STEM THE GROWING TIDE OF TEEN SUICIDES

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A friend of mine recently, narrated a very heart-rending incident of the suicide of a young engineering student in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. In a note left by her, she had stated that she was resorting to that extreme step as she could not cope with her studies and that though she had reached final year, there were still many subjects of earlier years to be cleared. 

She was staying with her younger sister, a first year student in a local engineering college.  Her father, a typical middle class parent with high hopes on children, who came from Kakinada to take her home after the examinations were over, was devastated to see her body. 

In her letter to her father, she asked for his forgiveness as she could not fulfill his great expectations of her and asked him to take proper care of her younger sister so that at least she could be of help to him. 

In another incident, a student from Kurnool, committed suicide after seeing the Eamcet result as she had not fared well. Both the incidents are very shocking and too deep for tears. Did they ever think even for a minute of how much of suffering they were subjecting their parents to? What was their failure in examinations when compared to the life-long misery brought upon their parents? 

I am reminded of a very touching book, ‘Does he know the mother’s heart?’ by an eminent journalist, Arun Shourie, about his 35-year-old Spastics child. There is nothing more precious for anybody than one’s own life and to come to a mental state of putting an end to it with one’s own hands is incomprehensible for those who have not passed through that stage.

Hamlet argued within himself why people hesitate to go to that stage of self-immolation, however powerful might be the reasons prompting to it, as they will be going to ‘an undiscovered country from whose Bourne no traveler returns’ and so ‘bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of’.

The moot question before us is: ‘Who is responsible for the situation where teenagers, in a fit of emotion, end their lives? The findings of a recent study by British medical journal Lancet which has identified suicides as the second leading cause of death among the young in India should lead to deeper analysis of the whys and hows of this phenomenon. We have been hearing of suicides by farmers, a shame to the whole country in the words of our great scientist M S Swaminathan, suicides in a large number for the cause of Telangana, a shame to our indecisive rulers, but those of young ones are of a different nature altogether. 

You and I and all of us are responsible for driving them to that stage. For the past quite some time, in AP, more than at other places, we have successfully indoctrinated them with the thought that getting a good rank in AIEEEIIT/Eamcet or whatever,  is a be all and end all of their lives. 

The desire for keeping up with the Joneses is on the increase, quite unmindful of other criteria for that spirit of emulation or competition. There is a mushroom growth of techno schools in every street to instill this thought into the young minds even at an elementary stage. Parents, for obvious reasons, are drawn to high-sounding names, concept schools, international schools and so on, whatever they mean. 

Has there been any attempt to impart moral or higher values to them through right counseling that there is so much life beyond a seat in an engineering or medical college?


P.S. Even as write this piece i have been listening to this song all day today. Its one of my all time favourites. Absolutely loves the lyrics...

This is a Mizo item from the inimitable Vincy. I had never thought Vincy to be  such a good singer but this .... "Suihlung zawng a leng ngei ang. I ngaihlai engkim bang i maw. Mahse lunglen tuar zir mai nang e. Min dem lo la mampui, kiang mai tang e." This is my sentiment right now...:-)Hope you will love it provided you know the meaning of the lyrics.

oh, that magical touch

The most power-filled form of communication is touch. In addition, the intimacy, the need we all have. Michelangelo understood this, the ceiling paintings in the Sistine Chapel, he chose touch to illustrate the life gave. Massasje comes from an Arabic word which means touch. Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, wrote in the fourth century before Christ: "The physician must be familiar with many things, and certainly antripsis" medical massage art.

Massage is medicine and helping with various diseases. It has a positive effect on migraine and diabetes, and it eases the condition of asthmatic patients. It also seems positive for hyperactivity. Massage has a positive effect for both the giver and receiver. Surveys touch applying effects made ​​by Touch Reasearch Institute (TRI). It turns out that the touchscreen also helps to improve concentration in autism. Physical touch-when not only the skin. A simple touch, an arm around his waist, one hand in another, a small string on the cheek can cause the heart to beat more slowly, thereby reducing blood pressure. Positive, good touch endolfiner release, the body's own pain till the middle. Research at TRI shows that massage also strengthens the immune system, even in HIV-positive, and lowers levels of stress hormones cortisol and norepinephrine.


 Touch is the first sense we develop, and the last to be erased. Lack of contact through touch affects the development and emotional well-being. Previously, physios professions that gave massages. Requirements for efficiency and profitability resulted in new therapies, ultrasound, short wave, laser, TENS, mechanical transaction, various gyms and personal training. Life-giving, healing and stimulating massage was too time consuming, and does not fit into a healthcare system that puts increasing demands for efficiency. 


Different massage parlours are located around.Some of these are  associated with something more suspect, and may be used without a referral from a physician. This sort of costly touch can probably still have an effect that contributes to mental peace and harmony, but maybe with a consequent sense of shame? The American pre-school does not have the staff allowed to touch students. This fear of today's hysteria about the judicial interpretations of the abuse of children. In France, teachers dare to show physical affection. This leads to less aggressive and far more harmonious child. Lack of contact of all ages can lead to emotional loneliness, anxiety, restlessness and decreased concentration. Let us take care of each other!


Tailpiece: A Japani came to INDIA...! He took an Auto to go to the airport, on the way a Honda overtakes ... Japani: HONDA made in JAPAN..... very fast... next a toyota overtakes Japani: TOYOTA made in JAPAN.....very fast .... Reached Airport & asked How Much? ... Driver: RS. 800 .... Japani: Why so expensive?? Driver: METER made in INDIA ........''VERY VERY FAST.....'' 

My Tryst with Cake making

I have not the habit to juggle the many recipes as festive cake will be created. But a Sunday afternoon, I was really doing-something-I-not-have-done-before mood and thumbed through the book with dessert cakes. Of all the marvels I stopped at the picture of a beautiful three-piece, high majestic case of a large, round glass dish. Frosting was chocolate brown, smooth and shiny. A large piece of the cake was cut, and cut surface showed three layers of moist vanilla coloured cream in a pastry, with a little aprikosmos on each team. Under the cover was a chocolate layer syltynt marzipan, both on top and sides of the round wonder. The lid was lined with a regular pattern of white marzipan rosettes with coctailbær. 


