Virulent Nazism and myths

It's almost a free for all scene--every conceivable groupings wanting to make a new or the other,to unmake an already existing, state.These imaginery making and unmaking are mostly based on ethnic lines.

I'll do my tiny bit to bring sanity to the already chaotic scene.

1)Human being,wherever they live,are 99.99% equal.Pre-ponderance of some genes depending on the climate and location bring about the physical differences among them.

2)Ethnicity and race are simply the bye-products of the myth making process of human being.To put it brutally,ethnicity and race are myths--nothng more,nothng less.

From these two precepts let's try to have a re-look at ourselves.

The most glaring feature of this part of this part of the globe is the existence of many number of small communities of people.The question that immediately comes to my mind is that why they are so small in numbers.There may so many myths,stories to explain this.But we are not going in that direction.

One of the most probable reasons is that they fail to properly interact with their environment,the geographical features distinctive to their surroundings.For example,the super-abundance of thick forest might be foreboding for them.They might have even think that there are forest spirits prowling there.

The ideal condition is that they(having the 99.99% of same attribute found in the peoples of the developed parts of the globe)should have mined the forest for resources,for example,protein for their health.Protein,particularly, comes to my mind because we know that all the communities here are characterized by the practice of stuffing themselves with vast amounts of carbohydrate.Is it the case of these people unable to properly interact with their environment so as to find out where protein sources lie?People when they are growing up needs proteins,vitamins and minerals for the proper development of brain cells.When people,by some culturally accepted precept, continue to stuff themselves with vast amounts of carbuhydrates from generation to generation,there is every likelihood that their brain cells might not have developed properly.That might even trigger a vicious circle.Fewer brain cells would mean lower intellect,which again,would  result in further inabiltiy to interact with their environment in a proper fashion.

This culturally accepted practice surely results in ill health of the members of these small communities.We may even discern a correlation with their health and their inability to maintain a optimum sized society.

So,we are now witnessing 50,000 strong community dreaming of a separate administrative arrangement for themselves.

Here we come to the conclusion that if we shorn ourselves of myths,culture and tradition,we come to face to face with surprising fact--our inability to prepoerly interact with our environment.I think this is an appropriate status report of all the small communities living in this part of the globe.

We are still trying not be influnced by myths,culture and tradition and,with this frame of mind,let's visit the vast plains of Sindhu and Ganga.We need to visit these places because there arose a virulent Nazism,nicely hidden behind a religious garb.How that came about is too vast a subject to be considered here and,morever,it's the job of the scholars to attempt that.But it's generally agreed that it came about as a direct result of the arrival Germanic people in that part of the globe.I strongly suspect some adventurers of Germanic descents,by some quark of history,nicely escaped the civilizing influnce of Christianity there and arrived in the plains of plains of Sindhu,carrying with them the raw Teutonic agressive precepts.

We agree that these Nazi precepts continue to flourish in small pockets in the plains of Sindhu and Ganga for thousand of years.mostly unnoticed by the world.

But that scenario abruptly changed with the arrival yet another set of Europeans.The British mercenaries,who in due course of time would unite themselves under the aegis of East India company,energetically went about the consolidation of the source of raw matrails for their recently invented steam engines.The consolidation was all the over urgent because the source of their raw materials would also served as the vast market of the various products of their steam engines.That consolidation is what we now call India.

The British merceneries,unwittingly,gave a sub-continental-sized playing field for those Nazi precepts which were recently confined to the small pockets in the plains of Sindhu and Ganga.This incident is world changing.

The ripple effect of this rise of the Nazi precepts into a sub-continetal-sized playing field was felt all over the land mass of Asia.

All the stakeholders in Asia,who have in their disposal vast resources and vast armies have already started responding to the ripple effect.(Seen in this context,our 'Maichou Tarets' are so tiny players--so tiny that they,for all practical purposes,can be ignored).

This is a proper a geo-political shift in the making.

The best we can do in this scenario is to determine which side this geo-political wind is likely to blow and set our sails accordingly.This,at the least,might save us from the onslaught of this virulent Nazi precepts.

The colluders of the Pongs--What to make out of them?

Today's newspapers reported hot developments in Churachandpur.

Some groups from Mizoram,coming there to consolidate their movement,even claimed that they had had the 'backing' of the UN.

Reading those developments suddenly transported me to the time of the 2nd World War.Fighting the tide of ruthless Japanese onslaught,the Britishers mustered all their resources.That included the forming of alliances with small ethnic minorities of Burma.What interests us is the case of the Kachins.

The British military officers made a deal with the Kachins.If the Kachins help the British in fighting the Japanese,they would be given an independent country during the coming realignment after the war.

A christian country,serving as buffer with between India and Burma is certainly an alluring strategic target.

The British military officers kept their words.After the war,they put maximum pressures on the political class in London for the Christian buffer country.But the political class in London decisively shot down the proposal.

Why?

I think those spearheading the present agitations in the hills of Manipur should try to learn from history.It is imperative for them to try to answer the above question.

Speaking of history reminds me of the Pongs.

Whenever we think of the Pongs,we should not also fail to remember that there were groups of people within Manipuri society with whom they colluded(My next to last post).It needs two to twang.If we don't touch upon this point,we would be guilty of reading a bias view of history.

History tells us that the collusion happened.Let's try to understand why the collusion happened--from the perspectives of the two colluders.

1)The Pongs can be taken be the least assimilated group of people coming to the cauldron called Manipur in the sense they never fully reconciled to the already present ruling class.Their fight with the ruling class even continues to this days.In a sense,they want to dislodge already established ruling class and then want to become the ruling class themselves.

In other words,the Pongs are the competitors to the already established ruling class.To my mind,competition is always good.That would make the ruling class ever better,efficient and world class.But the competition should within a well-defined playing field and rules.The Pongs err in deviating from this basic principle.

Over and above this,whatever the tenuous relations they might have established with their fellow kinsmen in other South East Asian societies have been decisively broken.There might have been developments in their history resulting in the decisive severance of this relationship but they are not important for our purpose here.This means that whatever we are doing with the Pongs becomes the pure internal affairs of Manipuri society.

2)Now comes the Western immigrants with whom the Pongs colluded.One thing is certain.They are not openly competing with the ruling class of Manipur.

They were a patient lot.Painstakingly waiting for a such a long time,they wanted to worm themselves into the ruling class itself.

What was the response of Manipuri ruling class?

In trying to answer this question,lets move back to the first question we have asked.Why did the ruling class in London shoot down the propsoal by the senior British military officers?

My opinion is that the ruling class in London could not find a credible ruling class within the Kachin society.It needs a excruciating interaction between history and geography to bring forth any credible ruling class for any society.Without a credible ruling class,it would be disaster of historic import to
give the reins of managing a country to the Kachins.In that sense,the decision of the ruling class in London was a wise one.

This transport us to an intersting perspective in the present agitations in the hills of Manipur,particularly in Churachandpur.Besides the close ethnic affinity with the Kachins,the Kuki-Mizo-Chin also dream about such a Christian country serving as a buffer between India and Burma.History shows us that the Kachins failed because of a lack of credible ruling class within itself.Do the Kuki-Mizo-Chin learn any lesson from the Kachins?Now,at the present time,if the Kuki-Mizo-Chin are blessed with a credible ruling class,would it permit its people to be drowned in the torrents of machinations flowed down from New Delhi?

