As humiliating as it may sound but since we don’t have in our society scholars to teach us humanity and deeper concepts and meaning of life, psychologist to explain us about the human behavior, economists to evaluate our economic system and predict the rise, inflation and crush of our market, rational political critics, futurist, food critics, active human rights society, corporate enterprises and many more essential sentinels in the system that predicts and checks the direction the society is heading and changes the outcome for the better survival of the people, for now let this rational explanation based on critical analysis about our society make the people see the truth, who have been blinded and misguided by the ignorant system steered by ignorant leaders.
Yes, a grave threat is shrouding the Naga atmosphere quietly but quickly in the form of drastic massive unemployment. The approximately three hundred thousands of qualified Naga youths (including those who work on minute pay scale workplace) who are unemployed and the thousands of freshly graduates who are dumped into the sea of unemployment each year is a note to be taken seriously. The another two hundred thousand Nagas who are not academically qualified has no hope for their future because we lack practical skills and the opportunity for menial and private jobs as even fellow Nagas hire only non locals for masonry, plumbing, construction, office peons, store manager etc. Considering our approximately two million population, this staggering data itself is beaming the red signal.
If this unemployment crisis is not checked and tackled with strategic measures ASAP then the already stagnant economy would totally collapse in the next five to ten years and Nagaland would suffer more than or like Germany after the First World War at which point it will be very difficult for our people to survive let alone recover from it. Famine and contagious diseases will spread like wild fire due to malnutrition. The rich of course would survive by buying their ticket out of Nagaland but the general public who have been robbed off their development funds by the so called govt. servants (lords) would suffer immensely when the clocks strikes and the truth that “Nagaland is a failed State” shows up from behind the curtain.
During the crucial point of no return times, the few thousands or lacks of rupees, once in five years which the politician pays to the people to buy votes will not be able to save anyone. Nor will the bureaucrats who donates hefty in churches and enjoys respectable status in their neighborhoods while looting the public in the office, let anyone enter their 7 foot walled palace.
The responsibility and ‘duty’ of the government authorities is to check every tiny loop hole in our system which could prove lethal for the society and come up with ways to dispense any kind of threat but in Nagaland the govt. authorities just like Freon and CFC depleting the ozone layer and letting the harmful UV rays enter the earth’s atmosphere, has created many big and bigger loop holes to such extent that aside from economic crisis, our national security itself is extremely vulnerable and could be penetrated easily by any means of threat in any form and every educated Naga is aware of that but still we remain to keep quite because the young have been told to listen and follow their elders or speak only after the elders, as it is in our customary tradition.
The young Nagas in no way means to disrespect the elder generations in any manner. If at times the attitude of the young Nagas appear to have been ‘impatient’ or reckless, it is only because times have changed and with it the emotional and mental capacity and personality of the people in the ‘Human Condition’. In our traditional customs maybe the young people were only meant to do what they were expected by the elders or speak only after the elders but in this global world and the 21st century, the young Nagas have expanded their human behavior and psychology to that of the civilized western countries which is progress in itself, without the aid of the govt.
We respect today not just our elders, we respect the ‘human rights’ of every age group and we also respect the rights of minorities like the LGBT community because we believe that everyone has the right to be who they truly are instead of being what people expects us to be. The young Nagas are tolerant and doesn’t judge people because of their sex, skin, religion, race, sexual orientations etc.
We may have left out the age old tradition of doing what we have been told by our elders only because education has provided us with refined ideals like liberty, humanity, human rights, equality and civil rights. What world would it be without individual liberty and freedom of speech and expression, our freedom to be who we truly are? And although the old Naga customs about the young being silent may have been fairly good for our society but today with the liberal voice of the intellectual young Nagas, our society could reach the heights of the western giants because we grew up in an era where we were taught to dream bigger and shoot for the stars. Doesn’t every Naga be it young or old want a civilized advanced Nagaland?
Now, isn’t the truth worth more than silence?
Liberal Democratic Party of Nagaland (Media Cell)
