Vai-Len Lai

February 22nd, 2010 9:18 pm by mzvision

TH Lewin a hian “A Fly on the wheel” a ziak hi Mizo te History ziakna hmasa ani awme. mi(sual) ah Sailam ka post khan helam hi min thring. Thriante’n in lo chhiar keuh keuh duh takin tiin ka thil haichhuah hi ka han pholang ani. Thangliana’n mizo Lal te Calcutta ah a hruai. Excursion hmasa ber anih hmel. Mizo te min hmangaihna erawh an hotute’n an lawmloh phah nge vuihmuipuin a hna a bansan. Hepa hi ka ngaisang ngawt mai.

Pic # 1 Mizo Lal te Calcutta ah. (click for larger size)

TH Lewin a lehkhabu lar tak hi i chhiar duh chuan LINK khu click keuh la arrow kawh dan zelin i phek letin kual vel thei ania.

LINK-A fly on the wheel


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30 Responses to “Vai-Len Lai”

  1. 1
    XaiA Says:

    Ka chhiar ve tawh ngat,he lehkhabu hi :!:

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  2. 2
    chhangte_ll Says:

    Ka ngaisang lemlo, Khawilai Central Kolkata – CR Avenue hnunglam anih hmel; Some specimen for him :?: Intithei tawkin Bengali ka la lak pui ve dawn emawni le :lol:

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  3. 3
    shailendra Says:

    Tunah pawh Vai chu Zoramah an la lian (len !) tho a ni lawm ni?

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  4. 4
    chhangte_ll Says:

    A thut tawh hnuah pawh bawpkhawkher te chuan a la thu tak deuh deuh a, ka va han run tak em……Master and Subjugated Race !!!!

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  5. 5
    mzvision Says:

    Ka patea’n a nei keipek High School kal laiin ka phek thuak thuak tun hi ka chhiar lehna ani mai thung.

    Howlong Cunotry a tihna chhan hi tlabung atranga an lokal kha Bengkhuaia awmna a miman Mary Winchester kha an iam ngar ngar anih hmel.

    Rothangpuia hi fak tur nge Vai/Sap CID kan ti ang tihte min ngaihtuah tir.

    TH Lewin hi chuan Mizo te hi a ngaina tak tak a ang tlat han chhiar han chhiar hian.Chuvanga lal ho Calcutta kalpui pawh ani renga. 1916 velah a boral nih hmel. tu leh fate a neih hria kan awm em aw :?:

    Zoluti an lakletna hi ani a, Thenzawl ani thei Sailam ani thei, kawlri pawh an insawi awm ve tho. Mahse tunhma atranga Bengkhuaia khaw hlui hmun enakwl tute hi chu Sailam an ni, Thenzawl phei chuan an enkawl lo.

    Benghkuaia an phumna erawh hi chu Thenzawl anih hmel hle.Lehkhabu phek 255 atrang hian the Lushai expedition hi a ngaihnawm zual. He lehkhabu hi a diary atranga a ziak mai kha anih avangin accurate lo lai a awm thei ang.
    Han chik teh u

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    chhangte_ll Says:

    Hmmm…mingo mawl zet zet chu hetiang hian thla la lak pui tur anni…as if they belong to some Master Race !!!! I did’nt grew up adulating them !!!

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    chawnghilh Says:

    “Tawlailir-kea tho fu bei ve ngawt” ang chauh tiin ka suangtuah thin, TH Lewin khan India Ram Inrelna Kalphunga mawh a phurh vena kha … tawlailir ke vir muah muaha tho (rannung tenawma ngaih) rawn fu ve zauh, thlawk sawn lo thei lovah a inngaih chang a tam thin em ni ta ang le?

    Ka la chhiar chiang ngai lo!