The recipe was far from new, it had been well hidden and not available for several years. It required not to go. It should be a cake for the big occasion. Now I decided that the opportunity was there. Sugar loaf was unproblematic. There I took my good old, the one called "sponge that never fails." It did this time too. Homemade cream cake, however, I was not so absolutely certain of. Egg yolks, gelatin, maisennamjøl, vanilla bean .... Yes, it should go smoothly. It was just to keep the heat low enough and not blend into nypisket cream too soon. Standby Time went fast. To be honest, it was no wait, for everything else took so long that the custard was cold enough. About Cream has the will, it came to expression now. Egg custard and whipped cream seemed to be enemies, they would certainly not be mixed. The thin, lumpy lubricants, only to remove. It's okay to stay close to the store, one that sells vanilla cream. And with a cooling disc featuring whipped cream at all hours. Marzipan was crunchy smooth with powdered sugar. Kneaded marzipan would roll out a spoon. Round spoon to the top was fine. But a four inch wide strip of thin marzipan to roll around the edge .... and liquid chocolate to cover the marzipan lid .... Why the hell had I not put me firmly into the latter part of the recipe before I embarked on this perilous path? 


Sunday night was moved to last night. No other than I had seen the picture of the elegant marzipan rosettes with coctailbær. There are many ways to decorate a round cake with shiny, bumpy chocolate glaze on. I placed a simple and straightforward approach. 
Kaka was absolutely wonderful - the taste. Not everyone is suitable as confectioners.

THE DARK SIDE OF INDIA'S MEDICAL TOURISM INDUSTRY

                                                ORIGINS OF LOVE : A REVIEW

Kishwar Desai, the author (pic courtesy:Google)

Every couple  dream of the ideal family, replete with a bunch of happy, gurgly babies, the pitter-patter of little feet and eventually a bunch of rambunctious kids. But what happens when this dream comes crashing down because one of the partners cannot have a baby for a medical reason? There’s heartbreak, dejection and often rifts so serious that nothing can heal a relationship. This is exactly where India’s designer baby boom steps in, in Kishwar Desai’s latest novel Origins of Love.

The novel throws light on the booming surrogacy industry in India and all the underhanded business that goes on in India’s many fertility and ART clinics. With the ART Bill still in limbo, there are several loopholes for medical practitioners to exploit and that is exactly what they do in this book. Despite the desperate childless couples heading to clinics in the country, these clinics seem to have one aim — exploit the clients and the surrogates. At the heart of all this money-making business lies a little baby, a product of IVF, abandoned with an ailment that leaves absolutely no hope for her future. But the Pandeys, the couple who run the IVF clinic where this baby, Amelia, was born, have no idea how such an error could have occurred. Until their friend Simran, an activist of sorts, steps in and offers to investigate. Her investigation takes her to London, to try and trace the source of this whole problem, all the time posing as a woman desperate to have a baby, no matter what or who it takes. But what lurks beneath is chilling — so chilling it makes you wonder what the cost of a human life really is.

The plot is interesting and Kishwar Desai successfully weaves in several stories together to form one electrifying novel. There are couples desperate to have babies, there’s a doctor couple promising to make this dream come true, there’s the tout who arranges for the surrogates and then there’s another doctor who is bent on running the ART clinic like a profitable business, all the time conducting his own little secret experiments on embryonic cells.

The outcome of it all has the reader gripped. What really works for Desai’s novel is the fact that it minces no words and brings to fore the booming but somewhat twisted medical tourism in India. Read it,for a glimpse into what really goes on in those little clinics that line nondescript streets, promising to make your baby dreams come true.

Name: Origins of Love

Author: Kishwar Desai
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

GHAZAL KA SAFAR (The journey of the Ghazals)

As I entered the swanky auditorium at the newly opened 5-star Hotel Avasa i was surprised to see all the seats  filled with music enthusiasts and ghazal lovers. The programme, as part of Hydourite 2012 was christened as "Ghazal  Ka Safar"- a grand romantic journey detailing the evolution of the Urdu literary form ghazal from 13the Century to the present. The concert brought together Sahitya Akademi winner poet Nida Fazli and ghazal maestro Rajkumar Rizvi on a pleasant evening marked by storytelling and spontaneous exchanges of creative interpretations of poetry and melody

The stage was lit with the presence of the poet Nida Fazli, musician Rajkumar Rizvi, his daughter Neha Rizvi, an upcoming ghazal singer along with a team of talented accompanying musicians on instruments such as harmonium, sarangi, tabla and acoustic guitar. Hyderabad based tabla player Javed Khan made a notable contribution by providing sensitive accompaniment to Ustad Rizvi's ghazal enditions.

According to Nida Fazli, the literary form "ghazal", technically known to be a collection of two lines poems(sher) sharing the same meter(beher) ia simply another name for love(mohabbat). It was first composed by versatile poet Amir Khusro, who was considered the godfather of Hindi and Urdu languages. In expressing his journey to find God, Khusro said,

        "Mandir bhi tha, uska pata tha,

         Masjid bhi thi uski khabar thi,

         Bhatkay idhar, bhatkay udhar,

         Khoja nahi upna hi ghar"

     (I knew where the temple was and also aware that the mosque existed-  I wandered here and i wandered      there; just forgot to check my own home.)

Rizvi successfully strung the couplets into songs based on popular tunes sung by musicians such as Jagjit Singh's " Kal chaudvin ki raat thi, shab har raha charchaa tera" or Ghulam Ali's "Hungama hai kyoon burpaa, thoidi si jo peeli hai". His command over raga based Hindusthani classical music was evident from the manner he developed the ghazals, sometimes using aakaar alaapa and at other times using crisp sargams.

In a span of two hours, poet Nida wlake the audience through a memorable journey delineating the history and evolution of ghazals. Strating with the creation of ghazal by Amir Khusro in emperor Alauddin Khilji's court, the audience was transported to Benaras, the city of the holy river Ganges, where poet Kabir wrote 150 years later

          Haman hai isq mastana

          Haman hai hoshiyari kya

          Rahein azad ya jag mein

          Haman duniya se yaari kya

      ( Why do I need to be careful? Being free in the world , What of the world's friendship do I need?)

Poet Fazal struck a chord with the audience when he narrated the story of emperor poet Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah(1580-1611) who fell in love with Bhagmati in the city of Bhagyanagar, married her and gave her the title "Hyder Mahal". Bhagyanagar city became the present day Hyderabad deriving its name from the queen's title. Qutub Shah wrote

          Piya baaj pyaala piya jaae na

          Piya baaj ek din jiya jaae na

          Qutub Shah na dey mujh diwaane ko pan

          Diwaane ko kuch pan diya jaae na

Rajkumar Rizvi involved the audience in an interactive session of clapping along to eight beat keherwa taal while explaining salient features of raga jhiunjhoti, on which the ghazal composition was based. Between Fazli's narration, explanation of the difficult Urdu words in the poem to his illustration of melodic elements of the ghazal, the audience was not only entertained but educated on various aspects of history, poetry and raga based music composition.

