmas.
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August 18th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
well well, its misual site, so i ask admin not to delete.. its all about every person has freedom of speech and liberty life… Chakma , You May think that you are the only one who are in darkness.. or lonely… No no no, their are many people beside you.. I Heard that even in Bangladesh, elsewhere some of the part in India, Chakma are trearted like as you just mention above.. I had sympathy and love that that as a human being. I myself who had many chakma goodfriends and well educated people… The place where am i right now.. Our famly Doctor is a Chakma doctor who had take care of my health and our family… We share our love each other, we think back home to share their love each and everyone at back home too.. Someday you will win the freedom of your people and ourself like as many tribes/nation has… Fear the Lord and he shall be with you..
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August 19th, 2007 at 4:32 am
he thu han kei zawng ka lung a kuai khawp mai…
“India Zalenna ni leh Kei” racism rawng kai ang a ngaih theih chu ni mahse a thusawi leh ka experience tlem te ve mai nen chuan lungrual tak an ni.
Kan khua leh tui nihna ten chhingkhual mi leng ah min ngaih tlat si chuan le…
Kan Ram tia ka lo chhal ve thrinna chhuahsana khawvel lehlam kan pan dawn ni a, Khua leh tui nihna kan lehkha ngei pawh pawm lova, Ramdang mi in ni e, min ti si a, Ka rilru hi damni a awm leh ngai ngem le????
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Maybe that just happen on me and ma lil sis’s and Bro . we were young that time ..but the pain was same till today..
I sung the national Anthem .. i salauted the tricolour .. my Heart belong to her..but i was just known as a foreigner…
“……chhingkhual leng mi mai tiin thang mah ila, Ka Hmangaih Zoram fa ka ni tho si chuan .. a tawk e…”
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August 19th, 2007 at 8:08 am
I think Hotmail was referring to my post (correct me if I’m wrong). What I said was largely true. I cannout vouch for each and every mizo person in mizoram but what we are brought up with is the dogma of suspicion, hate and negative attitude towards other people whom the general mizo people considers not mizo enough, notably Chakmas and mizos from burma and hmars and other mizos from Manipur and bangladesh. Even the word CHAKMA itself have negative connotations among mizo, branding them foreigners even though a large number of chakmas have been in mizoram or even before Mizoram was created.
Those are considered acceptable in a racist society like in Mizoram and even the YMA and MZP had been at the forefront of those policy. I remember many times MZP have tried to expel Chakmas from Mizoram and even demanded the dissolution of the little autonomy they have.
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August 19th, 2007 at 8:55 am
When I first read this article, I thought that the author was talking about mainland Indians and their attitude towards Northeast people. If it is not(if it is about Mizo towards Chakmas), I am not in agreement of what the article said. But, I still think the author is talking about mainland Indians, and I agree, even experienced the same incidents, with him.
MZP te hi ka tan hauh lo nain, MZP te’n Chakma zawng zawng Mizoram atanga hnawhchhuah an tum anga ngaih hi chu a dik lem lovin ka hria. Chakma zawng zawng ni lovin Chakma foreigner ho hnawhchhuah chu an tum fo thin.
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August 19th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
What started as a few Independence Day thoughts from someone hailing from northeast India, my article seem to have kick started a debate on issues that we have often ignored or bothered less about. And, as I read the comments I understand that the contents have been interpreted differently by different people; notably Aryan’s argument of the existence of similar negative attitude towards certain ethnic groups at home!
The initial racist comment made came as a rude shock, though I am immune to it. And, I never felt so proud of my ethnicity as I did when I read the comment! I know my history, the history of my people, and the present situation of my people back home. I have always been proud of the same because I know my ethnicity is not inferior to anyone’s or for that matter to the ethnicity of the one who made the remark. To those who thinks otherwise, may God bless them!
@ Val_brosk: Yeah, I was talking about mainland India’s attitude towards northeasterners as a people (I have been living in the mainland for more than a decade) and not of the ethnic equations back home in Mizoram.