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  8. 8
    mzvision Says:

    @#6
    TH Lewin hi Mizote kan loneih dan slash and burn atranga Huan/Lo nghet min neihtir heng hun 1870 hnulam hian a lo tum reng tawh asin.Thangliana hi Calcutta ah hian Lushai chief ho bulah a riak ania aw fel ve deuh chu ani

    HV pu te niawm tak tak silai chu an lawm hmel zek asin ;)

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  9. 9
    mzvision Says:

    @chawnghilh
    A ring dik lo chhiar hram teh, mizote min hmangaih luat-ah an PU te a ti lungni lo, min enkawl a tumdan te an duh loh avangin a hna a bansan hial mawle

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    mzvision Says:

    Heng ang lehkhabu RO tling hi LINK atrang hian a print vek theih. duh chuan Pdf in a download theih bawk e. FYI of mi(sual) thil zir peih ho tan ;)

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  11. 11
    chhangte_ll Says:

    Min enkawl dan“….Pawisa engzah chiah nge an sen hi han chhuichhuak ila mawle :?: Pu Mz, hengho ziah hi ka awih hlei theilo chu anih hi mawle :?:

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    H.Vangchhia Says:

    Pu mz, khimi pic lo zawk khi ka nei, khimi ah khian ka pu pu leh a tel velo, an vaia an thlalak zawk ah khan a tel. Ka pu chu Lungleng lal Khawnbawl min niin an tawng letling tu, Mizo Hindi thiam hmasa ber a sawi a ni. An thlalak hi December 1872 a ni tih ka han share ve mai mai che u.

    Lewin veilam (hetia en a dinglam) a ding khi Brig.Thenphunga pu niin, Lewin a dinglam a mi puan var hlang khi Lungleng lal Khamliana a ni (pic pakhat zawk nen a lang danglam lo). Hemi leh an vai an lakna chu miuziam ah an tar. Lewin tel lova an lakna ah chuan Pu Khamliana khi a laiah a thu a, Pu Thenphunga pu hi a dinglamah a thutung a, ka pu pu leh Lalbuanga chu Khamliana hnung vei lamah a ding.

    Ro tling a nih hi hairehai Vailen awm tawh loh nan Sap ho nen Kulkhut ah an in dawr a ni. An lo haw kawng Tlawng dungah! Sikserh an vei tak avangin an pic leh lehkha pawimawh hawn te chu an halral vek; kan Thla an la tawh a engtin nge kan dam reng ang tiin.

    Pic tak tak hi a copy Pu Ngurhuzaua MCS fapa, Michael, Kulikawn ka pek, ka patea David Dosailova, Kulikawn leh keima kawl tih lovah chuan Aizawl Miuziam ah bak hmuh tur avang viau ang, kan neih pawh hi Sap missawnari in a ma khum (bed) nen ka pu a pek a ni nghe nghe.

    pu mz i ti ta sa rau rau, Azl miuziam a mi kha han click ru teh a :D

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  13. 13
    ninja Says:

    In va reh teh thruap ve. Electrict veng ho sial kha ka va ru ang a kan kang khawm dawn em ni ang?

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    gorrilla21 Says:

    Pu MZ,hetiang lampang hi rawn post zel rawh.a ngaihnawm lutuk..a theih phei chuan an thlalak nen..tunlai trhangthar te tan hian a pawimawh ka ti…MIZO ni ve si MIZO history hrelo kan tam tawh lutuk.

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    mzvision Says:

    @gorrilla21
    Vai hovin mizoram awmna min zawt kan haw zek mahse zokhua tamtak awmna thralai te hian an hrelo ania. kan ram hi kan hriat bel a ngai chutiangin history pawh

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    Epistemology Says:

    Pu Mz Vision, thlirdan dangdaiha lo thlir ve ka duh a, ngaihdam ka dil hmasa duh che.

