A humble appeal to the over burdened Manipuri
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: August 09 2011 -
Dear citizens, we have the seen the best of times and the worst of times. Right now we are in the throes of a nightmare.
This nightmare is the product of our ignorance and the actions of some of our friends who share our hearth and abode.
We live in a home we can no longer lovingly describe as 'home' to our beloved children. We have disdainfully cast aside our cherished values, collated over the centuries by our past generations, preferring instead a synthetic culture which we in our myopic understanding of modernity refer to as 'progressive culture'.
But the virus does not sleep, it is working overtime and without a moment's rest is eating into our vitals.
There are many senior citizens who weep at the follies we persistently commit.
If these current batch of leaders keep preferring to term our cross legged approach to the future as 'progress' it is high time we as voters enforce their retirement.
Some of them should seek better avenues of earning other than corruption. Let us teach them to earn money the hard way. And for our children’s sake let us wean away from living in a world of 'schedules'.
In our efforts to please all and satisfying none, our children are suffering from 'scheduled' induced worries. Of course, one is speaking only about the Manipuris.
It is never, never easy to run a government, a society or a nation, that is, even to the best of leaders.
But what happens if governance is in the hands of people, who when you peer deeply, find their pupils filled with images of currency notes and polling booths and nothing else?
It will be like finding the Devil sitting on your bed. Your instinctive reaction will be to jump straight into the arms of the person nearest to you.
But how is it that we have reduced ourselves to this pitiable condition of a social reality? For one we have this self induced delusion that good has been replaced by evil.
We even teach our children that being good is no longer the desired or cherished goal in life. Ours is now a society where parents intending to make their children informers see that they receive speech lessons to become first rate informers who can inform clearly and succinctly.
It will be a painful step, but we have to learn again to keep our values and visions intact.
We cannot let Manipur be a rudderless ship.
Let us not shame our departed ancestors to weep in anguish.
Let us all rise together to keep our tryst with history.
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