ANGELS & DEMONS

By : Ar. qoob Tungnung
E-mail: ar.zomi@gmail.com

“There's an Angel and a Demon, Light & Darkness, Good and Evil in every one of us”.

Guess what unfailingly perturbs me and consistently annoys me the most about this inconsequential happenings in & around us, besides the facts rolling out before our eyes. Every now and then we like to think that this is a random world with no consequences, no hand of faith or no hand of God presiding our day to day life. If the roof above my head suddenly falls on my head and kill me, “It will be just a matter of time and circumstances and an Unfortunate Coincidence”.

Maharashtra police failed to take action on four Naga students attackers

18 July 2009
New Delhi, July 17, 2009: Maharashtra Police has failed to nap the culprits of four Naga students who were attacked in Pune last month. Help is sought from State Governor. National capital continue to witness racial attack on North East communities. According to the source reaching to North East Support Centre & Helpline from the President of Naga Students Union, (NSUP) Pune, told that Police has not taken any steps to nap the culprits nor contacted the victims. “The victims and the north east communities have no hopes left after police failed to perform their duties,” says, the President of NSUP.

South Asia Monitor – India Is Racist Too

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

14 July 2009

Tuesday, July 14, 2009: It has been long known that India has its own brand of racism, and what is worse, there are many kinds of it. But they were largely kept away from the world. However, it needed the gutsy Chief Minister of India’s north-eastern State of Mizoram, Pu Lalthanhawla, to dramatically expose the malaise in an international forum. ‘‘I am a victim of racism,’’ he told a recent seminar on water in Singapore, leaving his fellow delegates red-faced. ‘‘In India, people ask me if I am an Indian. When I go to south (India), people ask me such questions. They ask me if I am from Nepal or elsewhere. They forget that the northeast is part of India.”

Demand to Repeal AFSPA : IMA to take protest to Delhi

Demand to Repeal AFSPA
IMA to take protest to Delhi

Newmai News Network
Imphal, Jul 11: While cautioning the Government of India to repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA) from Mani-pur and the North East region, International Mothers Association has resolved to undergo indefinite silent sit-in-protest at Rajpat Gate, Delhi from the last week of November this year.

A press conference was held at Imphal Press Club, Imphal on Saturday in this regard.

Mizo CM sticks to his stand on racism remarks

Aizawl, July 10 (PTI) Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today said that he stood ‘firm’ on the remarks on racism he recently made at the International Water Resource Week in Singapore. “If someone distorted and misreported my remarks, it is upto them to do so in order to defame and malign me, but I stand firm on what I said,” Thanhawla said in an official statement. The Chief Minister said that his remarks on racism had positive reaction in the country.

“I am extremely happy that our leaders here supported my statement.”

Are Northeast citizens victims of Racism in India?

11 July 2009

Morungexpress opinion poll

Some of those who voted yes had this to say:
• All I want is to let some of these local Goons and self made Bosses in Kohima and Dimapur to land up in Bihar and get bash up by these Coolies and Miyas they bully around here.

Over 300 pigs die in Mizoram, officials rule out H1N1 scare

10 Jul 2009, 1745 hrs IST, PTI

AIZAWL: More than 300 pigs have died reportedly of swine fever in south Mizoram's Lunglei and Saiha districts over the last week, even as health
officials sought to allay fears of people, saying the disease was different from the dreaded H1N1 flu.

At least 177 pigs died in Buknuam and neighbouring villages in Lunglei district, while over 150 died at Laki village in Saiha district along Mizoram-Myanmar border, official sources said in Aizawl on Friday.

Medical officers from Saiha, who visited Laki to conduct a spot verification, said the pigs died due to the prevailing "swine fever and not the dreaded H1N1 swine flu."

Why Delhi is an NE nightmare

9 Jul 2009, 2322 hrs IST, TNN

NEW DELHI: Mizoram chief minister Pu Lalthanwala was not so off the mark after all. From being called `chinkies' to being propositioned by just about anybody to being refused a place to stay for their `loose morals' it is Delhi's worst-kept secret that people from the northeast (NE) are subject to all this and more in the country's capital which prides itself on its cosmopolitanism. A two-year study by the North East Support Centre and Helpline has now confirmed that 86% of people from the NE face racial discrimination in Delhi.

Basic Instincts

- Ar. qoob Tungnung, Delhi

“Our (Human) basic Instincts are very similar to those of Animal Instincts”. When a Hound dog, a Wolf or for that matter a Tiger smells Blood, it readies itself for the kill and strikes with deathly accuracy.

Misery, Pain, Misfortunes, etc attracts humans like a carcass in the desert attracts vultures and other scavengers. Facts are stranger than Fiction. For instances ;
1. Prostitution ; one of the oldest professions on earth is supposedly one of the best revenue earners to the Govt. in Prague City or for the matter Amsterdam, Holland.

Ragailong blast victims left in the lurch

IMPHAL, Jul 4: Out of 18 persons who lost their lives in the Ragailong bomb blast last year, the family mem-bers of eight victims have not received any compen-sation from the side of the State or the Central Govern-ment while from among the injured only 16 have been compensated by the State Government.

In all 18 persons lost their lives while 38 others sus-tained injuries in the power- ful bomb blast that took place near Ragailong Vil-lage gate at around 7.30 pm on October 25 last year.

Minister’s comments irks CCpur body

S Singlianmang Guite

Lamka, Jul 4: Dejected over the statement made on the floor of the House yes-terday by Works Minister K Ranjit regarding the status of Guite Road, Churachandpur District Students’ Union (CDSU) today expressed surprise by terming the statement as ‘irresponsible.’

The union took strong exception to ‘the irresponsible statement made by the Works Minister K Ranjit on the floor of the Assembly for allegedly pretending to being unaware of the handing over of Guite Road to BRO which had already been discussed and appro-ved by the Cabinet at CM’s chamber on September 2, 2006 at 4 pm with Chief Minister himself in the chair,’ said a statement issued by the union.