Is the present agitation in the hills of Manipur a graphic sign that the hill peoples are still devoid of credible ruling classes?

Here,it's our time to return to our second question.Some immigrants from the West tried to worm their way into the structures of the ruling class itself.If the ruling class of Manipur is anything credible there should be appropriate response.

From history we learn that the ruling class itself was splintered in trying to respond to the threat.One faction led by the mythical 'Maichou Taret',in a masterstroke of a tactical retreat,ventured into the gigantic task to re-grow the structure of the ruling class ground up from within the 'khuls' and 'leikais' of the Manipuri society.In initiating the venture,they spelt out that within the timeframe of  three generations they would complete the task and only then,they would be ready for the final battle.I would like to emphasize my opinion that the 'Maichou Tarets',only a part religious leaders,were an integral part of the then ruling class.

So,this answers our second question.The world will witness the response of the Manipuri ruling class in real time as the series of battles unfold in the days to come.

New Delhi's pattern-smashing move

My recent posts has a lot to do with history,particularly of Manipur's history.The surprising element is,of course,the Pongs.

This reminds me of another surprise.How do we figure out the 42 days long single object exhibition of Paubi Lai in New Delhi recently?Even if we don't try to answer this question,a simple reading together of the exhibition and the recent developments that prompt the focussing of our attention to the Pongs makes it quite clear that New Delhi is currently doing a lot of dissection of Manipuri society.I think that many scholars of Manipuri society are imvolved in the said dissection of the Manipuri society.

What attracted my attention at that time was the explanatory note accompanying the announcement of the exhibition.More precisely,the last part of the note,which says that the Paubi Lai was killed by none other than Kabui Salang Maiba,who,of course,belong to a small ethnic minority in the hills of Manipur.

The narrative--small ethnic minorities of the hills versus the major ethnic grouping in the valley.

That brings us to the pattern-smashing visit of special secretary(internal security),New Delhi to Churachandpur district in Manipur.The special secretary,like a seasoned politician, went straight to a meeting public.It was quite a spectacle seeing the senior beaurocrat from Nelhi addressing a public meeting in Churachandpur district of Manipur.

Of course,the special secretary made it a point visiting the place on the same day the Chinese president started his maidenn state to the US.During the address to the public meeting he emphasized that the Churachandpur turmoil is much more than an internal matter of the state of Manipur.The word 'internal' on the day of Chinese president's US visit,that too,from a person located firmly inside the power corridors of New Delhi attains a disproportionate singnificance.

But,is that the purpose of the special secretary's visit?

The short answer--NO.

The special secretary,which represents New Delhi,is aiming for a fundamental shift in how the Manipuri society finds its equilibrium.

Let's start out from the present mood of the Manipuri society.The overwhelming perception is that what is happening right now in the hills,particularly,in Churachandpur,is the direct results of the machinations of New Delhi.In such a scenario,New Delhi should hide the behind the screen and continues to pull strings from there.

But New Delhi suddenly jumps out from behind the screen and shows to all concerned that the show is actually run by it.

Why?

We are facing with a profound question.

To  say that they are trying to provoke the valley community is too apparent.It also brings back the game to New Delhi vs Manipuri society scheme of things.New Delhi has been trying to avoid this scheme of thing,showing to all concerned the that the assent to the three is not forthcoming because the hills peoples are against the bills.This is the pattern which should be thrown up by this scheme of things.

What happens if we break the pattern?By being 'too apparent',are they trying to elicit a more sinister provocation from the valley society?

Let's go back to the Pong paradigm.Several centuries back,the Pongs might behave just like hillmen of today.It's because the Pongs appear to tbe the least assimilated of the numerous streams of people coming here in the cauldron called the Manipuri society.Let's call them the new Pong.As we are witnessing at the moment,the new Pongs have no qualm of publicly courting New Delhi for achieving its political goal.

But the older Pongs within the Manipuri society does not have this luxury.They might have courted New Delhi but they have this compulsion to do it covertly.Publicly,their posture should be anti-New Delhi and they are working for the indigenoous people of Manipuri.

At this point of time,New Delhi is in possesion of some data set which in a simulated scenario points to the increasing vulnerability of the older Pongs within the Manipuri society as New Delhi steps up its 'too apparent' postures.As New delhi continues stepping up this posture,the vulnerability of the older Pongs intensified until it reaches a breaking point.

It would be suicidal for the older Pongs if this breaking point ever comes about.In such a situation,the older Pongs have the lone option of attacking the New Pongs to prevent New Delhi from stepping up the 'too apparent' postures,as they have no the wherewithal to attack New Delhi.

This is the only scenario which I can think of why New Delhi suddenly jumps out from behind the screen.

Is it a plausible scenario?I wonder.

From history to the present and further to technology.

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?

The Indian State has just accepted the battleline.

Leave alone Manipur and ,for that matter,the whole of NE India,the Indian State has just officially proclaimed that Cambodia,Laos,Myanmar and Vietnam are within their sphere of influnce.It's doing it just when the Japanese parliament was rescinding the no-war features of its Constitution and the battleline-shaping agitations in the hills of Manipur were announcing their ultimatum.

The Indian State is doing it in its characteristic way--low-key and unobtrusive.The task has been delegated to its Vice President which usually attracts the least attention.

The Vice President of India,Mr Hamid Ansari,after his four-days visit to Laos and Cambodia announced that India's focus is on Cambodia,Laos,Myanmar and Vietnam(CLMV).In plain words,he was telling us that within the ASEAN itself,the CLMV countries are within their area of influnce.

But there is one problem here.It's generally accepted that Cambodia,Laos and Myanmar fall under what it is termed us 'Indian cultural influnce'.But the Vietnam is universally accepeted as within the 'Chinese cultural influnce'.

So far.there is equilibrium in the whole land mass of Asian as everybody concerned respect each other area of influnce.Now,the Indian State has officially made a fresh claim.It's planning to forcefully take Vietnam out of 'Chinese sphere of influence'.That means that the Indian State has chosen to disturb the age-old equilibrium in the Asian landmass.

In other words,India has declared a war in Asia.

From our perspective,the Indian State has just accepted the battleline.

The Occupy Wall Street--the symbol of 99% of US citizen.

17th September marked the 4th  anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in the US.We can only post it about when we are on the 18th of September because it's still 17th September in the US.

But the US has a queer way of remembering the movement.The FBI arrested the friend of Charleston Church shooter.

We have a post here which says that the Charleston Church shooting gave out the first hint that there is a surprising constituent within the US which is looking for a way to make life better for the 99% of the US citizen.That's exactly what the Occupy Wall Street symbolized.

Target Tetseo Sisters?

India's prime minister,Mr Narendra Modi is scheduled to be personally hosted by Facebook CEO,Mr Mark Zuckerburg on the 27th Sept 2015.(why the Indian prime minister is embarking on yet another official US visit so soon?).

On the same day,Nagaland's Tetseo Sisters are also scheduled to perform at a tourism festival in Andro.

