In tactical retreat.

 Again,on that particular social media platform.

Our Heingang personality(my last post) came out--making sure that all the three keywords,namely,"heingang","masked-gunmen" and "an editor" were put into full display to everyone who is curious enough to look out for them.

And the most important thing--the date.

It was the 30th Dec 2020--that is,just one day short of our deadline(my last post).

Again,we need to decode the body language of our Heingang personality--our Heingang personality was mocking.

At what?

Of course,at the way the three rebel groups are fleeing the deadline.

The three rebel groups who initiated the attempted covert attack have fled--abandoning the the self-proclaimed deadline,that is,the 31st December 2020.

I don't particularly like the idea of anybody making mockery of any person or a group.That's in the bad taste.

But,if we go further into the fine-grain evaluation of the whole process,we detected that equally venomous reaction to the mockery--that too,is in the realm of bad taste.

Our Heingang personality's mockery was immediately retaliated with downright obscene comments--this is the first time,as far as I know,our Heingang personality ever received bad comments,let alone,downright obscene ones.

And.I also suspect that those comments of yesterday,obscene as they were, were purposely added,apparently with cold calculation.

What might be that cold calculation aimed at?

I think that they are intent to put forward the narrative that they were not fleeing-- instead,they are on a tactical retreating mode.

OK,they are on tactical retreat.

But,for this blogger,this is totally anti-climatic.

Nevertheless,this blogger will on the look out for any development in the future and publish post discussing them.It is not for any trifle that this blogger spend two to three hours daily in reading up news and trying to detect trends!

Well,that's a lame joke of mine! Today is the last day of the year 2020 and everybody can tolerate a rare joke from a blogger,howsoever, lame that might be!!

Now,on a personal note--I definitely love reading news--spending long hours in front of my computer.I discover that I enjoy reading.And,I DO NOT try to find trends particularly.It's just the part of the whole process--as I keep reading news,trends simply pop up,in front of my eyes,all by themselves.

Then,how did I miss the news that Netflix had two two-days stream-fest last month--on those two days it allowed any Indian to view any videos in its collection for free?

One reason might be that I'm a little wary Netflix.How do one go about in his/her normal life trying to connect with such a vast collection of videos?For one things,video demands huge allocation of one's time.Can anybody reasonably find the time for sites,like Netflix.

Netflix is also bad for climate change.If anybody is serious about cutting down one's carbon footprint,he/she should not subscribe to Netflix.

Let me come to my point--I came to know of the stream-fest from a site called 'Ukhrultimes'.I keep a tab opened for the site as I want myself updated for any happening in Ukhrul.Netflix and Ukhrul--what a connection!If I did not come across the site from a social media platform on that last of the fest,I would not have the chance to log into Netflix!!

I promptly logged into Netflix--for the fest,the log in was kept extremely simple.I instantly felt how competitive a corporation Netflix might be.Only a few hours later I felt vindicated--I received an sms in my phone thanking for my first visit to their site--judging by the timestamp of the sms it seemed to come all the way from their headquarters in California.

I watched a wonderful documentary--"Human Nature".

The slick documentary makes it easy for us laymen to understand what CRISPR is.

Without CRISPR,it is impossible to usher into messenger RNA technology.It's the tech behind the BioNtech covid 19 vaccine,currently in use in the UK and the US.

It's interesting to note that bioNtech is a tiny company(almost a startup) run by a husband and wife team,who are Turkish immigrant to Germany.An Islamic couple coming to the rescue of blindly Islamophobic West!

What is most interesting is that bioNtech has been testing the mRNA tech to cancer and HIV patients--with encouraging initial findings.

Now,we must say Ukhrul,Netflix,CRISPR and mRNA--what a connection!

The moral of the story--one should not fail to listen to the small (and apparently less significant,by size or whatsoever) ingredients in a whole process.

That leads me to remember (late) Andy Gove--the past CEO of Intel Corp.

What's there in this chaotic world more fitting way than to end this year with the words of Andy Gove?

Please give me the permission to use all CAPS--

ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE.

Yet another set,this time, inside their mountain-top "homes"?

 Some of the gems I had found out in the media during the last few days.

1) A well-known person from the Heinganag Assembly constituency came out(on one of the social media accounts of that person,which,by the ways,happens to have a substantial followers) with a curious video clip--curious in the sense the video clip shows that person standing on a mountain top at this time of the season!

I had a chance to feel how the weather is beating down on the residents of the towns of the mountain ranges of Manipur--it was snowing there.The video was by a random youtuber;at first sight,I thought it might be somewhere in Korea.Only when the youtuber started to speak I came to realize the scene belongs to some mountain-top towns of Manipur,In that cell phone video I could easily see the snows coming down relentlessly--I thought how cold it might be there.

