Initiative Mindset Today for Tomorrow

When people speak mostly in ‘burrowed-words’, respect not God but pray for ‘show’; ‘patriotic’ to gain ‘popularity’ without sacrifice’; follow deceptive democracy to gain ‘power and wealth’ for self and the Government weak in umbilical connection with the mindset of the represented; then, the land the Creator paid the price with his ‘only begotten Son’, is in trouble today for tomorrow.

It is the head-hunting Naga tribes, not the civilised, sui generis, that gave the blessed but nameless land its name ‘NAGA HILLS’; and living in mountain tops for security, the fiercely independent democratic Village Republics, for the last nineteen centuries of the Christian era, preserved the Naga People Group to date, in interesting proposition to contemplate their identity.

The institution of Angh-ship of the Konyaks with absolute power, secular, political and ecclesiastical authority over its people; and to a lesser extent, the Sümi Zhümomi chieftainship system, would have laid a difficult dispensation for the radically independent tribes to form a seamless political Naga People Group of Republics.

The British colonial power bought strong common just and democratic law and order in the Naga Hills, providing initial necessary structural framework for a common Naga political house to build on.

The Cross of Jesus followed wherever the National Flag went and had the British colonial flag come to the Naga country a decade late, the universal Christian light would not have found the pagan Naga tribes; and the darkness of the caste system and worship of false God would have overwhelmed the simple ignorant inward-looking Nagas to an unfortunate population of castes, dalits, untouchables and scheduled tribes, excluded from the Hindu temples but included in the Hindu System of life for their vote banks; the Mongolian Meiteis of Manipur and the Ahom Tais of Assam endeavour hard today to come out from their past historical ignorance.  

‘People live Today for Tomorrow, there is no Tomorrow without Today’; and Dr. Khriezo Yhome’s recent compositions on ‘Ideas and norms that shaped Modern Naga Society’ broadens Naga mindset for the future.

The last sentence of his composition reads: “if the Nagas don’t set their own agenda for the future, others will set it for them”, and I also like to add an initiative emphasis: “if the Naga lose his or her tribal identity today, they may lose the possession of their future National Identity Tomorrow.”