Thepfulhouvi Solo
IFS Retd. (RR-68)
THE Nations were suffering from Corruption, slow Economic Growth, Unemployment, Nepotism of long-ruling Dictators and Citizens were smoldering in anger at the corrupted Government. The Government appeared only for the privileged, the Haves, for their Nepotism and the Powerful continued without end.
The Government rebounded again and again with widely publicized democratic Elections. The captive Electorate repeatedly elected the privileged, the rich, the nepotism and the Public continued life as before. Change never came to the land.
he situation needed an event to set the smoldering conditions on fire. This was 2010AD in many of the Arab Nations. Then a small-unexpected incident in Tunisia set the Arab Nations completely one after another, in what is call the Arab Spring Revolution.
A qualified Engineer from a poor family went from Pillar to Post without end in Tunisia in search of Employment but got nowhere. Every place, everyone turned him down even for an ordinary job. He had no money or connections and bribe his way through the corrupt System.
Ultimately, for the survival of his Family, Wife and small children, Mohamed Bouazizi, the Engineer started to sell Fruits and Vegetables in the Market Road side in a Push Cart.
The Municipal Man asked him to remove his Push Cart away from the place; Bouazizi did not have money to bribe the Police.
What exactly transpired next is not known in detail. The Police is said to have beaten Bouazizi in the Market Place and unable to accept the injustice and humiliation, Azizi immolated himself.
This story of injustice to a poor family struck chord with thousand others in Tunisia and in the following weeks Tunisians poured out in the Cities against the decades of nepotism and corruption against President Ben Ali and his Jezebel wife who fled the country.
Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Morocco and Jordan Leaders, and the exasperated Public came out into the Streets against their Rulers. One after the other the Arab Nations fell to the Spring Revolution.
Can REFORM unexpectedly and suddenly come to Nagaland?
In my Church in Nagaland, there use to be an ardent and respected Member, and whenever entrusted to, use to pray ardently for REVIVAL to come to our Church. I agreed totally with him in his prayer, however, I never expected Revival would come to our Church abruptly that time and there.
In spite of all of the Members being nice persons of good fellowship, I felt most of us were only as good or as bad as the ordinary, not the serious rigid and orthodox lot Revival likes to visit. Revival may not like to come to a Church mostly Lodicians.
Perhaps, as it looks, the Naga do not change abruptly in any way, neither in Politics, Social or Religious lives.
There are too many nice persons without conviction in any specific realms. In Nagaland today there are too less of the zealous to set the nice people on Fire for change in the Society.
The Naga Society may patiently continue to grow and wait for the Time of the Lord’s favor to ripen the Fruit. He did not did not speak to them for 420 years However, he looked at them always!
