Our Correspondent
Kohima, Oct. 29 (EMN): Hectic preparations are underway at the Naga Solidarity Park, Kohima for the forthcoming commemoration of the 100th year of Naga Club being organised by the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF). The event will be held on Oct. 31 ON the theme ‘celebrating the legacy’.
Although the centenary celebration of the Naga Club has been smeared with controversies, the NSF has made it clear that by celebrating the event, the federation ‘by no means claim ownership of the Naga Club’. The student body holds that the formation of Naga Club was epoch-making for the Nagas towards realisation of identity and social, political consciousness, and started the Naga journey of collectively responding to the changes of time and envisioning a shared future. “The NSF feels the Naga people should celebrate this glorious legacy and take time to retrospect and introspect and thus find inspirations to continue our journey with renewed vigour,” the federation had pointed in a recent statement.
The commemorative celebration will be graced by Philippus Petrus Visser, United Nations (UN) consultant for Peace Building and Dialogue as an honoured guest, while Tapan Bose, former Secretary General of South Asia Program for Human Rights will share in brief his ‘journey with the Nagas’. They were said to have arrived Kohima this afternoon.
Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of the ongoing preparations at the venue on Monday, NSF officials informed that around 3000 delegates form the entire Naga inhabited areas— Nagaland, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur in India and from Myanmar—were expected to attend the event.
The commemorative programme will be an occasion to reaffirm the pledge of our ancestors, the federation officials stated.
The programme is scheduled to begin with unveiling of a commemorative monolith at the Naga Solidarity Park at 9.45 am and ‘a heralding call and invoking of traditional blessing.’
