Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Unrequited love

I remembered how you hold me;
In the midst of lightning and thunder.
You told me to be brave;
Brave enough to face the world.
Now I am so alone to face it.

I remembered how we used to play;
In the soft grass and the muds.
You taught me to love;
Love so divine as in the Book.
Now I am so left alone.

I remembered how you fight for me;
In the rude world of sweats.
You gave your blood for me;
The blood which I  can never repay.
Now I am left with only words.

I remembered how you used to love me;
In every possible way.
You gave me love and hope;
A hope that I will be with you.
Now all I can do is love you.

I remembered the songs we used to sing;
In the depth of our heart.
You gave me new life with your song;
A song which will be buried with me.
Now all I can sing is a lonely song.

Though we may be a world apart;
There's hope when the trumpets thundered
That I will be with you.
This is my song. This is my unrequited love.

[Dedicated to my sister, Rebec Lalzarkim, who is watching over me from above]

New Delhi
28.08.2013
02:23 am

Monday, 26 August 2013

Let the vibes be positive

  “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things 
were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was 
that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.” 
After wrapping up a day's work, I was heading home in one of those low floor DTC Bus. It was drizzling a bit. Who cares. After all, I was heading home. As usual, headphones plugged to my ears, listening to collections of 'Rainbow', I was tapping my foot to the tune of the songs, which was occasionally interrupted  by the sudden jerk of the bus. So lost in the world of Rock music, I lost track of time. My bums started showing the signs that I have been parking them in those soft-looking hard seat rather long than as usual. Checking time, I just realized that I have been sitting on the bus for almost two and half hours. Strange! I gazed through the window and there - endless lines of all sorts of automobiles. Damn! It used to take me just thirty minutes on an average day. I just knew that it was one of those 'famous' water-logging on rainy days. I moved my sleeping bums out of the bus and then make a bee-line for home. I lose two precious hours - the very precious hours in a day which I used to spend with my ever playful and loving boy. When I reached home, my boy was already feeling sleepy and in no more mood to play with me with his new skills of 'hand shake', 'high five', 'hello hello'.

It just dawn on me that in order to appreciate the true value of time, I was tested. On other days, I just took it for granted that I will leave office at 5:30 pm and reached home around 6:00 pm. This becomes a routine and makes me more of an automaton. Had there been no negative factors, how are we supposed to appreciate the positive factors. Traffic jam taught just me one good lesson which has been eluding me until now: how to appreciate things and factors surrounding and happening to us -  the positives  and the negatives. 

It's worthwhile, and possible, to learn to think more positively. Life is full of the slings and arrows that can push us to have a negative focus on things. The secret in dealing with these challenges, of which there are many, such as illness, grief, loss, pain, tragedy, is to really cherish the positive aspects of life. The dichotomy between positive and negative will always be. I truly believe that it is essential to realize that negative situations, feelings, emotions,  and experiences are sometimes the most motivational factors and opportunities life can offer you to really jump start a positive life. If you think about anyone you admire, respect, or look up to in your life, you'll find one common denominator; they used whatever negative situation they had and turned it into an opportunity to gain something, share something, or do something that enhanced their life and maybe even the lives of others. 

[This goes out to all who have been depressed, at least once, in their life. Let the vibes be positive. Life rocks!]

New Delhi.
15.08.2013









Friday, 26 July 2013

JONA le NINEVI KHAWPUI KHA - By Christopher Lalrothang Tusing.


Jona lekhabu hi ei tiemin a chanchin khawm ei hriet làr seng ring a um. Jona ei hriet inlàrna tak pakhat chu ngapuiin a dawla, ngapui sûnga ni thum le zan thum aum thu kha ani el awm. Old Testament hun a thil lo tlunghai a hrilna nisien khawm Jona hi tulai Missionary ei ti ang deu hin ringnawtu le awinawtuhai laia Pathien rawngbawltu hmasa tak a ni nghe nghe. Jona khan thutlunghlui hun lai dai khan rawngbawlna a lo tran der an tah. Chun ama hin Isu hung pieng ding kha lo hrillawk naw de sienkhawm Isu kha a thi hnunga ni thum le zàn thum hnunga a thonawk ding kha(ngapui sûnga ni thum le zàn thum a um khan) a lo inentir lawk dai chu ani tah.