The next stop was Agra where lesser known poet Nazir Akbaraabadiu conveyed through ghazal the concept of God, common to all languages and religions was expressed differently in different languages. Allah in Arabic was the same as Khuda in Persian. Fazli drew a chuckle from the audience when he recited Akbarabaadi's couplet

           Masjid jo jaa raha hai who hai aadmi

           Jootay choorah raha who bhi aadmi

        (The person  going to a mosque ia a man as much theman, as the one who is stealing shoes.)

From Agra, the poet took the audience on a flight of imagination to the land of Gujarat and recited a ghazal  by poet  Wali Daqni that praised the father-daughter relationship.

          Jisay dektay hi khumari lage,

          usay umra sari hamari lage

Poet Fazli then introduced the audience to the ghazals of Mohammed Taqi known as Mir, court poet of Lucknow's emperor Wajid Ali Shah. His famous ghazal was rendered with feeling by Rajkumari.

        Patta  Patta Boota  Boota

        Haal humaara jaanay hai

        Jaane na jaane gul hi na jaane

        Baag tho saara jaane hai

      ( Every leaf and shrubs knows my plight....   The rose alone does not know what the garden knows...)

The spotlight was then on the ghazals composed by famous poet Mirza Ghalib and Nida Fazli recited them soaked in lyrical beauty.

The remainder of the vening was a continuation of the journey of the ghazal through various Indian cities where the works of classical and contemporary poets were introduced to the audience through recitations and songs.

HIDDEN WONDERS OF HEIDELBERG

Lange lieb‘ ich dich schon, möchte dich, mir zur Lust,

Mutter nennen, und dir schenken ein kunstlos Lied,

    Du, der Vaterlandsstädte

       Ländlichschönste, so viel ich sah....“

(Since long I’ve been loving you now, (and) wish to call you mother in my        pleasure or joy,

   And give you an inartificial tune,

    You(most) dearest in landscape amongst fatherlands,

          I have seen so far…)

   

the Verse was how Friedrich Hölderlin described what is said to be one of today's most romantic city in  Germany ' Heidelberg'.It took away the heart of the Famous Poet- Philosopher Johann wolfgang von Geothe who visted HD several times in his lifetime and wrote several poems describing the Autumn and the Spring in the city.What makes this city one of Germany's most popular tourist destination is hard to describe.

The city, which is a home of over 150,000 people, stands with its massive gothic and roman architecture in the south of Germany in the state of Baden würtemberg.Heidelberg lies on the river Neckar at the point where it leaves its narrow, steep valley in the Odenwald(wald for forest) to flow into the Rhine valley. 20 kilometres  northwest of Heidelberg, it joins the river Rhine at Mannheim. It is also a is part of a densely populated region known as the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.

No sooner had I arrived this university city by express train from Frankfurt International Airport,I was immediately taken in by its leisureliness and wanted to stand aloof from worldly affairs. It truly is one of the most charming cities I have ever seen. On my first day, apart from various churches including St.Peter’s Church and the 600 year old the Church of the Holy Spirit Church, I visited Carl Bosch Museum which shows the life and work of Chemist and Nobel Prize winner. I also visited German packing Museum which gives me an overview on the history of Packing and wrapping things. My host, an Adventist Pastor enlightened me that Heidelberg is 600000 years old. The oldest jaw bone of mankind was found in 1907 here and therefore name after the city as ‘Heidelberg man’

Heidelberg is also home to one of Europe's oldest educational institutions, the Ruprecht Karls University founded in 1386 by Rupert I Elector Palatine. It is commonly known as the University of Heidelberg. Among the prominent thinkers associated with the university are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and Hannah Arendt. The poet Mohammed Iqbal is alumni of this great University. Eight Nobel laureautes received their awards during their tenure here. Medicene,Philosophy.Anthropology and Physics being the highlights .

The most charming sites of this city is however the Heidelberg Castle and the Philosophen weg(Philosophers way)  On one side of the valley stands the Castle which was almost destroyed by the French. On the other side of the valley Philisophenweg (Philosopher’s Way), winds upwards through orchards and quiet leafy clearings to a series of peaceful viewing gardens – the perfect place for a picnic! We took a guided tour offered by ‘Heidelberg Marketing’ that took us to the castle. Sailing on the river Neckar in the world’s biggest solar-powered cataraman ‘Heidelberger solarschiffarhrstssi elschafty nott’ was amazing. Powered by the sun it glides along the river in a fifty minute round trip. We also went to the wine cellar Here we saw the largest wine barrel in the world- holding 55,345 gallons of wine. There is much charm in this old city along steep river shores

But Heidelberg is not just about the grandiose. The many alleyways offer up all sorts of delectable treats, including the Cafe Knosel. This legendary shop's claim to fame is the "Student Kiss", a nougat and praline delight that young swains purchased as a means to secretly declare their affections to well-chaperoned single ladies in the 1800s.

On the slightly more macabre side of things, the Karzer student prison is definitely worth a peek. The graffiti-covered cells once housed university students from the early 18th to the early 20th centuries who were incarcerated for everything from public brawling and unpaid debts to releasing pigs into the streets. It's fascinating to study the wall-to-wall graffiti from the different time periods, ranging from poetry and protest slogans to caricatures and signatures. Heidelberg is where one can observe the workings of man and nature over the centuries -- much of which still lingers in its modern day life. Little wonder, 3.5 millions of tourists from all over the world are drawn to experience the mystique of Heidelberg every year.

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THOUGHTS ON 'GREEN ECONOMY' ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2012

Forty years ago to this day, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched World Environment Day to raise global awareness about the environment, its protection and its deleterious effects on us if it is grossly neglected and abused. Every year, countries around the world mark June 5 as the World Environment Day to stir the conscience of billions of people; to make them pause and think about Nature’s gifts to us and safeguard them for posterity and for our own benefit to maintain a healthy personal life. 

When the Day was launched in 1972 at the UN Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm in the presence of representatives of 113 countries, 19 inter-governmental agencies and over 400 inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, it had lofty ideas; principal among them is to arrest environmental degradation. The conference had also drawn up a 109-point action plan and agreed upon a charter of recommendations.