    Tunlai hian ka thiannu pakhatin “Indian Economic Social History Review” in a article an pawm sak a, editor ten edit tura an tih ka pui ve thin a. Tah chuan T.H Lewin chanchin a thlur nasa hle a. John Whitehead: Thangliena: A Life of T.H.Lewin: Amongst the Wild Tribes on India’s North-East Frontier tih hi hmanni khan a chah thleng a, nimin khan Progressive Colloquial Exercises In The Lushai Dialect Of The Dzo Or Kuki Language: With Vocabularies And Popular Tales hi USA atangin a chah thleng leh chiah bawk a. Heng text ka chhiar atangin ngaihdan ka lo siam ve lawk ange.

    #T.H Lewin hian Mizo min hmangaih em? . T.H Lewin hi sipai a nih rualin Anthropologist or ethnographer (tribal culture tuipuitu) zing ami a ni ve ngei mai. Heng zingah pawh hian romanticism huang chhunga awm a ni. A thuziakah hian a chiang em em. Romanticism idea chu kan hriatthiam awlsam turin sawi dawn ila, hnam mawl ho pawh hi an mawl ang ang hian an tha ve teh asin tih lam sawimawin a ni.

    Hetih lai hian Mizo hnam min hmuh dan erawh, European ho thlirna savage, wild races ( a lehkhabu title), barbarian ka ni tho mai. Chuvangin, Mizo hnam hmangahi ngawih ngawih tih hi erawh bengsika ngaihtuah chi a ni. An imperialist design pawnah hian hnatha hi an thawk tak meuh em tih hi ngaihtuah tham a ni. Ethnography a duanchhuah tamtak hi Mizo ai chuan Sap ho knowledge tih tam tumna a ang zawk tlat. A mimala ethnography a tuina zawn hi erawh mimal thil ni mai se.

    Kan Mizo lal ho hnenah Mingo ho chu silaia kahhlum theih an ni ve lo tiin, Silai zen chauh dahin a inkah tir vel a. Mizo ho chuan min ngaihsang teh asin tih fiamthu angrengin a ziak mauh mai nia. Colonial an hlawhtlin theihna tur hian strategy pakhat, Mizo ten amah kan rin theihna tur tawka in trained a ni. Sap ropui theihna tur hian athawk a ni ber lawm ni. Hnam hnuaihnung leh bawl theih mai kan nihna zia hi a hre chiang viau a.

    A text hrang hrang kan en chuan contradiction a nasa em em. Sap audience leh india mi or Mizo a address dan hi a thuhmun meuh lova, a ideology hi a thlak danglam fe fo tlat. Politican vote zawng hian an tlatna mualah that an chhuah ve fo tlat. Chuvangin, amah hi zirchian a trul fu mai.

    hetih lai hian Mizo te tan text a duan chhuah zawng zawng hi erawh thangthar a hlu khawp mai. Mahse, amah kan hmuhdan hi erawh uluk zawka chik chhunzawm zel chi niin ka hria.

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    Epistemology Says:

    Lehlawks, A Fly On The Wheel: Or How I Helped To Govern India hi kum 1885 ah chhuah a ni. Hemi hma hian, T. H. Lewin hian Wild Races of South-Eastern India, London kum 187o ah alo chhuah tawh. Tin, kum 1872 ah khan M MacDonald – The Lushai Expedition alo ziak bawk. Tin,G. WOOD THORPE; THE LUSHAI EXPEDITION tih kum 1873-ah alo chhuah bawk…

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    hmingtea Says:

    sawi tur ka van rih ka lo la chhiar ve lo a ni ang nge

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    Ku Muanga Says:

    Thupui a fun hle mai. “A fly on the wheel” tih title hi a awmzia chu eng pawh ni se a engemaw nalh tlat, a phuah thiam thlak. Lehkhabu rotling zet a ni, e-book hi a hlu. A link avang hian Pu mzvision, thanks a lot.

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    spam Says:

    A link avang hian Pu mzvision, thanks a lot…tih hi keipawh ka sawi duh hmasa ber ani.