Jona hi Israel lal Jeroboam hun laia lo khawsa ania. Chu umzie chu zawlnei Isai a pieng hma kum zakhat néka lo pieng hmasa tina a nih. Jeroboam zuk hril ràla, ama chanchin khawm tlawm te hang tarlang zawk ei tih. Jeroboam hi ,Efraim mi Nebat naupa, Israel lal hmasa tak a nia. Lal Solomon khan mi taima le mi hrat huoisen a ni ti a hriet leiin Josep sûnghai popo chungah hotuin a siema(1 Lal 11:28). Zawlnei Ahija chun a puon thar chu her sawm le her hnia keithlerin hmun sawm chu Jeroboam kuoma a peka, “Solomon lalram chu Pathienin la pek a ta hmu sawm chu nang a kuoma a pék ding che ani”, tiin. Chu thu chu lal Solomon chun a hriet phingleh Jeroboam chu that a tum el taa. Nisienlakhawm Jeroboam chu Aigupta ram lal Sisak kuomah chun a tlàn ta a. Lal Solomon a hung thi phing chun Juda lalram le Israel lalram tiin an hung inthre ta anih. Solomon naupa Reheboam chu Jerusalema umhmun khuorin Juda le Benjamin thlahai po chunga an lal a a dang hnam sawm po chu Israel lalram tiin Jeroboam hnuoia an um ve thung ta anih.

A sûngril ei lut tak tak hma’n Ninevi khawpui chanchin khawm hi Sura favàng lo thlîrin hang bie phuor ei tih. Ninevi hi Assyria(Suria, tu ta Modern Syria)hai khawpui pakhat a lo ni hlaka. Ninevi hi khawpuia an hmang hma chun Assur le Calah hai hi an khawpui hmasa a lo nih. Sienkhawm hun hung fe pei chun Ninevi hi khawpui takin an hung hmang ta lem anih. Assur khawpui kha Shalmaneser-I in a lo indin ania chun Calah ruok hi chu Tiglath- Pileser-I indin a ni ve thung. Ninevi khawpuia Jona’n Pathien thu a va hril lalia an lal chu Ashurnasipal-II (883-859 BC)a nih. Ninevi khawpui hi a vung thrat lai tak nia hriet chu Senecherib(707-681 BC)in lal hun lai kha a nih. Senecherib khan Capital in a hmanga kawtthlérhai le lampuihai chu a hung induong thar a, réng in(Palace)ropui tak tak a hung bawl bawk a. Hi Senecherib hi a ni Juda lal Hezekia rûn dinga nasa taka hung inthawk pa kha (2 Lal 18&19). Ninevi hi Tigris vadung saktienga ram thratna hmun le a pil hàngna hmuna um a nih. Hi khawpui rausan ta hnung hi tulaia Mosul(Modern Iraq ram a um) ep(opposite) taka um ani tiin Archaelogist hai chun an hmusuok. Hi lai hmun enthlakna sin hi Archaelogist hmingthang Claudius J Rich chun kum 1820 AD lai khan a lo tran a. Senecherib lal In( Palace) hai khawm chu (1845-51 AD) lai khan cho dawk/ hmusuokin a hung um ta pei a nih. Chu hnung 1854 khan Felix Jones chun an thil hmuhai le a khawpui umdan hai chu lekhabua siemin a hung insuo ta a. Ninevi khawpui ropui em em el,a sunga mi 1,20,000 néka tam chéngna(Jona 4:11), tungding nawk ta ngai lo dingin a la chim ding thu chu zawlnei Nahum chun kum 612 BC lai bawr khan a lo hrillawk ta hrim nih.

Awleh,Jona mimal nun a’nthawkin ei ni ringtu hai hin thil inchûk ding pahni ei nei a. Chuonghai chu: Dawnna innem le chier- in-thluok el lo ding. Jona ang bawk hin ei ni ringtu inti hai khawm hin Pathiena inthawkin kona chi dang dang le mawphurna(duty) chi hran hran ei nei seng ti chu inphat ruol an nawh. Kona vawikhatna a chu inphatsanin inbîksan ei tum hlak chàng khawm um ngei a tih. Mihriem mitlawng le ngairuotna chun Pathien thiltum hai chu ei zuk hriet el thei ngai bawk si nawh. Hiengang thil leiin inbîksan tumin zamsan tum inla khawm Pathien chun a mi hmangaiin a mi dit tlat lei hin hun remchang(chance)ami la pék nawk pei hlak a nih. Jona ang hin Second chance tuifawn anga bawzui nghal hlak inla chu mani mimal, insûng, khawtlang le mi dang tam tak tadingin damna intlun rawp hlak ei tih. Pathien chun ‘Forever chance’ ami pek naw ding ani ti hi hrie chieng thar nawk inla nuom a um. Ei hriet naw lei chau hin ei hun thra tam tak, tha-le-zung le tangka sum tam tak ei khawral lem hlak a nih. Chuonghai bàka a khawm chun mi tam tak chun thlàn khur thim an lo bél ta hrim a nih. Vawisun hin ‘chance’ dang ei la nghak nawk pei ding am ani?

