Human Rights Violation is not a New Thing in Manipur But the most Important thing is the Basic Right to LIFE which is very Uncertain in Manipur, Truly Life in Manipur is like a lottery,You only have to wait for your turn.
Right Deprived and Denied by both Non- state, self elected elements and State sponsored elements
12 August 2009
Students and Politics
In the good old days, classes had a monitor each, while the school had a leader or a “prefect“perhaps a legacy of the British system of education. It was left to the class teacher to decide who would be the monitor for the whole academic year. The monitor had specific duties attached to him or her. Children used to vie with each other in getting into the good books of the teacher to be chosen as the monitor. The selection of the school prefect was the prerogative of the members of the staff who would suggest a name-noticeably that of a senior student to the head master or the principal.
The post of the student leader was a coveted one. The system used to work well, probably because of the strength of the schools was limited in those days. Nowadays schools are not few which boast of a strength of 2000 or 3000 plus. Small wonders, therefore these schools agreed to the formation of student unions with elected officials like general secretary and so on.
It is usually said that necessity is the mother of all inventions, but the school and college elections which were born out of necessity to better the conditions of the students community has on the contrary caused adverse hardships to the student themselves. Holding of elections divide the students and affects their academic career.
Such student election has over the time taken a peculiar shape of say like general election where campaigning, festoons, pamphlets and tea parties are hosted. Such student candidates spend immense money for this purpose. So when these candidates win the election, no matter how much reformation they want to enforce, they end up being corrupted to acquire back their money spent. Such elected bodies also start playing politics by getting into petty unrelated other issues and enforce the common students to boycott classes and thus losing up precious time and money.
Many incidents have come up where such unions have taken an active participation in boycotting classes, strikes, destroying public properties which not only affect the common students but also those daily-day bread earners and others on the face of just a demand. Thus shortly we can say that Students unions have taken the whole population under ransom.
There are various students from poor families whom their parents take great pain to educate so that later they can find a respectable job and support them, but such students are victimized by all such turmoil’s.
Recently a Professor, Md Islamuddin,was brutally killed inside the very campus where
he teach students for their better future, his fault being he was involved in Campus election of the university and had shown more allegiance towards a particular student’s union.
Such is the outcome of Student’s Politics in Manipur. A small state in the northeastern part of
Student’s community is divided into various unions with different ideology.
One finds AMSU,MSF,DESAM,KSO,ATSUM and so on. How useful is their presence to the society at large is hard to gauge but the harm done is immense. One can still remember the student’s unrest during the 90’s for the inclusion of Manipuri language in the sixth schedule of the Indian Constitution , the agitation was fruitful and we are bearing fruits for that BUT the channel use had open doors for others and many union’s have formed and similar protest are taking place every now and than which are far from democratic in nature.
The recent being 120 hours of general strike called by DESAM to release some of their
Leaders in police custody, Similar protest are also going on in the Hill districts calling for economic blockades in lieu of their demand. Thanks to those pioneers who gave them the way how to protest.
Student unions have somehow become a menace to the society and its high time to realize whether one has to let them loose or rein them and disciplined them properly.
Such menace is the outcome of the incapability and failure on the part of the teacher’s community to connect and guide the student’s properly.Political parties should refrain themselves from playing politics with the education system. Corruption in education should be stopped, Concept of quality education should be restored, and education should be utilized for the betterment of society.
Student unions should be made autonomous and bounded by rules of conducts. College management bodies should be enacted to look into the grievances of the common students. Discipline should bind both teachers and students.
Parents and Guardians should take notice that they send their wards to schools and colleges to study rather than playing politics. Thus only when such reformation measures are put into practice then a progressive and peaceful society can be formed and as such all should work towards that goal.
