Last night I was frantic.
I have two 3G accounts.The more dependable one was dead all throughout the day yesterday.The working one have this penchant of going slowly dead beginning around 10 in night.
I originally planned to publish the last night's post after 10 pm.But as I was cutting vegetable for my dinner,the idea came to me that I had no backup connectivity and if the less dependable one began its slow at around 10,I would not able to publish the post.So,I immediately stop preparing my dinner,boot the computer up and wrote the post.
I was determined to publish the post on the same day the news of the wrap up of the Indian Vice President's Lao and Cambodia visit came out.
I was so in a hurry that I left behind three important points.
1)The strategic thinkers in New Delhi have already determined that the Manipuris have very close cultural,historical and ethnic affinity with peoples of Lao and Cambodia.
2)Going there and making official statements have the full doplomatic value of directly connecting with the Manipuris.
3)So,they made a very important statement there.It's about territorial dispute.The strategic thinkers have already announced that what's happening right at the moment is a territorial dispute amongst three major ethnic groupings--Meeteis,Nagas and Kukis.These three groupings themselves should bring about a solution to the present impasse,meaning New Delhi have no role to play in the whole affair.
I would make a point by point elaboration of the above three points.
1)In our history,it was the community which we call the Pongs which made the connections for us to other South East Asian communities.There are still minorities in South Asian societies which are called the Pongs.Presently,scholars here generally agree that what we call the Pongs in the past area ctually the present Shans or the Tais.I feel that there is need for further research in equating the Pongs with the Shans or the Tais.
The Pongs are interesting because they colluded,in one crucial phase in our history,with the predecessors of the much-smeared Shantidas in the court of king Khagemba.The case in point is the idol of Vishnu in Bishnupur district.The western preachers in the king's court used the Eastern route to bring in their first idol and their Eastern collaborators are the Pongs.I think it would be really intersting to research how the Pongs became collaborators of the Westrn preachers.
In this context,it's no surprise that the present day Indian leaders went to the land of their past collaboratos to announce the war drums of their present day collaborators in the hills of Manipur.
2)Even if they don't go there and make official statements meant for us,evry single soul in the valley understand that they have energetic collaborators in the hills.
3)If there is territorial dispute,it is to be assumed that the land in question falls under the category which is generally called the 'tribal land'.The idea behind 'tribal land' is that there is a sacrosanct relation between tribals and the lands.This relationship is supposed to be so primal that any non-tribal would have no chance to understand it.
But this supposedly primal relationship between the tribal and the land is conspicous by its absence in the hills of Manipur.What the tribals there are doing there consistently is to indulge in massive deforestatioon and jhum cultivation.It is quite evident that the tribals have no love for the hills.The hills of Manipur are so considtently scarred that the tribals there are facing acute water scarcity.
The hills of Manipur,instead, have the problems of too bountiful of land and too small population.The population there is so small and scattered that it's still (in the 21st Century) not possible to run a monetised society.And,by the law of the land,the larger valley communities are forbidden to own land in the hills.
The hillmen have too much of land and the poeple from the valley are forbideden to own land in the hills.So,where is the territorial dispute?
If they have any dispute,it is the dispute with themselves.This is also true for those living in the valley.They have no connect with the land they are inhibating,in the large assisted by the generous subsidies from New Delhi.As there is abscence of real connect,no technology for more meaningful lifestyle grow up from grassroot level.No technology producing societies mean they are dying societies.The real fight amongst the three major groupings would be how to become the first society which is technology produucing.Would looking up to their histories(as the strategic thinkers in New Delhi advise) help them in achieving it? What are ways out?
I have two 3G accounts.The more dependable one was dead all throughout the day yesterday.The working one have this penchant of going slowly dead beginning around 10 in night.
I originally planned to publish the last night's post after 10 pm.But as I was cutting vegetable for my dinner,the idea came to me that I had no backup connectivity and if the less dependable one began its slow at around 10,I would not able to publish the post.So,I immediately stop preparing my dinner,boot the computer up and wrote the post.
I was determined to publish the post on the same day the news of the wrap up of the Indian Vice President's Lao and Cambodia visit came out.
I was so in a hurry that I left behind three important points.
1)The strategic thinkers in New Delhi have already determined that the Manipuris have very close cultural,historical and ethnic affinity with peoples of Lao and Cambodia.
2)Going there and making official statements have the full doplomatic value of directly connecting with the Manipuris.
3)So,they made a very important statement there.It's about territorial dispute.The strategic thinkers have already announced that what's happening right at the moment is a territorial dispute amongst three major ethnic groupings--Meeteis,Nagas and Kukis.These three groupings themselves should bring about a solution to the present impasse,meaning New Delhi have no role to play in the whole affair.
I would make a point by point elaboration of the above three points.
1)In our history,it was the community which we call the Pongs which made the connections for us to other South East Asian communities.There are still minorities in South Asian societies which are called the Pongs.Presently,scholars here generally agree that what we call the Pongs in the past area ctually the present Shans or the Tais.I feel that there is need for further research in equating the Pongs with the Shans or the Tais.
The Pongs are interesting because they colluded,in one crucial phase in our history,with the predecessors of the much-smeared Shantidas in the court of king Khagemba.The case in point is the idol of Vishnu in Bishnupur district.The western preachers in the king's court used the Eastern route to bring in their first idol and their Eastern collaborators are the Pongs.I think it would be really intersting to research how the Pongs became collaborators of the Westrn preachers.
In this context,it's no surprise that the present day Indian leaders went to the land of their past collaboratos to announce the war drums of their present day collaborators in the hills of Manipur.
2)Even if they don't go there and make official statements meant for us,evry single soul in the valley understand that they have energetic collaborators in the hills.
3)If there is territorial dispute,it is to be assumed that the land in question falls under the category which is generally called the 'tribal land'.The idea behind 'tribal land' is that there is a sacrosanct relation between tribals and the lands.This relationship is supposed to be so primal that any non-tribal would have no chance to understand it.
But this supposedly primal relationship between the tribal and the land is conspicous by its absence in the hills of Manipur.What the tribals there are doing there consistently is to indulge in massive deforestatioon and jhum cultivation.It is quite evident that the tribals have no love for the hills.The hills of Manipur are so considtently scarred that the tribals there are facing acute water scarcity.
The hills of Manipur,instead, have the problems of too bountiful of land and too small population.The population there is so small and scattered that it's still (in the 21st Century) not possible to run a monetised society.And,by the law of the land,the larger valley communities are forbidden to own land in the hills.
The hillmen have too much of land and the poeple from the valley are forbideden to own land in the hills.So,where is the territorial dispute?
If they have any dispute,it is the dispute with themselves.This is also true for those living in the valley.They have no connect with the land they are inhibating,in the large assisted by the generous subsidies from New Delhi.As there is abscence of real connect,no technology for more meaningful lifestyle grow up from grassroot level.No technology producing societies mean they are dying societies.The real fight amongst the three major groupings would be how to become the first society which is technology produucing.Would looking up to their histories(as the strategic thinkers in New Delhi advise) help them in achieving it? What are ways out?
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