(These questions may be directed to the whole or parts of the groups. Reader’s discretion is advised. The following questions have first being published in The Naga Blog but the writer was compelled to publish it in the local dailies due to overwhelming request from the esteemed readers.) Khasüho Kezo Dear Parents 1. Do you think government jobs are the only jobs for human beings? 2. Don’t you know our govt. offices are already overcrowded with undeserving backdoor appointees who have stolen from the rightful candidates? Dear Backdoor Employees, 3. Why do proudly call your jobs as blessings from God when he is against stealing? Dear Bureaucrats, 4. Is stealing public funds and calling it blessings from God justified? If so, how? Dear Contractors, 5. Why can’t our roads last for a full year? 6. Why do you draw your completion bills when your project is only half-done or not even started in many minor projects? Dear Politicians, 7. Why do you contest elections? To present the miseries and problems of the people to the government and reduce them or to aggravate more? Dear Voters, 8. Why do you take money from politicians when you want good leaders? Do you think politicians can solve all your problems and miseries with money? Dear NPGs, Well I have a lot of questions for you... 9. Don’t you call yourselves Government of the Peoples Republic of Nagaland and collect taxes for that? Where do our taxes go? Where do we find a single primary school, a dispensary, a single kilometre of blacktopped road or even at least a public well constructed with our money? 10. What do you think when you celebrate our so called Independence days inside your camps designated by Indians and in hiding jungles while Indian Independence day is celebrated on our best and main grounds? 11. Why do you split if not for money, fame and power? Or do you have a better idea for Nagas problem which you alone can solve it? 12. Don’t you think the people will happily donate our money if we see that you are genuinely dedicated to sacrifice for our struggle? 13. Is it not your so called “National Struggle” a status quo to your existence? Dear NPG Tax Collectors, 14. Why do you demand taxes with threats from honest earners and take home along with all the curses for yourselves, family and generations when you should be sympathetically pleading for it and receive blessings and joyful giving? Dear Police, 15. How do you get drunk while on duty? 16. Why do you arrest innocent poor people while you have lots of real and original criminals to arrest and fill your cages? Dear SBI Bankers, 17. Could you be a little more polite and courteous to your clients? That would make their day when they visit! Dear Doctors and Nurses, 18. Could you be a little more gentle and graceful to your patients? That would relieve and ease their pains even for a short while. Dear Naga Traders and Entrepreneurs, 19. Why are your prices too inflated and your mouths too poisonous? Don’t you want our economy to grow within ourselves? Dear IBIs, 20. Where do you get all the fake papers to enter our land? 21. How can you speak so sweet to pull out our money from our pockets when thats whats left of us? Dear Teachers, 22. Do you teach for the love and passion of teaching? Or is it joblessness, money, teachers’ training or accidentally passing RMSA and other exams that dragged you to this profession? Dear Newspapers, 23. What is the worth of our money for news when your pages are filled with advertisements, acknowledgements, obituaries, felicitations, tribal programs, declarations and information? Dear Church Workers, 24. Why do you keep praying for health, wealth, long life for the politicians, NPG leaders and those selfishly crooked NGO leaders while you know you should be rebuking and correcting their evil ways? Or is it because they saved you from nit bit troubles and covered it up with bullshits? 25. Have you lost courage as witnesses of Jesus Christ and endorsing the otherwise? Dear Full time Church Workers, 26. Why do you knowingly trespass Biblical doctrines and call it humane while you should be living exemplary lives professing your faith? Why did you choose in the first place to be in full time ministry if you are willing to submit and kneel to worldly and humane ways? Dear Theologians and their Parents, 27. Why do you study theology if not for the deep passion to learn, understand, preach and live like Christ? Dear Young Nagas, 28. Don’t you frequently hear changing our thinking and ways, our society our communities, that corruption is evil, that corruption is evil, etc.? Would you grow up in the same old traditions and tell the same old things you heard to your children? Or would you really do something to end this wicked cycle? It is our choice whether to walk into history that we are the people who saw, heard, felt and suffered colossal vice and wickedness in our society but did nothing more than finger pointing games, criticisms, condemnations and being self righteous. Or, walk into the glorious history that we are the people who walked out of this wickedness. As 2016 draws to an end, let us all introspect within ourselves and see what though little and insignificant things we can do to make our little land a little better and glorious place to live in. We profess ourselves to be Christians but many at times we find our words and deeds in rather complete contradiction with our Faith. I know there is a little light if truth, loyalty, faithfulness, honesty and justice within each one of us ready to shine incandescent but only if we ourselves allow it to shine a little brighter. A little act of kindness for humanity may vanish without notice or reward but the seeds will surely yield. May these questions resonate in the minds of each of the valued readers through the New Year and the rest of the days until then!
