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Bangkai Molemshu Nakha:
1. If someone offers you cash under the table then it is a reward but if you have to offer it to someone to get the work done then it amounts to bribery(it need to be stopped).
2. If you get a backdoor appointment then it is a blessing, when others get it, it becomes a corruption.
3. When you don’t go to work, you have an understanding. When others don’t come it amounts to negligence.
4. When you are denied a contract, its amounts to favouritism. When you deny it to someone, you are being impartial.
5. When you are punished, it amounts to inhuman act. When others are punished, it is justice.
6. When you are able to achieve it through unfair means, you are being smart. When others do it, it amounts to theft.
7. When you don’t get it, it amounts to denying of your rights. When others don’t get it, they didn’t deserve it.
The other day I was chatting with some elders and they were of the opinion, ‘khabi hoilebi, kaam kuri bo lagi’.
MY question is how much are we allowed to steal? Today you are in an influential position so you can get all the job done easily. What about the time you retire? What if the same person you denied his rights is in the position you used to be? Today you are in a position to dictate, how will you feel when someday you are dictated?
Why only church leaders are prospering and not the congregation? Why do churches complain when community services are not done, yet cheerfully accept the donations from those ‘sahabs’? Why are elected members more important to church these days than a missionary? Why are church buildings getting bigger but not the hearts of the members? Why do missionaries target only towns and cities and not remote areas? Or is heaven too far for those people? If you are worshipping a living God who is the author and the finisher of faith then why are you so worried because you are unable to buy a flat screen TV with a DTH connection? What faith will you profess? Or is heaven too good for the needy? I thought the crown was in heaven then why do we want to be only where the media has access? How are we supposed to define SUCCESS?
I hope offices don’t haunt you because none of your students qualified to work there.
I hope the land doesn’t haunt you because you denied a timely help to your patients.
I hope the roads don’t haunt you because your negligence led to untimely demise of some travellers.
I hope no shadows follow you around because your uniform haunted them during their childhood.
I hope heaven isn’t a lonely place because you are a stranger there. Still, how much should we steal?
THANK YOU NAGALAND:With love The Amur Falcons
Robert N. Solo: Nagas were in the media for all the wrong reasons for which I felt so ashamed but today after interacting with friends I felt so proud and happy. Nagas were trapping and slaughtering the Amur Falcon which were traveling more than 22,000 km every year, but last year the hunters became the protectors of the birds. 'The Guardian' one of the famous newspapers in UK tells, the Naga villages united to protect the birds. 'The New York times' also carries the similar news but the most wonderful thing is the same news appearing in 'The Indiantimes' on the front page. The success of this programme is not only because of the government but the credit also goes to the good heart of the Lotha people who campaigned so hard to protect the birds. Dear Lotha people, hats off to you and even this year when the birds come to your place, hope you will keep the momentum going.
(The Naga Blog was created in 2008 by Yanpvuo Kikon. This column in
The Morung Express will be a weekly feature every Saturday)