I find the coincidence too eerie.The coincidence makes me uncomfortable.I admit that I might even a bit paranoid.

But Mr Xi Jinping,the Chinese president would also be in the US on an official visit from 22nd to 28th September.I had read about the Chinese president's visit at least one year back.But the Indian prime minister's visit is a surprise.I strongly suspect that they have hurriedly arranged the visit to coincide with that of China's president.Why?

Around 27th of September,New Delhi would have not much more than 30 days to wrap up the framework agreement of the Indo-Naga Peace Talk.The Talk has been dragging on for the last 18 years.The one most remarkable feature of this long 18 years is that the friendly bond between the ordinary Nagas and the ordinary Manipuri(particularly the Meeteis) has been remaining strong as ever.This bond could not be disturbed depite so attempts during the last 18 years.

Are they trying to make a beginning at disturbing this age old bond at Andro on the 27th September2015?

Tetseo Sisters are the face of the young Nagas and hence,are stars in social media,particularly Facebook.As the Facebook CEO himself is welcoming the Indian prime minister on the 27th September,something nasty might have been planned to happen to the Tetseo Sisters,performing at Andro on the same day.If that happens,the social media space would go up in flame.Young Nagas and Meetei would be bickering there.

That's most likely to be the beigining of the first fissure in their age old friendship ties.The very next day the Chinese president would be adressing the UN in NYC.And,the most important,New delhi,this time, wuold have a fertile ground to wrap up the framework agreement in the next remaining 30 days.We have to read this together with this post of mine which says that the Indo-Naga Peae Talk has already become a geo-political weapon.Isn't it extremely remarkable that this geo-political weapon would have had a new lease of life from Andro,the place the Meetei consider to be most sacred?

Writing this short post makes me extremely tired.I sincerely wish that I was proved wrong and no nasty things ever happened to the Teseo Sisters when they perform there at Andro.

Strategy shift--how New Delhi flee from competition.

This headline makes me think that New Delhi has just executed a strategic shift.

The CSOs of the hills,as hinted in the above headlines,appear to be slighting the demand for the separate administration but,instead,start to be focussing at the nitty gritty of the three bills passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly.

The new strategy seeks to set the CSOs of the hills at loggerheads with thier counterparts in the valley by making them arguing about the mere technicalities of the three bills.They would attempt arguments for arguments' sake,which,as everybody knows,would produce no tangible results.

If New Dekhi can achieve this,the three bills would never reach its power corridor for the mandatory assents.It's quite clear--New Delhi is fleeing from the one competition of the 21st Century(my last post).

Another part of the strategy is a notification issued by it on the 7th September 2015 which allows Hindus migrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan to stay back in India,even if the migrants have no valid documents.Why New Delhi decided to issue this far-reaching notification,that too,just a week back, needs no elaboration--it's self-explanatory.The purpose of the notification is to create a situation congenial to the forking out of the current anti-migrant movement of Manipiur into two or more streams--one stream targetting Hindu migrants,another,targetting migrants of another religious denomination etc.Here is the first hint at the forking out process.

This is a classic example of divide and rule policy at its finest height.

Last but not the least.Several groundbreaking developments happened during the last 24 hours.

Here is one.Another one is here.

Compete with New Delhi

It turned out that Mr RN Ravi visit was meant to serve as an announcement of the coming of the most important geo-political shift of the 21st Century.Besides calling in Pakistani frontier paramilitary representatives,bravely ignoring the constant firing across the border(my last post),they had also engaged in a face off with the Chinese troops in Ladakh and also raided two Burmese village along the Nagaland-Burma border.

But the more important announcement came from a press conference nearer home.It happened just a day after Mr Ravi descended on Imphal.

The representatives of two rebel organizations,which are the constituents of their apex body,UPF,were meeting the press in Churachandpur.They were officially speaking for the UPF.

They pointed out that the residnets of the hills of Manipur were finally united in demanding two separate administrative machinesries for themselves.The Nagas have Alternative Arrangement demand,the Kukis, the Autonomous Hill State. The two ethnic groupings of the Manipur hills have
demands bearing two differnet names and,until recently,waging two different battles for their respective demands.

The spokesmen pointed out that the demands,though having different names,are essentially the same--separate adminstrative machines for the hillmen.They were not also mincing no words in praising the three bills recently passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly for serving as a trigger for coalescing the two movements into the united movement for hillmen.

Alternative Arrangement.They are the key words which connect the press briefing with the Mr Ravi visit.Mr Ravi descended on Imphal for matters relating to the Indo-Naga Peace Talk,which calls for the dismemberment of the state of Manipur.Alternative Arrrangement is the CSO version of the demands contained in the Indo Naga Peace Talk.

Today is also a fitting day for talking about the above press briefing.The reason is that the press briefing happened in Churachandpur,where there are still uncremated nine corpses.Nine young men died recently in Churachandpur in violent protest demanding rescinding of the three bills passed in Manipur Legislative Assembly,which gradually metamorphosed in the movement for separate hill administrative machinery.They are now telling us that the three bills  only serve as impetus for the separate administration demand.

Today is the last day of the mourning of the lone student killed in the demand for the three bills.Although the movement for the demand of the three bills were concentrated in the four valley districts of Manipur,all the bonafide citizens of Manipur,including the hills,are going to be beneficiaries because the three bills are meant to safeguard the interest of the 'native people' of Manipur against the ever-increaing number of migrants.

We have enough of preface.Now comes the time for the hard talk.

New Delhi surreptiously sent out hints to the different groups of hillmen that it would favourably consider their demands if they violently protested against the three bills.

If we ask ourselves why New Delhi hate the three bills so much,we have to remember the battleline.

Now, we have to re-read the first para of this blogpost.That would make it quite clear why it talks of the 'the most important geo-political shift of the 21st Century'.That said,it's also quite clear that it has everything to do with New Delhi and the rebel groups of Manipur.

What about the laymen?The threat of the migrants are real for us.As the thing stands now,as we begin pressing for the three bills to become laws,the hills of Manipur would be again up in flames,saying the three bills are anti-hillmen and so,they want separate administration for themselves.

Do we have the pleasure to go slow on our demands for three bills to become laws?

To answer this,it would be illuminating to see how other societies are faring in this area.Let's go to the EU.

The EU has roughly the population of 500 million.The leaders of the EU are shouting around they are facing a crisis because of the steady arrival of migrants from the war-torn Middle East,particularly,Syria.

How real their migrant crisis is?

Experts project that nearly half a million migrant would arrive in the EU in the next 4/5 years.Half a million in the total population of 500 millions--far less than 1 percent of their population.They are expecting migrants accounting for far less than 1 percent of their total population. Even so,they are
shouting around that they are currently facing a crisis.The primne minister of Hungary said their Christian cultue is in real danger because of these migrants.

How about us?We have already been swamped by the migrants--they constitute nearly nearly half of our total population.

We ahve no choice but to continue pressing for the three bills to become laws while,at the same time,neutralizing the machinations of New Delhi in the hills.

How?