Cheers! God bless…
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August 21st, 2007 at 2:49 am
Well written article Punongchan. I can relate to you very well…besides all that is happening at home, I am the lone NE person n Vienna, except for a lovely diplomat from Nagaland, who is a great guy. But then, I am the lone NE person in Vienna from India outside the Embassy. This year for the Independence reception at the Ambassdor’s Residence, I went dressed up in an Assamese Sari (my dad is from Assam) and I was in the Austrian newspaper and TV….and I sang the Anthem very proud as well though all others seem to think I am from Phillipines or Malaysia…..
I experienced Chakma hospitality when I travelled through Mizoram this year, and I am very very curious about your people, and I am looking for a guide to take me thru Chawngte and other areas inhabitated by the Chakmas. Please, if you know of anyone who speak Mizo- Chakma(forgive me if I do not know how you call your language) send me email at shahnaz_kimi@hotmail.com
Kind regards,
Shahnaz
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August 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 am
@chakma_punongchan, this is all political issue about Chakma-chakma foriegner, because of some confusion in the boundaries or whatever, people in Mizoram often feel that outsider not only chakma-foreigner, but our own Mizo people from Burma are also expel from Aizawl.
I am total disagree with Aryan regarding mizo people are racist towrads chakma, Mizo are too acomodating with the chakmas that why, we have Chakma Autonomous Distrcit Council !!!! where else you find the Chakma have such authority..!!!! i’m ver unhappy when the chakmas say Mizo people are racist against them, Mizo are the only one we welcome them, feed them, house them, i know many chakmas recognise this an feel very happy towards the Mizos. They are of course nomadic tribes, that why they end up not having any Land which they call of their own, but they have their autonomous distrci council !!! how many bloods were shed and how many families got dispalce just because the HMARs were asking for Chinglung Council !!! if we look at world politics , how long the palestinians fight just to have autonomous set up in the west bank. did the Chakmas shed any blood for their distrcit council, HOW can you call Mizo are Racist against Chakma.!!!!
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August 23rd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
@hltau thinrim ah lak loh tur a bik in Aryan thu rawn ziah ho hi…thil inti hre lutuk ah inngai a…dik tho si dik vek si lo hian hre bok nen…mi in la fing fing tak2 si lo ang deuh hi nia maw…hriat thiam tur….
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August 23rd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
@hltau:
I have a feeling that you didn’t read the contents of my article or the subsequent comment correctly, if you were attributing any racist remark to me. I am in agreement to most things that you said. Just that (may be) you got certain facts wrong which is why I seek to clarify that here.
First, the Chakmas are not nomads as you seem to believe. They have their own homeland in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), which used to be their Kingdom (we still have our King, and Queen; we even traded with the Mughals, fought the British years later) until the British annexed it. Partition happened during which this predominantly tribal region has been bartered with Pakistan for reasons unknown. The Chakmas who inhibit the West, South-West parts of the state have been left out in this Indian part of the border while the rest remained in the CHT after political boundaries were drawn.
Partition separated them as a people/nation just like it did to hordes of other tribes such as Mizos, Maras, Kukis etc., who remained in pockets of Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Hence, the foreigner issue was non-existent! Perhaps, it merely used to be an issue with the politicians of the state who, in the absence of any sensitive issues to beat around, they found one in the Chakma issue branding them as foreigners. Not to forget about the present CM’s rhetoric who promised, immediately upon his swearing in as the CM that he would dissolve the CADC! It was because the Chakmas, for long has been considered to be pro-Congress. Of course, things have changed a great deal since the last decade or so. So has the political contour in the state.
I disagree, like everyone on this forum does when Aryan said that Mizos are racist! They are not. At a personal level, some of the best people I ever met are all Mizos and they have the highest respect for me as a friend and as a person. May be there is a communication gap between us at the community level; and hence misconceptions exists which often leads to the “othering” of one community from one’s own. And, not forget the failure of successive state governments(there exist a feeling of negligence/discrimination by the govt among the Chakmas and other minorities in the state)to take the minorities into confidence. I do not think we could blame the Mizos for our woes; if there is anybody to be blamed for minorities’ state of affairs in the state today, it must be the government.