Pathien thil tum neia amin thawtir chàng hin ei mimal/sungkuo/khawtlang hlawkna el hi ei lo buoipui nuom fu khawp el. Hiieng ang huna hin Pathien khawm hrietthiem harsa ei ti hlak bawk. Amiruok-el-chu Pathien chun mihriem hai hi ama kut suok ngei ani leiin a hmangai an boral el ding chu a phal bîk chai naw ani awm.

Ninevi le Hmar nauhai
A chunga ei hril ta ang khan Ninevi khawpui chu Jona zàrin kum zakhat awr chu Pathien lungsenna a’nthawkin an hima. Amiruokchu thrang thar hai lai an zierang a hung inlang tran nawk ta phing chun an khawpui chu tungding nawk ta ngai lo dinga rûnin a um ta anih. Eini Hmar nauhai khawm hi kum zakhat Kristien ei hang ni ve dék déka suolna ieng iengin am ei hma a suon ti chu a hrilthei ei um nawh. Setan Kohran biek pawl, mani hmasielna, pawl le pawl inti bingna le inlàk hranna, duamna,inpawng nékna, zelthelna, ladd hai hin mi chénchil lo am ani? — 

Thursday, 25 July 2013

Jacob Shakum: How I met Mr. Einstein!

Jacob Shakum: How I met Mr. Einstein!: This evening, while I was commuting for home in one of those chartered buses (previously known as the infamous ‘Blue Line’), a not so old,...

How I met Mr. Einstein!

This evening, while I was commuting for home in one of those chartered buses (previously known as the infamous ‘Blue Line’), a not so old, but fragile, dirty to the dust, boarded the bus. The seats were full and this man had boarded the bus with his ‘tools’ in hands and a carry-bag which probably might have contained his accessories for his profession. Man, most of us commuting in those buses are employees of the Central Government. This man, whom I had already named him ‘Einstein’ (he had white, rather almost white, beard and mustache), was looking for a seat. There was one which was vacant in between those two medium build passengers (a seat for three). I wondered how people, maybe not all, could be so uncivilized to deny him of his right-as a passenger, to be seated in that vacant seat! How un-human! What discrimination!

Who knows what odd jobs he could have done during the day, under the ‘Humidity’ of Delhi?   I, as my co-passengers, was much better privileged than Mr. Einstein! So, why not let him have those small luxuries that he could have, even if it’s for a few minutes. Take it this way – being given a table and a seat, it is not appropriate for you to stand the whole day. On the other hand, Mr. Einstein might have stand the whole working hours doing his job. As I have deducted, on the basis of his tools at hand and appearances, he cannot be a ‘foreman’, nor can he be a manager.


I could take it no more – “Uncle, you can take my seat (of course in Hindi!)” What do I lose? Nothing! I didn't say that I am being more civilized than those. Maybe equality, as enshrined in the Constitution, was for those who want to implement it and fight for its cause. For the rest, it’s just a written document. 

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Pasietna hin mihriem mitak in a siem.

              "Cindrella Man", Russell Crowe lem changna kha hmasak kha titak tawk in ka en nawn nawk a. A mi hne in ka lungril a them khop el. Ama hin Jim J. Braddock, Pugilist, lem an chang a nih. Harsatna hin mihriem hih tumruona hi a lo pek thei zie le a keiding thei zie a min hriet tir chu tie. 'Adversity makes a man' ti hih a pawm ve tu ka nih. Pasietna hin tumruona, tuorselna hai a pek ve thei zie, ka hriet ta sa nisien khom ka zuk hriet thar zuol chu tie.  Jim J. Braddock hih an tlasie hun lai tak tak khan chuh, 'The Great Depression' hun lai lo ni bawk leh, kut hai chen lo daw ta a nih.  A retire ta hnung chun thrang a la hung lak thra a, mi hai chawmna zar chun, sawt naw  te a chun World Heavyweight Boxing champion title a hung lak ta der el. 