I can think of one way only.If New Delhi is willing to grant separate adminstrative machineries for the hillmen of Manipur,it would also consider giving the desired adminstrative systems for people represented by the Maoists.It would be ideal for us if we can make those people represented by the Maoist to rise up in protest movements as soon as New Delhi start making the hills of Manipur up in flames again.

I know it's easy theorizing in a blogpost.The hard part would be in making the ideal scenario coming out real in day to day life.

Are there any people or group of people who can make it happen?

If not,we are stuck in a long dark tunnel with no opening.

The one and the only correct path.

The one and only correct path available to Manipuri society in this crucial juncture is to boycott the visit of the Indo-Naga Peace Talk interlocutor,Mr RN Ravi--totally and equivocally.

Somebody can retort back like this--If some forms of interactions with Mr Ravi brings about the likelihood of the non-disturbance in the political boundary of Manipur,they are highly desirable things to undertake.

This line of deduction belies the inability to understand the metamorphosis wrought upon the soul of the Indo-Naga Peace Talk on the 3rd of August 2015.The Indo-Naga Peace Talk pre-August 3 and post-August 3 are already two and completely different things.It's really a matter of life or death for us to take note of the crucial changes taken place on the 3rd of August 2015.

Let's bulid up our arguments slowly.

Besides Nagaland,there are sizeable Naga populations in Manipur,Arunachal Pradesh and Burma.All of them have been clamouring for a peace accord with New Delhi since last several decades.Their movement for the demand of this peace accord is still a work-in-progress stuff,even though they have not been able to achieve it for such a long time.In such a work-in-progress movement,did anybody notice any remarkable development around the 3rd of August 2015?Any remarkable development in Nagaland?In Manipur?In Arunachal or Burma?

The answer is a big NO.Around 3rd of August 205 or to the run up to it,around the last part of July 2015,the Naga's work-in-progress movement is emphatically quite placid.

But bizarre it might sound,the hurried 'framework agreement' between the Government of India and NSCN(IM) did actually happened in New Delhi,in a ceremony attended by none other the vibrant,Mr Narendra Modi,the prime minister of India.

So,what can we deduct from the above premises?

The hurried 'framework agreement' of the 3rd August 2015 was solely dictated by factors not related with Nagas,Naga Society or Naga's movement.

As if to emphasize the mysterious factors behind the 'framework agreement',New Delhi is still keeping the contents of the agreement totally secret.Even when the Chief Minsiter of Manipur himself went to New Delhi to get some hints about the contents,he had to return empty-handed.Such a level of secrecy.

So,the Indo-Naga Peace Talk has metamorphosed itself into a mysterious entity,securely stationed inside a twilight zone.

Now,let's return to MrRN Ravi's Imphal visit.If we are in mood for some one-liners,it can be something like this--Mr Ravi's sole purpose of Imphal vist is to lead everybody concerned into this twilight zone.

Even a common man would not willingly associate himself with any entity which is mysterious,undefined,less so,he himself be allowed to be led inside a twilight zone,even though,the person who is leading there is being deputed from the place of high and mighty--New Delhi.

Now,let's move away from the common man and see how the political class Of Manipur should react to Mr Ravi's visit.

1)In my humble opinion,the political class of Manipur should not proclaimed itself to the whole world to be unbelievably naive by failing to note that the honourable Mr Ravi had managed to get himself descended on Imphal on the same day the Pakistani Maj Gen,heading the regional border force, arrived in New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart.We also should not also fail to note that the meeting materialized after the abandoning of the scheduled NSA level talks of the two countries.This tortured talk is also preceded by the public proclamation of the India's army chief that it should be readying for a short war as the India-Pakistan border has been so frequently becoming live.Sure enough,his Pakistani counterpart retaliated,in a public pronouncement,that they are more than ready for a war with India.To top it all,as the border para-military forces of the two countries were sitting down in New Delhi for official discussion,machine gun firing across their border is continuing abated.

So,what's the point of this meeting in New Delhi?Something stage managed solely for Mr Ravi's Imphal visit?

2)Even if it's stagemanaged,some players have no liking for it.As the Pakistan Maj Gen was crossing the India-Pakistan border  by road,Russian troops,all of a sudden,started combat operation in Syria.A combat operation by the Russian troops in the Middle East is a huge development.The war in Syria have already displaced half of 22 millions of its population,which,in part,results in huge influx of migrants to the middle of Europe.The Russian army combat operation there is sure to aggravate the already critical situation there and Europe.

After conidering all the above developments,this blogger humbly put forward his idea that the Indo-Naga Peace Talk has already become a Geo-Political weapon.New Delhi is readying itself to harness this weapon and Mr Ravi's Imphal visit is a part of this process.Anything less than boycotting the visit by Mr Ravi would tantamount to assisting New Delhi in sharpening this weapon.

A warning for Mr Narendra Modi

I think Mr Kiren Rijiju,the juniour home minister,was intructed to play games in the surcharged political situation in Manipur.

First,in his visit in Imphal during the recent floods and landslides,he told the media that the Manipur government has the legitimate right to pass laws to protect its indigenious people.He further told the media that the Union Government,if the need arises,is ready to work together with the state government.

But,after some weeks,he,during an official function in Guwahati, played around with the words,'President's Rule',while the Manipur Chief Minister was busy negotiating with the leaders of the agitators.

That prompted the Manipur Chief Minister to rush to New Delhi.What has transpired between Mr Rijiju and the Manipur Chief Minister in New Delhi?

We are not given the time to search for the answer for the above question.Today,the State Government announced that the three bills to protect its indigenous people will be passed by the State Legislative Assembly on the 31st of August 2015.The announcement came after the government accepted all the ten demands of the agitators.

Here we are talking about some ministers from New Delhi playing games in the internal politics of Manipur exactly because India's polity  is unitary.Noises about federalism are meant solely for propaganda purpose.

Here,again,we do not have enough time to go deeper into the matter,as we are overtaken by events around us.The person manning the unitary system in New Delhi has already got his home turf burning.Rigiht now,there is curfew and military patrolling in the state of Gujarat.

Is this a warning for Mr Narendra Modi?

Before answering this,we need to understand what's happening right now in Gujarat.The Patels want reservation.They want the OBC tag.But the Patels,though not an ethnic group,are landowners and traders.They do not form a marginalised group.Even a Patel is the incumbent Chief Minsiter of the state.So,why there is this present agitation by the Patels,which results in cuefew and military patrolling?

Exactly because India's polity is unitary.The Patels want more freebies from the masters in New Delhi.The Patels are not the only group who are clamouring for more freebies from the masters in New Delhi.The Chief Mnisters of major states like Bihar and Andhra Pradesh has already joined the fray.

In the days where there are nervous volatality in the stock markets of the world,it's most appropriate to ask this question:How would the masters in New Delhi get the freebies to be doled out to the increasing number of groups?Freebies doled out to the small ethnic groups in NE is quite manageable because the amount required is quite small.But managing freebies for large populations of likes of Gujarat,Bihar,Andhra Pradesh etc would prove to be a paradigm shift for the people manning the unitary set up in New Delhi.

