Thepfulhouvi Solo
Greek mythology has a story which says King Midas captured Silenus who happened to be a companion of the Greek god Dionysus. Midas treated Silenus kindly; that pleased the god and granted what Midas wished for. The King wished that everything he touched might turn into Gold and it was granted him.
When the Servants brought food to the King, he touched them and it all turned into Gold; Midas touched his daughter and she too turned into Gold. The King was starving to death; then he realized his error.
So Dionysus asked him to go to the river Pactolus near Sardis and take bathe. The King did that and was released from the unfortunate blessing; that is how the river is said to produce alluvial Gold in that land!
There is another very interesting story about Midas: It is very short and so let me tell you. The story has to do with the ear, the part in the sense of hearing:
Dionysus asked Midas to judge the music between Apollo and another; Midas foolishly decided in favor of the other; the great God Apollo got angry and turned Midas’s ears into that of an Ass.
Midas concealed his ears under a kingly Turban and made his Barber swear never to tell anyone. But the Secret was bursting inside the Barber, so he went and whispered it into a hole in the Ground. Weeds grew from that spot; the wind blew the seeds away and that is how the secret story spread all over the place!
Very many persons in India, even prominent personages like Amartya Sen, Kuldip Nayar etc and the prestigious New York TIMES did not expect Modi to become the Prime Minister of India; one respectable Gentleman in India even said he would not live in India if Modi becomes the Prime Minister. Kejriwal was hopefully expected to defeat Mr. Modi from Uttar Pradesh but the expectation turned ‘ulta’.
An unexpected miracle seemed to have swept over India overnight and now the improbable Modi is poised to become the undisputed Prime Minister of India!
What this forebode for India is anxiously awaited particularly because of a few inordinately delayed anxious Agenda Items in the BJP Manifesto for the Election: Will the expected Gold become an unfortunate blessing for Nagaland?
Not completely; India is too diverse, too big a dimension; the population too unmanageably numerous and diverse that even Modi would not be able to convert it into a Uniform Code. The RSS may like to control him; but if he is conscious of the worth of his Name fifty percent in the Election success of his Party; the RSS may succeed only partially. In Gandhinagar, in his victory Speech just after the Result of the Election, a seemingly relaxed Modi spoke about Inclusiveness of all and Development of every part of India; that is hopeful, I believe that is of some significance.
As for Mr. Neiphi Rio, Modi’s friend; the former Chief Minister of Nagaland’s political Intuition seems to have stood him so very successfully. Almost anything he touches seems to turn into political Gold for himself. There is no doubt his advance congratulation to Modi before final Result, the migration of a strongly Regional Party Christian Religion Chief to mainstream National Politics of India, the blank chit Assam Gana Parishad got in the Election, would profit Neiphi for Accommodation in the BJP Train. Such luck and political acumen surely must ensure for an AC Sleeping Birth in the BJP Coupe; already Nagaland is recorded in the 2014 Lokh Sabha Election victory Book as ‘BJP+1’!
Nagas and Nagaland may already be making their first one Step in their Thousands Mile Journey to becoming an indistinguishable chip in the mainstream India, all Nagas are disinclined to for a long time. History may give credit to Neiphi Rio for that Debit in the Account of the Naga and Nagaland!
