Out of nowhere,'Lamyanba' comes to my mind.

Five bricklayers are erecting walls of my newly constructed house.I'm having full times in fulfilling their demands.This morning they wanted brush with iron bristle to clean the old surfaces of the walls.I went out and bought it.As I was returning,I thought of buying some bakery products as their refreshment in the afternoon.That would save me another trip to the bakery store.But I decided against that because I wanted to give them fresh arrival of today,which usually arrive at around noon.

I have already noticed that the stores were opening half-shuttered.I thought that they be fully opened by the time I went out again.

When I went out just after noon,I found all the stores completely shut!Something in the air told me there is vast change in the public's mood.

I had my dinner after giving tea to the bricklayers.Without even cleaning up my hands,I was just sitting there pondering over the present situation in Manipur.

Then,suddenly,out of nowhere,'Lamyamba' comes to my mind.The narrative that Tripuris have already been swamped by the outsiders and that same fate is awaiting us,Manipuri is the gift of 'Lamyamba' to the Manipuri Society.I'm talking about events decades back and 'Lamyanba',a Manipuri monthly was totally phenomenal.

I was still school-going at that time.I,with some my benchmates were thrilled by 'Lamyanba'.One particular story about Chanu Rose had a lasting impact on my psyche.I still clearly remember the power of that prose which told us the merciless story of the rape of a Tangkhul girl,Rose, by the high officer of the Indian army.That prose was mind-blowing.The Chanu Rose story was occassional.But the main plank of the 'Lamyanba' is,all throughout its life, that we are beinmg swamped by the large numbers of outsiders.

Still,we were the minority then.Anybody seen with a copy of 'Lamyanba' was viewed with suspicious glances.'Well-meaning' and 'conformist' sections of the society were reigning.

But,on this 20th of July,2015 I firmly believe that we are finally in the majority.The story of 'Lamyanba',so powerfully told decades back.have now percolated down to every stratum of the Manipuri society.As I am typing this post right now,the streets of Manipur are in upheaval.

The only voice of the 'well-meaning' and 'conformist' sections we heard today,on this 20th July 2015,is that of the good old souls of school teachers,who want to open their school.We know that their concerns for the academic calendars of the students are understandable.But the events unfolding right at the moment decisicely silence their well-meaning voice.

So,what's the road ahead?

1)All the societies south of Vindhya have the same feeling as the Manipuri society.They have the unbearable burden of the continous influx of 'North Indians'.Any Bill coming out of Manipur that have the minimal chance of regulating migrant workers(Noth Indian to them) would be so keenly studied by all these societies.In that sense,any Bill from Manipur would have the effect of opening up of the proverbial Pandora's Box for the Indian State.So,any Bill passed by the Manipur State Assembly have the zero chance of getting assent either from the Governor or the President of India.

2)The story of the face of the resurgent Indian nationalism--Mr Narendra Modi.Everywhere he goes,he has exhibited this unconcealed glee of finding such large number of Indian Diaspora.To them,they are the Diapora but to us,they are the 'influx' that is swamping us.A very powerful section within the Indian society,personafied by Mr Narendra Modi,is celebrating (so,encouraging) this 'influx'.Besides the technicalities of the Constitution of the Indian Union,this powerful section within the Indian society would never let any Bill out of Manipur see the light of the day.

So,we are heading for a clash.

I think this would be an epochal clash.

The penultimate month

The NATO is going for a month long military exercise ending on the 3rd of November 2015.It's the biggest since 2002,involving 36,000 soldiers.It sure breaks a pattern in that it's happening after more than a decade.

We should note that the NATO is the military face of the West.

While the West is beating the war drums,its ally,India is,in a 'peaceful' mode, showing us where the actual battleground would be.New Delhi is hosting the Joint Co-ordination Council meeting with Burma.

November also hosts one of the biggest festivals of Manipur.It began as an ethnic specific festival.But,in due of course of time,almost all the ethnic groups of Manipur emotionally embrace it.It serves as one the newest symbols of ethnic friendship of the state of Manipur.

The festival shows off one of its grandest faces in the border town of Moreh.A large numbers of revellers from different parts of Manipur would start arriving there for the festival.The border town would be in its festive best.

If anybody,reveller or otherwise,goes as far as Moreh,he won't return home without visiting the Burmese town of Tamu.

Tamu is the catchword.

The exact spot of the battleground inside Burma would be Tamu.

Right now,all the indications points to the possibility of a 'battleground Tamu' during the above festival.