The Stockholm meet could be rightly described as the launching pad for successive global conferences on climate, ecology, environment and green and clean energy campaigns. In these 40 years, several rounds of talks have been held at regional and global levels on ways and means of reducing carbon pollution besides campaigns for clean water and air, for increasing forest cover, for minimizing waste, among many other initiatives. 

The impact of Stockholm initiative could be seen, and felt, much more in Europe than in any other part of the world. In 1973, the European Union created the Environmental and Consumer Protection Directorate and chalked out the first environment action plan. Since then European countries have been following tailor-made green policies whose success is noteworthy in enhancing the quality of life there. 

The World Environment Day, popularly known as WED, is a yearly reminder to governments, organizations and people about the need to maintain our habitat clean and green and the event is devoted to a theme and commemorated in a city anywhere in the world. This year, the Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro is the host where a week-long international exposition focuses on the theme “Green Economy: Does it include you?” 

The general public has different perceptions about the green economy; for that matter, anything to do with green except envy. The word green itself is often misused and misinterpreted. It’s more so if it is green economy. The UNEP defines it as which significantly reduces environmental risks and ecological scarcities in an improved human well-being and social equity. In other words, it is low-carbon economy that uses the available resources more prudently and efficiently, minimizing the loss of biodiversity and ecology. 

Much importance is attached to this year’s WED as it coincides with the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Summit that was held in Rio in 1992. Incidentally, the Rio+20 Earth Summit will be held in Brazil later this month under UN auspices to draw a blueprint for a global sustainable low-carbon green economy, an effort made by world leaders at the 2010 Copenhagen climate summit but failed to reach a consensus on the mechanism to reduce carbon emissions according to a time-bound programme.

Nevertheless, the forthcoming Earth Summit should provide them with another opportunity to hammer out a plan agreeable to both industrialized and developing countries.But before that, it’s important for governments and people not to pay lip service to the WED with exhibitions and speeches. Environment protection is a matter of everybody’s concern, irrespective of the place where one lives. In fact, it is incumbent upon the people to safeguard it as a matter of duty.

Sadly, very few see it in that spirit; on the other hand, day and night the air we breathe, the land we cultivate and the water we drink are all polluted to such an extent that no law in this country is able to effectively halt the environmental degradation being perpetuated by unscrupulous and greedy elements, often with the connivance of officials and authorities.

All over the world, environment is a casualty in the development process. In modern history, no nation has grown without sacrificing its environment, displacing its people and raping the land and river systems. But if the process goes on mindlessly, it upsets the balance between Nature and human population, ultimately leading to disasters to which we are witness.

Striking a balance between development and environment is not easy; but efforts for sustainability of both are feasible and desirable. When no such attempts are made, local populace which is supposed to reap benefits from the projects being built upon their lands using the nearby water resources revolts against them. That’s precisely what’s happening in almost all the States in the country. 

Whether they are mega projects like steel mills, power plants, mining projects, etc. or garbage dumps and sewage treatment plants in urban areas, people object to their setting up simply because they pollute the surroundings and endanger the health of local communities. These are familiar stories all over the country; the kind of situations that call for solutions and this is where the WED’s 2012 theme is most appropriate.

Besides the measures governments take to cut pollution levels in accordance with international conventions, individually and collectively people can contribute a lot to keep environment healthy. The steps they can take to maintain clean surroundings, water bodies, air, greenery, etc. don’t involve huge amounts of money but a change of outlook and mindset. More important is the resoluteness to respect Nature and its bounty.

It’s an irony that in a land where people have been worshipping Nature in all its forms and manifestations for thousands of years and the scriptures and the ancient literary tomes eulogize the beauty and greatness of environment, seasons and natural elements and consider them as gifts or avatars of God, the very basis of human evolution and existence is threatened due to rampant exploitation of environment. 

When we think of the 2012 World Environment Day’s theme “Green Economy: Does it include you?” it encompasses not only the countries but their peoples also and their obligation towards saving the environment, both at micro and macro level. Then alone we can hope to see a better tomorrow.

AN EVENING WITH COUSINS

Music has always been an influencing factor in people's life. Music is not just for entertainment but people turn to music for enthusiasm and encouragement.

Having been confined  in  hospital bed since my return from Norway i was weak and disoriented. But when someone told me that the Colonial Cousins would be performing at Shilpa Kala Vedika- that too to raise fund for SPARSH- a hospice for terminally ill patients, a sense of deja vu coupled with  .My mind raced back to my Gauhati University days eleven years back, humming some of their populars songs like Its gonna be alright, from their first album and Guiding Star, I" love you girl" for Divya When I'm Gone, When am no more etc etc. After taking permission from doctors and nurses we headed to Shilparaman for the concert.

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The Auditorium was packed with music lovers clapping to their beats in unison and the orchestration is complimenting in creating a mood to match the slow swing of the tunes by the Colonial Cousins. The music of Colonial Cousins is a blend of many genres like blues, rock, folk and techno-beats with classical music. Leslie Lewis mastering the western music and Hari Haran donning the classical mantle make for a perfect balance for fusion music.  After the release of their eponymous album in 1996, the Cousins went on to make two more, The Way We Do It(1998) and AATMA(2001) before going into a lull.

One particular moment at the concert, that stood out from the rest of the concert was when Hari Haran dedicated the famous Tu Hi Re from the movie Bombay to a cancer patient Daisy on stage so much to the delight of the audience who were in tears by the end of the song. Following this was an electric Sa Ni Dha Pa that soon followed it to an encore. Leslie Lewis was in his element with his soaring vocals and breezy unplugged guitars.

Accompanying the duo were Paras on flute, Shadab on percussion, Keith on bass guitars, Chris on electric guitars, Kassy on drums and Darell on the keys. Sharon, Divya and Nisha accompanied the band with backing vocals.


Hari Haran's  vocals, influenced by his years of dabbing through carnatic, ghazal, sufi, film and world music set the mood for the night. His energetic and unpredictable persona onstage and his many quips with the audience ensured that the people stuck to their seats and asked for more. Together with Leslie, the performance broke barriers in time and language addressing love, prophecies of rain, people and social unity.

for the lOve of books and reading

                  “What  I  say is a town isn’t a town without bookstore. It may call itself a town,but   unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.”

   -         Neil Gaiman

   

                  A good bookshop is just a genteel BlackHole- that knows how to read.”  