               Thil ramtin ka zuk ngaituo dawk kir chu tie. Kan School kai lai hun dam, college kai lai chen khom. Mi School uniform hlui kan hak lai dam, mi lekha bu hlui po kan huoi khawm lai dam. Keini tawk a ding chun khalai hun le tuta kan ngir na hih an thlau ta hle. School chawl ding khawm ei hawphur ngawi ngawi el hlak a ni kha, a san chuh chawl a ni chun Kangzam tlang kha nikhat a hin voihnih kan kai hlak a nih, thing phur ah, leipui enkai malam leh. Pathien mi thuoi na hih a ropui in an sang a nih. Harsatna kan i sir popo chuh zuk in zawt el seng an nawh.Inzak um tieng khawm a um chu tie. 

               Ka zuk hril nuom tak chuh eini tlangram mi hai hih va hosa he hu ei um tawl naw a, harsa triet tret a inchuk tawl dam ei nih (a lo thaw thei deu, sum tienga panga chuh um tho ei ta). Khalaizing khan 'tum (goal)' nei hih a thra. Tum nei in sang hih a poina a um thrak nawh, ka lo hmu ve dan. Anachuh, khalai khan tum i nei si chun a 'driving force' kha battery ang deuin i suk bit map a ngai a nih. Mani suk na hmun hriet a thrang khom nasatak a lak ding. Ei tum an sang phawt chun ei lo tla pal a ni khom a, ei tla inhnuoi bek bek chuh ka ring chuong nawh.  Ei nu le pa hai in thlasaphul kai rak a an mi lo chawmna hih thlawn naw sien, an hrat naw hun ah a sawmdawltu ei thei na dingin thrang hih hang la thar nawk tak tak in la. Insuong a hung changkang chun, Hnam khom i hung suk chnagkang pei a ni ti kha hriet sa mawl ding.

             Mi pasie bek bek lo, sum tienga ngaituo um lo hai hman in tum in sang tak tak nei in an hung dingsuok a, chu lai ah eini pasie tret trawt hai hin iem ei tum ei zuk suk sang naw na ding san? Pasietna hih negative tienga lak lo ding, positive deu a lak a, tumruona, tuorselna, taimakna mi pe tu a lak lem ding. Forum pakhat a ka tiem chuh, 'Adversity' hmanga essay ziek ding an ti a, a ma nu hin ka hringnun a hin 'Adversity' hih ka la tawng naw leiin harsa ka ti em a ka ziek thei naw a nih a ti chuh! Pasietna hih vangneina pakhat ve angin ka ngai, tumruona, tuorselna mi pe tu a ni chun.

                  Victor Hugo chun 'Adversity makes a men,  and prosperity makes a monster' a ti a. A film bawk zuk hril nawk in la. 'The Devi's Double', Saddam Hussein a naupa chanchin an in changna a khan ei zuk hmu a. Power, money kha a ma ta ang el a a ngai lei khan, mihriem pangngai hai umdan ding lo ang top in a um. Pasietna a inthawk a hung seilien nisien chuh khang lawm lawm khan a mizie khom kha a um ka ring nawh. Chuleiin, pasietna hih inzapui ding nilo, a mi siem tu le tumruona, sel-na mi petu a lak hlak ding.

                   Hlawtlingna hai, insang-na hai, thunei theina ngirhmun ah ei um ta lo nisien khom, ei suok na kha theinghil lo a, mani ngirhmun in ang pui hai kha sawmdawl a, thrang lak pui lem hlak hih thil thra tak a nih. Hienga ei thaw seng chun, ei hnam chawiding tu la hung ni rawp ei tih. Chulai zinga chun a mi siem tu Pathien kha inza tak pum leh tri dek pum a thrang lak ding. 

 [Ka ziek tum tak a suok thra thei naw ngei. Zani mi pakhat leh kan in biekna ah a chanchin a hung hril a, ka zuk ngaituo em a ka zuk ziek lang a nih thiem naw sa sa in. Lo hun el raw seh. Main idea chuh an lang phak tho met in ka hriet. Ei Hmar trawng ziek inchuk lai mek ka ni ve leiin sukdikna chuh ka pawm ran a ni aw.]

Monday, 1 July 2013

Jacob Shakum: WHERE IS THE LOVE? (Not of BEPs)!

Jacob Shakum: WHERE IS THE LOVE? (Not of BEPs)!:         I see people being raped and molested, innocent kids being raped, unaware people being robbed at gun-point, cars being jacked, h...