The 21st century, which is running now rapidly towards goals.....goals of what kind?
Democracy, Free Thinking, Open Power, desire to be powerful, as much as can. People had no time to think of peace and prosperity.
As they are driven by the thrust of longing to be No. 1 . and, to somebody the way to reach its goal is to used its military/weapons might, leaving their own thought of integrity. The first word, which describe intergrity, in the simplist way is the word "honesty".
To fully understand the word 'integrity' of what does it really means, lets put this simplest way, by asking to our ownself: Am I the most honest person? Am I being honest to my nations, to my state and to my family?
Today, high percent of people to think that there is no way to be honest in everything we do. They think being honest and fighting honestly for to bring peace in the
modern society and would not retain the goal we set.
On this kind of situation, would we throw out the way of honesty and choose the other way, which is easy to used but will bring enormous chaos in the end. People are demanding certain thing, which I think there is no point to arise, such question.
Children demand their needs and requirement to their parents, which parents happily fulfilled their children wish, even by sacrificing their own happy times. And, what it will be the situation, if children started asking to give the land and bread, of which their parents were breathing in.
This is exactly, the situation which we are facing today in our Manipur. In the earlier times, Manipur was masked for its beautiful mixture of diffrent people, from all the background of people following Hindu, Christainty, Muslims etc..
As the times changes, different situation arise, now, whether its by naturally or accidently. People instead of fighting for uniformity, started asking for a division of land. Now, 'chingmi-tammi', were asked to fight for their own individual face.
Question always arise, now, here and there, Why different groups of military activities arise and...... What's their Demand..????
On the other day, on our very Fresher's party's meet, one of my colleague from my class was caught on the same question, And, I was surprise to know that people where forced and wrongly guided to understand the term 'chingmi-tammi'.
It is not only, that my only colleague's opinion will bring a different mind set to other outsiders/listener, but now thousands of people are mis-defining the word 'chingmi-tammi'.
And I am leaving this same question to everyone and, if possible try to define beautifully the very word 'chingmi-tammi'. We demand loyalty to our ownself, to formed a community of unity and diversity.
Last but not the least.......one question ??????
Are we paying integrity to our motherland?
* Sonia Thingbaijam contributes for the first time to e-pao.net . The writer can be contacted at [email protected] . This article was webcasted on 12th November 2006.
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