                                                                                          - Terry Pratchett

When  i was  a student of Presidency College in Calcutta (now Kolkatta) in the mid 1990s, a good friend of mine once took me to hi old house- about 85 kilometres from Kolkatta. The oldhouse was still unlived in after the family shifted  elsewhere more than twenty years ago. We chanced upon a bundle of old magazines, books and school notebooks that were piled up in an obscure corner in a room adjoining the kitchen. My curiosity could not stop me from prying that open – and to our delight there was a collection of issues of the Illustrated Weekly Of India and the Reader’s Digest dating back to the 1960s. I sat down then and  there and started flipping through them. When we returned to Calcutta  I had yet another pack of reading material. Carefully dusted and aired to get rid of the humidity that had inevitably permeated in between the pages, these magazines have  since then found a place in my bookshelf. I have vividly read some of the articles of interest to me, a few of which I still remember having gone through in those days.

I love books and reading.

When i passed my ICSE(Xth class) examination  in First division, well-wishers and relatives showered me with cash gifts of over Rs. 2,500. With that amount,  my mom sent me to Guwahati to buy new clothes. At Guwahati i spent my time in visiting bookshops in Pan Bazar area. Luckily I found a ramshackle building that housed  new and old books in Chennikuthi area of the city. I was happy to find William Black’s Life Of Goldsmith and the unabridged The Vicar of Wakefield.  I love the Vicar of Wakefield since I was a student of standard fifth. Fr. Minj at the Donbosco School in Golaghat  frequently cited the biblical observation of Dr.Primrose: “I have been young, and now I am old; yet never saw I the righteous man forsaken or his seed begging their bread.” This observation, according to him, gave his poverty-striken father’s faith and fortitude as he  was struggling against odds in the maintenance of a big family. As I lapped it up Dr.Primrose and his merry wife and children had become to me my dream companions.

My month long stay at Bezbaruah khura’s(uncle) residence in Guwahati was spent in reading TS Eliot, Keats, Byron, Musset, Verlaine, Pope and others, and forget all about new clothes.I sat all day on a cement bench beside the Dighali Pukhri absorbed in books, quite oblivious of the outside world, enjoying blissful happiness. Perhaps the words of Wordsworth that  "Books are a substantial world wherein solid happiness can grow.” seem to have made a deep impress on my young mind. It was here that I first read Tales From Scott which  introduced  me to the charm and fascination of the narratives of the Wizard of the North. I can still quote lines learnt in those days.I had also got by heart the entire ballad Edwin And Angelina and adopted the form in an English poem on the sacrifice of Jwhwlao Doimalu.

I am an inveterate collection of books and reading material, literally anything and everything. I have plenty of books that were brought from the pavement in College Street in Calcutta for prices ranging from five to fifty rupees. College Street is probably so named because it houses many of the colleges that form part of the University of Calcutta which is found on that street. Booksellers line both sides of the pavement for almost a kilometre, and best of all they are open quite late at night, so one is in no rush and can browse leisurely to the heart’s content. I bought HG Well’s Outline Of World History and  Edward Gibbon’s Decline And Fall Of the Roman Empire for just Rs 65 and Rs.120 respectively. I also bought three great biographies which have remained my favourites – Boswell’s Life Of Johnson, Lockhart’s Life Of Scott, and Trevalyan’s Life Of Macaulay. I still read these books from time to time. As far as books are concerned, they defy the adage that familiarity breeds contempt: in fact it’s quite the contrary.

Books are indeed the most faithful companions; they never backbite, never shout back, never get angry or have moods. They are available to delight and give solace at any time of the day or night, and never resent being handled and fondled – some books are indeed objects of dear love. One such is Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, the anthology of poems in English which was the standard book for English poetry at Scindia School when I was a student. A friend took my copy then and never returned. Five years later i was in one of my favourite bookshops in Connaught Place in New Delhi when I came upon a facsimile edition of Palgrave’s – a hardbound copy for all of Rs.30 and it was the last copy there. No need to say that I immediately almost lapped it up!

Wherever I have travelled, and even if would be around for only a few days, I make it my business to find the bookshops around, and all my spare time is then spent on them. To places that I have returned frequentlyi have my favourite haunts, but as new outlets keep opening up, I keep busy visiting them also as time permits.In Shillong too, i was a constant visitor to the Government Public library, and it was my special delight to cruise through the authors in the open shelves. For all the love i have for my state, this is one thing that i miss most, bookshops of the scale and variety that are found in big cities.To compensate i make it a point to visitSynod Bookroom in Mission Veng and bought books in Mizo- a good number of them translated from English. With a  modest knowledge of my father tongue i tasted some, swallowed others and some few,  i chewed and digested. Still, from time to time one comes upon a little gem, and one such that i went through which i bought at a “Variety” shop at Serchhip in 2004 is about Chinese Medicine And Ayurveda. I paid the lady  fifty rupees. She was very happy and so did i. As I flipped through my catch i was amazed to learn about the parallels found in these most ancient system of medicine.

When i was in London in 2005 for training Foyle’s on Tottenham Street had provided me plenty of hours of joy. One- atleast i - can spend whole day in such bases of tranquility and quiet recollection, where the sense of time is lost and all bodily sensations get automatically suppressed as one becomes engrossed moving from shelf to shelf and floor to floor. When I went to the US in late 2008, my Pakistani friend Huma Yusuf took me to Barns&Noble outlet in Times Square, New York where like the CroSSWord in City Center at Banjara Hills one can sit on the floor and read, or go upto the canteen and do so, return the book to the shelf and move on to the next. There is no obligation to buy any book – but who can leave without doing so!!! When my sister was shifted to Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad in July 2006 I used to sneaked out to AKSHAARA- in Srinagar Colony the and spent a few hours in rummaging through stack of books. I felt myself relax and suddenly at peace. There are many books at AKSHAARA that  all tastes are catered for, and personally, i have never missed picking my lot from the book sales sections  every time i have been there. One of my prized possession is An Anthology Of Mystical Verse which i bought in 2006 for only a few hundreds literally a pittance for a large volume beautifully hardbound. There have been many such  acquisitions and explorations – and many more to come still, of that  have no doubt.

But Nilamoni Baidew and  Himadri aunt once ask in 2005 when they look at my lined bookshelves. Baba, have read all these books?. Clearly, no is the obvious answer. Unlike Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, whose collection i have seen in Teenmurti House where he lived as Prime Minister and which is now a museum. There are thousands of books, and I picked up several at random: each that i did had been underlined at several places, with handwritten notes in ink in the margins. What a prolific reader he was!