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  21. 21
    Aryan Says:

    Mizo Lalte hmelchhiat zia khi, tuikuk an ang ka ti.

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  22. 22
    XaiA Says:

    Thangliana hian Lushai hill tribe te a duh sak zia an hriat thu chu Sapupa te kha chuan an ziak lawi si a nih kha :!:

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    mzvision Says:

    @Epis
    Nangni zir chik mi te keini angin kan phak re re lo che u, in zirna lehkhabu i ban phak te kha ka awh ve ngawih ngawih erawh an ni.

    Heng e-book kan chhawpchhuah chhan hi leipha lo tui ve si te tan, awlsam zawka an duhlai an print chhuah keuh nan, zir chikmi library thra ban phallo leh mi(sual) thriante hriat-zau zawk nan a ni ber.

    Researcher ten an han zirchian tak tak chuan TH Lewin khan Zoluti hi a hmu lo reng reng, Mizoram a bu a khuar lai khan Sap ram ah an thawn thla hman te an ti, tak tak ni maw. A lehkhabu han chhiar hi chuan Zoluti kha a hmuh ka ring miah lo TH Lewin a hian. amaherawh chu Lau lui khawilai tak emaw-ah benghkuaia nen kha chuan an in chibai anih hmel hle.

    Kan hawrawp te pawh hi khasi ho ang tho-in bengali script a bul min tranpui an tum a hnu-ah Khasai Excperience in kan A AW B te pawh hi an siam ni-ah ka lo ngai. mahse han chhui thuk ula a dik tur erawh in hmuh ka ring.

    Tunlai kan mizo historian te hi an khawngaih thlak ka ti – An han chhui pawhin Chumi Lal fanu thrian nu fanu pitar sawi tih vel ani. A daw thei thiam thiam sawi kan ring dawn a ang tlat. Keini han sawi ve ang ti ve mai mai ni lo hian Reference mumal tak zawn hi a pawimawh hle chuan ka hria.

    Whitehead a ziak te mcDonald leh Edgar te thuziak pawh chhiar ve chu chakawm khoops, mahse keini ang zir chik lutuk lo tan chuan thawnthu ngahnawm angin kan chhiar liam ka ring ;)

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    kawlhawk Says:

    Pu mz chu vision choh nilo, history lam pawh thawh tha thei fù mai a!Hotupa nge nge ‘kerh kerh’ post tih vel ai ngawt chuan i thu rawn chhwpchhuahte a puitlinin, a manhla thin e. Thanks!

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    urat Says:

    Khing Mizo Lal Calcutta a zin ho khi an rawn haw hnu khan an damrei vaklo anti a,enge a chhan ni ang,Tur an pe nge? an ruang te hi phawrh chhuah a Zirchian leh a chakom!!!
    An zinga mi ruang/thlan awmna hria in awm mial em?

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    funny Says:

    sap ho colonial policy kha kan hriat atana tha ve mai mai chu, mi ram an awpbeh in anmahni culture chawisan an tum chu kan hre vek tawh anga, mahse chumi atana an thil tih thin hi zir fe tham a tling ve a. hammni post ami tekha “Wild race” han intih ngawt tekha, anmahni imperial policy justify nan khatiang khan min represent thin ani.

    Tin, sap kan ngaihsan theih naturin thil eng eng emaw anti thin bawka, chu chuan kan culture kalsana sap culture kan tawm theihna kawngah te min hruailut thei bawka. Entirnan, sap ho chauh pawh nilo, Spanish tepawh, Cuba ram kum za tel an awpbeh hnu chuan cuban ho culture leh hnam tawng thlengin an awp no vek thei ani. tunah khuan cuban ho khuan spanish an hmang, spanish tawng hmang hi an tam khawpmai spanish in anlo awp ram ho ah khuan. mizoram tehi sap ho khan kum 200 vel min han awp ve sela chu kan hnam tawng leh culture tehi a bo hneh rem rem ngawt ang..

    tuna thlalak ah pawh khian anih khi, a laiah amah a thu a, mizo lal techu pheikhawk pawh bun lovin a sir velah an dinga, khi khian thil tamtak a entir theia western lam audience hnenah. (social science lam ho hian tiang thil neuh neuh khi an chik peih a, kei aiin interpret dan an thiam zawk daih ang kati duah lo mai ang)

    Hetiang hi anni tan chuan thil thar anilova chuvangin hetiang lamah hian an expert hle. Academic lamah hian mi fing tak tak hi an tama, an ching phar hneh hle tho chu ania.