In such a weather,that Heingang personality did not stand on just a simple mountain top--that particular mountain top looks down on a several rows of velvety mountain tops.Highest mountain top of that particular geographical area!!

Now,what's makes us asking  a lot of questions after seeing this particular video clip?

The video clip comes out just in right time--just two days after I published my last post.

In my last post,we discussed about the keywords-- "Heingang", "masked gunmen" and "an editor".

2) The next morning itself saw another curious development.

On the Imphal station of AIR,in that morning programme, it seemed that they cherry picked a documentary that's a lot to do with Himalaya and its off-shoots--Manipur's mountain ranges.

3) Then came "Mann ki Baat".

At the fag end of the last episode of the year 2020,there was a still another curious end game--Himalaya and pollution. (Did they anticipate some actions along the Ladakh sector?)

Only about 14 hours later,the dogs began barking.

Last night,I was woken up by a bursting desire to pee.I struggled to come out of my bed--it was so cold!

As I was struggling to get off the warmth of my bed,it slowly registered on my senses the feverish barking of dogs.Several dogs barking at the same time-- a sure sign that a particular stirring had drawn the attention of several dogs at the same time.That means the stirring did not come out of someone moving around stealthily.It should mean that several people moving around openly.

That was the stream of thought coming to my mind,the body of which was still snuggled beneath the thick layers of woolen blankets!

Finally,I managed to came off the bed.

As I was coming out of the toilet,the intensity of dogs' barking grew stronger.That made me cursed myself--how I woke up after getting only a few hours of sleep--it must not  even be midnight.

I was about to literally jump into my bed.But the ever growing intensity dogs' barking steered me to the next room where I put all my phones(no phones in my bed--I want to minimize the incidence of cell phone radio waves on my body,especially,my head).I picked up one of them-- to my surprise,it was 1.30 am.

1.30 in this freezing winter morning and several people moving around openly?

This thought made me sleepless.

Then,unconsciously,my mind began to connect the dots.

Keishampat area abounds in students hostels.

It is an open secret that some people are building glittering students hostels making sensible onlookers wondering where the money comes from.Simples cases of disproportionate assets.

A sudden thoughts came flooding into my minds.

What if the three actors whom I mentioned in my last post sank in huge money in building some of these student hostels?As these students hostels run kitchens for the students staying in their rooms,there must be a steady coming in  and going out of goods vehicles.That can happen even in the odd hours without attracting anybody's attention.

This sounds like a perfect front for a rebel groups's logistic operation.

Now,let's build up a scenario.

Let's assume that another set of rebel leaders,sheltering on mountain top bases,were taken down.As the battle field is on a remote mountain top there is no need to use precision weapons.We can theorize that the particular rebel group,whose leader returned "home" on  a particular 28th day,deploy blunt weapons attempting large scale targets.(We should note here the latest retaliatory attack happened on the early hours of the 28th December 2020),

This scenario could only mean that there would be several deaths and many more who are severely injured.

This makes us to connect to the feverish dogs barking at 1.30 am in my neighbourhood.

That could mean that one of the three rebel groups might have activated their secret logistic centres kept hidden inside a students hostel.They might be in an emergency mode.In the chilly mountain tops those hurt in the attack would surely need medicines,woolen blankets.foods etc.At the risk of their cover being blown over,they were trying to rush in emergency medicines,woolen and foods to their mountain top "second homes",that is,their "bases".

If we read this together with my last four posts,it is reasonable to assume that there should be retaliation on the "second homes",that is,their "bases" up on the mountain tops.We all know that it all begins with the targeted covert attack on a leader who returned "home".

A perfectly fitting endgame,a retaliation for a covert attack on a leader peacefully returning and staying as a common folk in his "home"--we should be explicit this time,retaliation on several mountain top "homes" ( that is,the "bases") of the three rebel groups.

Today is the 28th of December.

We must remember (by reading the last four posts) that they are trying to eliminate the leader who is at "home" by the 31st of December 2020.

There are four days left.

But the three rebel groups seem to be on an emergency mode.

That makes us to ask this question--do the three rebel groups still have the resources and will to home into their target by their publicly announced timeline,that is,by the 31st of December 2020?

Judging by their logistic operation at 1.30 am(that too,at the risk of blowing off the cover of their prized logistic operation centre),it is reasonable to assume that the three rebel groups are still stunned by the scale and effectiveness of the retaliatory strikes on the mountaintop "homes".

Stunned means that they are now bewildered,not knowing how to mop up their remaining resources,resulting in ever diminishing will to fight back.