Although i have not read all the books that i have, i have definitely flipped through all of them and picked up nuggets that i will be delighted to share with friends, students and readers in future. Five to ten years down the line, I dream of owning a big farm back in my benighted Cinderella state of Mizoram and start writing. A journey to discover ‘natural living’ through its various interconnected dimensions will also began side by side with writing. All those unread books will then become valuable references to which i  hope will turn with increasing frequency. So the answer is, yes, by the by all of them will be read nevertheless.Which means that i keep adding to my collection, on my own and courtesy my friend, who knowing my propensity and my reading tastes surprise me with ever more titles. Bless then! But now, i must go back to my shelf- and so more later.

MAURITIUS THLIARKAR AH

Kum 2006 khan kum khat leh a chanve chhung  Common Wealth Fellowship ka hmuh ve avangin sapram (UK) ah awm tumin ka in ham buai ve a. Mahse ka hnathawh na ten lehkhazir theihna (sabbitical) kum hnih chhung chauh min phal sak avangin chu ka hun tha neih pawh chu ka ti hlawhtling thei ta lova. Chutiang ang hun remchang chu neih leh theih pawh ka in ring tawh lova a chhan pawh ka fellowship chu hun tiam nei anih avangin a hun chhung tur a lo zo tawh bawk si a. Chutia hmun dang a kal chhuah na remchang pawh hmuh leh beisei tawh mang lova ka awm lai chuan chu mi kum tawp lam december thla laihawl vel ah chuan Asiatic Society Library, Culcutta ami ka tlawh a. Dr.Karma Wangchuk, National Library, Bhutan ram a thawk nen ‘2^ndInternational  Conference on the theme of Mass Media’s Contribution to the Emergence of Public Culture in Bhutan’ a tana ka paper present ve tur materialsdap a kal kan ni nghe nghe a. Vanneih thlak deuh maiin ka thian kawm ngaih tak pakhat Roshni Deepa leh a thian te pahnih University of Mauritius (UoM) a mi Jadavpur University a workshop nei tur a lo kal te nen kan in hmu fuh hlauh mai a. Kan inbiak mek lai chuan ka thiannu chuan an thawhna University of Mauritius  (UoM) ah chuan zirtirna hna short term fellowship hmuh pah a ti ve turin min sawi hmuh a. Chu a thil min kawh hmuh chu remchang a la in ka buaipui ve ta a, kum 2007 January ni 3 ah offer letter leh a kalphung chipchiar (detailed term and conditions of the project) te min rawn thawn a, tin Mr.Nigel Richards, In-charge Centre for Applied Social Research  leh midang S.K. Sanjeev, Dean, Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities te hnena 19 January 2007 a in report tura hriattir ka ni bawk a.

January 19, 2007 a University of Mauritius a in report tura hriattir ni mah ila, chu thliarkar sik leh sa leh boruak chinchang te zirchian pahin tiin an beisei aia hma ni thum a Mauritius thliarkar chu thleng turin ka in buatsaih ta a. Tichuan, Mumbai atangin darkar riat zet kan thlawh hnu ah 15^th January 2007 ah chuan Port Louis International Airport chu kan thleng ta a. Immigration Official hmel nelawm tak te chuan ka lehkha pawimawh te an enfel hnu chuan khawvel hmun nuam leh mawi nia an sawi thin Mauritius thliarkar chu chuan turin ka ke ka pen chhuak ta hnak hnak a. Lehkha ziaktu hmingthang Mark Twin sawi dan tak ah “Mauritius ah i kal anih chuan Vanram pawh hi Mauritius siam hnua siam ni in i ring thei rum rum mai ang, a hmun a nawm leh mawi em avangin Vanram pawh hi Mauritius anga siam a ni ngei ang.”

Sik leh sa thu ah chuan a lum a tin a humid bawk. January thla ani a, mahse, chu ramah chuan nipui vanglai a lo ni tlat. Mauritius ah hian November thla atangin nipui a in tan ve chauh a, a kum leh april thla thleng a awh thin a ni. Tin thlasik pawh may thla atanga October thla chhung a awh thin a ni. Roshni leh Aveerah te chuan airport ah min lo hmuak a, anni chuan chu thliarkar chu tropic of Capricorn a hnaih avangin khawvel hmun dang aiin ni a lang rei bik thin tih thu min hrilh tel nghe nghe. Airport atang chuan ka thlenna tur Guest house lam pan chuan kan tlan ta a, ka thlenna tur hmun chu airport atanga 48 kms a hla Jumma Mosque bulah a ni a. Kan tlan pah chuan tlangkang in a siam tlangdung cham put te a hnuai a leilet hmun hring cham diai te chu ka hmu a khaw han hawi vel pawh a nuam duh khawp mai.

 Chumi ni tlai la la chuan Port Louis Central Market ah bazaar turin ka chhuak nghal a. China Town ka thlen meuh chuan khua in min thimsan ta a, dawr leh restaurant te chu an khar a ni ve ta nghal mai bawk a. Ka tehkhin tak ber chu Port Louis khawpui chu Aizawl nen in an na riau an nei a, zanlamah shopping na tur a awm lova, a reh hma em em a, tih tur dang a vang duh khawp mai.

Ka thlen atanga nikhat ni chuan Avery leh Francois ten min guide a, Place D’Armes, chhim leh hmar traffic inthenna atangin bul kan tan a. Chulai chu Port Louis lawngchawlhna hmun hmingthang leh upa tawh tak a ni. Lungphun leh hmun hmingthang chi hrang hrangte kan tlawh a, kan tlawh zingah chuan St.James Cathedral te, National leh Postal Museum chu a lar pawl a ni a. Tichuan chuta tang chuan Pample Mousses lamah Sree Wooseyor Ramgoolam Botanical graden a satel lian pui pui chi leh lily pangpar danglam tak (amazon lily pads) en turin kan kal leh a. Chuta tang chuan L’Aventure de Sure lamah ke in kan phei leh a, chu hmun ah chuan alawm Museum lian em em a awm a, Mauritius a chini(sugar) an chindan chanchin leh a history te kan va hriat belh teuh na hmun chu.