Amonsgt the hordes of revellers arriving in Moreh for the festival,there might be a few select special operations soldiers from the Indian Army.All of them would be Manipur residents,carrying indenity proofs,like voter identity cards.They would easily mingle with the crowd.As usual practice,they would travel to Tamu.

In Tamu there would be agents who would supply them the required arms and explosive.As the winter is setting in they would be in an assortment of clothings that would facilitate the concealment of the arms and ammunitions.

I think they would attempt an attack at a single base camp of Manipuri rebels in Tamu.They would attempt a surprsie and surgical strike at the particular camp.

It's a common public knowledge in Manipur that its rebels are camping in Tamu area.Besides that,the Indian military itself acknowledge,during the 'trial balloon' of the cross border raid last month,that the rear section s of the various base camps of the rebels fall in the area of Tamu.Only a few days back,India's home minister in Guwahati told an important meeting that 10 kms wide area from the border is being ruled by the rebels,hinting at the existence of the rebel camps.

They are planning to convert the festival serving as the newest symbol of ethnic friendship into a bloodshed day.

I wish I was wrong.

Life under curfew is dreary and I'm almost forcing myself to note down the following events:

1) Today,India's Prime Minister is in Turkmenistan.

2) Today,we read about the FBI director meeting reporters at the Agency headquarters.It was really unusual in that the director was uncharacterictically docile.That can be taken as a cue to look for meaning of the unspoken words of the director.The meeting with the reporters was to hint at the oppressed and exploited constituent within the American society,which,for purely tactical reason,had to briefly don the garb of White supremist(my next to last post).

3)Today also,we read about the official taking down of the Confederate flag from South Carolina's Legislature complex,which also hinted at the above constitutuent.

If we re-read the first point together with the second and the third points,it surely takes an altogether deeper meanings.The Uighurs in China's Xinjiang want to call their homeland as East Turkmenistan and to have it secceeded from China.

Now,what particular meaning can we deduct if we read together all the above three events?

The answer:They are retaliating!

For someone living in Imphal it's clear that the only episode for which a retaliatory action has been overdue is the 4th of June ambush in Chandel!!

So,here we are.The US and India are jointly planning a retaliatory move to the 4th of June ambush in Chandel district of Manipur.But,what's the big deal in finding out this meaning? It's fairly a commonplace knowledge to understand that Laukkaing was answered in Chandel and now,it's India's turn to answer to Chandel.

Well,the saddest part is that they are making us to specifically find out this answer on an eleventh of July.On the fateful 11th of July 1995,in Srebenica,Serbs fighters massacred 7000 Muslims.

This shows us that the joint India-US answer to Chandel is most likely to have a component of engineering an ethnic bloodbath inside the territory of Manipur.

I wish I was wrong.

A military strategy report and a riddle.

The US has released the 'National Military Strategy' report 2015.

The report said that the chances of war with a state is 'low but growing'.

To see how the US is sizing up the other nations,I'll quote the following from page 9 of the report:

"We will strengthen our alliances with Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines,and Thailand. We also will deepen our security relationship with India and build upon ourpartnerships with New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh."

It's significant that India is being dealt as a stand-alone case.

Pakistan is being clubbed with the nations of the Middle East.It's a surprise.See the following quote from the same page.

"In the Middle East, we remain fully committed to Israel’s security and Qualitative Military Edge. We also are helping other vital partners in that region increase their defenses,including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, and Pakistan."

Of course,they are all for the guaranteeing of Israel's security.As someone observing it from an obscure place like Imphal,it's maddeningly confusing to see why the US is so intent to guarantee the security of Israel in defiance of the vast majority of the nations of the Middle East.Is it because the West(which includes the US) borrows a 'story' from Israel?(The Bible,essentially,is an Israeli folk tale).Are they in a perennial payback mode?

As expected,China is being sized up as the main rival.

Having observed all these feature,what makes this year's report stand out is yet to be mentioned.To my mind,it's all to do with the deployment of the term 'Revisionist States".I'ts remakable that the term occurs only once in the whole of the 17 page report.And,there is absolutely no effort to explain it from the context of Pentagons's scheme of things.It's more like the State Department speaking through the Pentagon.

I bet they are putting the term into the report as some kind of a riddle,nay,an Oriental riddle!So far,we come to know of the existence of the battleline and make the discovery of the one constituent within the US society(my last post) in as fine  and as mysterious ways as one negotiates an Oriental riddle.So,the US is saying--'A riddle for a riddle'!

I also think they are using the term 'revisionist states' in the context of the Cold War.It was the decisive defeat of the CPSU and the Soviet Union.In that sense,the entities like the Communist Party of China(CPC) are anachronisms themselves in today's world.