The Constitution’s Sixth Schedule guarantees special safeguards to minorities and the Chakma district council is one such arrangement like those of the Lhai’s and the Mara’s. As “hltlau” rightly said, this provides certain degree of autonomy to the Chakmas and as a matter of fact, Chakmas in Mizoram are better off(a BIG Thank You) than their counterparts in Arunachal Pradesh, where they are still fighting for their rights to universal franchise or in neigbouring Tripua, or for that matter those living on the other side of the border in the CHT, who have been fighting a repressive Islamic Bangladesh for decades for autonomy and recognition of their identity. However, in Mizoram fifty percent of the Chakmas live in areas that do not fall within the Autonomous District Council’s jurisdiction! And, I guess the problem lies with the attitude of successive governments in the state towards these Chakmas. They are a neglected lot, and the governments have done precise little.
God Bless…
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August 23rd, 2007 at 4:35 pm
@chakma_punongchan , I had never made any racist comment on the chakmas, i just dislike it when some people comment that the Mizo are racist against the Chakma, Regarding the history of the Chakma, Maybe what i read were wrong, i had always belive that the Chakma are nomdic trbes.. anyway..they have their own kingdom.. them it is well and good. But i had also know that there are certain kind of Chakmas who has been living in Mizoram as old as the Mizo people. But anybody calling Mizo racist towords chakma is something i’m not happy aabout. I had done lots of works for these three autonomous District Council and highlight their problems in the govt levels also. Just recently you even had a visitor from central team to verify what is going on there. In fact as per my studies, GOI has given you the highest power other than UT, tha Lai, The Mara, The Chakma, but you guys not really bother to develop your region, you just let the govt handle whatever they want, as i had written erlier, (i hope u had read) u had missed out many developemnt fund because you guys never bother to find out what govt is planning for you, then we have to work our way up, meantime, some people call us racist..!!! This is really Bad.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 5:25 pm
@hltau:
yah, i uderstand how it feels like to be generalised; and to be called a racist when the ground realities are quite to the contrary. Anyway, do not be bothered just beacuse one ARYAN said so…
I dont think any chakma in his/her right senses will call the Mizos racists; though minor misunderstanding may remains which is a characteristics of all mullti-ethnic societies, like ours.
I appreciate the good words you have..your concern for the district councils. As you must know, we have a generation of leaders amongst us who are short-sighted, or to be candid enough, blind with no vision. All that conceren them is the booty, and development of the common people is the least that concern them. This is precisely the reason why the district councils remaind backward, especially our Chakma District Council. And, as you said a lot of develpment funds remain either unused or misused which is unofortunate. I read and re-read your earlier comment as well, and I appreciate it. It is sort of an eye-opener …thanks once again.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
You speak too soon my friend. It’s happening as we speak.
Pu. Lalianbula (50) Chawngte ‘P’ Village Council Vice President thah a nih chungchang-ah MZP Southern Hqrs, Lunglei chuan naktuk Dt. 24.8.2007 zing dar 5 atanga 27.8.2007 zing dar 5 thleng CHAKMA pawn chhuah a khap a ni Source: Lawrkhawm.com
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August 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
@ aryan,
if that was directed at me, i say Thank You!
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August 24th, 2007 at 11:28 am
@chakma_punongchan & Aryan: I see nothing racist in this, but i see, the tribal way of handling this. This is happening mainly becouse, we ST are not very vocal, but we act when we are very angry without thinking of the consequences. The main problem is as i often highlighted again & again that human development level is very very low in our area. Mr Chakma may feel that the administrator are not wanting to do things, but again i want to point out that, they all want to do something for their fellow men, but they don’t know how !!! They are not understanding that the power of lobying in the Central govt corridors, once they submit their requirement they feel these people will do it for them.. we haev to ask and demand things in india govt. As India is avast country and we have many many problems, we have many many situations. we should all join together and try to eduacte our people. As i ofetn say, Mizoram stands good chance fo developement as we do not have social evils, such as , dowry, female inafanticide & foeticide.. etc and we have very less population also.
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