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Fatal flowering
Guwahati, March 27: In the life of a farmer,
flowering or fruition usually constitutes a happy period, brimming over
with potential of a good harvest. In Mizoram, it's time for fear to
take root. Even though it happens only once every 50 years ...
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For The Mizo Concord
Opportunities must be created for the most deprived to have their say in issues affecting them.The
game: 'Building Mizo Society'. At first, at the creation of Mizoram, a
large number of closely related ethnic linguistic groups came to form
the Mizo state. The ...
NORTH EAST SECURITY
Recent debates in the media on the law and order problem in North East, as also the validity of Armed Forces Special Power Act, had raised interest among the general public as well as human right activists. From the points ...
THE ORIGIN OF THE CHAPCHAR KUT
In the halcyon days of Mizo History, around 1450-1700 A.D. (no-one could tell the exact time), a Kawlni Chief ruled over the most famous and most populous village called Suaipui. Geographically this Suaipui village of the ancestors of the Mizo ...
HERITAGE OF MIZO TRADITIONAL MUSIC (An overview)
R.L. ThanmawiaEvery Society has its own traditional music and in every society, folk music is as old as the age of that society. Some Indian cultures have very long musical histories; but Mizo culture does not have such history. Yet ...
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UNVEILING THE MYSTIQUE
Rachana Bhattacharya(Courtesy Discover India) In Mizoram, tranquility does not come packaged, but unfolds quietly. It is a place that you must feel and experience, not just read about. Travel to Mizoram by road, stop at its villages, smell its essence. ...
PEACE & HARMONY WITH NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES!
The first provision to "protect the environment" was made in the Forty-Second Amendment to the Indian Constitution. Passed in 1977, this Amendment responded to the Stockholm Declaration adopted by the International Conference on Human Environment in 1972. The Declaration laid ...
SERVICE TO GOD THROUGH MANKIND
When I was reading in primary school, before commencement of the class, we used to sing a prayer song daily - "O Lord, we thank you for giving us food and all that we need. Help us to serve ...
Building Community Assets
What is "community spirit" in terms of money to a village project? Mizoram, where the people still live by their traditional code called "Tlawmngaihna", is an ideal place to find the answer to this important development question. Tlawmngaihna as ...
Music - A Channel of Peace
Mizoram's well-loved song-writer and composer Vankhama, in the title to one of his songs, had long christened his native land as 'Rimawi Ram', the land of music. Yes, it was not so long ago that the hills of Mizoram were ...
I REMEMBER
I remember the story about a Punjabi who went to England. He incessantly talked about the land where he came from - the flowing milk of Punjab, the vast wheat fields of Punjab, the beauty of Punjabi girls and ...
THE CIJW SCHOOL IN MIZORAM
Mizoram is perhaps the only place on earth that has seen the worst of insurgency and the best that peace has to offer. For twenty long years, the Mizo land and people were dragged through unrest and violence when the ...
Peace_
Peace _what would it mean in today's context? Especially in the light of the two decades of peace in Mizoram? A literal dictionary meaning of the term makes us realise that peace has been described by most lexicographers as ...
What Price, Twenty Years of Peace in Mizoram (1986-2006): A Kuki Perspective
In the year 1964 the Kuki National Assembly and Manipur Mizo Integration Council passed a resolution to achieve a single administrative unit for the ethnic group. The resolution was signed by Holkhomang Haokip, General Secretary of KNA and Ex-MP, ...
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Of Peace and Development in Mizoram
A truism that has often been used to explain the lack of development in a region affected by armed conflicts of one kind or another is: peace and development are indivisible and where there is no peace, there can be ...