It's a matter of simple economics to understand that New Delhi cannot continue printing money in the longer term.In the shorter term it can print more money and fuel more economic activities.The idea is to somehow put money in the hands of the vast rural population of India and make them buy up things.This would enable more factory activities,spurring more production and job creations.The example is the vast enterprise of handing out 'job cards' to the rural folks.

But there is one catch.While it's still possible to print more money,it's a must to build up durable infrastructures like roads,irrigation canals,schools and unversitry.But a society which have no qualm in killing girl child in the womb itself and forcing underaged girls into marriages won't be able to build up any of the above infrastures.So,while it's possible for India to print more money,it's totally critical to build up quality huamn capital as well.I think India's society have limited time to achieve this--but it would require unlimited amoount efficiendy in the system(like the one provided by the Communist Party of China).

But the likes of present agitations in Gujarat are the sure recipe for injecting massive inefficiecy in the system.So,what's the option available to the people manning the unitary set up in New Delhi?

1)They can say that they cannot afford the freebies to be doled out to the vast numbers of agitating groups.So,let's get rid of this unitary set up.

2)They can also say that they would continue to print more money to get more freebies so that they can lord over the present unitary set up.

Mr Narendra Modi would get the chance to show the world which option he chooses when the Manipur Legislative Assemby pass the three bills to protect the indigenous people of Manipur on the 31st August 2015.

If he chooese the options no 1,the three bills would become laws.

If he chooses the option no 2,the three bills would remain worthless papers.

But Mr Narendra Modi has already been warned by the present agitation in his home state of Gujarat that printing more money(thus, India becoming a pauper state) presents no smart choice for the vast ordinary people of India.

Today is a historic day

Sensex at the Bombay Srock Exchange crashed 1624 points.This is the 3rd largest single day loss in the whole life of the BSE.In a single day,the Exchange snubbed away Rs 7 lakh crores of investors' money.

Rs 7 lakh crore is a huge money,which can be so conveniently used for 'development'.What do you say,Dr Jitendra Singh?(my last post).

History was also made in New Delhi on the day sensex crashed 1624 points.The Prime Minister,the Home Minister and the Finance Minister  graced the same function in New Delhi today.The function was to release the commemorative coins to mark the year long 100th birthday celebration of Rani Gidinliu.Anybody can easily see that they were trying to send out a very significant message.(They,on purpose, timed the function just one day before the 'Consultation on the Indo-Naga Accord' in Dimapur--Showing us that they are actively aiming for turmoil in Manipur)

Has the stock crash  something to do with the message they are trying to send out?

The expanding concentric circles of war

We need to look back at the month of June.

Several powerful persons met the press so that they got reported on the 12th of June 2015.

For example,Dr Jitndra Singh,Minister of State at the Prime Minister's Office was in Imphal and met the press on the 11th.Interestingly,the press briefing was also attended by Mr R N Ravi,GOI interlocutor of Naga talk.

On the same day,Mr Rahul Gandhi,Vice President,Indian National Congress,the main opposition party of India,also me the press in New Delhi.

The main theme of both the press meet was the much-hyped Indian special soldiers' attack on the rebel camps in retaliation to the 4th June rebel ambush in Chandel district,Manipur.Of course,we read the reports of both the press meet on the 12th June newspapers.We must note that Dr Jitendra Singh's press briefing was characterized by his insistence that instances like the Paraolon ambush hindered development.

So,what's on 12th June 2015?

The Shanghai Composite,the bellwether Chinese Stock index crashed more than 30%.It was indeed a surreal sell off in the premiere Chinese stock market.Here,we must note Dr Jitendra Singh's insistence on development angle.Is there any better way of hindering China's development than by making the Shanghai Composite by more than 30%?Dr Jitendra Singh's Imphal press briefing was to serve as a warning to China.

Now,let's go to the 2nd of July,2015.

On this day also,the Shanghai Composite,despite the active intervention by Chinese government agencies,crashed again.It was indeed an abnormal crash.

So,what's on the 2nd of July,2015?

It's definite--I don't like to say this.But I cannot shirk my responsibility away.

The day before,the 1st of July,there was this blogpost of mine.It was the first published study of the constituent within the US society which is rooting  for an administration,more or less,in line with the one provided by the Communist Party of China to the citizens of the People's Republic of China.

So,did I just say that the 2nd of July crash of the Shanghai Composite was in response to the blogpost of mine?Well,this question makes me laugh!I'm just a regular guy,trying to blog about the happenings in my surroundings.It's well nigh impossible for a blopost of mine to elicit such huge response.

So,what did I say then?

Something actually happened in South Carolina which gave out the first hints of the existence of the hard-to-believe constituent within the US.My blogpost simply connected the dots in a published format.So,on the 2nd of July,the US retaliated by rigging the Shanghai Composite Index.My blogpost was nowhere in the picture.

As I was reading the charts of various companies on the NSE,India,I read the news of the crashes of the Shanghai Composite Index,as they were happening.The normal reactions to the crashes were that they were abnormal.I also suspected that there were some others factors besides economics that caused the crashes.I felt in my bone that the US was rigging the Shanghai Composite to reveal the real face of the administration of the Communist Party of China in the realm of the economic affairs of the Chinese society.Actually,the crashed show the inexperience of the Chinese society in matters of the stock exchange.

But I could not find a pattern to justify my gut feelings.Gut feelings are just gut feelings.I cannot write of my gut feeling without some plausible patterns to back it up.

Suddenly,on the 11th of August,the all important pattern materialized when the Chinese central bank devalued the Yuan thrice in three successive days.It started on the 11th of August and continue upto 13th August.13th of August?Although the 13th of August is an important date for us,we must not be fooled into believing that the Yuan devaluation hinted at something by wrapping up the devaluation on it.What it intends to hint at is reserved for two days later--the15th of August 2015.As usual there is the shutdown called by the rebels.Besides this,the ultimatum set by the current agitators expires on this day.

As we are acknowledging the above hints,we must also take note that it was an amazing sight.There is nothing economics in the devaluations.It is more like a declaration of war.Just a day after it,there was these mammoth blasts in Tinjian,killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than 500.

1)The Chinese have taken 'revenge' of the successive rigging of the Shanghai Composite by triggering heavy sell offs in all the stock exchanges of the world.(But,not by 30%!That the Shanghai Composite crashed by as much as 30% is mainly because of the inexperience of Chinese authorities in handling matters of financial markets.I think it's only just a year back that the Shanghai Composite was opened up to the outside investors.Before that it was tightly control by the Chinese government authorities.On the flip side,the American regulators have this huge practical experiences gained in the constant battles to fend off talented people trying the game the financial markets in the US.In short,they have this huge know how to rig a stock exchanges).

2)The Chinese are challenging all the competing nations for a currency war.

So,the Paraolon ambush,a hard -to-believe constituent within the US society, the carnage in the Shanghai Composite Index and an open challenge for a currency war--what to make out of all these?

We are witnessing the expanding concentric circles of war from the epicentre.

Where are our leaders?

A day after the former chief of Federal Investigative Agency revealed that 26/11 Bombay attackers were trained in Sindh,Pakistan,one Pakistani national,who,together with a colleague ambushed an Indian paramilitary convoy inside Kashmir,was caught alive.

What to make out of this?

