“I was born a good boy; society ruined me”
Talking about global village, huh, when you can hardly find a place to park your bum with a peace of mind in Nagaland, unless you belong to that particular tribe at that given time! You find a peace of mind only while interacting with the so called Tephreimia, Khalaumi, Tsümar, etc, (forgive me for the spelling mistakes, if any!). Go anywhere; even the butchers have their own share in treating others! Ha, ha, intellectuals product, or had we any intellectuals in the past (apology to real intellectuals)! Raw Politicians using divisionism as their weapon and Raw Intellectuals backing them gives this Mix-Masala product found only in Nagaland. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to this unique land!
A balanced head guides the body towards the right direction, but a drunken sodden head leads a body to a nowhere direction. The so called intellectuals are supposed to be the head of the body, called SOCIETY. Today as we look into the Naga society, anyone who knows ABC is an intellectual! But hey, dear brothers and sisters and uncles and aunties; intellectuals of today, have you in anyway contributed to the cause of the fragmented Naga Society today?
Majority of Naga intellectuals suffer from a disease called TRIBALISM AND FACTIONALISM; it is this barbaric intellectual threat that is instilling hatred and all sorts of abominable values into the head of today’s youths. What is our understanding about global village? An intellectual, speaking his mind considering the interest of all the Nagas is branded as Anti-His-Tribe and Anti-Naga, Anti-faction, because every tribe and every faction wants a ‘Lion Share’ for themselves! Stupid competition has blinded one to see the good deeds of the other. Man, this is not cool.
Everytime an interesting write up comes up; many including me make it a point to go through, and interestingly most of these write ups bear a strong command of vocabulary and grammar; the maneuver of the use of language – quite commendable, but sadly the intention and reason behind is often evil and creates only divisionism! Intellectuals overall must understand that the Naga youths are interested only in your intention and reason behind your Write-Ups than the dexterous use and command over language! I guess all those are old-fashioned methods used when the people had very less understanding and reasoning ability (Inapplicable today).
Books written and that which pleases only the Indian government and demeans the whole struggle and suffering of the Naga people at any point of time, just to buy the sympathy of the Indians can not be accepted not books written in the name of the Naga people, but that which is smitten with the disease of Tribal-Divisionism cannot be accepted. We the Naga youths will have to understand that we must stand above the deep rooted disease of Tribalism and cheap factionalism making us a laughing stock in the eye of the world. Those filled with hatred, young or old alike, in whatever fields we have to understand that unless we do away with away with that inside us, our knowledge and wisdom would further poison the future Naga Society. Which intellectual are you?
Is it that to love our Nagas we have to hate the non-Nagas?! Man, no way. There’s been too much gap of understanding between the old and young today; both blaming each other. Most of the olds has failed to update themselves with the world of today; as such they cannot keep the balance of the advancement of civilization. The young people on the other hand have failed to see the evils of civilization due to lack of guidance. The matured people have more understanding, as such with an updated mind they can foresee both the good and evils of today, thus equip themselves to be wonderful counselors. Not all the influences coming from outside are evil; every young man and woman wants to look cool, and be cool. Young people are very fragile like an egg; you let loose it breaks; you tighten your grip and it breaks!
Is only the person who stands and address the public gatherings or the person who writes an intellectual? NO! Anyone who speaks for ‘LOVE AND PEACE’, and has the right understanding of what he/she is speaking, is a real intellectual. INTELLECTUALS, please HEAL OUR NAGA SOCIETY.
Joshua Sheqi
5th Semester
Kohima Law College