MANIPUR
10 August 2009
Fire! Fire! Everywhere
No way to escape Nowhere to hide
Oh! Thy land of mine I took pride
The lonely paradise on thy earth
But what than hath happen
All are burning in hell fire
What curse had be fallen
Your children are fighting amongst
The brothers are killing brothers
And butchering their own peoples
Savage was all who are involved
In names of religion and community
Who dared had differentiated then
Brothers from brothers
Naga’s from Kuki’s
Meitei from Pangal’s
Human from human
Thinking about themselves
Obsessed on avenging on each other
Misled by wicked thoughts
Alas! They have forgotten you
The pleasure you gave then
The richness you abound then
But what now Is everything over!
The seeds of hatred have been sown
But fear not, my motherland
Your brave sons are here
To create a miracle and retill the land
To sow seeds of love and peace
To restore you back
O land! back to paradise again.
CHINKY syndrome
One of my good Friend who was physically assaulted recently in South Delhi for being a Chinky.
“CHINKY” a term used rather in a derogatory sense generally called upon those ethnic communities from the North-eastern part of India by the so called civilized Northern plain Indians.
No matter how much we try to divide within ourselves into ethnic line as Naga,Kuki,Meitei,Mizo,Khasi,Garo,Bodo and so on But our Oriental looks and common eating habits force us into a single community of “CHINKIES”, a word used rather in a derogatory way or maybe a bitter hatred of Mainland Indians towards the CHINESE people for the aggression on their land and trying to compensate the humiliating defeat by rather down looking upon its own people who by default became part of India and have Oriental looks by nature.
Ever since India became Independent the CHINKY population of North-eastern India has been trying to adapt to the Indian way of life.
The great plain of India, the very place where civilization started in India where lord Krishna played his Mahabharata has produced many leaders and many intellectual people.
But the same acclaimed people of the great Aryan civilization who gave the world the religion of HINDUISM believed that the Oriental looking people are far inferior to them in every status of life socially, economically and morally.
Many have been exploited physically, sexually and mentally. Many Chinky girls have been raped, molested and many boys have been physically assaulted.
But the sheer determination of the Chinky Population to make a place for itself among the Mainland Indians and to be called Indians and its perseverance for it will one day become a reality.
Until than we should bear any torture and every time AHIMSA should be our ANSWER
My First Publication in TINKLE
09 August 2009
Memories of Childhood
One's Childhood is perhaps one of the best times one can ever get. It is that phase when we have all the pleasures of our life. Everything is beautiful and we get all the attentions. One cannot get that innocence and liberty of childhood any matter how must we try in the later parts of our life.
I still remember my Childhood as vividly as I can. Those undying attention and love from my Uncle’s, Aunties and near ones.
I was the apple of everyone’s eye and so much cared for.
I still remember my late grandfather. He was my icon and took great care for me. He was less a grandfather and more a guide, a friend for me on whom I relied upon.
I used to share with him all my mental jargon thoughts and he used to interpret it for me.
When I reminisce those night times when I used to piggy ride on my grandfather’s back and he used to narrate me stories under the heavenly stars, stories of Prince and princes, of fairy tales of Far Far land.
It always brings back the child in me. Today I am here and those stories has still remained somewhere in my thoughts.
I have grown, grown up to be a full man taking up all the challenges of life but still somewhere somehow that child in me has remain.
Remained to be a CHILD forever……….
MY SPECIAL FRIEND ADDIS
You know how to SHARE
You know how to CARE
You‘re very SPECIAL
For you are my Friend
You make the worst turn to best
With you around I am always at rest
With your magic charms and crazy ways
You shower seeds of love
Wherever you go you steal the show
You are grown up but still a child at heart
You are a brilliant disguise but true at heart
You are lively, you are dreamy
You are gentle, you are special
For you are my true friend.
The wisdoms you alike about
The delicacy you handle things with
The way you treat people around
No doubt you are special
You make living a pleasure
Every moment a leisure
Truly friendship is a wonderful thing
Lonely was I, sorrow was my theme
But your friendship all changed things
Taking my breath away you changed my life
Changing the winter in my life to spring.
Bringing a wish in one to live and enjoy.
Giving sweet dreams that leave all worries behind
With you around I have no tears to quell
For I know you will always be there for me
To share and care
Because you are my true friend
Truly you are my special friend ADDIS
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