But they are missing out on one simple but important point.CPC embraced pragmatism on line with the famous dictum--"It does not matter whether the cat is balck or white as long as it catches mice".So, the CPC is comfortably co-habiting with ever increasing nunbers of billionaires.This also means the Chinese society,under the leadership of CPC,is also begining to produce world-class corporations and brands.

Now,it's the turn of the US(the victor of the Cold War) to embrace pragmatism to make the lives of the 99% of the population easier.It's the matter of straight forward existential fact that 1% of the US population has amassed more wealth than the remaining 99% and it's getting richer by the day.The remaining 99% is facing more and more problem in keeping intact its present standard of living.

Everybody knows that they have high ideals like universal franchise,freedom of speech,human rights protection etc.But 99% of the population needs much more than these high ideals.The sheer conditions of human living demand that the 99% is more focused on the bread and butter business.It will be really heartwarming if the 99% have practical access to the opportunities to their bread and butter business while still living in a society which have those high ideals.It's really unfortunate to see that the movements like the 'occupy Wall Street' seem to hint that this 'heartwarming scenario' is indeed facing problems.It's in such a crucial time that the world is watching how the US would embrace pragmatism(like the CPC) to make sure the 'heartwarming scenario' is indeed possible and sustainable within the geographical boundary of the US.

If they take it too long to do so,the 99% would start openly saying that the CPC is much more pragmatic.

The full copy of the report is here.

Two constituents--Discovered at the same time, in two different continents.

This morning,I stumbled upon this Twitter thread(#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches). Initially,it disturbed me greatly because it all began on the 23rd of June 15,just a day after my last post.Is this just a case of mere coincidence?

As I sat,after publishing my last post,in front of my computer,a thought started to creep into my head.Is there an 'anti-Pakhangba constituent' within our society?Here,I would like to remind myself that I talked,in my last post, about Poireiton being 'anti-Pakhangba'.

The thought came into my mind ,lingered there some minutes and,then,went away.Then,I carried on with my normal chores of daily grind.

But,after some days,it came back to my mind again.For the last sevreal days now,I have been literally playing hide and seek with the thought.

But,this morning,some sort of eureka moment happened to me.I was reading the Twitter thread.Naturally,many questions came up.Why did the church shooting in South Carolina happen on the 18th of June(my last post)?Now,why did the church burning spree suddenly started just one day after my last post?The questions greatly disturbed me.But,as it was,I moved on to the news of the Indonesian military plane crash,killing more than 140 people.

Indonesia? Something flashed in my mind.It's the only South East Asian nation which brought,some months back,its special operations soldiers to Vairengte military facility in Mizoram,for joint exercise with its Indian counterpart.

Immediately,that forms a pattern spanning two continents.

My mind was stunned by this dramatic quetion--

Does the USA have a constituent within its society which is willing to fight for a system more akin to the Chinese form of governance?

Immediately,the imageries of the 'occupy Wall Street' agitations flashed back in my mind.Those agitations might have been the first manisfestation of this constituent within the US society.

But,now,why should it smeared itself with the taints ofchurch mayhems,which are clearly related with White Supremism?

The answer lies in the rise of the Hindu Spuremism in our part of the world.The constituent within the US wants to highligh to the world ever-louder war drums of the Hindu Supremism and Nazism.Why?It should be easy to note that it would face hard times to make itself grown up into something capable of tilting the scale in its favor,given that it has to work under constant surveilance of super-efficient agencies,like the FBI and NSA.So,it would need all the help from outside.

Would that help be forthcoming depends upon the outcome of the fight against Hindu Supremism and Nazism here in our part of the world.

Now,coming to my point,the stunning discovery of this constituent within the US society have propelled me towards the confirmation of the more or less equally dramatic thought lingering in my mind for the last several days--Yes!We do have the 'anti-Pakhangba constituent' within our society.It's a very vibrant constituent,right at the moment.

I'm super-excited at the discovery of this new and surprising constituent within our own society.From my college days,I've been tormented with these questions--

1)Why should we have such a large numbers of organizations with the same aims and objectives?

2)Why should any promising organization gets itself splitted into several factions so regualrly?

Now,with the discovery of the 'anti-Pakhangba constituent' within our society,these questions which have been tormenting me for such a long time, might be answered so beautifully.

The sizable numbers of the activists and volunteers grow up nurtuerd by this 'anti-Pakhangba constituent'.When they join any organization(be it political,social or whatever) they would silently sabotage any move or program which has the promises to blossom into something useful.Those silent acts of sabotage would grow up into full-scale splits of the parent organization into several factions.