In a single word--planned.The above events form a part of a carefully planned episode.

They are asking India--would you dare to have an active Western front?

They are so brazen as they know well that India cannot afford to have an active Western front at the moment.Why?Because they also know quite well that India's Eastern front is about to get active sooner than later.

Now,come to the epicenttre of India's Eastern front--Imphal.Imphal is now in tumult as its residents,together with the whole citizens of Manipur,come to their slow realization that they are being doomed with the silent influx of vast numbers of people of mainland India.They know that their society would become untenable withn decades,if the current influx is not checked.

As an intrument to check this influx they would most likely get an appropriate legislative tool.To my mind,the Manupr Legislative Assemby would soon approve the legislative bill.But for the bill to become a law,it would need the assent of either the Governor of Manipur or the President of India.Sadly,the dynamics of India's politics dictate that the all important assent won't be forthcoming.

In such a scenario,the whole populace of Manipur would slowly get mad waiting for the elusive assent to the bill.The ever active rebels of Manipur would seize the momemt realizing that they are most likely facing an inflection point in the historical journey of the Manipuri people.To get the line of the inflection point curving towards their point of view,they might present the Manipuri people with a military quagmire along the Manipur-Burma border.As the people is getting mad,questioning New Delhi's sincerity,the rebels might lead New Delhi's military into a quagmire.Such a quagmire would show,without any shred of doubt,the capability or the streght of New Delhi's military.

How would the people of Manipur react to such a quagmire?If New Delhi's military is pinned down in a quagmire,would the people of Manipur still continue to beg for the all important assent to their legislative bill?

I truthfully believe that this is one of the possible scenarios which are coming to our society in the next couple of months.

There is also one very possible scenario.To my mind,the descendents of Chanakya are actually aiming for this particular scenario.

Suppose New Delhi's military pretend to walk into the quagmire planned by the rebels of Manipur.This might possibly happen in New Lazang sector along Manipur-Burma border.This does not mean that they won't carry out their surgical strike along Moreh-Tamu sector(my next last post).It's reasonale to think that they would first carry out the surgical strike along Moreh-Tamu sector.The nature of the attack dictates that they would quickly wiihtdraw to their base in Moreh.Then,they would continue their regular attacks on rebel positions along New Lazang sector.

In this scenario,we can visualize regular fightings between New Delhi's military with one particular rebel group of Manipur.

This will put immense pressure on the remaining rebel groups to do something.If they don't come out with a plausible explanation to the people of Manipur about their responses to the newly developing scenario,it would be suicidal for them.

With the scar of the surgical strike still fresh, this moounting pressure to do something might prove to be too much for some rebel groups.They would have no choice but to go deeper inside  Burmese territory to set up their bases afresh.

If they choose this option,they are walking straight into a trap,so carefully laid by New Delhi.

With this option,they would come in direct contact with a particular ethnic group which is also in a dominant position along Southern moountain ranges of Manipur.Now,New Delhi would instigate the leaders of the ethnic group to carry out provocative actions against the Manipuri rebel groups.The provocations would be cunningly planned that the enraged cadres of the rebel groups within the territory of Manipur would be forced to attack the fellow ethnic members along the Southern mountain ranges of Manipur.

Actually,I think great geo-political forces are in active work to unobtrusively lead some rebel groups of Manipur to carry out ethnic cleansing along the Southern mountain ranges of Manipur.

It's very crucial moment in the history of Manipuri people.We are looking for a great leadership.

Where are our leaders?

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.

The 18th of June and the ceasefire mode.

At the very outset,I'm pleased to statethat this 15th June is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.It punctured the theory of the Divine Right of the king.In that sense,it's the harbinger of democracy,as we know it today.

But,in today's world,is democracy the legitimate target of attacks(just like the Taliban did today in Kabul)?

Specifically,in our case,would democracy solve the problem underlying 18th June?

Incidentally,on the 18th June 2015,the Hong Kong legislative body voted down the Chinese model of democratic election prescribed for Hong Kongers.In other words,they said that the Western-style democracy would prevail over the Chinese model in the long run.

Again,on the 18th June 2015,there was a bloody shooting inside the historic church in South Carolina,snuffing out nine innocent black lives.The shooting emphatically reminded us the wounds of the tight tussle between those people espousing the idea of federation and those of confederation.I'll be quick to clarify that confederation based on the idea of slavery is totally unacceptable.But the tussle between decentralisation(confederation) and centralisation(federation) is still relevant today.

I've no idea why the above two events happened on the same day which is the soul crushing one for us ie,the 18th of June.But every newspaper reader knows that they actually did happen on that day.Did they serve as the fodder for thought for us here in Manipur?

The 18th of June,for the Manipuris,essentially boils down to the intricacies of the hill-valley relationship.For many decades,we have a more or less working federal setup.But hill-valley problems remain as strong as ever.So,would a more de-centralized confederation system be the answer?

Together with this federal system,we have also electoral democracy rooted in both the societies of both the hill and the valley.But this also not solve our problem.

But one thing is beyond controversy.Hill-valley relationship of Manipur is as intricate and old as the polemics of federation vs confederation  and Western-style democracy vs pro-poor syatem,like that of China.

I know it's laughable to even think of attempting to sketch a simple profile of hill-valley problem of Manipur in a single blog post.It's a soul-crushing probelm for Manipur.

But bloggers are a new breed of people!So,I would try it anyway!!

To my mind,hill-valley relationship of Manipur essentailly boils down to the game of 'fair competition and mutual respect' between the people of hill and valley.Any political system that enables the free play of this game would be suitable for us.

Putting our problem in the canvas of 'fair competition and mutual respect' game,this blogger,being born in the valley,would try to answer the crucial question: what had happened to the valley society which disables it to fully and truthfully engage in the game?

Whenever I ask this question,I perenially come to face to face with one single person--Poireiton.The trouble of Manipuri society has its genesis in the person of Poireiton.It's not about race--it does not matter whether he came from the East or the West.

What is of utmost importance now--in the context of the general development of social history of Manipur,Pireiton is the first challenge.

In the context of real-politic,he is anti-Pakhangba.

It's not from history book but I think it would not be any controversial to state that prior to 33 AD,the administration of State,being of homogenous and small population,was almost a flawless affair.This being so,Pakhangba decided to bestow some of the benefits of this flawless state administration model to the less fortunate folks(like Poireiton).

It may be taken as the first attempt to make the society heterogenous.As expected,Pakhangbe encountered problem at the very outset in the person of Poireiton.We know that Pakhangba might have tried to porttray himself as some kind of a divinity to bestow the fruits of the good state adminstration to numerous groups of people--Poireiton's group being just one of them.It's clear that it was smooth sailing with all other groups,except that of Poireiton's.

There is still a lot of controversy regarding what actaully transpired beween Pakhangba and Poireiton.

But two non-conttroversial facts stand out.

1) Pakhangba not only married Poireiton's sister but also installed her as the queen.This shows the immensity of the challenge posed by Poireiton to Pakahngba in particular and to the regning political system in general.This also points to the likely scenario that it was not the case of the outright subjugation of Poireiton.It is more of a case of uneasy ceasefire.