Fu (sugarcane) hi Maurtius ah hian Dutch hovin he thliarkar an awp lai kum 1598 atang khan an ching tan a. Hun a kal zel a, British hovin kum 1810 a Treaty of Paris an sign hnu a an awp hnu pawn an ching chho zel a ni. British hovin kum 1834 khan sal/bawih (slavery) neih an ti tawp a, a ai ah inbiak remna a hlawh nei a hnathawk tu chhawr (indentured labour system) an hmang a, chu pawh chu kum 1910 ah an ti tawp leh a ni. Kum 1834 atanga 1910 inkar chhung hian India mi nuai li (4 lakhs) aia tam mah heng fu chinna hmun (sugar estate) a hnathawk tur hian Mauritius ah hian an pem lut a ni. Tuna an Prime Minister  Navin Ramgoolam-a pu pawh hi chutianga hnathawk tur a pem lut te zinga ami chu a ni. Port Louis khawpui a mihring cheng nuai khat leh achanve (1.5 Lakh) dawn lai te hi India mi an ni. India company hrang hrang Aircel, Bharti Televentures, Patni Computer System, Ambuja Cement, Mantri Developers te pawn Mauritius ah hian sumdawnna an nei a. Chu chang ani lo,  Professor Basdeo Bessoondayal college a Bhojpuri class ah pawh French leh English bakah Hindi zirna hmun te an hawng a ni.

amazon lily pads (photo by Avery)

Giant Tortoise. Pamplemousses Garden  photo by (Aveeraj)

A nihnihna ah chuan chhim lam ah kan chhuak ve thung a. Grand Bassin, Hindu ho Pilgrimage na hmun atangin kan tan a, Black river gorges an tih lamah te, chuta tangin Chamarel, chhimbal rawng sarih hmuh kim vek theihna hmun ah te kan kal leh a. Tumah in chutiang chhimbal rawng chu engtin nge  alo chhuah theih chhan an hre bik lo, an sawi dan chuan chulai hmun chu hmanah brush hnuaiah a awm tawh aniang tiin an sawi thin. Pathian in mawi taka a siam tuifinriat chuan ka mit a la hle a, a chhan pawh  kawng rual deuh thaw in tuiin  a rawn chim a, tin a piah leh deuh ah Chamera tuikhawhthla (waterfall) 83 metres a sang hmuh tur a awm bawk a. Chulai hmun a kan awm lai chuan alawm khawvel awm tirh ata ka la hriat nagi miah lo ramsa au/hram thawm ka hriat tak ni. A thawm lo chhuahna lam pan chuan ka phei a, khawvel a ramsa vang tak satel lian chi (giant tortoise) a nu leh pa atak a han hmuh meuh chuan hmul thi a ding sung sung thei mai. Italian nu pakhat lo awm ve pawn “that’s amazing” tiin a au thawt hial a ni.

A nithum na ah chuan, Geole Mansion in 1830 kum a “Eureka” tia a lo sawi thin hmun ka tlawh leh a. “Eureka” tih hi Greek tawng a ani a, “ka hmu chhuak ta” tih na ani awm e. He tawngkam hi kum zabi sawmpasarihna (17^th Century) lai khan Archimedes-a’n rangkachak thlit thianghlim dan a hmuh chhuah tum a thu sawi atanga lo chhuak a ni. Mauritius a Eureka hmun hi a hming nen pawh a in hmeh hle a, ram 50 acres a zau lek mah ni se tukhawhthla mawi tak te, lui dam tak te, hmanlai in ropui tak lian bawk si kawngkhar pawh 109 lai nei leh a sak dan hmel hmang pawh namai lo tak ten an hual vel a. A hmun leh hma te chuan bawk te hial khawh min ti chak hial a ni.

Eureka atanag ka chhuah hnu chuanPort Louis khawpui hmunlai li a 1^stCathedral Square an tih hmun ah ka kal a, chu tah chuan sumdawng lian tam tak Global Buziness Company (GBC) ten hmun an nei a, chung building ropui tak darthlalang a in hung chhungah chuan a maktaduai hisap zela pawisa hmanga insum dawn tawnna neiin mi an hman hlel a. India rama company lian kan neih ho zawng zawng deuh thaw hian helai hmunah hian hmun an khuar ve a ni. Mauritius hi tuifinriat kara awm anih avangin lawngchawlhna hming thang tak a ni a. Tax (chhiah chawi) lamah pawh dan leh dun fel tak an nei a, double taxation a ngaih loh nan tiin kum 1983 khan India nen treaty an sign a, ram pahnih (Mauritius leh India) a sumdawnna nei te emaw hna thawk te chuan an mah ni rama an hawn in emaw hna an thawh laiin tax(chhiah) vawi hnih an chawi ve ngai lo a ni. Financial Daily, November-December 2007 in a tarlan dan chuan Mauritius atanga India rama pawisa lo lut zat chu Rs.18,000 crores niin a chhut a. Kum 2005-2006 chhung khan Rs.11,441 crores niin a chhut thung a ni. Hetih chhung veka US atanga India ramin pawisa a lakluh chu Rs.2,210 crores chauh ani thung a ni.

January 19, 2007 a lo thleng ta a, kei pawh Vijay Lakshmi nen Dean of the Faculties of Social studies and Humanities hmu tur chuan kan chhuak ta a. Ka hnathawh dan tur kal hmang leh ka darkar eng zat chhung nge class ka lak dawn tih thu te leh ka hriattur pawimawh te min lo hrilh a. University campus te chu kan fang kual a, Mahatma Gandhi Institute a zirtirtu leh zirlaite nen te kan in kawm hlawm a. University hian Faculty peng hrang panga a nei a chung te chu- The Mahama Gandhi Institute, The Lifelong Learning Cluster, The Mauritius Institute of Education leh The School of Advanced Computing te an ni a, zirlai 7531 an awm a ni. Kum 2006-2007 chhung khan Academic staff 230 an nei a. Ka hna zuk thawh ve na The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities ah khan zirlai 560 an awm a ni.

Tichuan, Centre for Applied Social Research(CASR) ah Mr.Nigel Richards hmu turin ka kal leh ta a. CASR hi University of Mauritius leh Mauritius Research Council(MRC0 ten a  intawm(joint initiative)  a an enkawl leh a bul an tan a ni. Kum 2001 a din tan a ni a, Social research lam an khawih nasa a, an projecthnathawh(research) zawh tawh zingah chuan ka zuk thawh ve “A study on the prevalence of substance abuse in Rodriques’ pawh hi a tel ve a ni. Ka hna zuk thawh ve chu a tawi zawngin sawi ila, chung an project research ennawn leh chhui zuina lam a ni a, National Agency in bul an tum a, Rodriques thliarkar a mihringte inenkawlna leh an intuamhlawmna chungchang ah te, harsatna leh mihring pui te chunga hleilenna hna thawk an awm em tih chungchang te kan chhui chiang a. Hemi project revision nei tak tak tur chuan Field Study nei turin chu thlliarkar Rodriques Island chu ka tlawh ngei ngei a ngai ta si a ni.