    Uncivilised tihte barbarian han in tih ngawt tepawh hi, anmahni ground atanga min rawn tehna mai mai ania, keimahni in ngaihdan ah chuan uncivilised kanni biklo, tin, anmahni pawh hmanah chuan hetiang ve tho hi anni thova. chuvangin time leh space hrana cheng kannih avangin hetiang hian min rawn ti bik ngawt theilova. Temporal leh Spatial context atanga thlir angai reng ani. Orientalism te anti.. aaa.. ani deuh nuaih mai :lol:

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    Epistemology Says:

    Pu MZ vision,
    I chhanna ka lawm e. I comment hi tangkai pui tham a ni. Tin, hetiang thil pawimawh phochhuahna chang i hria a lawmawm takzet. Tin, Midang comment pawh hi a interesting a, tangkai pui tham vek niin ka hria. Hetih lai hian mimalin kan hnam chanchin kalzel hriatzau theihnan te leh misconception kan neih thin clarify nan ka han comment belh leh lawk ange..

    Mizo history chungchang hi zau zawka thlir a hun ve ta fu mai. Colonial text reliable zawkna hi chu fact-ah pawh thil hmun/hming leh kum ah a ni mai ang. Funny rawn comment ang hian “Argument level” ah chuan ngaihtuah zau ngai tak a ni. Text awm ngei hi reliable famkim a ni thei bik hauh lo, a chhan chu, Ancient (greek/Egypt)ho text-te hi hrilhfiah fe a ngai tlat mai. Hun leh kum chhut dan pawh roman calendar a chhuah hma chuan a inang lo nuai a. A kum pawh tehsual awl tak a ni.

    Tin, Mizo history tia kan sawi tamber hi history nilovin, “anthropology” lam rawngkai “ethnography” tih zawk tur a ni. Kan bawrhsap ho thuziak zawng zawng (ti mai ang) te hi history a ni lo top mai. Ethnography a ni vek zawk.

    Pi leh pute inhlanchhawnna (Oral tradition) chungchang hi chu inhnial theih fe a ni. Tunlaiah phei chuan politic nen inngulzemin a buaithlak em em. Entirnan, Zoluti debate..etc.Colonial ho thuziakah hian kan history zawng zawng a kim vek loh avangin Reference awm mumal loh avang hian kan buai fovang…chumi atan alternative-ah “tapchhak theory” kan hman trul chang a awm fo dawn niin alang. Thudik tak kan hrelo a nih pawhin, atheih chinah objectivity kan kenkawh tlat a tul hmel a ni.

    Tin, Mizo chanchin hlui deuh tui pui deuh kan awm a nih chuan.. Online material ka han dahchhuak e. Text thenkhat phei hi chu, Mizoramah hmuhtur awm mumal hauh lo an ni.entirnan Shaha, Brojo Nath-te hi Mizoramah ka la hmu ngai lo..B.Lalthangliana pawn ala nei lo. (A lehkhabua a sawi danin)

    Tin, https://www.jstor.org ah hian Mizoram lehkhabu or article engemaw zat hmuh tur a awm bawk.