Decoding the covert-speak,finding the thin red line and facing the silhouette of the three actors.

 1) Decoding the covert-speak:

a) It is shocking for me to find out some people connected with drinking water start talking 'poison' in public domain.

b) For the last feew days,something inside me flinched whenever I had heard people mentioning the number '31'--I mean important people mentioning the number '31' in the public domain.

It has been confusing and bewildering for me.

c) But such feelings vanishes when I read in the newspaper that a junior Union minister had landed in Imphal on the 20th of  December 2020 in an unannounced visit.It is now clear that they are planning something big between the 20th and 31st of  December.How big? Prepare for the shock--they are planning to add poison to drinking water,utilizing the underground network  of pipes,which are the lifelines for the people for drinking water.

If we read this together with my last post,it is clear that the D Day has now becomes flexible--it can be any day between the 20th and 31st Dec.

d) As soon as he landed, the junior minister attended a religious function in a temple complex located just beside the  Tiddim Road.Tiddim Road!

As we had discussed in my last post,a new set of rebel leaders were likely taken down--those taken down might be the residents of the places along the Tiddim Raod.

The schedule of the following day is attendance of a function relating to the spiritual circuit of tourism in Manipur(the  junior minister deals with culture and tourism).The venue of the function is located inside Konung Mamang.As soon as we hear the word,Konung Mamang,it is instinctive to decipher the move as sending a message to Lamyanba office.We should recall that a team NIA sleuths from New Delhi in hush hush operation raided the Lamyanba office--that was some years back but more important for us here is that  the raid was conducted because the NIA suspect that Lamyanba office functions as a front for a major rebel group.

They are trying to link the covert operations along the Tiddim Raod, taking down a set of rebel leaders ,to an office located  in Konung Mamang.

But the most interesting thing is yet to come.

The junior minister is also attending another religious function inside Heingang Assembly Constituency,that too,in chief  minister's residence.

Didn't the word 'Heingang' ring a bell?

I'm writing this from memory.I think it must be around three years back.

The  place where this startling incident happened is Heingang.It was,and still,the first instance of this kind of incidence.

A group of masked gunmen brazenly forced their ways inside the house of a well-known journalist(now,an editor) located inside the Heingang Assembly Constituency.They began threatening people,including women and children.

They claimed that they were searching for something.

That incident remains a mystery even today.

Nay,the mystery deepens way further, making us bewildered--when a junior minister is made to visit there in an unannounced visit--forcing us to recall the keywords-'Heingnag','masked gunmen' and 'an editor'.

So,they are targeting some people living within the geographical boundary of Heingang Assembly Constituency.In my last  post,we thought that their target might be only two men--the present and past presidents of a rebel groups.Now,from the keywords 'Heingang' and 'Lamyanba office',it is reasonable to guess that their targets might be people in double digits.

2) Finding the thin red line.

During the next 11 days they are planning to add poison to the drinking water--that too,to the water delivered to the lakhs of people in Manipur,via the network of underground pipes.

The benchmark of a terror attack is the one that is commonly known as 9/11.The casualty in that benchmark episode is less than 4000  deaths.

Here,in this tiny valley of Manipur,during the next 11 days,they are planning to add poison to drinking water,putting the health of lakhs of people in serious jeopardy.

People might not die in a spectacular fashion,like those happened in 9/11.

But,during the next 2 to 3 years there would be virtually an epidemic,mostly of kidney failures.It is because the suspected chemical substance that they are planning to add to the drinking water of Manipur are one or two amongst the heavy metals,which are commonly used to poison people leading to slow deaths.

This blogger need not spell out how they are going to cross the thin red line--the line between the legitimate covert warfare and open and willful terrorist attack.

3) The silhouette of the actors.

My last post mentioned that planning these terrorist act are three group of actors.

From the 20th of Dec onwards we are presented with silhouette of these actors.

Two actors are deputed on the ground,assigned to execute the dirty works.

The third actor is watching the whole procedure from the comfortable space inside power corridors of the government of Manipur.

The actor has already infiltrated well inside the power corridor of the government of Manipur.

The scale and quality of their infiltration is such that a juniour minister all the way from New Delhi can be made to rush down to Imphal,that too,in an unannounced visit.

It is now quite clear how well they place themselves inside the power structure of the government of Manipur.They can not only make a minister to come to Manipur but also can make him  stick to an exact schedule serving their purpose--a religious function along the Tiddim Road,another function in Konung Mamang and yet,another religious function in Heingang Assembly Constituency,that too,in chief minister's residence.

Another set of rebel leaders taken down?