2) This point  seems to be further consolidated by the second fact that Poireiton and his group came with comparably sophisticated culture,as shown by the cullinary surprises experienced by Pakhangba and his ruling class(as is evident in the transcription of Poireiton's name in some forms of rice which are still considered to be delicacies).The clash of two comparably sophisticated culture points to the existence of an uneasy ceasefire.

Seen in this light,we are still living with the longest ever ongoing ceasefire in human history.No neighbouring community(be it of hill or whatever)would ever respect a society which has been under a choking ceasefire for a such a long time.In other words,we still cannot command the respects of the neighbouring communities for this reason.

The first and foremost condition which we need to meet so as to tackle the problems like that of the 18th June is quite simple--walking out of the choking and debilitating ceasefire.

We need to quickly walk out this of ceasefire mode.

The deception game reveals the coming retaliatory move.

'Look,how magnificient my trial balloon is',said India's military.

The Indian media men of all hues,standing thousand of miles away,clapped,cheered and said,'Bravo,bravo'.

It totally alarms me in seeing how the whole body of Indian media,cuting across the imaginable tags of regional,national,pro and anti-goverment,suddenly became the mouthpiece of the military.I don't think it's the case of lack of will or professional ethics to fact check the Indian military's story.

To my mind,it goes way deeper than that.Delh's political class,together with the military,have a quite talk with all the media houses and then,they formed a 'team' for a brief collaborative effort in national interest.That's the reason why we saw total unanimity in cheering the Indian military's story and a zero effort at fact checking.Imagine how two most unlikely agencies,media and military,forming a team,however brief it may.It's totally alarming.It's the most dangerous place we are living in.

If they can go this far,the inevitable question comes to the fore--'Is the Indian military's story merely a trial balloon?'.

It's more than a trial baloon.It's a multi-layered deception play.

As the Indian military's story is in retaliation to the June 4 ambush in Chandel(my last post),we need to ask how that ambush came about.

That ambush is the retaliatory move to the killing of more than 40 Burmese soldiers in Laukkaing,bordering Yunnan province of China.

If we go a little bit further,it's quite clear that the Laukaing ambush is yet another retaliatroty move to the public announcement of the battleline,way back in Nov 2014.

Again,if we look at the anatomy of the above moves and countermoves,it's quite reasonable to infer that India would rather cut a sorry figure amonst the comity of nations if it jumps headlong into the loop of these moves and countermoves.But it must be noted here that India is the sole architech of this anatomy.This own deed of India now prevents it from jumping headlong into the loop,even if it desires so.Looking from this angle the June 9 story is proving something more than a mere trial baloon.So,what's the options available to it?To my mind,the only option available to it is to persuade some rebels groups of Manipur to strike at the eco-system wherethe Khaplang group is an important player.But the Khaplang group itself would not be the target because doing so would not make New Delhi's point.

New Delhi's point or the doctrine behind the coming retaliation is to make as muuch as trouble to Burma as during the Laukkaing ambush(subjecting China to such trouble would come at a later stage,possibly with the active participation of US).So,the coming retaliation would happen somewhere inside Burma.

All the above deductions tell us that there would be radical churns withn the myriad rebel groups of Manipur vis a vis their inter-group relationship.With the whole weight of the Indian State bearing on the effort to persuade some rebel groups to make the retaliatory move on its behalf,the inter-group relationshjp amonst the rebel groups of Manipur would witness a sea change.

To my mind,many rebel groups,without even the persuasion from India,would secretly help the groups(which are New Delhi's choices) in making the retaliatory strke in the near future.A lot of radical changes are coming our way.

The 4th of June--patterns and memories

When more than 40 Burmese army were killed,the result was border tension between China and Burma.

Now,China started a live ammunition military drill near Burmese border(rmeinding us that the border is still tense) and then,suddenly,17 Indian armymen were killed and more 16 injured in an ambush in Chandel district.

I'm more interested in the emerging pattern than the comparative statement of the casualities of the two attacks.

The pattern does not stop here.

When the Burmese soldiers were killed,Mr Rajnath Singh was in Imphal on an official visit.

When the Indian soldiers were killed today,Mr Ashton Carter,the US defence secretary,is still in New Delhi on an official visit.

Looking back,it's clear that it takes 130  days to discern the pattern emerging out of the two ambushes.The pattern makers in the first ambush are Burmese army,ethnic Chinese and one Indian Dignitary,Mr Rajnath Singh.And,today's pattern makers are Indian army,Chinese army(in the form of live ammunittion drill) and one US dignitaty,Mr Ashton Carter.

In our scheme of things,the first two pattern makers of the ambushes may be considered to be the constants.So,the two variables are Mr Rajnath Singh and Mr Ashton Carter.If we look back,it would be clear that Mr Rajnath Singh brought the news of the ambush here at Imphal.Looking at today's ambush with the same logic but traversing in the opposite direction,could it be inferred that Mr Carter is being asked to bring further 'patterns' in the near future?

Would Mr Carter accept the challenge?

The last but not the least.I would be acused of being wifully overlooking the significance of the day the Mnipur ambush ttok place.Today is 4th of June which coomemorates the culmination of the students protest in Tiannemain Square.Is there any pattern out of the Tiannemian Square bloodshed and today's ambush?

This is a profound question and I have not the time to read up further into the Tiannemian Square students protest.So,I'll try my best by depending on my memories.

Was Hua Gua Feng accused of being a revisionist?Was the huge blood shed at the Tiannemian Square a result of steady creeping in of revisionist thoughts within the revolutionary cadres of China?

As far as my memories go,the word 'revisionsm' seems to be the main theme of the 4th of June blood shed in the Tiannemian Squeare.Gooing with this logic,does today's ambush trying to hint at the emegence of revisionist thought amongst the revolutionay cadres of Manipur?

I have no means of answering this question because I can only utilize the information culled from the newsreports.Would Manipur's newspapers ever talk about the terms like 'revisionsm?

Knowing my own limitatioms,I think I have tried my best.

4 armymen for every 2 rebels killed?

Today's newspaper report proves beyond any doubt the existence of the shrouded,yet increasingly discernible,battleplan,as mentioned in the beginning of my next to last post.

The shooting down of the two rebels precisely at the right moment(when we were observing the general strike,as detaled in my last post) was possible only because of the grasstroot level intel provided by the villagers.Those villagers,together with the ones who 'unintentionally' killed the two labourers(next to last post),are being projected to have formed the backbone of the battleplan.

The story,so far,goes according to the script.

The script gets skewed when the rebel group waited till this morning to announce that those two killed were their cadres.

Why did they choose to announce it after a gap of four days?

Did they wait for the news of the shooting down of four armymen in Kashmir(25th May) getting splashed all over the media?

If that's the script,is it the case of 4 armymen for every 2 rebels killed?

Soul grab,then,land grab.

We are observing a general strike to protest the land grab at the Northen point of our State.

I think it's a must to put on record the following points in the context of today's general strike.

1) In the run up to this general strike,ISIS,in a surprsie move,executed some brilliant 'land grabs'.It has already tightened its grip on the city of Ramadi.Then,it,again,is taking control of the ancient town og Palmyra in Syria.With this,they are already in control of nearly half of Syria.