Rodriques thliarkar chu  Port Louis atanga 560 kms vel a hla ani a, tlangkang in a leilung a vawrchhuah atanga insiam a ni a, a zau zawng chu 108 sq.km a ni, mihring cheng 36,000 vel an awm niin a sawi a ni. An eizawna chu agriculture, ran vulh leh sangha man te a ni. He thliarkar hi kawngleh lamah chuan vanneih na deuh an nei a, pawnlam mi leh tuifinriata zin mi ten chu ti lutukin an tlawh pawh lem lova, tunlai nun (modern life) kan tih te pawh chu ti teh chiam in a nasa lo. Port Louis ah kha chuan a mi chengte kha India mi an ni fur a chuvangin temple leh mosque hmuh tur a tam em em a, he Rodriques thliarkar ah erawh hi chuan a mi chengte hi Kristian an ni deuh vek a, Catholic an lian hle a ni. Aizawl khawpui ang maiin Chawlhni chuan dawr leh sumdwnna hmun te a in khar vek a, nula tlangval te pawh an thawmhnaw neih that ber nenBiak In lam an pan thin a ni. Ka vanneih a siamin East Coast hmuna Evangelical Christian ho inkhawmna ah ka va inkhawm ve a ni.

An khawpui Port Mathurin hi Mauritius atangin 48 Seater Aircraft an tih hmangin darker khat leh a chanve kal a ni a. Chu thliarkar kan thlen atanga nikhat ka chawlh hahdam hnu ah ka hnathawh tur chu ka tan ve ta a, hmun hrang hrang te kan tlawh kual a, interview te kan nei a, data collection leh an research lo neih tawh nen a in mil em tih te kan enfiah nghal zel a. Ni sawm chhung teh meuh kan cham hnu ah Port Louis lam panin lawng MV Mauritius Pride an tih chuan kan let leh a. Darkar 23 lai lawnga chuan nan hun hmang ni mah ila a hrehawm ka tih ai mahin a nuam leh hlimawm ka tih a tam zawkin ka hria

Mont Choisy beach

blue Safari kiosk

Port Mathurin, Rodrgiues Island Khawpui

Mauritius kan thleng leh ta a, he thliarkara han zin khawthawng leh tei chhuah hi thil nuam tak chu a ni. A ram lei lung in rem dan hi tlang ram ang deuha awm mah nise a tlang a sang lem lova, lung len pawh thil harsa tak a ni lo. He tropical ram, thliarkar mawi tak chunga tuifinriat kam dam diai ah te hi tlang hring mawi tak tak te a in chhawr dawh chhova, a chang changin tiau chhum in a bawh ve thin a ni. Honeymoon hmang tura pan tu pawh an in sul pel zung thin reng a ni. Kei ngial pawh hi ka thian te min sawm ngawrh em avangin Mont Choisy hmunah Blue Safari Koisk nei in ka kal ve hial a ni. Blue safari kan neih hian tuihnuai lawng ang deuh ah kan chuang a, 40 minutes kana wm chhung in tuifinriat chhung a nungcha leh hnim chi hrang hrang te, sangha rawng chi hrang hrang leh mawi tak tak te, kum zabi 17 na hun lai a Star Hope lawng  keh chhe ta  tuihnuai a la pil mek te kan hmu a. Tuihnuai a siamtu kutchhuak mawi  tak tak zingah 

rairuang (reef) te chu a mawi chung chuang bikin ka hria.  Tuifinriat chhung/hnuai hi zawng a lo mawi a niang e, mi tam tak  tuihnuai a innei ta  te an awm a, mo lawm nan pawh tui hnuai ah champagne dawm pahin chhun chaw an fak fo thin reng a ni.

Mauritius thliar kara rei lo ka cham ve chhung a ka thil hmuh leh tawn hriat zinga ka sawi duh ber pakhat chu Sikul pakhat Teen Hope Project ti a an koh ka tlawh tum kha a ni. Chu Sikul ah chuan zirlai naupang an zirlai zir chhunzawm thei tawh lo(dropsout) kum 11 atanga kum 17 inkar ho enkawlna hmun a ni a. An zavai hian an zirlai ah an fail tluan chhuak parh a, kum 14 an tlin chuan Priamry School ah an lut thei tawh bawk silova. He sikul hian chung naupang thiam thei lo ho khawlai vela an tla darh mai mai tur vennan tiin kum thum chhunga an zirtur Teen Hope Project an tih chu an zirtir thin a. Zirlaite chu hna thawh dan te an zirtir a, chu zirlai an zawh meuh chuan hna tha tak thawh tur an hmu thuai thin a ni.

Chawlkar tawp (weekend) a hun awl ka neih apiang in chu sikul chu ka tlawh ve thin a, thiam ang angina ka pui ve thina achang leh keima tawnhriat (experience) te chung zirlaite bulah chuan ka hrilh chhawng ve thin a ni.. Naupang duhawm leh fel tak tak an ni hlawm a, ka bula infiam leh hla sak ho te an duh ve tlat thin a, India a ka rawn let leh hnu a Mauritius ka ngaihtuah chhuah chang apiang hian chung naupang te chu ka mitthla ah hian an lo lang leh thin a, theihnghilh an har ve duh khawp mai.

A tawp nan chuan, he thliarkar pan hian ka kal chhuak ve kha a ni a, rilru ah ka khawvel thkirdan leh kan nunphung atan hlawkna chhar chhuah ve ka duh a. Tunthlengin ka inchhir thu ka la hre bik lova, eng hun pawh hi inzirnan leh hmasawnna kawngpui pan nan tlai lua a awm lo, insiam that leh in zirthar nan hun tha a rawn chhuak ve leh zel thin chu chu i hmabak ah hian a awm e. He thliarkar ka tlawh ve hma khan engtianga thui nge kawng ka lo zawh ve tawh le? Heng ka thil hmuh leh tawn ve zawng zawng ah hian tumah dang thil ti thei leh thawk thei ka hmu chuang lo, Pathian chauh lo chu. Engkimtithei Pathian kutchhuak vek a ni e. A ma malsawmna leh kaihruaina vang chauhin heng a kuchhuak mawi leh ropui tak te hi hmu ve thei chauh ka lo ni e.