    Pu Buanga dictionary hi awlsam tein Digital dictionary of South Asia website (https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/lorrain/) ah hman mai theih a ni.

    https://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Lushai

    1)The Lushai Expedition, 1871-1872 – Robert Gosset Woodthorpe
    2)A grammar and dictionary of the Lushai language (Dulien dialect) – Lorrain, J. Herbert (James Herbert)
    3)The Lushai Hills : a story of the Lusahi pioneer mission – Lewis, Grace R
    4)Progressive Colloquial Exercises in the Lushai Dialect of ‘Dzo’ Or Kúki … – Thomas Herbert Lewin
    5)A grammar of the Lúshái language, to which are appended a few illustrations of the Zau or Lúshái popular songs and translations from Æsop’s fables – Shaha, Brojo Nath
    6)A Short Account of the Kuki-Lushai Tribes on the North-east Frontier: (districts Cachar, Sylhet … – C. A. Soppitt
    7)Les expéditions anglaises en Asie: organisation de l’armée des Indes (1859-1895); Lushai expédition (1871-1872); les trois campagnes de Lord Roberts en Afghanistan (1878-1880); expédition du Chitral (1895) – Septans, Albert, 1855-
    8)The Lushei Kuki clans – Shakespear, John, 1861-
    etc etc

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    pari Says:

    @ Pu Mzvision,hetiang text pawimawh tak i rawn dah hi a hlu top!

    @epistemology #16 “sap ropuina tur…” i sawi hi colonial narratives leh khita pics hian a reflect. sap leh lushai chiefs thutna khi for example, , authority figure mai bakah White supremacy a implicate, hei mai bakah relations of power :imagine a Lushai chief at the centre,what would that do to a western readership?? picture contrast (in terms of attire and posture etc ) en poh khian, colonial ethnography and anthropological texts in mizo te min capture dan te a lang chiang viau in ka hria. (saptawng a tam dawn a ka inthlahrung deuh a sawi zawm peih toh leu mai ang :) )

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    mzvision Says:

    He post hi chu hetiang lam tuimi tan hawng zel ila kan hriat in share na platform ah hmang ila ka duh.

    Sapho hi Vai hlei hlei hian an chung en in ka hre thrin. Diplomatically pawh hian developing countries hi chuan kan chung en niin ka hria.

    Mahse keimahni nih ang ang a in show ve top mai hi a fuh in ka ring, lo intih sap nel nual hi kei ka tlin meuh lo.

    Historical ani emaw ethnography and anthropological ani emaw, heng thuziak hlui awm ang ang kan ban phak hi chu in share zel ila. Ka chhiar nual tawh atrang hi chuan Zoluti an lakletna hmun hi chu a chiang lo khop mai. Winchester-a pawh kha Thingpui huan danga a leng lai thah em ni aw ka ti.

    Chutiangin khang hunlai an lal ram kha ramri la awm lo mahse an lal ram ang awm kha tunlai Map ah hian siam nise bakah Lushai Expedition te pawh kha pawl hrang hrang kalna route kha reconstruct ta ila, thrangthar zirlai tan chuan a trangkai ve khawp ang. helam hi ka interest khop mai zawk a kei misual hi chuan.

    @Pari & Epis tuipuitu tlemte hlawk-awm deuh in ni, ka lawme

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    H.Vangchhia Says:

    urat #25, A hnu maiah thi hlawm e mawle. Ka pu (kapa pa) pu leh chhawng, Lalbuanga kha Lungleng lal khawnbawl-min niin, Mizo Hindi tawng thiam hmasa bera sawi a ni. A ni kha an tawng lettu ani nghe nghe.

    Tlawng dunga an lo haw khan phai khawlum lam atangin Sikserh (malaria) an vei ta a. Anni chuan, “Kan thla an lak ten engtin nge kan dam reng ang,” tiin an lehkha pawimawh rawn hawn te leh an thlalak te kha an hal ta vek niin ka pu chuan a sawi. A hnu khan Pu Lloyd an ka pu hnenah an thlalak copy chu a pe leh a,chumi chu kan la kawl tha nghe nghe (Pu.Lloyd a khum nen).

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