 The trigger to this question is prompted by the quixotic switching of the president of the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee(MPCC) ordered from New Delhi.(For clarity,this post is best read together with my next to last post).

Another such question was raised(and the hints of the first set of rebel leaders being taken down answered by the said question itself) by the unbelievable political development in Kakching in the first week of November 2020(my next to last post).

The story begins from the most unlikely quarters.

On the 28th day of one of the last few months of the year 2020,a minor league writer was cherry-picked to award the prestigious Manipur State Award for Literature,which also carries a substantial cash component.

On the 28th day of one of the last few months of the year 2019,one of the senior-most leaders of a rebel group returned home and began leading a simple life(like most common folks)in his house.

The two events connect.The connection is being reinforced by the title of the book for which the prize was awarded--the book is a compilation of "My hone and other stories".

The two keywords highlighted by the whole exercise are--"the 28th day" and "home".

(The selection of the said Manipur State Literature Award,2020 can be best understood if we put on the canvass two words,namely,"The Mob" and 'The Literature".The mobbish elements inside the Govt of Manipur was leveraged by the equally mobbish elements inside the ruling class in New Delhi to bypass legions of senior,more creative and more erudite writers to home in to a minor league writer,solely because the unsuspecting writer has a book titled,"My Home").

Right at the moment ,let's add another key word,"the president",as prompted by the just cancelled visit of Mr JP Nadda,the president of the Bharatya Janata Party.

So,the target of the covert operation,led by New Delhi and,of course,collaborated by three rebel groups of Manipur(my next to last post) is the president of a rebel group who is now staying at his home but came back to his home on a 28th day.

Now comes the quixotic switching of the MPCC president,ordered by New Delhi(Delhi's ruling class consist of leaders of several political parties,including,BJP and INC).The outgoing president is from the Heirok Assembly Constituency.Again.we have to add  yet another keyword--Heirok.

By adding the fourth keyword,Heirok,to the already established three keywords,any informed newspaper reading common folk can guess who  the targets are.It's easy--the present and the past presidents of a particular rebel group.The battle is between this particular rebel versus the combined collaboration of New Delhi and the three rebel groups.The D day for the covert attack is 28th Dec 2020.

But an innocuous brick comes between the planned covert attack on the 28th Dec and its actual execution.

A brick struck the wind shield of the car carrying Mr JP Nadda,who was on his way to Diamond Harbour in West Bengal(that was on the 10th Dec and after this Bengal stint,Mr Nadda was scheduled to land in Imphal on the 13th).

Mr JP Nadda,suddenly and uncharacteristically cancelled  his scheduled visit to Manipur on the 13th and 14th Dec.

The president of the Bharatya Janata Party intimidated by a single brick of Bengal?

There is more to the seemingly innocuous story.General Bipin Rawat,Chief of Defence Staff,suddenly materialized in Kolkata on the 14th Dec and told mediaperson that there has been perceptibly stepped-up military activities in Tibet Military Region in China.

Reading between the lines,Gen Rawat effectively revealed that there is a connection between the seemingly innocuous brick of  Bengal that hit Mr JP Nadda's car and the stepped-up military activities in Tibet,China.

So,Gen Bipin Rawat told us that New Delhi,by forcing Mr Nadda to cancel his Manipur visit,is retreating from the planned covert attack.

Now,the big news.

As Gen Bipin Rawat was announcing New Delhi's retreat,the particular rebel group which was the target of the planned covert attack,apparently came into attack mode.It seems that the particularly rebel group took down another set of rebel leaders belonging to the three collaborators of New Delhi.(For the information on the first set of rebel leaders who were already taken down,please refer to my next to last post).

To show support to the rebel groups which had just lost several of their leaders,ruling class in New Delhi ordered their quixotic switching of MPCC president.

As the new president of the MPCC is from a Assembly Constituency which lies along the Tiddim Road,it is reasonable to conclude that all the rebel leaders just taken down were also from the places lying along the Tiddim Road.I suspect that another set of leaders of the three rebel groups were taken down.

As things stand now,New Delhi is out of the picture--it has retreated.But if one out of the four collaborators backed off,the majority of the players are still in the field and,naturally,the whole project is not deemed cancelled.

Or,are the remaining three collaborators,the three rebel groups,still in the game?

With New Delhi,the leading figure of the planned covert attack,scheduled for the 28th Dec 2020,already retreated,do the leaders of the three rebel groups have the stomach to lead the field,like true warriors, and wage the already decided covert war on the 28th of December,2020?

I am eagerly waiting for the coming of the 28th day of the month of December of the year 2020 to see how the great fight unfolds itself(or,will it be a stomach-churning experiment?).