2) The US,all of a sudden,think it appropriate to fly a Navy's Poseidon recon plane ovet the Chinese-controlled Spratley islands in South China sea.The main theme of this US action is to accuse China of 'land grab'in South China sea.

Putting on records these points makes us to grasp that the land-grabbing exercise at the Northen point of Manipur is not just a simple matter.It does have significant international repersursions.More than that,it also brings forth the glimpse of the coming of the broad anti-West coalition,foring an arch from Iraq,Syria,Russia and the South China sea.

Then,coming nearer home,why a tiny populace,like us,would have any interest in the this momentous anti-West coalition?The answer lies in the fact that the West,in its own interest,wants the status quo to remain intact in this part of the world.To attain this objective,they are aligning with India.But we do not want the status quo to continue--we want change.Unless we actively take part in the working of this anti-West coalition,we cannot entertain any hope to bring the make or break change in our polity,in our society and in our lifestyle.

Having considered all these points,it's now crystal clear that the latest land grab was initiated by those groups who are ranging against this anti-West coalition.They are the Dark Side,people who do not like changes.We must also carefully take note of the timing of the latest provocation.To my mind,they are building up for something big to happen at around 10th of June 2015.I think I don't need to repeat what 10th of June is.

The driving force behind the Dark Side is the ancient civilization which excel in soul grabbing.When your soul is being grabbed at,you become a zombie.You are controlled by a soft power,a formless,ethereal and unobtrusive thingie.Coming from such a foe,you know that you are under attack but you are confused about where the attack originates.For example,in today's context,the following questions are really crucial--

1) Are the Mao commmunity,which give the call for today's general strike,our real friends?

2) Are the Angamis,who physically started the land grab,our real enemy?

3) Does a force instigate the Angamis to initiate the land grab?

4) Does the same force coax the Maos to give the call for today's general strike?

All these point to the fact that when you want to retaliate you don't know where to aim your counter-attack.Your foe is a soft power--a formless,ethereal and unobtrusive thingie.

We do have a formidible foe,who,for sure,needs to be defeated.

Modi ie RSS wants 'soul grabbing' for Akhand Bharat(just like the ISIS for their Caliphate)

They cold-bloodedly killed the two innocent men and then,said they 'unintentionally'killed them!

Just as the cold-blooded killings were made to happen on the eve of Modi's china visit,it's to be forcefully inferred to as a 'deceitful' part of the ongoing battleplan of India.Just as Narendra Modi starts his China visit,their 'deceitful'battleplan truly succeeded in showing us the initial glipmse of the scale of unrest that would descend on the tiny state of Manipur.

Now,come to Karachi.There,ISIS also cold-bloodedly massacred more than 40 innocent lives and I,for one,want to express my heartfelt sorrow for the huge bloodletting.

But they are,at the least,not being deceitful.They are opening claiming that they are responsible for the huge bloodletting.

I have no inetention of rationalizing the idea behind the ISIS.But,at the same time,there is no point in wishing away the ISIS by expressing occassional outrages at their bloodletting.As something that's happening around us,it would be wise for us to make sense what they are and what they are upto.

In the Calipjate,the Koran is the sole law.And,in the Koran,Shia is the blasphemy itself and it sanctions to annihilate all things blasphemous.In ISIS Caliphate,they are executing what have been sanctioned in the Koran lock,stock and barrel.The Koran sanctions executions and so, there are continual executions inside ISIS Caliphatte.(I,for one,never ever watch an execution video of the ISIS because it would be too distasteful for me).Christians are permissible,albeit with a tax.They
are expanding the Caliphate in preparation for the final battle where the Anti-Messiah would be slain,in a battlefield that would take place in,of all places,Jerusalem.

For this preparation of the final battle,ISIS demands full and unconditional allegiance of all the Muslims of the world.

In other words,what the ISIS is doing is the massive 'soul grabbing'exercise for this final battle.

Now, the theme of Narendra Modi's China visit is 'Asia for Buddha'.In other words,Modi,just like the ISIS,wants a watered down 'Caliphate'--the 'Greater India'--where Budhism is the unquestioned law,if not the sole one,like in ISIS Caliphate.

To this,add the RSS idea of Akhand Bharat.The RSS wants the whole of Pakistan,Afghanistan,Nepal,Tibet etc to be merged with the Indian Union.This super India is what they call the Akhand Bharat.

In other words,the RSS is doing a massive 'soul grabbing' exercise for their watered down 'Caliphate'.

So,what's the difference between the RSS and the ISIS? Why we continually express this monstrous abhorence for the ISIS? Why we are taking the RSS as more or less acceptable?Why?

The only difference I can see is that massive bloodletting and cruelty of abnormal kind are associated with the ISIS whereas the RSS is deemed to be meekly.

But this 'meekly' Modi is dreaming of grabbing the soul of whole of China by using the Buddha.

Feudalism and liberation--their endless antagonism

When I read this story,an inner voice immediately told me that the CPI(Maoist)is about to embark on the next phase of their struggle.

Sure enough,the RSS men retaliated really fast.Today,Narendra Modi(whom the RSS chief,Mr Mohan Bhagwat,publicly annuonced in Imphal as a RSS man) announced a Rs 24,000 crore steel plant,which will create 10,000 jobs.Mr Modi made this announcement at Dantewada.

Of coourse,we should not fail to note that all these are happening just a few days before the office of the prime ministershuip of the Indian state is about to get a first hand feel of the place where Maoism was born.

I'm not an expert in this field but I have this strong feeling that the RSS is the true heir to the progenitors of the caste system,which is nazism in its true form.

At the time of the formation of the caste system,peopl emaight have looked at the progenitors and exclaimed--'Look,how fair they are!'.It's not rocket science to presume that the lightness of skin colour might be a strong positive at that time.'And the elucidation!See how they have answers for any question!!'Again.it's not rocket science to presume that all the people at that time were mesmerised by the endless arrays of ideas and stories enshrined in the Vedas,Upanishads and puranas.

So,the people at that time were not given the chance to make choice on the fairness or unfairness of the idea of caste system.Astonistingly,they were totally bewitched by the simple exhibition of the appearance and capability of the progenitors.

Just like this,the RSS is bewitching the people of India right at the moment.People look at the people manning the RSS and exclaimed--'See the spartan way they are living their lives! How disciplined they are!!'Instead of debating the idea behind the RSS the Indian people,at this century,seemed to be totally bewitched by the simple exhibition of the appearance and capabitlity of the people who manage the RSS.

But there is one crucial difference now.

Another group of people who are quitely building up their strenght by living their lives as spartan and as discipliined as that of the RSS are about to present a choice to the people of India.They would be saying--'Make a choice between what we are offering and the offering made by the RSS'.

The CPI(Maoist) will be offering the true liberation of the Indian people by decisively destroying the feudal ideas and institutions.For this purpose they are being guided by Maoism,which,at least,in China was wildly successful in decisively uprooting the feudal ideas and institution.

And,the offering by the RSS?

Hindu Supremism,which is the extreme form of Nazism(which,in turn,can only flourish in that field nourished by feudal ideas and norms).